Madrid town hall (Ayuntamiento) have passed a law to fine bin divers 750 Euros.
Increasing numbers of people are now taking part in this victimless crime. A "crime" which is now openly committed, frequently and in broad daylight in Spain's cities and towns.
Unemployment is over 26% (Youth unemployment at 55%) and many people are no longer receiving any support from the state. Rather than turning to more conventional forms of crime to feed themselves, thousands now scour the bins to find food.
Legislators who live in expensive neighbourhoods, offended by the site of poor people going through bins clearly thought "Something must be done" and then had a collective brain fart. Perhaps it would be better to tackle the root cause of the "crime" of bin diving: poverty and hunger?
Freelance Recycling agent, Iñaki Divenda Basura, was quoted as saying, "¿Piensan que si tuviera 750 euros, estaría buscando comida en la basura? Idiotas!!".
Translation: "Do they think if I had 750 Euros, I would be looking for food in the dustbin? Idiots!!"
A large supermarket chain has taken to contaminating (poisoning) their bins or locking them to discourage bin divers. Do Supermarket directors think it's in their commercial interest, if edible food goes to landfill to rot, rather than feed the desperate poor? People who don't have the money to purchase food form their stores. I'm not saying supermarkets have a responsibility to feed the poor, but going out of your way to kick them in the balls is wrong.
If finding food in bins is discouraged sufficiently, Iñaki and his fellow bin divers might want to consider what stupid legislators and supermarket directors taste like.
Perhaps it's time for Spain to leave the euro, default and devalue. The EU's policy of "Internal devaluation" is looking pretty disastrous at the moment.
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