For years Salisbury News would get calls asking if we'd promote certain events where someone had cancer and an organization would be selling 300 tickets for $10.00 each for a chicken dinner, or whatever. Rather then advertising the event, we would purchase all 300 tickets and ask that they box up each meal. We would then go to the location the day of the event and pick up all the meals and deliver them to the homeless and or people in need. So we'd kill two birds with one stone and all of this was done with the funds we raise from our advertisers.
The next thing we knew, every non profit was confronted by the Health Department demanding they never do this again with Salisbury News, this is the honest to God truth. The Health Department was confronted by then Mayor Jim Ireton and Police Chief Barbara Duncan. Karma is a bitch now, isn't it Chief.
Publishers Notes: I want to clarify, the Health Department was not present at the "Trunk or Treat" event.
I wonder if they bought those cookies........if so which SPD member's child is in girl scouts and benefited from the sale of that many boxes, this doesn't include the expense of 4 dollars a box for the cookies the taxpayers paid for.. If they were NOT purchased and were given to the SPD to give out they HAD to know they were expired and that is why they were giving to the SPD.
ReplyDelete5:48 AM, Either way, no one wins - the taxpayer or the child receiving the stale out of date cookies. Why would they even participate in the event if they knew the cookies were out of date - so wrong. You teach your kids to look at dates when they go to grocery store with you, then they go to an event like this and get cookies out of date. I hope all parents checked goodies before kids were allowed to indulge, I always did.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure those cookies are still good. Many items are good months after their expiration date as long as they haven't been opened. Ever shopped at the Pepperridge Outlet stores for instance? I have and the cookies were fresh because they are in sealed packages.
ReplyDelete6:50, expired is expired. It doesn't say, "SELL BY" date.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both 6:50 and Joe. Yes, the out of date cookies are probably still good. However, there is no way I would give them to anyone, much less children.
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell is wrong with that woman Duncan , now she 's trying to hurt children . Police chief my a$$.
ReplyDeleteNo store ie Wal-Mart, Food Lion, Aldi, etc would sell something labeled "expired" it could mean a law suit if anyone got sick!
ReplyDeleteThey may not sell it, but they have it on their shelves. I always check for “best before” and “sell by” dates.
DeleteIt just takes one bad cookie to make an innocent child sick! Is that really worth the risk. Can the parent of that child then sue the police dept and city? Doubtful and even so would they win anything worth your child's health?
ReplyDeleteWho should I direct my concern for an expired piece of candy? Hum....the car with the bubbles? Maybe the car with Superman? The church?
DeleteJoe was the health department's problem with what you were doing or was it just that it was you doing it? Either way the people at the health department must be awfully stupid.
ReplyDelete7:52, The Health Department was pressured by Jim Ireton and Barbara Duncan. Technically, it seems perfectly fine if YOU went there and got a meal TO GO. However, if Joe Albero donates $3,000.00 to Pay It Forward to the very people the fundraiser was being done for and then feed 300 people also in need, he must be stopped immediately and that's what they did.
ReplyDeleteMy big mistake was going to the Chief and asking if her Officers would be willing to bring some of these containers to Families in need.
These are not good people. They are control freaks. They will do anything to defame and belittle me in any possible way. Guess what, MY TURN!
oh that is what it is all about, i had wondered
DeleteThank you joe for posting was just making sure children werent eating these 2 month old cookies like one viewer wrote we teach our kids to check also and we have grown adults handing out these expired cookies they had to check but obviously not
DeleteThe ex-mayor and police chief should hang their head. DIverting food from the needy says a lot about their character.
ReplyDeleteI keep TELLING THE POLICE stop doing this bs it ALWAYS bites you in the butt. Your the POLICE not a shelter community policing does NOT work.
ReplyDeleteThe Health Department's issue is likely based on the fact that you aren't a licensed food vendor. They have laws to follow as well and hearing that someone is violating Maryland food laws and them doing nothing about it is a nonfeasance on their part. I agree with you that it is ridiculous. Trust me, they do not wake up looking forward to having to shut down things like this. Food laws are the reason businesses can't give their leftover food from the day to the homeless; all it takes is one person gets sick and it's a legal s***storm. They inspect me, everyone has a job to do whether we agree with it or not.
ReplyDeleteThese are not good people. They are control freaks. They will do anything to defame and belittle me in any possible way. Guess what, MY TURN!
ReplyDeleteNovember 1, 2017 at 8:12 AM
So, you were cutting out at least one middleman, bought the goods that were being sold/raffled, then GAVE them away to hungry people? I have that right?
I guess maybe you were impeding on their pizza giveaways?
Incredible.
If their willing to do this to children....in public....imagine what they do behind closed doors, where the public cant see!?!?
ReplyDeleteNo one, including Joe, would throw away a $3.50 unopened box of cookies, just because they were a couple of months past the expiration date. I've eaten Girl Scout cookies well past the expiration date, many times over the years. They were always still good, and not stale.
ReplyDeleteI agree. They prob saw it as an opportunity to give them away while they were still fresh. I wouldnt pass them up. Maybe they told the person they were expired and it was their choice to take them?
DeleteLet me put it to some of you jackasses this way.
ReplyDeleteIf Joe Albero had set up a booth there and I was the one giving away EXPIRED FOOD, Chief Barbara Duncan would have me arrested and the Health Department would have fined me.
You Liberals can shove it where the sun doesn't shine with your BS excuses. I have been the recipient of their retaliation and abuse. Unfortunately, the real victims here are the actual people Salisbury News tried to feed with food that was made FRESH with no preservatives in it.
The Chief enforces the law and does not make the rules and regs. Same for head of Health Department. It's just your usual way of turning things into MeMeMe.
DeleteI googled your cookie picture and was taken to a site where it showed your picture of your expired Girl Scout Cookies beside words "BREAKING NEWS". You are now famous for exposing 2 boxes of expired girl scout cookies. Congratuation !!!
It's like living in a Simpson's episode around here.
ReplyDeleteI agree for yourself the cookies are fine but for giving them out to children is repulsive. Just is 100% correct. Their rules are different than ours. Any one of us would have been fined.
ReplyDeleteGiving them to kids is repulsive?! WTF? They have "expired" by TWO months today! TWO WHOLE MONTHS!!
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing wrong with those cookies.
The point Joe is making is about the double standard. It's fine if others commit this "crime" and gets away with it, but when Joe did something similar, they wanted to nail him to the cross.
I would be a little pissed myself if I was Joe.
You're foolish to toss everything that has past it's expiration date. And it's a waste of good products & the money it costs to buy them.
ReplyDeleteWe NEVER toss expired or past sell by dates unless it's bad.
ReplyDeleteWho's the jackass now?
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