"I'm not feeling safe, and me and my girlfriend are scared."
The couple at the centre of a panic meat buying frenzy in Lake Country last weekend has reached out to Castanet to let us know that they are receiving death threats due to the community's negative reaction.
Dan Marcotte spoke with Castanet to try and explain his reasons for the massive purchase that cleaned out the Save On Foods meat section last weekend.
"Everybody knows who I am, because I put myself out there, (now) I'm getting death threats and I don't answer the phone so I'm losing business. My own mother is ashamed of me."
Marcotte has a big heart and has used his Dan-Mel moving company to help others in the past, giving his moving services away free of charge to help those in need during the 2017 and 2018 wildfire seasons.
"Nobody remembers that now." Marcotte also donated $1,000 to the Lake Country Food Bank after the incident, which he says was grateful and supportive. He feels now that his life could be in danger and he worries his business could go under if people stop calling for his services.
He says he got caught up in the anxiety most people are feeling about the coronavirus and made the large purchase for his own family.
"If me and my girlfriend had done this two months ago nobody would say a bloody word. We're getting crucified for buying two carts of meat. We might have gone overboard, but we didn't push people or laugh at anyone."
Apoc_au on March 22nd, 2020 at 00:59 UTC »
"We might have gone overboard, but we didn't push people or laugh at anyone."
But then in the original article it says that's exactly what they were doing, pushing in front of people and making sure they couldn't get the meat before them, even laughing. The video someone took of them at the checkout shows the woman with a smirk on her face.
You reap what you sow.
tumbleweedcowboy on March 22nd, 2020 at 00:42 UTC »
His mother is ashamed...she realized she has an asshole for a son.
xxMaNoL0 on March 21st, 2020 at 22:40 UTC »
He says if he did it months ago no one would say anything but he didn’t and instead chose to do it during a time of global crisis...who even needs that much meat lmao