In Dem Paradise, 'Drooling & Pungent' NYC Homeless Man Gorges on Stolen Food as Staff Look on Helpless To Stop Him
By C. Douglas Golden
Published January 2, 2020 at 7:42am
New York, New York. If you can gorge yourself on wares at a Whole Foods hot food bar there, you can do it anywhere.
Or, well, not.
Yes, NYC is probably one of the few places in America where a man described by the New York Post as “[a] drooling and pungent homeless man” could steal what he wanted from the pricey supermarket and face absolutely no consequences for it. And it’s not that there weren’t any staff around to stop him. It’s that they were helpless to do so.
The Post got the footage because one of its employees was at the store in Midtown Manhattan when it happened.
“A Post photo editor had just plunked down $17 for a jerk chicken dinner at the store across from Bryant Park on Sunday night when he spotted the grungy gourmand ignoring numerous ‘No Sampling’ signs to treat the bar like his personal feed bag,” the Monday article read.
I’ll spare you any remarks on a $17 jerk chicken dinner at Whole Foods and just leave that out there for summary judgment.
Pray tell, what did the employees do about it? Kick him out? Call the cops?
Neither, according to the photo editor.
The employees were apparently “smiling and laughing” since they were powerless to stop him.
“Oh, he comes here all the time,” one employee said.
“We can’t do anything about it, we were told.”
This wasn’t just stealing, either. It was ridiculously unhygienic, as well.
“The unidentified chowhound pounded mac-and-cheese and mixed veggies, at times using serving spoons to pack multiple dishes into a plastic cup he’d brought with him from the outside,” the article claimed.
Poster Comment:
Video at source.
This is a bit like Belushi in Animal House. LOL