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Strawberries and contamination

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Created by Razzonater > 9 months ago, 18 Sep 2018
Razzonater
2224 posts
18 Sep 2018 7:53PM
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Firstly what sort of sicko does this?
Does he own a blueberry farm??
Is it a disgruntled underplayed foreign worker/workers??
Is it a conspiracy??
Is it a group of people an individual or cooperation.

Profiling:

Who would benefit from this ? Other fruit growers? No , now some other fruits have been contaminated apples and a banana??

Surely some of these are copycat ??

This is the sort of stuff that leads to food shortages in future as farmers go broke

I am not eating strawberries at current and whilst it may seem heartless the cut it up before eating campaign isn't going to fly in my house with three kids.......

I worry that it's not just the fact the needles are in the fruit but it is the whole psychology of them being tampered with by someone willing to do this.

what else are they doing to the fruit??????

cauncy
WA, 8407 posts
18 Sep 2018 8:15PM
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Razzonater said..
Firstly what sort of sicko does this?
Does he own a blueberry farm??
Is it a disgruntled underplayed foreign worker/workers??
Is it a conspiracy??
Is it a group of people an individual or cooperation.

Profiling:

Who would benefit from this ? Other fruit growers? No , now some other fruits have been contaminated apples and a banana??

Surely some of these are copycat ??

This is the sort of stuff that leads to food shortages in future as farmers go broke

I am not eating strawberries at current and whilst it may seem heartless the cut it up before eating campaign isn't going to fly in my house with three kids.......

I worry that it's not just the fact the needles are in the fruit but it is the whole psychology of them being tampered with by someone willing to do this.

what else are they doing to the fruit??????


The doctor uses bananas and cucumbers in a way that's not fit for human consumption afterward

Gazuki
WA, 1363 posts
18 Sep 2018 9:07PM
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Went to Coles today to buy a sowing kit,..it was full of bloody strawberries!

kk
WA, 940 posts
18 Sep 2018 9:28PM
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How many of the cases are people attention seeking? I mean you buy a packet of strawberries take it home add a needle and call today tonight, call a lawyer, call the supermarket etc

Mark _australia
WA, 22081 posts
18 Sep 2018 9:33PM
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More fun to go to Coles and stick needles in the condoms

slammin
QLD, 989 posts
19 Sep 2018 5:54AM
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They need better spin drs.

Buy a punnet and your chance to win a free sewing needle!!

Demtel, purchase now for a free set of needles.

Marsbars
545 posts
19 Sep 2018 5:22AM
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kk said..
How many of the cases are people attention seeking? I mean you buy a packet of strawberries take it home add a needle and call today tonight, call a lawyer, call the supermarket etc


Call me a cynic but when it starts to happen after the news coverage of the first one I lean towards this plenty of sickos willing to fake they have cancer or even poison their own kids with meds for their 15 mins and now gofundme page.

gs12
WA, 393 posts
19 Sep 2018 6:15AM
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t.co/VbLdMV2o4x

I can't figure out how the needle was there before the strawberry was cut. Or did they find the needle, took it out, cut and put it back? There doesn't seem to be corresponding exit hole..

Paddles B'mere
QLD, 3586 posts
19 Sep 2018 8:40AM
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I'll throw another angle in based purely on economic motivations, and by no means am I saying it's true but it is plausible.

- There's a glut of strawberries in the market and a producer might struggle to get a break even price
- The producer has adequate insurance coverage

Might you be motivated to contaminate your own strawberries?

Emeboy
NSW, 399 posts
19 Sep 2018 9:41AM
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The whole issue needs a bit of perspective... I heard on the wireless this morning that there have bee 3 strawbs found contaminated, out of the 80 something thousand punnets distributed daily.... (that might be just Sydney). Cant help but feel that the excessive media attention is solely responsible for the spawning of attention seeking copycats...

Paddles B'mere
QLD, 3586 posts
19 Sep 2018 11:34AM
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Yep, it could be very much like that. Sort of like James Bond - Tomorrow Never Dies, where the media mogul makes his own news ........... just like CH9

You've gotta love the QLD government reaction too, strawberries are supposedly a $160m industry for the state and it's looking like a good portion of this year's revenue will be written off so the government announces a $1m fund to help, it just doesn't seem enough to me.

