Scamming a food bank for the sake of a story
stoatie
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"No questions asked" apparently equals "our reporter was asked a series of questions".
This is pretty low, it has to be said. Scamming a food bank just to push the idea that people using them are scammers.
I can't help but think that if there was a Jesus, this wouldn't be quite how he'd want people to celebrate his resurrection.
This is pretty low, it has to be said. Scamming a food bank just to push the idea that people using them are scammers.
I can't help but think that if there was a Jesus, this wouldn't be quite how he'd want people to celebrate his resurrection.
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Give someone a hard luck story and they are blameworthy for believing you?
This is journalism?
If they had been given 1 year of free food it might have alerted a flaw in the system. 3 days... not so much.
Which in a way I can understand because they're trying to point out potentially deadly security flaws.
I can't understand the 'morality' behind committing fraud trying to smear a charity who help the poor and hungry. I don't think 'low' quite covers it.
And the blatant lie in the headline?
Well what do you expect? If they had to run a full background check and check your income and expenses it would take much longer.
How about instead of saying "Food banks are bad because people can scam food out of them" say "People are bad for scamming a charity" !
Quite.
What should the food banks do? Tell someone to go away for a week whilst they then process their claim to see if it's genuine? And if the person needs food in the meantime?
All we know is that there are some rather scummy individuals there who will sink to the depths of scamming a charity. It's been going on for years. Similar thing with those who will give out fake charity bags, collect the goods and sell them. But quite rightly the derision is saved for those doing this, not the charities who were trying to help people. In this case though it seems to be the charity that the Mail wish to 'expose' for being what? Kind?
It's no doubt a pathetic attempt at journalism.
I'm glad the twitterati are around to look over their shoulder and, if not quite keep them honest, can point out to the rest of us what a bunch of scumbag charlatans they are for running with a story like this.
This tweet sums it up really "The Mail's outraged today because a reporter wasn't treated like a lying scumbag when he went to a food bank and lied like a scumbag."
No, its more like 'dolescum can spend OUR money on ****, booze and wide screen TV's and then steal the food out of the mouths of the genuinely needy*'
* yes, its a paradox!
True.
Essentially they want this sort of kindness banned so they can get one over on the dolescum (which is obviously far more important than the genuinely needy who would miss out).
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Patrick, Belfast, 14 hours ago
Proof that Food Banks are allowing people to spend extra money on Bingo and Lager.
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Brit, Yorkshire, 14 hours ago
Nice to know asylum seekers get houses,benefits for them and their endless kids, and free food?!! Don't we have enough home grown benefit louts? Maybe all the tax payers should move abroad then no one can pay for all these free rides!
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headintheclouds, home is where the heart is, United Kingdom, 14 hours ago
Charity begins at home. How many of these "poor" people smoke,drink,have sky TV,mobile phones?
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I find it depressing and disgusting when I see some of the vile rubbish which passes for journalism.
Where is the lie? he says they didn't ask him for ID or check if he actually was getting jobseekers allowance
"No questions asked". "A series of questions". You don't see any kind of dissonance here?
Maybe this will help?
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They're argument would be that "no questions asked" is a figure of speech.
When you were talking about the headline i assumed you meant
No ID, no checks... and vouchers for sob stories: The truth behind those shock food bank claims
I presume when they say no questions asked they refer to his identity and entitlement.
Are you blind or being deliberately obtuse?.
"No Questions Asked" says the headline.
"The woman called Katherine, who was in her 60s, asked our reporter a series of questions about why the foodbank vouchers were needed" says the article itself.