http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-5760...s-in-louisiana/

Christmas came early for some deadbeats. They cleared the shelves...

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The Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system allows recipients of government food stamps to purchase goods using a digital card with a set spending limit, but for a few hours over the weekend, that limit disappeared for many users visiting Walmart stores in Louisiana.

Walmart and local police in Springhill and Mansfield confirmed to CBS affiliate KSLA that officers were called into the stores to help maintain order Saturday as shoppers swept through the aisles at two stores and bought as much as they could carry.

Xerox, which hosts some of the infrastructure used by the EBT card system, told KSLA that a power outage during a routine maintenance test caused the temporary glitch.

Walmart workers phoned their corporate headquarters to ask how they should handle all the shoppers with unlimited, government-funded spending limits, and were told to keep the registers ringing.

"We did make the decision to continue to accept EBT cards during the outage so that they could get food for their families," Walmart representative Kayla Whaling told KSLA. She added that Walmart was, "fully engaged and monitoring the situation and transactions during the outage."

Amateur video taken on shoppers' cell phones shows dozens of shopping carts, piled high with merchandise, abandoned in the aisles of one Walmart after the announcement was made that EBT cards were once again showing accurate spending limits.

Police spokesmen in both locations told KSLA that no arrests were made during the spending sprees.

Shoppers gave mixed reactions to the incident, with one man in the Springhill store told KSLA it was simply "human reaction" to stock-up when given the opportunity. Shopper Stan Garcia was more critical of the unscrupulous shoppers, however, saying that taking advantage of the brief glitch in the benefits system amounted to "plain theft. That's stealing, that's all I got to say about it."

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It wasn't these greedy shopper's fault!!!
It was the Republicans fault -- guv shutdown ya know.

"Walmart workers phoned their corporate headquarters to ask how they should handle all the shoppers with unlimited, government-funded spending limits, and were told to keep the registers ringing."

Isn't America great?

Quote: Justme wrote in post #4

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How did they know?

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I can already hear the "racism!" screams when these retards are told there is a record of how much they spent,and it will be deducted from future payments.

After all,how stupid do you have to be to not understand there is an electronic record made of all purchases changed to all cards,and those numbers are tied to your SS number and identify you?

You just KNOW they sold most of the food items bought at half-price or less for a little bit of "fun money",and now they are going to demand the government overlook this because "Hit hain't MY falts dat yew dun fucked up an paid me too much! Dat were yore falts,not mine,so why does I hab ta suffer fo hit?"

And make no mistake about it,these idiots are going to be genuinely surprised and pissed off when they find out the money wasn't free and they are going to have to pay it back. Nobody in their lives has ever been able to tell them they were ever at fault for anything before,and this just isn't going to go well.

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I can already hear the "racism!" screams when these retards are told there is a record of how much they spent,and it will be deducted from future payments.

After all,how stupid do you have to be to not understand there is an electronic record made of all purchases changed to all cards,and those numbers are tied to your SS number and identify you?

You just KNOW they sold most of the food items bought at half-price or less for a little bit of "fun money",and now they are going to demand the government overlook this because "Hit hain't MY falts dat yew dun fucked up an paid me too much! Dat were yore falts,not mine,so why does I hab ta suffer fo hit?"

And make no mistake about it,these idiots are going to be genuinely surprised and pissed off when they find out the money wasn't free and they are going to have to pay it back. Nobody in their lives has ever been able to tell them they were ever at fault for anything before,and this just isn't going to go well.

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@TM You should

HLN was tripping over themselves today making sure the world knows more whites are on welfare and they're not all bums. It was disgusting

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Quote: Justme wrote in post #9

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@TM You should

HLN was tripping over themselves today making sure the world knows more whites are on welfare and they're not all bums. It was disgusting

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Sorry I don't know who HLN is.

and nope, I don't have them back yet.

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HLN was tripping over themselves today making sure the world knows more whites are on welfare and they're not all bums. It was disgusting. HLN = Head Line News

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Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #7

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I don't really see the charge of racism will play a role here. I think we can assume that the perps were of multiple races.

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