Submitted 2 weeks ago by Agent641@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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What in the orphan crushing machine is this shit?!
“The guards were on the river bank to make sure the poor didn’t take the fruit from the river, when that was too expensive it was collected in a pile and doused in kerosene. The hogs were burned as well all for the sake of profit” -grapes of wrath
I honestly think about it to this day. We didn’t give milk to the homeless during covid. Farmers dumped it all for profit. We don’t grow food to feed We gro food to make profit.
Came to the comments just to make sure that passage was on top.
Great job you figured out capitalism sucks
I don’t know anything about British courts, but I doubt that any court is going to find anybody guilty of any major crime for collecting bananas washing up on the beach, for which the corporation that lost them got an insurance settlement to cover the loss. That’s salvage, and salvage rights are long established.
I’ve seen Oliver twist, they are ready to sentence people to jail for this crime.
I mean, that was slightly fictional. And a sesquicentennial ago.
While the coastguard was clear that they didn’t mean the bananas
this does not include perishable goods like foodstuffs.
Either way though, everyone here IS following maritime salvage law.
The “long established” rule that is that the owner has all rights to the cargo and wreck, but must compensate those who assist in recovery if the owner agrees to assistance
The British maritime law that keeps getting referenced was put into place initially to ensure that people would be compensated completely when assisting. Previously, when it was a raw ‘handshake’ agreement, there would be negotiations before helping, or Party A would screw over Party B with a low-ball reward, or Party B would just nope out of the situation out of fear of not getting reimbursed.
The shipping company in this situation sent a list of missing stuff. If you find missing stuff, you report it, and they know how much you should be compensated and make sure you get it. In this case, they want their expensive refrigeration equipment.
british government more protective of bananas arriving on shore than they are refugees
bananas have more rights and people in Britain apparently
Daily Mail propaganda worked I guess. They just warned people because they might not be safe to eat. The government never actually said they’d prosecute anyone it was just a warning.
This government has arresting people for demonstrating against that governments active support of the mass murdering of children in Gaza, so morally speaking, putting bananas ahead of people (even poor Brits who might actually need those free bananas) is mild stuff.
Sometimes I suspect that making sure people suffer is their whole point.
Damn
Eating beach bananas sounds like a great way to get some kind of weird illness. It’s not like there’s a nearby banana tree that they could have come from. But maybe I’m just too accustomed to grocery stores
I would just assume that through osmosis those bananas ate salty as fuck, plus I have seen the size of the fucking spiders on some of those bananas being shipped here, no fuck you
The tarantulas have usually abandoned the bananas by the time we eat the bananas.
True to the spirit of journalistic inquiry, your correspondent can attest that seawater has not degraded the taste of the bananas, with the only threats to health posed by skin slippage and by eating too many of them.
Im sure they come clean if you wash them vigorously by hand.
I assume the spiders would have died, and now you have delicious, brined cooking bananas!
Wonder what all that banana skin soaked up.
Ocean water that everyone swims in perfectly fine
I don’t want to eat the skin
Cocaine
Weird, right? On the one hand - we dont eat banana peels. So, it must be fine, right? But on the other hand, I’d also hesitate to eat a snickers bar washed up on the shore.
I mean if you opened the package and it was dry tho?
Definitely peel it first.
Would you eat a banana out of the toilet, as long as you peeled it first?
Prosecuted for what? Enjoying a meal? A succulent, banana meal?
Are they going to fight? I bet they know their judo well!
Inb4 this is some archaic law that says all booties washed ashore belong to the monarch or something
There exist an archaic law like that, but it doesn't include all booties, only 'Royal Fish', and imho it would be a stretch to consider bananas as whales or sturgeons.
This case would be under maritime law. Iirc the cargo still belongs to the shipping company if it fell, but would be a 'finders keepers' if they threw it overboard. But I'm not a lawyer (sea lawyer?), I think this is for recoveries at sea, when it's already on shore local laws might apply instead, idk...
OBJECTION! Bananas are the most regal of fish.
Not really archaic - if this was valuable stuff washing up on shore, the law would still be relevant.
Man…I had no idea the monarchy was so into lathered up clean butts!
They still belong to the owner is the issue at hand, I believe. I.e. taking them would be theft.
The issue is that the owner is easily known.
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
I never read the grapes of wrath, but I should.
Please do. It’s an amazing piece of art.
It took depressingly long for this to be posted
So the rumors are true, good food is indeed illegal in the UK.
Yeah but it’s also the daily mail who are reporting this so default assumptions.
One joke
There are more actually. Interested?
Police, customs authorities, and the Receiver of Wrecks have warned beachcombers not to eat the bananas or to take them home.
This is the only mention in the linked article.
But the daily mail said it, it must be correct if the daily mail said it, they’re such a reputable and neutral news organisation, they would never just make up wildly misleading, fear mongering click bait headlines.
Honestly, how anyone who can string more than two thoughts together would ever think the DM is a reputable source for a claim is a mystery to me.
People online don’t always seem to realise that the Daily Mail is considered THE worst newspaper publication, in the entire UK. It’s the sort of thing you wouldn’t pick up to line your floor for a new dog.
