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Thieves take 13,000 diapers from NC nonprofit

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Authorities in North Carolina are searching for whoever made a massive, unauthorized withdrawal from a diaper bank.

The Diaper Bank of North Carolina says 13,000 diapers were stolen last weekend. The Durham-based nonprofit provides diapers to struggling families.

Founder and executive director Michelle Old said she went Monday to pick up an order to be distributed to a homeless shelter. She found the order had been strewn across the floor, and various sizes of diapers were missing.

Old said losing the sizes 4 and 5 diapers was especially difficult because babies can stay in them for up to a year and they are hard to keep in stock.

"We already struggle and usually are low on those, but they completely took every diaper," Old said.

In addition, Old said thieves stole all the diapers from a reserve room that holds extra diapers and that no one outside the organization knows about.

A group of volunteers from a church had been in the building last Saturday helping to re-wrap 6,000 packaged diapers for distribution in the community, Old said, adding that the shelves were full on Saturday.

Old said some people told her the diapers have turned up at local yard sales, and were being sold on the street.

"A couple of people, since hearing about this, have contacted us and say they have been approached in the downtown area with people selling our diapers. Our tags are still on them," she said, adding that one woman told her they were going for $4 a package.

How true, how true ........................

"Politicians and diapers have one thing in common ---

 they both should be changed regularly and for the same reason!"

- Unknown

Diapers, more uses than the obvious ONE ..........

Got a blog from Oklahoma today, The Mad Is On, relating an incident about a Marine who mistakenly received a "Care" Package that had a Tampon in it. Later on, the Tampon was used to safe the life of a wounded Marine.

We were doing a demo at a grand opening of a Walmart and one of the samples we handed out were individually wrapped diapers. We had an abundance of them, four cases, and there just weren't that many young parents to hand them out to. A couple saw what we were doing, approached us, and asked if they could have a few of the diaper samples.

They stated that many years before, they were just married and on a short trip to the grandparents with their little daughter,  when they came upon a car wreck, they were one of the first on the scene. They said a man in the car was bleeding badly, they needed something, and his wife ran to their car and brought the first thing in site, the diaper bag. She tore open the diaper and placed the diaper over the open wound and it soon stopped bleeding. When the squad came, they say that quick thinking may have saved a life.

They said they always keep some diapers in their car, for emergency spills, or whatever.

From then on, as customers approached, I related how handy they were in the car for "emergencies," and we ultimately gave them all away.

I keep some in each car, to this day. Clean and absorbent, can't beat that.