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Popular Texas restaurant under fire after dumpster discovery

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Dissent

Alex Achten reports:

It was a startling surprise for neighbors who found papers containing social security numbers, bank accounts, and other personal information blowing across their yards over the weekend.

We did some digging, and found out the papers came from inside a dumpster at a popular nearby restaurant.

Frances Roberts lives across the street from Don Joses Mexican Restaurant in Wichita Falls.

[…]

Roberts said she got in touch with the restaurant immediately.

“I told them that it was very careless and they responded back that they didn’t appreciate me calling them careless and that they didn’t do this purposefully or viciously,” Roberts said.

 

Read more on NewsChannel6.

They may not have done it viciously, but why didn’t they securely shred the documents? Doesn’t Texas law require it?

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1 thought on “Popular Texas restaurant under fire after dumpster discovery”

  1. Billy Reuben says:
    November 1, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    Whoa! How tone deaf can you get? These people need outed and shamed for being Grade A dolts!

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