Needles Found in Aussie Fruits

[Anonymous No.11232092]

Dafuq Australia?? why is this happening?

[Anonymous No.11232095]

>>11232092
>he can't handle the banter

[Anonymous No.11232097]

OP I hope you aren't pirating screen captures from CNN

[Anonymous No.11232098]

>>11232092
I'm gay btw, will that be a problem?

[Anonymous No.11232102]

>fruit crisis
Australia, you can't handle your gays?

[Anonymous No.11232104]

>>11232092

Asians (probably China) are trying to cause a public health crisis that will drop the prices/demand for fruits (strawberries/mangos) so they can swoop in when the prices hit rock bottom. Then they will stop putting needles in thing, launch a marketing campaign to regain trust with the public, and BOOM they own that market in Australia now.

Just accept you Asian masters now Australia cunts.

[Anonymous No.11232105]

>>11232092
>10 tabs open

[Anonymous No.11232107]

>>11232105

9 of them are trap porn =^]

[Anonymous No.11232110]

>>11232092
There was a bumper supply of strawberries this year. This is true. There was so much supply that the farmers were having trouble turning a profit. This is true. They were going to have to start destroying their crops because harvesting and shipping weren't worth the market price. This is true. Then this needle thing happened, disrupting the industry and giving the fruit major publicity.

I don't know. Probably just a coincidence.

[Anonymous No.11232116]

>>11232110
>our fruits aren't gonna sell so lets make sure they never sell

nigga wut

[Anonymous No.11232118]

>>11232116
It is now our patriotic duty to buy and eat strawberries. Politicians are telling us so. Australians are going to buy more strawberries in the next fortnight than they have for years.

[Anonymous No.11232121]

>>11232092
The chinese are sabotaging the fruits to make farmers look bad, then occupying the farmers land.

[Anonymous No.11232122]

>>11232118
arent supermarkets straight up yanking them off shelves? they've already removed a few brands in my country

[Anonymous No.11232127]

>>11232092
>farm doesnt have metal detectors at end of packaging line

its 2018 and theres no excuse

[Anonymous No.11232135]

its now in bananas and mangos too...

[Anonymous No.11232152]

>>11232092
>CNN

clearly the russians hacked that strawberry

[Anonymous No.11232172]

>>11232092
>some dude gets laid off by strawberry farm
>gets revenge by putting pins in them
>edgy teens hear about it on the news
>they start doing the same to strawberries and other fruit
>edgy copycat teens get arrested
>original culprit doesnt cuz no evidence

[Anonymous No.11232173]

>>11232110
>has to put "This is true" in his post 3 times to try and make people believe his shit

[Anonymous No.11232208]

>>11232104
We already did when they bought all our houses and became our landlords.

[Anonymous No.11232240]

>>11232127
They are obviously placed in fruits AFTER they are harvested, packages, and shipped. Most likely at the stores themselves/ or the distribution centers.

Cmon guy. Get that noggin joggin.

[Anonymous No.11232248]

>>11232110
>They were going to have to start destroying their crops because harvesting and shipping weren't worth the market price.
This is perhaps the stupidest thing I've ever read. You do know fruits can be made into things like jam/alcohol/dried etc..right? Farmers may have surpluses at times, but they would never destroy their own crops.

I can smell the Chinese on you from here.

[Anonymous No.11232475]

>>11232092
>Xiaomi
A man of culture I see

[Anonymous No.11232488]

>>11232248
>You do know fruits can be made into things like jam/alcohol/dried etc..right?
And you know that costs money and often requires jumping through legal loopholes, right? If the process costs more than the ingredients are worth then yeah, they'd destroy the crops.

[Anonymous No.11232496]

>>11232092
Probably some soulless chink who can't handle the bantz.

[Anonymous No.11232512]

>be australian
>go for a swim
>get eaten by shark
>walk around
>get bitten by snake
>go to the river
>get eaten by crocodile
>go for a shit at home
>get bitten by spider
>eat fruit
>get needles in your throat

[Anonymous No.11232561]

>>11232092
thats a strawberry, silly australia.

[Anonymous No.11232588]

>>11232105
that is not too bad

[Anonymous No.11232649]

>>11232105
I have 95 tabs open on my phone right now. I clear them out frequently and always accumulate more. When you go over 100 tabs, Chrome on Android just displays a ":D" instead of the number.

[Anonymous No.11232685]

Could be mostly copycats at this point, its rapidly approaching meme status.

[Anonymous No.11232888]

>>11232685
>its rapidly approaching meme status.
>meme status.
Clearly it's the racist whites then!

[Anonymous No.11233263]

>>11232092
The US opiate crisis has spread to the southern hemisphere

[Anonymous No.11233374]

>>11232092
People doing this are ruining lives
Shit ton of fruit won't be sold

[Anonymous No.11233388]

>>11233374
who will pay all the asian fruit pickers if they have no money??
oh shucks, looks like Australia is going to be for Australians again

[Anonymous No.11233426]

>>11233388
>>11233374
arent some farms owned by china though?