TonyAbbott
864 posts
19 Sep 2018 10:05AM
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Islamic terrorism?

Sparky
WA, 1121 posts
19 Sep 2018 11:01AM
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Its a stitch up

Mark _australia
WA, 22081 posts
19 Sep 2018 12:38PM
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Emeboy said..
The whole issue needs a bit of perspective... I heard on the wireless this morning that there have bee 3 strawbs found contaminated, out of the 80 something thousand punnets distributed daily.... (that might be just Sydney). Cant help but feel that the excessive media attention is solely responsible for the spawning of attention seeking copycats...



I think they meant in just Sydney then as WA has had it also

Given the removal from sale that then has to occur its pretty damn major for growers

Mr Milk
NSW, 2864 posts
19 Sep 2018 3:01PM
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STOP PRESS!!!

EMERGENCY LAW TO BE PASSED TOMORROW!!!

Apparently the current maximum penalty for food contamination, 10 years gaol, was not enough to deter the criminal, so it will be increased to 15 years.
This has happened ONCE since forever. What's the point?

kiterboy
2614 posts
19 Sep 2018 1:19PM
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Could be someone is trying to buy up farm land?
Destroy a market, send farmers broke, suddenly the land is up for sale, cheap.

cauncy
WA, 8407 posts
19 Sep 2018 1:39PM
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TonyAbbott said..
Islamic terrorism?


Always thought why poisoning people through the food industry as a terrorist attack hasn't been done on a large/ larger scale,

choco
SA, 3994 posts
19 Sep 2018 3:29PM
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Razzonater said..
Firstly what sort of sicko does this?




I got a funny suspicion it's this guy

Mark _australia
WA, 22081 posts
19 Sep 2018 4:35PM
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Mr Milk said..
This has happened ONCE since forever. What's the point?



Man we must have all the psychos in WA or something then as I recall this happening a couple of times before in food products

Harrow
NSW, 4518 posts
19 Sep 2018 9:16PM
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Before we know it, all fruit will be sealed in tamper proof packaging. More cost, and more waste.

Razzonater
2224 posts
19 Sep 2018 8:29PM
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So after they banned plastic bags this has happened now need to wrap everything in more plastic.
Harrow you have solved it, it is the plastic bag manufacturer.

I actually read today that they suspect underpaid workers ,,,, whilst this was my first suspicion I'm thinking the plastic bag manufacturer still has a hand in this

AUS1111
WA, 3617 posts
19 Sep 2018 8:29PM
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I'd like to hear from PM33 on this.

Rails
QLD, 1370 posts
20 Sep 2018 4:44AM
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AUS1111 said..
I'd like to hear from PM33 on this.


Turns out strawberries are actually flat

dmitri
VIC, 1040 posts
20 Sep 2018 6:48AM
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Razzonater said..
So after they banned plastic bags this has happened now need to wrap everything in more plastic.
Harrow you have solved it, it is the plastic bag manufacturer.

I actually read today that they suspect underpaid workers ,,,, whilst this was my first suspicion I'm thinking the plastic bag manufacturer still has a hand in this




Could be conspiracy similar to the "Fight club"..do you remember what Tyler Durden did to the food when working as underpaid waiter
"He farted on creme brulee; he sneezed on braised endive; and, with creme of mushroom soup, he ... he ..."

BTW the food delivery business is booming and their workers being ripped off and exploited..




I wouldn't touch it

mineral1
WA, 4564 posts
20 Sep 2018 8:36AM
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Rails said..

AUS1111 said..
I'd like to hear from PM33 on this.



Turns out strawberries are actually flat


Double winner post

Mark _australia
WA, 22081 posts
20 Sep 2018 1:22PM
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Rails said.. Turns out strawberries are actually flat


Wall of icecream holds them on the plate

TonyAbbott
864 posts
20 Sep 2018 7:11PM
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This is getting out of control





cauncy
WA, 8407 posts
20 Sep 2018 8:19PM
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That's f..k all


theDoctor
NSW, 5762 posts
21 Sep 2018 1:34AM
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Don't order the strawberries at the starfish cafe

NotWal
QLD, 7426 posts
23 Sep 2018 12:51AM
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Maybe he's got a container load of magnets he's trying to move.



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