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June 27th, 2016 
Awake Goy
Inside the World of Large-Scale Food Heists
June 27th, 2016
We just had all of the meat from our most recent home killed steer stolen from our butcher shop’s freezer. The thieves sawed a hole through the freezer and made off with our meat, another customer’s meat and some of the shop’s meat. (I assume it was multiple thieves because several hundred kilos of meat was stolen.)
The police didn’t even show up. They gave our butcher a reference number over the phone and asked him to, in effect, do his own police report. Yep. It’s true. This article mentions that police are no longer responding to shoplifting and burglaries around here.
Via: Eater:
A large draw to boosting food is that the stakes, compared to other stolen goods, are extremely low. Unlike money or electronics that have serial codes, it’s difficult to trace food that has been stolen. And to make matters worse, the penalties, even if a perp is caught with thousands of dollars worth of stolen goods, can be almost non-existent. “It’s a slap on the wrist,” said Rocky Pipkin, a private detective based in Visalia, California and president of the Pipkin Detective Agency. “Even if [thieves] get caught — and very few have gotten caught — unless the Feds get involved and rope up all the people facilitating the transport and such of the large quantities, then it’s grand theft.” According to Pipkin, that translates to “no time in jail in California, or at least very little.”
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