https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxTj9wwlbAU (Youtube has a setting for translation you'll need to turn on)
Just because something isn't under lock and key doesn't mean it's abandoned and fair game.
The reality of the world we live in is that materials, especially if they're metals or otherwise have resale value, are at high risk of getting stolen. The more income inequality exists, the more theft we will see.
It is 100% relevant. It would have kept the goods secure.
I have a feeling these are the ones that are the problem rather than folk with a hand basket.
>“One man came and said he took two bags because he went crazy when he saw the crowd,” Piotr said. “He apologized, and everything was fine. But there are also those who took dozens of tons.”
Literally always it's a few bad apples ruining the bunch. If a bunch of people came and took some for personal use, it would've been fine. I mean, still a problem, but the farmer would probably still have some damn crop left to sell or replant or whatever you'd do with those potatoes for the best recovery at that point.
I realize he wasn't home, but discovering that fact I would imagine (maybe?) would raise some flags.
2007 Tacoma, WA https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-stripped-in-craigslist-ho...
An online ad offering everything in the house for free left one landlord with quite a shock: By the time she realized what was going on, the house had been stripped of its light fixtures, hot water heater — even the kitchen sink.
2012 Woodstock, GA https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/foreclosed-family...
But big crowds showed up early, while the family was out, breaking into the house and taking practically everything inside, in part because the way that the craigslist ad was written gave them the idea that everything on the property was up for grabs.
I don't know if you can blame the viral post itself. This has been my experience with humans in general. Take halloween. Leave a candy bowl out and ask people to take one or two 10-20% will comply and the rest will try to take the entire bowl.
The article itself said the farmer wanted people to "help themselves". It was his responsibility to set the rules and enforce them. Perhaps polish law is different but I doubt the police would do anything in the states (or any other western country). It's not theft when you say take what you want. I don't believe it's blaming the victim here to say that the farmer should've done a lot more work to meter out his potatoes.
This is just another example of the tragedy of the commons. You can't have truly shared resources because a minority will take the majority and ruin it for everyone. Every single time. This is also why food pantries and homeless shelters meter out food carefully. You even see this with super sales at the grocery store. I remember during COVID people were filling truck beds with discounted meat/fish/vegetables completely disregarding other people will need to eat too.
Edit: nevermind, I just read the article again and the viral post is 100% to blame.
Source: me. I live amongst them.
It's like social spending to keep people living in rural areas.
2) Vice filed for backruptcy in 2023 and shuttered vice.com in 2024. Who the hell is running this?
3) Whoever it is, is just ripping off rando Polish local news sites?
I have no idea what’s going on here, but maaaaaybe this should not be here.
I don't really get the entitlement that some folks have thinking their mere existence dictates what should and shouldn't appear on this website.
And no one here seems to have noticed.
> In May, Vice Media announced it will create a joint venture with Savage Venture to relaunch its websites, such as Vice.com, Munchies, Motherboard, and Noisey.
DenisDolya•3mo ago
peterfirefly•3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berners_Street_hoax