New York.- And charity egg distribution in the neighborhood of Queens in New York It ended in just five minutes due to the massive demand of people who showed up and queued for several hours on a freezing windy morning.
The company had announced a mass distribution of eggs And five hours earlier, since early morning, there were already people saving space at the place where the distribution would take place, mainly of Latin origin (Mexicans and Asians) in this working-class neighborhood.
At the time scheduled for distribution, a line of hundreds of people wrapped around a block, but when they saw the eggs arrive, it wasn't even a truck, a van: it was just three boxes of 30 dozen eggs that added up to just over 1,000 eggs, according to the people who arrived.
Each person was only allowed to collect six eggs, so the first 180 people took their share and hundreds more were left with nothing, leading to angry protests.
"This is a mockery," "this is disrespectful," "I've wasted an entire morning for this," could be heard among the shouts.
The distributors seemed surprised by the huge demand and nervous about the expectations they had created, so they left as soon as the delivery was over, without talking to the neighbors.
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