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Chicago woman gets nine-year sentence for stealing $1.5m in chicken wings (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Intended for remote learners? What?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

when the wings were meant for children doing remote learning but who were still picking up school meals

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Think for a moment about the kids who don't eat a school meal because it's convenient but because they have to, for one reason or another. Now imagine stealing from their budget.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Imagine stealing chicken wings from anyone.

That shit is fucked.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Satan, don't be so helpful, people might get the wrong idea about you

[–] Leeks@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Harvey is a very economically depressed area. There’s a good chance that if the school didn’t feed the kids during Covid, the kids would have gone hungry.

[–] we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago

It was the second paragraph.

Vera Liddell, the food service director for Harvey School District 152 near Chicago, stole the huge amount of fast food during the pandemic and its aftermath, when the wings were meant for children doing remote learning but who were still picking up school meals, local TV station WGN reported.