[Anonymous No.11233714]

>>11232104
Why does it seem like nobody talks about how China is buying up most of the world?

[Anonymous No.11234514]

>>11232104
China is literally the reason why there's a severe fentanyl crisis in Vancouver. They want to kill off the lower-east side (which has the cheapest real estate) so they can swoop in and redevelop it

[Anonymous No.11234702]

>>11232110
Publicity in a way that makes supermarkets demand farmers incur more cost (by installing metal detectors), thus raising the prices and make it more difficult for them to profit? Choke on a strawberry anon.

[Anonymous No.11234724]

>>11233714
How about you stop selling to them?

[Anonymous No.11234727]

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/drug-trafficker-owns-operation-at-centre-of-strawberry-scandal-20180921-p505b8.html

[Anonymous No.11234732]

>>11233714
Don't say no one warned you.

[Anonymous No.11234789]

>>11234727
This is not surprising at all, many fruit picking jobs employ illegal workers with below minimum wages, some are foreign students who resort to them as they have difficulty finding jobs that accepts nonwhite foreigners with irregular schedule.

[Anonymous No.11234811]

>>11232105
that's small time, I have several hundred

[Anonymous No.11234842]

>>11232092
I spent a lot of time discussing this with Australians on /pol/
Base theories
>It's the Chinese out to sabotage competition with micro-terrorism
>Disgruntled degenerate fruit pickers are of certain low quality. Individual does this and then there are copycats.
>Farmers themselves are doing it because they can dump a substandard yield and collect insurance reliably because they're greedy amoral assholes and create a community-push boost in pro-Australia agriculture sales
>Government is doing it themselves to inspire fear of micro-terrorism to push increased security, protectionism, and scrutiny especially of agriculture..

Honestly I believe that these scenarios always come back to money. Which case makes the most sense in terms of money; did you think I was going to say Chinese? Apparently those who are to gain the most from this scare is the big Strawberry and Mango producers themselves.
Law and Justice needs to come down on these criminals.

[Anonymous No.11234849]

>>11232240
In fact the cost of actually securing the fruit product is so high that the only feasible solution is to have home metal detectors for the consumers themselves, which is insane. Think of all of the situations in which a regular person isn't going to have the money to have a fucking metal-detector for his fruit.

It doesn't even solve the problem because you can just use shards of glass, ceramic, or plastic.
You'd have to have a fucking 24/7 security on your entire path from start to finish and there's just no way.

[Anonymous No.11235296]

>>11234849
>the only feasible solution is to have home metal detectors for the consumers themselves
Or they can cut the fruit before consuming. They're needles not lice.

[Anonymous No.11235308]

>>11235296
does not compute
you wouldn't ruin your knives by cutting into something which may have metal in it.

(also maybe your hands at risk too)

[Anonymous No.11236148]

>>11234842
What if it's just one guy who's done the first few before the copycats, because he shorted one or more strategic companies that he expected its stock to fall in value?

[Anonymous No.11236152]

>>11236148
An elaborate crime with extremely high risk, leaves a bunch of evidence for law enforcement to connect the dots, endangers the public and yet still requires some level of brains AND unreasonable greed to pull off?
Nay.

[Anonymous No.11236179]

>>11236152
Are you being sarcastic?
I can't tell desu.

>An elaborate crime
You just need to go to the store, pretend to choose between multiple boxes of strawberries and while handling one, push a needle through the holes in the packaging.
It takes you a second and you can walk away with another box that you actually buy, and the cameras only see you doing something that most people do anyway.

Not to mention how you can just go to a plantation and put them there (no cameras, easy to sneak into, and you can put as many as you like), or if you're motivated and/or rich enough, you can pay someone to get hired at the packing plant and put one needle every few days.

>with extremely high risk, leaves a bunch of evidence for law enforcement to connect the dots, endangers the public and yet still requires some level of brains
We know for a fact that people are doing all this regardless of the motivation.
Whether it's a prank or it's the chinese, someone IS taking the extremely high risk, leaving evidence for the police, endangering the public, etc.

>AND unreasonable greed
?
You act like people don't do worse things for money all the time.

[Anonymous No.11236184]

>>11236152
>An elaborate crime with extremely high risk, leaves a bunch of evidence for law enforcement to connect the dots, endangers the public
>yet still requires some level of brains AND unreasonable greed to pull off
You think it's impossible that someone who's both greedy and smart would commit a high-risk crime that benefits him despite hurting others?
People do much worse with much more risk for much less.

[Anonymous No.11236331]

>he doesn't have needles in his strawberries
lmao you nanny state faggot kinder surprise fearing seppos

[Anonymous No.11237320]

>>11236184
Corporate espionage maybe? Maybe even international?

[Anonymous No.11237330]

>>11237320
What do you mean?

