Posted on 06/28/2009 11:00:52 AM PDT by JeepInMazar
Bread trailer stolen from a church
By Christina Hernandez, WINK News
Story Updated: Jun 26, 2009 at 7:47 PM EDT
LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. - Stealing from charity - it's hard to believe anyone would do that, but it happened at a church in Lehigh Acres. The Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church helps out struggling residents every week, but Friday morning, it was a lot harder to do that.
The church does something called 'free bread day' for those in need every Friday morning. Thursday night, the trailer the donated bread is loaded into went missing.
Chuck Emery volunteers at the church and is in charge of towing the trailer. Around 7:00 Thursday night, he noticed the trailer was missing from it's usual spot across the street.
"I thought I was dreaming," Emery said. "I thought this can't be. Who would steal the church's bread trailer? I was devastated. I just couldn't believe it."
"I can't imagine what they need it for," Jim Kreger said.
Jim Kreger said without the bread truck, it's going to be difficult to give bread to the hundreds of people who line up every week.
"Without our trailer, it's going to make a little handicap on us to get enough bread to bring out here," Kreger said.
The trailer is easy to spot. It has "Faith Lutheran Mission Trip 2003" written on each side. It has 112 empty black bread trays inside. Emery said the trays are worth 1,300 dollars and the trailer is 4,000 dollars.
"It's not going to be an easy replacement. Certainly, the church doesn't have the money to replace it," Emery said.
Usually, volunteers take the truck to a local bakery and load up on day-old bread. Now, people are using their own vehicles to ride into Fort Myers and pick the bread up themselves, but there's just not enough room for all of it.
"Today, we didn't have the trailer," Emery said. "We didn't have the bread trays, so basically what we had to do was dump bread into the back of the pickup truck."
If you have any information about this missing trailer, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS.
The thieves are trying to "Earn Bread" the wrong way.
I've always found statements like this puzzling. Why is it hard to believe someone would rob charity? If you are willing to violate one person's property, why not another?
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses...
It’s all part of Obama’s “hope and change” America. People are going to have to steal from one another to survive. Stealing from others is what “hope and change” is all about. Just ask Obama.
Is it really stealing OR re-distributing the wealth, as Lord O would say? Is it any different from the government stealing a large portion of a wage earners pay and giving it to someone who refuses lower wages or hard work? The "hope and change" philosophy may be a bitter pill for wage earners and charities to accept, but the sloths and welfare recipients welcome it.
I had an odd thought (it happens from time to time)
The trailer was parked on the street aross from the church building. I am assuming the church did not own the property across the street
Every week the church invited ‘hundreds’ of people to come and get their bread.
Maybe, just maybe the local property owner(s) had had enough and asked the local authorities that the trailer be towed?
In my experiance, (some) churchs can make very lousy neighbors. Parking problems, traffic issues, noise, etc, etc. The local folks may have decided to send an message.
Or not.
What are you, the Grinch? jeeze.
Can understand a missing BEER trailer—but a BREAD trailer?
IF not found in a matter of hours- it will only be good for feeding to pigs.
Nope - just offering a second opinion.
You may take it or leave it as you wish.
Have a good day.
Kudos on taking speculation to new levels . . . any insight you can give us concerning the gunman on the grass knoll?
Stealing from charity - it’s hard to believe anyone would do that, but it happened at a church in Lehigh Acres
This writer must not get out very much if he thinks this is unusual
In 1963 I was but a young lad, and so have no opinion
However, on this story - I would call it a Mythbusters, Plausible, but unproven. Just like the “who stole the trailer” statement. Absent any further data, one is as good as the other - they both yield a null result.
BTW - Have you ever seen a UFO?
“You may take it or leave it as you wish.”
I’ll leave it.
Read the actual article, very carefully, if you capable of it.
Then it just might dawn on you why your assumption is absolute rubbish.
I agree. I think it would be easy pickings!
Lets see...
Church has missing trailer - trailer filled with bread racks.
“Around 7:00 Thursday night, he noticed the trailer was missing from it’s usual spot across the street.”
No clues offered, call Crime stoppers.
From the scant facts of the posted article (I assume you are talking about the posted article we see:
A volunteer picks up the trailer where it is left on the street. I note the volunteer does not have the trailer parked in front of HIS house.
The trailer is used weekly. Otherwise, from the posted article, it sits on the street. All week. In looking at the maps of the area, it is a residential neighborhood. The sat view shows church facility itself seems to occupy a full city block.
I offer a possible scenario - and you go all off about it.
I miss your point, your anger and your attitude.
Tell ya what - I’ll ignore you and you can ignore me.
Have a nice day.
Don’t you think that if one of your fellow church-haters (don’t bother denying it) had the trailer towed, the cops would know it? And why are you assuming this church was parking its trailer in front of some innocent’s property? I can see how much you like to argue, so I’m done with this thread.
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