I mean at a fundamental level, it probably is illegal. I don’t imagine the original owner stops owning a thing because it fell off the side of a boat, so I’d imagine it’s theft or some seafaring equivalent.
Is anyone going to get punished for picking up a banana that’s fallen off the side of a boat? I fucking doubt it.
Receiver of Wrecks is a pretty metal title tho. If he’s telling me to do something I might listen
Got a loicense for that banana, mate?
I could’ve sworn the Australian word for banana was bendigo bendy…
yes, and for my pet louse
I picture you walking your tame giant isopod hunting for beach bananas…
It’s “moit”, moit!
Fuck the bananas
I want the Cocaine washing up on the shores
I honestly feel like cocaine to a large extent is partially responsible for much of the world’s malignant narcissist billionaire evil rulers.
Naw, we just need equal access to cocaine! Level the playing field with subsidized cocaine I say!
I prefer the theory of the noble that has to live with his community and therefore has to care compared to wall communities and an apartment in dubai.
So maybe the world needs less cocaine, not more.
Woh there with your hot take
While true (maybe), if I find a brick of coke I’m 100% busting that down into 8balls and getting it gone quick. I know cokeheads suck but I gotta make a buck too and one isn’t that much in the grand scheme of keys.
In their defense, the warning could just be a CYA thing if someone eats one, gets sick and wants to sue for food poisoning.
Excuse me. There’s a sign at Ramsett Park that says “Do not drink the sprinkler water,” so I made sun tea with it, and now I have an infection. Sir? Sir, are… are… are… are you listening to me, sir? Sir, I’m talking to you! Sir! Sir, are you aware that there is waste in your water system?
That’d make sense, but they didn’t warn about the possible consequences; they warn that you may be prosecuted
Because they have lawyers in retainer. They only speak one language. From their perspective, putting out a threading notice is the cheapest, easiest thing to do.
That’s probably the case, or at least a part of it, but it’s crazy that it’s gotten to that point. If somebody finds a food item in the wild and decides to eat it, the consequences should be 100% on them. It doesn’t even have to apply to food, either.
If I find a block heater on the ground, install it into my car, and then my car catches fire; I’m not going to go after the manufacturer of the block heater. I’m the idiot who decided to do something stupid.
That being said there’s real life cases which indicate that yes, people are stupid and will sue over their own stupidity, so I’m not surprised at all.
Highly doubt you’ll be prosecuted or even arrested. I could walk into a grocery store and grab a bunch of bananas and walk out right now and nobody would care, they just be like “that was weird”
But…
The Charter of the Forest declared that people are free to sustain themselves from the land.
As far as I know and remember, in Germany the “Finders Keepers” rule fully aplies on the beach. So if you find something (you are allowed to own) wached up on the beach, you can keep it. And the owner cant do anything about it. A couple of years ago, someone found a container with a motorcycle - and was allowed to own it.
…
Looked it up: They changed it in 1990 - sad :<
Nah, they were dumb enough to lose them, those bananas are fair game.
First. As mentioned by MonkderVierte, not fine but a warning.
Second. I’d really think thrice to pick up washed on the shore bananas, or just about anything edible. Basic hygiene to me. Many would disagree with me and say that one can rinse it off. But I don’t know, man. Guess I am a germophobe.
Guess UK government is just trying to protect people from possible health risks. Cause, let’s fucking face it. Tons of people have issues with hygiene. You can’t expect everyone to at the very fucking least rinse these bananas, let alone rinse them well. Also, can you imagine any world government to proudly tell people “There’s bunch of bananas washed up on the shore. Go pick’em up! Free potassium snack!” ?
Sad to see this many of fruit being wasted.
The British people really would benefit from all collectively refusing to vote for their mainstream parties and instead voting for independent anarchist parties which try to get rid of as many laws and government institutions and also nationalize anything the people will be better served by, under collective ownership. All it really takes I think is to just talk to people. Tell them to stop voting for those parties and if they can’t resist then to stop watching the news media which fills their minds with anxiety.
This reminds me of when a large whiskey distillery broke in 19th century Ireland and many people died. Not from large quantities of alcohol sweeping people away (something like that happened in London in the early 19th century) but from passerby drinking so much of the stuff they died of alcohol poisoning.
Most Irish way to die ever!
You need to leave alone the earthly process of food falling off container ships. It’s nature’s way.
Anyone that eats the bananas they find on the beach won’t need to law to punish them
Dailymail is not a reputable source.
The UK needs to cut some bureaucrat middle management and allocate the funds to the social programs they’ve austeritied into symbolic existence.
Doesn’t salvage law allow to take the bananas? Or does it not apply anymore If they wash ashore?
Contain to Much cocaine
This is to keep people safe. Only those that have taken the Banana Self Defense class are certified for consumption of these bananas.
I hope they will sue seagull as well
You come at my gleaners you best not miss
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
The cargo company should be prosecuted for littering. Unless they can convince some benevolent locals to go help them clean up the spill.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh goodie, the insurers are fully engaged! I’m sure they will help clear the quickly rotting food off the beach just as much as the volunteers who are physically there doing actual work.
God I hate pencil-pusher culture, it’s so weird 😂