Submitted 11 hours ago by Agent641@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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What in the orphan crushing machine is this shit?!
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
Wonder what all that banana skin soaked up.
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 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
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.
The cargo company should be prosecuted for littering. Unless they can convince some benevolent locals to go help them clean up the spill.
Members of the British government have been calling for strong efforts to ensure the shipping company and its insurers will pay the costs of the cleanup. Seatrade, which operates the vessel, said its insurers are fully engaged in the process…
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 😂
british government more protective of bananas arriving on shore than they are refugees
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.
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.
Damn
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.
But…
The Charter of the Forest declared that people are free to sustain themselves from the land.
This is the sea no?
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.
Laughs softly in the spreading American corporate virus
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.
Once the laws are gone/things are deregulated, the corpos will likely take over. Nationalizing sounds good, but likely won’t end well without regulations, imo.
While that specific scenario is unlikely, I do hope that Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party succeed in dissolving the UK
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.
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.
You couldn’t pay me to eat a banana that came from the ocean.
It better be washed at least
Second. I’d really think thrice to pick up washed on the shore bananas, or just about anything edible. Basic hygiene to me.
What do you think of potatoes, then, which grow in a mixture of soil and manure? Or carrots?
The beach is a nesting ground of vast biomes of creatures, singled-celled, through to vast arrays of worms, some parasitic, all the way up to burrowing arthropods like sand fleas and their many, many cousins. We don’t usually have problems with any of this stuff when we swim or hang out on the sand because… and I cannot stress this enough, we do not eat things we find in the sand.
Please do not eat things you find in the sand.
I wouldn’t eat carrots from the ocean either
I mean, I peel them and wash them right after. Then I cook them in boiling water or fry on a pan. Not eat raw.
You don’t need to rinse the bananas though… You just peel them and throw the peel away, whatever was on the peel does not need to touch anything close to your mouth at all.
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.
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Looked it up: They changed it in 1990 - sad :<
Ooh, a glass bouy! OOH, a catamaran! Oh boy, a bale of cocaine!
In the UK you must take reasonable steps to return anything you find to the owner.
If you can’t return it to the owner it’s yours.
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”
Anyone that eats the bananas they find on the beach won’t need to law to punish them
What’s the matter babe, you’ve barely touched your sea bananas!
They’ll turn you into a slave to the sea god
Do you mean they’ll be in some way inedible by being submerged in sea water sorry?
Just rinse it well, I’m pretty sure you won’t have any problems.
I have to assume the Daily Mail is taking the piss. The bananas are flotsam, and thus free for the taking unless the company asserts ownership. And why would the company, the bananas have negative value at this point. Anyone collecting them is doing the true owner a favor.
Back in the days in The Netherlands it used to be a hobby/profession called “strandjutter” which means "beachcomber. But these days it is illegal to take stuff which washes up on the shores. It’s because it’s still considered someone else’s property, for the sake of cleanup responsibility, or it could be dangerous if it’s toxic or sharp for example. A washed up oil drum could contain nuclear waste or a dumped body, which would be an active crime scene and should stay undisturbed.
So when you think of why they introduces this it’s somewhat understandable they made this law. It’s just completely stupid when you look at it from a different perspective: it’s litter on the beach, why wouldn’t it be free to take. Sometimes people find arguments to push a law without thinking how insanely dumb it is. Most of the time it’s just pieces of wood and plastic, most beachcombers are artists using it for their art projects. Free litter cleanup. Doesn’t mean you can’t hold the shipping company responsible for littering.
Especially in this case, maybe the bananas are filled with cocain. That would be awesome!
Also if they still had a significant value and the owner would still like them a passerby claiming then seems injust to.me.
Due to the stormy and windy weather in the Selsey area, bananas have been swept off the beach into coastal roads, making for slippery driving conditions in some areas.
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The UK needs to cut some bureaucrat middle management and allocate the funds to the social programs they’ve austeritied into symbolic existence.
Contain to Much cocaine
Off topic but relevant. This reminds me of this epic story.
Nobody will notice unless you post it on xitter
Those children are criminals that should be punished and locked up! /s
Any source that isn’t Daily Mail?
TrippingBalls@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Fuck the bananas
I want the Cocaine washing up on the shores