Cracker Barrel Fires 73-Year-Old Veteran Who Gave Food To 'Needy' Man

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

I hate stories like this. This one is all over. The man got fired for violating company policy and him being a Veteran had zero to do with it . As a veteran it insults me that people try to use someones Veteran status to promote their cause. Like the Marine reservist in jail in Mexico. He broke the law, pure and simple.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/27/cracker-barrel-fires-veteran-joe-koblenzer_n_5538382.html

A 73-year-old Vietnam veteran was fired from a Cracker Barrel earlier this month after giving a corn muffin to a man he thought looked homeless.

Earlier this month, Joe Koblenzer was working his shift at a Cracker Barrel in Venice, Florida, when a man walked in and asked if he could have some condiments. Koblenzer loaded a few packets into a bag and added a corn muffin as well.

"He looked a little needy. He asked if I had any mayonnaise and some tarter sauce," Koblenzer told ABC local affiliate WWSB. "He said he was going to cook a fish. ... I got it for him. As I walked out I put a corn muffin in."

Not long after, Koblenzer was let go from his job.

In a statement issued to media, Cracker Barrel said this was not the first time he had given away food:

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

Would have been just fine, had he paid for the corn muffin himself. "Giving" away something that belongs to someone else, without their permission, is still stealing.

[Novembro 1,763]

Yeah, what a d*ck, taking 500 calories from fat away from some obese person.

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

And while I am with you on vets who try to use that status to gain sympathy or other things, this guy is on the other end of the spectrum. I would love to read one day that some real vets found Johnny B in a bar wearing his fake paraphernalia to weasel drinks out of unknowing folks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhzQf2yrTBI

[Peikko 1,575]

I hate stories like this. This one is all over. The man got fired for violating company policy and him being a Veteran had zero to do with it . As a veteran it insults me that people try to use someones Veteran status to promote their cause. Like the Marine reservist in jail in Mexico. He broke the law, pure and simple.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/27/cracker-barrel-fires-veteran-joe-koblenzer_n_5538382.html

A 73-year-old Vietnam veteran was fired from a Cracker Barrel earlier this month after giving a corn muffin to a man he thought looked homeless.

Earlier this month, Joe Koblenzer was working his shift at a Cracker Barrel in Venice, Florida, when a man walked in and asked if he could have some condiments. Koblenzer loaded a few packets into a bag and added a corn muffin as well.

"He looked a little needy. He asked if I had any mayonnaise and some tarter sauce," Koblenzer told ABC local affiliate WWSB. "He said he was going to cook a fish. ... I got it for him. As I walked out I put a corn muffin in."

Not long after, Koblenzer was let go from his job.

In a statement issued to media, Cracker Barrel said this was not the first time he had given away food:

Exactly, we have a winner