13,200 Boxes of Unsold, Perfectly Delicious Girl Scout Cookies
Destroyed Rather Than Donated  Just when you thought the Boy
Scouts of America had a monopoly on organizational misbehavior,
CBS Los Angeles discovered a video showing more than 13,000
boxes of unsold, unexpired Girl Scout cookies knowingly trashed
last May. How many innocent Thin Mints have to die to satisfy
your corporate greed?  In the footage, a bulldozer destroys a
mountain of cookie cases as a worker excitedly yells, "Goodbye,
Girl Scout cookies!" CBS LA's sources claim that the practice of
dumping leftover Girl Scout cookies in this way is far from
uncommon.  Reporter David Goldstein determined that the cookies
in question were originally ordered by the San Gorgonio Girl
Scout Council in Redlands, CA. In an interview, a council
representative blames this waste on ABC Bakery, their supplier.
If cookies are over-ordered, 1% can be returned to ABC Bakery
for a refund—these 13,200 boxes represent that 1%.  It would be
naïve to think that large-