http://www.zerohedge.com/news/photos-fixed-greece

Tough times over there. Any Grecian members around here? How you guys holding up?

I think that at this time of the day, they are in front of their TV sets, hoping to see Greece force Germany outside of the Euro. (soccer-wise that is. The match starts winthin minutes now )

Tiny question : Who owns the greek , spanish , portuguese , italian tourist industry ?

Damn... what the hell are they gaining by publishing such a bleak and over the top stories?

Things here definitely are worse than couple of years back, unemployment is 25%, buying power of the average Greek family is lower, there's more homeless people than before etc, but it's NOT as bad as they describe it.

I saw another article in a random site the other day, they were claiming Greeks were empting supermarket shelves from canned and other long lifespan food... They even had a few photos of the said empty selves. Of course nothing like that was happening.

Things are not good but the story in that site is exaggerated.
Off to see the match! :)

I doubt the situation is anything like that. Just Western media trying to score more hits on their websites.

Athens (were the distribution took place) is a huge city which has about half of the people in Greece living there. Athens always was a city that had troubles with employment, residential areas and overpopulation.
Ierapetra of Crete on the other hand is probably one of the 5 richest areas in Greece, with a huge agricultural production. The people of Ierapetra decided to send some produce over in Athens to be distributed instead of selling them.
Add to this the fact that Athens doesn't have any agricultural production nearby, other than whatever everyone can produce in their own balconies.
So, are things in Athens bad? Yes, they always were worse than the rest of Greece.
Is this a "lines for food" kind of thing? No. It's quality produce distributed for free, with a "first come first served" distribution method.
Things are bad, but not as bad are that article wants to make it.

ZH are very good at creating a "drama queen" feeling. Trouble is, many read them... and act accordingly. They often dig interesting bits of info, but most of the time distort them.

If you would start handing out free boxes of such high quality food in Germany, people would probably stand in longer lines than in those pictures. The text is pure flamebait.

People will always go for free stuff, especially of such quality.

Well, I offer $5 and half a cheese sandwich for the Parthenon! It's a bit of a fixer-upper, but I'm willing to gamble on it.

:D

Thanks for the info, it's first time I hear about that site.

If I remember the situation correctly, it was more like a protest from the producers about the low prices they are often forced to sell and the high final price the consumers are seeing, with all the profit filling middle men's pockets. A case where the mid is screwing both ends and reaping all the benefit.

If you see from the pics, the people getting the products are not destitute or starving.

Depends on whether the images are from 4 months ago (or more, hasn't happened only once) or from a few days ago. Judging by the crates, I think it wasn't a protest, as reported here. Not sure of the site, this was found by googling, but it does seem as if they wanted to help (or promote their produce).
Link is in greek, but I doubt you'll have trouble reading it :P

Maybe the word protest was not the most fitting. I'm not sure from which case were the photos from, you may be right. I was referring to events like the "potato movement", which is something between a protest and promotion.
But in any case the gist is the same. The OP's link was an exaggerated and sensationalist article, not quite credible. :P

ps: I lol'ed at the link :)

Link fixed, was discussing the match with a few more Germans, and they did agree with SimonG description of the first goal :P Sorry for the mixup, should learn to double check my posts.

No problem and thanks for the link. :)
Being upset is rather normal right now :P