Ther's been a worrying development for all of those who believe that if food has been thrown out, then it's fair game and OK for you to exercise your moral conscience by not seeing it go to waste.
In Great Baddow, Essex, people could not believe their luck after a Tesco Express bagged up thousands of pounds of spoiled stock and left it out in the street following a power cut.
21 year old Sasha Hall, helped herself to potato waffles, pies and ham but was stunned when police arrived at her home and arrested her for suspected 'theft by finding' and took her to the station in handcuffs.
She said
The case is up before the magistrates today. If she is found guilty then, frankly, I consider it to be a travesty for common sense as well as for justice...There was £3,000 worth of food going to waste on the street. It had been thrown out, so I thought I could put it to better use. When the police came round I was so upset. I felt like a terrible criminal.
I would think the police have better things to be doing with their time than going after people who pick up potato waffles from the street. It's all been blown totally out of proportion.
Tesco clearly did not want the food. They dumped it and rather than see it go to waste, I thought I could help feed me and my family for a week or two.
They knocked at the door and said if I didn't open up they would use a battering ram. They handcuffed me and treated me like I was a hardened criminal and when we left they raided my house.
(You can read the full story in the Daily Mail by clicking here)
5 comments:
It is illegal for Tesco to do anything with 'waste' food other than pay for its disposal as industrial (o maybe hazardus) waste.
For them to condone the public freely taking such food would make them liable to prosecution. That food was Tesco property until such time as it is collected when it becomes the collectors property and responsibility.
That is why shops no longer leave 'out of date' food for the homeless and which is also why many are unwilling to give you redundant boxes like they used to.
Nonsense but true thanks to the good old EU and their waste disposal diktats.
XX banned said...
Nonsense but true thanks to the good old EU and their waste disposal diktats. XX
BOLLOX! Bugger ALL to do with the E.U.
All over Germany we have these charitys who are subsidised by Government to go and pick up all super market "waste" to pass on to the homeless and other social scroungers.
Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, France, Belgium, etc, they all do the same.
You been reading "The E.U according to the Daily Mail" again?
I will arrange for Tesco to be prosecuted for littering.
F.U.
@FT, waste and recycling is most certainly EU driven, I expect that Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, France, Belgium simply ignore their stupid regulations and quite right too.
WV "wayst" honest!
The METHOD of waste recycling is up to the individual Governments. All the law says is that by such and such a date so much must be recycled and tipping must be reduced.
It does NOT say HOW that is to be achieved. And when you think about it, what BETTER way of "recycling" food than to let people EAT it???
Britain ALWAYS jumps to "worst case scenario" then blames the E.U.
The guy with the weights in pounds for example. His origional fine was NOT laid down by the E.U. Here it is a "reccomendation that the weights/price be shown in both Pfund and Grams. Only Britain made it to some kind of Fedral offence.
Neither "ignored" the laws to get where they are. ONE country (Germany) was merely more sensible as to their implimentation.
But then "The Mail" is not wanting to know that, are they?
Post a Comment