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SANDY — There's something about her Sandy neighborhood Ruth Ann Poole fell in love with, until this weekend.

"This is supposedly a safe neighborhood where things like that aren't supposed to happen," said Poole.

She didn't want to believe it, but her home surveillance camera doesn't lie.

Last Friday night, a man got out of his truck, walked up to her front porch and ran off with two bags of food she had left out for the Boy Scout Food Drive Saturday morning.

"It shocked me,” said Poole. “He had no qualms about parking right in front of my driveway, right on my front porch, and stealing it."

There's a good chance Poole's house wasn't the only house this man visited. Poole said a few of her neighbors also had their food stolen.

"I was disgusted,” Poole said. “I felt bad. I felt violated."

There is always the possibility the man was hungry and needed food. If that's the case, the food bank says all he or anyone who needs help has to do is call 211.

"It is sad, and we hope that was the need, he was trying to feed his family," said Mark Griffin, scout executive with the Great Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Their annual food drive brings in enough food for about a million meals, according to the Utah Food Bank.

On Monday, workers were busy sorting food so it can get to those who truly need it.

"Maybe he could go to the food bank and they'd help him out ... that would be a better thing, but we pray for him and hope he was feeding his family," said Griffin.

As for Poole, she still loves her neighborhood. It’s just, now, things feel different.

And she wishes it wasn't that way.

"If he had wanted food and he was hungry, all he had to do was knock on my door and I would have given him some food."

Contributing: Xoel Cardenas

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