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

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[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Did she sell them? The article doesn't say she did.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Literally hundreds of tons of chicken wings. Imagine 10 trucks full.

I don’t think she ate them all.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You don't know her life.

[–] ericjmorey@discuss.online 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know she's not going to be eating at home for a while

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

Technically, she will be, just not the home she would prefer.

[–] YourPrivatHater@ani.social 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What would you do with 1.5 million in chicken besides eating a little and selling the rest.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

chicken throne.

chicken pool.

then eat some.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You could literally eat like a millionaire for a while so long as you have a few deep freezers.

Realistically, she filled her freezer and sold a ton of them for 25¢ on the dollar to other people who filled their freezer and sold them off for 50¢ on the dollar.

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't know, but somehow I doubt millionaires eat $1.5 million worth of school cafeteria grade chicken.

And without digging into it, I bet it's far more than a few deep freezers worth.

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The joke is she had a net worth of over $1.5m due to the value of the chicken, so eating anything would be eating like a millionaire.

A chicken wing is a chicken wing and it don't matter if you got $5 or $5 million. I know for a fact that I would still eat Totino's pizza(pizza that is like $1.50 per.) if I were a billionaire

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Fair, I get ya now

[–] bighatchester@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

You could fit 11000 cases of wings in a few deep freezers if you tried hard enough.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

The articles doesn’t say anything about what happened to the chicken