'Robin Hood' vigilantes 'steal from Marks and Spencer to give to food banks'
Robin Hoods and their merrymen posted pictures on social media while bragging about stealing from the M&S Foodhall in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.
Robin Hoods and their merrymen from the campaign group Everybody Eats which calls for direct action on food poverty in the UK posted pictures on social media while bragging about stealing from the M&S Foodhall in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester last weekend.
And it has warned this is just the first raid adding the group would “keep replicating this all across the country” until the government answered its demands on food security.
Another 'look at me' fad, maybe Friar Tuck is down to his last half dozen pies.
It's a headache for food bank organisers, they can't very well cut out the poseurs and steal the stuff for themselves. It's not so much a problem of being associated with petty criminality as the embarrassment of being linked to performing plonkers.
Superb activity for the over-educated and under-employed youngsters. A thrilling sense of mild danger coupled with a sense of moral superiority, and more interesting sitting glued to a road.
ReplyDeleteSupermarkets should rename their security teams "Sheriff of Nottingham's Men", and dish out summary justice with cudgels and branding irons.
Sam - I like that idea, cudgels and branding irons.
ReplyDeleteWhen do the food banks get turned over for receiving stolen goods?
ReplyDeleteThat is an offence in its own right, after all.
I suppose the answer is "when Plod has finished checking for mean tweets and accosting people for walking while obviously Jewish".
Peter - I suppose food banks have no idea where the stuff comes from, but maybe there will be investigations if it is too obviously kosher.
ReplyDeleteHeaven forbid these brats would ever try to grow something
ReplyDeleteBucko - even growing up seems to be beyond them.
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