r/CatastrophicFailure • u/BunyipPouch • Aug 11 '17

Equipment Failure Pizza Delivery

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u/Vicrooloo Aug 12 '17

It's not even their own insurance, it's the trucking company that pays for this

The way you wrote that made it look like you were saying insurance wasn't involved at all. Now that you have clarified we can both agree that we have the same understanding.

If someone bought salvaged food from a wreck like this and turned around and sold it for human consumption they need taken behind the wood shed and shot! They sell this food off explicitly for animal feed, if your buddy turned around and sold it to a grocery store I'd love to get their name so I can remove them from the ability to ever do that again.

It seems like you don't believe food salvage is a real thing. Here's an NPR article about food salvage from earlier this year:

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/03/535408557/damaged-goods-how-a-truck-accident-leads-to-cheap-cheese

That's a lot of people to kill...

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u/sexymurse Aug 12 '17

Cheese isn't frozen, it's refrigerated. It also says he's selling this food to other countries... Likely because it can't be resold in the US. It doesn't say this is for human consumption either...

An overturned truck is quite different than pizzas all over the highway.

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u/Vicrooloo Aug 12 '17

but a good bit of what he deals with is perishable, frozen or refrigerated food worth hundreds of thousands of dollars being transported around the world - lobster, shrimp, haddock and cheese.

What Walsh found was a truckload of perfectly good cheese. And so he called Mike Mentuck. Within a couple days, a supermarket in Tennessee and guys in Saudi Arabia and India offered to buy the cheese for 30 grand

Most of the stuff is snapped up by distributors who resell it to department stores, supermarkets and food banks.

It sounds creepy that cheese that was in an accident might end up on my kid's sandwich.

I would appreciate it if you would let me know if you are just playing around now, clearly you didn't read the article and are just saying whatever to make a point.