Food, Drink & Dining Out Strawberrygate

[Frank Bunn]

There's been over 100 reports of strawberries and other fruit having needles pushed into them. Now Woolies have withdrawn all sewing needles off the shelf. What's going on?

https://www.theage.com.au/national/...es-amid-strawberry-scare-20180920-p504ve.html

 

[CheapCharlie]

There's been over 100 reports of strawberries and other fruit having needles pushed into them. Now Woolies have withdrawn all sewing needles off the shelf. What's going on?

https://www.theage.com.au/national/...es-amid-strawberry-scare-20180920-p504ve.html

Start off with a few possibly genuine spiteful incidents
Then you get a few copycats
Add in some people posting fake needle finds on social media for attention
Add in people who see a $$$ payoff for finding a needle in their food

 

[peternorth]

Hope this doesnt end up like milkyformulagate in china

 

[JG22]

How bizarre

 

[TMFKAV]

How bizarre

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[mr bagcroft]

There is accounting for just how many absolute ****ing ***** are out there in the world.
Truly frightening.

 

[Hamingja]

People queueing up to have a crack at some compo.

Lol at the police threatening 15 years jail. About as empty a threat as you could get.

Claim you have a drug addiction or mental illness and you'd get less than that for murder ffs.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Read a meter from one of the farms affected today. Closed, no workers and weeds starting to grow. Sad sight

 

[HotSausage69]

Read a meter from one of the farms affected today. Closed, no workers and weeds starting to grow. Sad sight

It's only been about a week since the first needle was found

 

[Power Raid]

Terribly sad to hear there are people out there that are prepared to risk hurting others physically and happy to hurt farm workers, farmers, logistics and shop keepers incomes.

Just sad

 

[Frank Bunn]

A possible mafia link!

A fruit growing and packing business at the centre of the strawberry contamination scandal is owned by a convicted drug trafficker named in a confidential report on organised crime. Donnybrook Berries was one of three brands first identified as having been contaminated with parts of sewing needles last weekend.

is owned by Pasquale "Pat" Cufari from Mildura, Victoria.

Pasquale Cufari was previously of interest to police and other criminal investigators.

Mr Cufari was a target of investigations in the 1990s by the National Criminal Authority, the forerunner of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, into any influence of the Calabrian Mafia in Mildura.

In 2003, Pasquale Cufari was named in a confidential Australian Crime Commission report on organised crime in Australia.

Pasquale Cufari’s business activities suffered a lull in the mid-1990s while he served five years of his seven-year jail sentence, but picked up significantly in recent years.​

https://www.theage.com.au/national/...re-of-strawberry-scandal-20180921-p505b8.html

 

[Gough]

A possible mafia link!

A fruit growing and packing business at the centre of the strawberry contamination scandal is owned by a convicted drug trafficker named in a confidential report on organised crime. Donnybrook Berries was one of three brands first identified as having been contaminated with parts of sewing needles last weekend.

is owned by Pasquale "Pat" Cufari from Mildura, Victoria.

Pasquale Cufari was previously of interest to police and other criminal investigators.

Mr Cufari was a target of investigations in the 1990s by the National Criminal Authority, the forerunner of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, into any influence of the Calabrian Mafia in Mildura.

In 2003, Pasquale Cufari was named in a confidential Australian Crime Commission report on organised crime in Australia.

Pasquale Cufari’s business activities suffered a lull in the mid-1990s while he served five years of his seven-year jail sentence, but picked up significantly in recent years.​

https://www.theage.com.au/national/...re-of-strawberry-scandal-20180921-p505b8.html

Send Matthew Guy in to sort it all out, he knows those guys. It might help with his polling too.

 

[BRAB]

I think a the right to feel safe in a Coles supermarket is a human right.

The fact that I can no longer walk into a Coles, grab a punnet of strawberries and safely eat them is an indictment on society. Lock the perpetrators up now.

 

[JG22]

It’s such a genius sly tactic tbh

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

Terribly sad to hear there are people out there that are prepared to risk hurting others physically and happy to hurt farm workers, farmers, logistics and shop keepers incomes.

Just sad

I laugh at posts like this

Our health industry relies on hurting people to profit

 

[perthblue]

this is the work of Big Blueberry

 

[tandino]

This is the poisoned M&Ms meme come to life.

****ed if I'm going to eat a strawberry without cutting it up.

 

[Benny78]

Backpackers figured out farmers don't actually have the power to sexually assault and not pay them.

It's genius because it can't be stopped. It's good to see democracy operating in an industry for once. Bosses abuse workers, workers can bring them down. And bosses can still sack workers. It's win win. Workers aren't powerless like they are in every other industry.

10 year jail sentences just show how powerless the produce elites are to stop this. It is those "untouchable" ****s that are the powerless ones now.

 

[Restricted Free Agent]

Whichever campaigners think that this is a good idea deserve to be locked up.
Although I laughed at this meme so I feel kinda bad