[Anonymous No.11238506]

I better not die from needles in my throat cause I like strawberries

[Anonymous No.11238641]

>>11232092
immigrants and refugees

[Anonymous No.11238649]

I see Thai horror films have finally reached Australia.

[Anonymous No.11239017]

>>11232248
It's a common practice. You're obviously making assumptions without really not knowing what you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.11239041]

>>11232172
>teens
They caught some old gran doing it. People can be sociopaths at any age.

[Anonymous No.11239051]

>>11232092
Seems like a new job created, wanding the food at the checkout for metal...

[Anonymous No.11239080]

>>11239051
Interesting to not that in Australia, self-checkout is on the rise.

[Anonymous No.11239086]

>>11232649
lmao, you weren't kidding about the :D
Out of curiosity, why do you have 95 tabs open and what kinds of pages are on them?

[Anonymous No.11239105]

>>>/pol/

[Anonymous No.11240665]

>>11236179
>needle found
>camera footage
>needle found, look where it came from
>camera footage
>one person overlap in camera footage
>you become #1 suspect
>easily identify $ as your motive
>get absolutely fucked as hard as possible
three arrows pointing to you with the big public magnifying glass on the subject to be sure law enforcement is going to do their jobs
how much money would you have to put on the line to make that level of stupidity even be attempted?

>>11236184
>People do much worse with much more risk for much less.
There's no psychological motive to this kind of crime

[Anonymous No.11240684]

>>11240665
psychos dont need motives

[Anonymous No.11241001]

>>11240665
>There's no psychological motive to this kind of crime
Except money, which is a pretty good motive for any kind of crime.

[Anonymous No.11241169]

>>11232105
I had 131 yesterday. Now I only have 9.
>>11232110
>grow too much produce
>destroy them instead of selling them slightly cheaper
>destroy them instead of freezing, or turning into juice, or jam, or drying, or any of 100 other preservation methods
God would send people like that to hell.

[Anonymous No.11241191]

>>11240665
You're assuming one would do it in big chain supermarkets with cameras everywhere.
One could've done it at small stores or in a supermarket that doesn't have a camera on fruit (for many supermarkets it's not worth the cost of having cameras in every angle of the store, so they only put them where there's a higher risk of shoplifting).
You're also assuming it's not someone with accomplices or that he doesn't work at a packing or sorting plant.
Hell, he could've been diversifying and using all of these methods.
One time you do it in a supermarket, one time at a farmer's market, one time in a little family-owned grocery store, one time at the farm, one time at the packing plat, etc, and have one or more accomplices do the same thing.
As long as you choose one of the many places that don't have cameras, you'll never even have the maginifying glass on you, and it will be enough needles to cause a public outrage and get some copycats started.

[Anonymous No.11241328]

>>11232092
>why is this happening?

I've heard two stories, a persistent rumour that keeps going around and a cynical one based on some apple virus shenanigans a few years back

First one is this:
>some farmer raped a backpacker who was fruit picking
>or just 'forced' her to fuck him because he had her passport or something
>said he'd get her visa revoked if she told police
>her bf heard about it and stuck needles in a bunch of his fruit
>his friends (or maybe hers) did the same to some other farms too because those farmers are cunts

The other story is NZ strawberry producers doing it to tank the industry and get their own produce being bought in australia.

[Anonymous No.11241345]

>>11241328
Both of those theories are clearly retarded. I expected nothing less from an Ausfailian.

[Anonymous No.11241349]

>>11237320
>Corporate espionage maybe? Maybe even international?
Unironically, this is a legitimate reason.
It's just not the Chinese like you might think, it's NZ strawberry farmers.

[Anonymous No.11241351]

>>11241345
I didn't say that they were good reasons, just what I'd heard.
However the NZ farmer thing has happened before, there was a virus destroying crops in NZ and someone snuck a sample over to Ausland and infected farms there.

[Anonymous No.11241364]

>>11232105
You are like a little baby

[Anonymous No.11241379]

>>11241364
>phone screenshots

God I hate mobile posters. Even on a good desktop I only have 5 tabs open right now.

[Anonymous No.11241401]

>>11241379
You shouldn't really be using tabs at all, they're a distraction. Open a new window if you must.

[Anonymous No.11241409]

>>11241379
This.
If it's not needed for the current session, it goes into the bookmarks.
Having unneeded tabs hinders your navigation making everything less immediate, and slows dows your phone.
Also, you risk losing them in case of a crash or a shutdown.
Bookmarks allow you to organize them into separate folders while tabs are just a super long list of random stuff that you have to sift through.

[Anonymous No.11241413]

>>11241401
If you use windows in lieu of tabs, you'll just end up being distracted by them the same way you get distracted by tabs.

[Anonymous No.11241425]

>>11241364
fuck off sinking the belgrano wasn't justified

Malvinas Argentinas.

[Anonymous No.11241480]

>>11241425
SEETHING argie