[ShanMan14]

Seized Knockoffs Given To Katrina Evacuees

POSTED: 4:24 pm EDT September 5, 2005

WASHINGTON -- They escaped Hurricane Katrina with nothing more than the clothes on their back. And now, they'll be wearing clothing with labels like Tommy Hilfiger and Yves St. Laurent.

They might not even mind that the labels are phony.

Hurricane survivors in the Houston Astrodome will be able to choose from counterfeit and abandoned clothing, as well as toys, dog food, and sheets and blankets.

They're among the items seized by federal customs officials. And now, they're being pulled from the warehouses and made available to hurricane survivors.

The agency has about a million items in storage. Customs officials are going through the inventory to see what might be useful to hurricane survivors.

 

[Gas Man]

Sounds like a good use for that crap!

 

[bumblebee]

Sounds like a good use for that crap!

Yeah because it would have been destroyed, because they couldn't auction fakes off to people who would resell it... so at least it gets used.

 

[MissAmazing]

They had were talking about that on the news last night...they talked to a little boy and asked what he thought of his new shoes even if they weren't real Nikes, and he said something like, if I don't tell they are fake no one will know :

 

[jeeps84]

:readng: :dthumb:

Sounds like a good use for that crap!

:iagree:

 

[ne1469]

Sounds like a good use for that crap!

:withstupi :withstupi :withstupi :dthumb:

 

[Ace]

Good for them! Are they doing the same with the seized drugs for the dealers? LOL
But all honesty why not give them the fake merchandise if it was just going to be destroyed anyways.