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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1704365" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>The picture in the op is good for getting a lot of emotionally charged reactionary responses. I saw another wider angle picture somewhere else on the internet that showed another man just in front of the one that the agent had hold of. He was also carrying a bag. </p><p>The context is needed before anyone draws nefarious conclusions. </p><p>When [USER=17956]@Bigfoot[/USER] pointed out that the sacks appeared to contain styrofoam food boxes, it kind of painted a possible picture of context for me. My take on the image at face value is that those individuals had absconded with more food than was intended for them. </p><p>I can't even imagine trying to hand out food or any other items to that large number of people in those circumstances. </p><p>I have been a part of some outreach ministry projects, and have an understanding of how it is dealing with 50-75 people. When you're in the back of a truck handing out supplies and people crowding around reaching and screaming and me, me, me, it gets hectic. Then inevitably, you hear so and so took mine, or so and so got more than somebody else. It can get pretty heated, and you have to try to explain that when the supply is gone there is no more, and even though we believed that those things did happen we couldn't really do anything about it. </p><p>It takes a lot of man hours as well as money to prepare and distribute food like that. For several years I helped at a church that did that on a weekly bases, and was involved at times with each step of the process, from shopping, preparing, and distribution. The folks that were in charge of managing it had a tough job of trying to maintain an adequate amount of supplies without running short and without over supplying, because it was on a donation and budgeted basis. If someone took too much it could short others.</p><p>That situation in at the Texas border has got to be a mass of confusion with people likely trying to grab whatever food or supplies they can, as that has probably been how they have been conditioned to do. I'm thinking that agent on horseback was trying to recover food that had been swiped, and probably that was just one of many instances of folks taking more than and before it was intended to be handed out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1704365, member: 24816"] The picture in the op is good for getting a lot of emotionally charged reactionary responses. I saw another wider angle picture somewhere else on the internet that showed another man just in front of the one that the agent had hold of. He was also carrying a bag. The context is needed before anyone draws nefarious conclusions. When [USER=17956]@Bigfoot[/USER] pointed out that the sacks appeared to contain styrofoam food boxes, it kind of painted a possible picture of context for me. My take on the image at face value is that those individuals had absconded with more food than was intended for them. I can't even imagine trying to hand out food or any other items to that large number of people in those circumstances. I have been a part of some outreach ministry projects, and have an understanding of how it is dealing with 50-75 people. When you're in the back of a truck handing out supplies and people crowding around reaching and screaming and me, me, me, it gets hectic. Then inevitably, you hear so and so took mine, or so and so got more than somebody else. It can get pretty heated, and you have to try to explain that when the supply is gone there is no more, and even though we believed that those things did happen we couldn't really do anything about it. It takes a lot of man hours as well as money to prepare and distribute food like that. For several years I helped at a church that did that on a weekly bases, and was involved at times with each step of the process, from shopping, preparing, and distribution. The folks that were in charge of managing it had a tough job of trying to maintain an adequate amount of supplies without running short and without over supplying, because it was on a donation and budgeted basis. If someone took too much it could short others. That situation in at the Texas border has got to be a mass of confusion with people likely trying to grab whatever food or supplies they can, as that has probably been how they have been conditioned to do. I'm thinking that agent on horseback was trying to recover food that had been swiped, and probably that was just one of many instances of folks taking more than and before it was intended to be handed out. [/QUOTE]
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