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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

What I want to know is what the hell did she do with that many chicken wings? She can't have sold them... She took them on a case-by-case basis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

i'm wondering the same thing; $1.5 million is A LOT of chicken wings!!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

She sold them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Raking food out of the mouths of hungry kids. What a piece of subhuman garbage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Wtf did she do with 11,000 cases of wings?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Ain't no thing but 3,960,000 chicken wings

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Chicken Wing cost about 1.5million bling bling

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That is a FUCK TON of chicken wings.

Alexa tells me the wholesale price of chicken wings is $3.22 a pound and each pound is around 5 wings.

So $1.5m / $3.22 = 465,838.5 pounds of wings.
2,329,193 wings.

What did they charge her with? "Possession with intent to distribute"? LOL.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have to assume they’re calculating the menu price of those wings. Then it's only ~2k lbs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Well, it's a school, so no menu pricing.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Seems a bit harsh tbh

Edit: I'm copying in a response from further down the thread to hopefully centralize things rather than having multiple similar responses in multiple multiple places

It isn't about the severity of the crime.

Non violent crime being punished by jail time does nothing useful. It doesn't for drug crimes, for prostitution, for theft, for anything.

I'm kinda amazed that lemmy of all places is so against the idea of criminal justice reform.

Either the system does something useful, or it needs changing. If jail time has a point other than fucking up the life of the criminal, I sure as hell can't see it for non violent crime. Even for some violent crime, chances are that the criminal would have a better chance of being reformed by other methods than plain segregation from society, but at least that can claim to be a benefit by virtue of preventing the criminal from being violent at large.

IDGAF about who someone steals from, what they stole, or why. I care about making the best effort to A: reduce the chances of it happening again, and B: having the thief making restitution in one way or another. Jail achieves neither of those.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This was organized crime by a corrupt school official. This isn't petty crime. So I don't think this situation is one of those that "does nothing useful" to have severe consequences. Additionally, your dismissal of the circumstances around the crime seems odd. This person stole from the most vulnerable where restitution isn't possible because we don't have time machines and they stole an amount that restitution is beyond the means of the thief without further commiting theft or fraud.

Jail is the best option here. I think the sentencing could be lighter and the parole and probation system should be fixed, but there's not much better to be done in a scenario like this.

Also I think making kids starve constitues violence.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

Does nobody read articles?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Literally causing the starvation of hungry children used to be punished by mob beating to death. I think she is getting of quite lightly, and will probably make a profit when she gets out in like two years and does a right wing media circus tour.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The mistakes of the past being used as an excuse to keep making lesser mistakes is pretty damn lame.

Does the sentence do anything other than make people feel better because it's punishment?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s also important for you to understand the context that a non-violent woman is unlikely to serve more than a third of her initial sentence which is where these numbers come from.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's a good thing, not a bad one. But my objection still stands. It's a harsh sentence for a non violent crime. Which, if harsh sentences did any good, I wouldn't object. But they don't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How would you handle someone that intentionally starved thousands of children? It’s not like this was some broke starving person stealing a tampon, they had a stable, well paying executive job and made an intentional choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Hyperbole isn't useful either.

This was not literal starvation. Shitty, underhanded, and illegal, but not starvation. If you're going to insist on exaggerating the issue, please don't bother me.

I'll say it again, it doesn't matter what the non violent crime is, you make the justice about fixing what they did. I'm not sure where in the thread I said it, but I suggested a decade of community service working in the very program stolen from, under heavy supervision.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If someone stole $1.5m from a bank they'd probably get similar or more

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Probably, but I still think that's a bit much if it wasn't armed robbery

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know, she stole food meant for low income kids. That's appallingly immoral in my book. For a lot of kids, the meals they get at (or in this case from) school are the only meals they may get, and I'm positive the pandemic didn't improve that situation for a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Great, now go after the buyers.

Some local fast food franchise owner knew enough to not ask questions about discount meat being sold from a school district van.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

I don’t think she ate them all.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

chicken throne.

chicken pool.

then eat some.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Fair, I get ya now

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

What a despicable crime. She stole them from needy school kids; they were intended to feed kids in low-income areas during lockdown.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not that weird. Grab the wings with public money, sell them to some fast food chain with low standards and win a lot of money. Oh! And "fuck poor kids!".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Probably independently owned and operated, non-franchised restaurants. Fast food franchisees generally aren't around the day to day operations and are contractually obligated to buy supplies from the franchise. But it's not impossible that one is dumb enough or desperate enough to do something like that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Intended for remote learners? What?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Imagine stealing chicken wings from anyone.

That shit is fucked.