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New Zealand police arrest pair trying to enter Auckland with ‘large amount’ of KFC:
The men were arrested after allegedly trying to flee from police near the Auckland border. When their car was searched, police said they found a large quantity of KFC, as well as the cash and a number of empty ounce bags.
The arrest struck a chord with New Zealanders – especially Aucklanders, who have spent a month in a strict level four lockdown that does not allow restaurants to open or residents to order takeaway food.
[...] After the KFC arrest, a police spokesperson said “officers noticed a suspicious looking vehicle travelling on a gravel road, and upon seeing the police car, the vehicle did a U-turn and sped off trying to evade police.
[...] A breach of the Covid-19 Public Health Response Act can result in imprisonment for up to six months; or a fine of up to $4,000.
The men will appear in court for breaching the health order, and police said further charges were likely.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @08:26PM (1 child)
When KFC is outlawed, only Criminals will have KFC.
(Score: 2, Funny) by NPC-131072 on Tuesday September 21 2021, @09:20PM
"Tendies are nine tenths of the law"
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 21 2021, @08:26PM (10 children)
If all the cops found, is what is in the photo, that's not a "large amount" of KFC carry out. About half of that is what I typically bring home if I make a trip to KFC. So, maybe two households chipped in, intending to have a special meal. To put that into human terms, 4 to 6 adults, and/or 6 to 10 kids. Maybe three households?
That $100,000 suggests that KFC prices are pretty high in New Zealand. Maybe they had to bribe a store manager into opening the doors?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday September 21 2021, @11:09PM
Or if the bird flu [tradereadingorder.com] had become a thing, only outlaws would have chickens and eggs (second clip on page).
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:59AM (8 children)
The prominent mention of "ounce bags" seems to indicate that the KFC is just a tip-off to what they were really concerned about.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 22 2021, @02:10AM (4 children)
Yeah - ounce bags. But the story didn't say "drugs were found". I wondered about ounce bags, and kinda assumed that people down under refer to any small bags as ounce bags? Mehh - if they were trafficking in drugs, that's a whole different story.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @02:42AM (2 children)
An "ounce bag" is a normal ziploc, for pretty much all illicit drugs.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday September 22 2021, @02:09PM (1 child)
Perhaps, but a baggie is a baggie is a baggie. Then again, maybe I'm just not up with the "baggie used for drugs" vs "baggie used for chocolates/granola/trail mix, etc."
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @04:07PM
Yeah, that was my point, but I was too lazy to spell it out. An "ounce bag" is the normal type of bag you would use for any number of things.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday September 22 2021, @02:44PM
Sounds like the usual: what we found wasn't in itself illegal, but is usually associated with illegal activities.
I remember having my car searched - officer asked for registration and ID, registration was in the trunk, opened the trunk which he took as an invitation to reach in and pick up some film canisters I had filled with screws and other things. Of course some people keep drugs in film canisters, so I guess he thought he was getting lucky with a dumb one showing him illegal stuff - but the flashlight clearly showed no pills, only hardware. Asshat. Also goes to show how much his word against yours is a factor and how easily he could have "found" just about anything he brought to the scene "in my possession" if he felt like it.
Don't know about today - 30 years ago Coral Gables Florida had a law against "carrying burglar tools" - this means if the police witnessed you in Coral Gables with things like a screwdriver in your possession, they have legal grounds to arrest you. Exceptions for "legitimate uses" of course - basically translates to: we will stop you for walking while poor, and if we don't like your attitude during the stop, you're going in the can. Similar treatment for driving while poor, if they're in the mood.
Україна досі не є частиною Росії Слава Україні🌻 https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/17/will-russia-ukraine-war-end
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:04AM (2 children)
Yeah, naaah, mate... the hot trend nowadays is snorting KFC.
Those buckets + the undisclosed fries, after being cut with Korean barbecued pork and then portioned in ounce bags, would have netted the gang at least half a mil on the backstreets of Auckland.
Big business in Australia at the moment, the Gold Coast bikie gangs rule the NSW and Canberra market, and the Banditos gang in Nullabor Plain getting a stronghold in Victoria market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @02:13PM (1 child)
Another mentions $100k cash in the car, so the dirt road sus upturn or KFC was parallel construction or the newsworthy part was the chicken smuggling.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @02:16PM
Won't someone think of the chickens?
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @08:36PM (6 children)
This gay slapfight they are having over a hard flu is incredible.
(Score: 5, Informative) by tangomargarine on Tuesday September 21 2021, @08:55PM (5 children)
This whole "it's just a bad flu" argument is just moronic. You know what else was "just" a "bad flu"? The fucking Spanish Flu, that killed 25-50 million people at the end of WWI.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @08:58PM (4 children)
You know what's an even worse argument? Doubling down on shit that hasn't worked for over a year and a half.
Consider it as bad of a flu as you want to, you're going to have to learn to live with it either way.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ElizabethGreene on Tuesday September 21 2021, @10:25PM (3 children)
No, he's right. We spent 18 months figuring out how to cut the deaths per case by about 2/3s, and developing a vaccine that cuts the deaths per case by about 90%. Those are real numbers.
The question now is how much longer will we keep trying to nibble away at the percentage of people that will die remaining? That argument that is still ongoing. New Zealand and Australia have been very successful in their community spread prevention, unfortunately at a huge cost in freedom and liberty (and KFC).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @11:29PM (2 children)
The answer is "till hyperinflation hits". Then the old and the infirm will be left to fend for themselves, and die in droves.
https://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/ [indexmundi.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:15AM (1 child)
Quick! We need to cut the taxes on the rich and businesses before it is too late! It's our only hope against hyperinflation!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:29AM
All in its good time. First you rename middle class "the rich", and prepare the 100% exemptions for billionaires and politicians.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday September 21 2021, @09:38PM
All bills are paid? All boredom amused? We all share in the mutual profit? If not, then what's up? How do we clear the books?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 4, Informative) by istartedi on Tuesday September 21 2021, @09:38PM (1 child)
I was like, "Is KFC some kind of new version of K?", and no. It's literally what it means to most Americans. Chicken. They got arrested with fried chicken, LOL.
There's a real opportunity for the company to bail them out, defend them in court, make ads based on the story, etc. Get the cuffs on 'em, and it's finger clickin' good.
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:13AM
Back during the great pig cull of '09's H1N1 swine flu, a few farmers were sentenced for years behind bars for trying to hide their livestock before the government could dispose of it...
Every once in a while you hear about an HPAI outbreak and there's typically some farmers trying to hide their poultry in the attic or something... I believe there was such a story around 2020-21 with H5N8? Regardless, that one died down around February in no small part thanks to the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Personally I've switched to egg white powder and whey for protein. Easier to stock between chicken shortages and reconstitutes well enough that I can't tell the difference even when making omelettes and such. Early in the first COVID lockdown I used to glue chicken breasts with transglutaminase and fill my freezer with rolls before sous vide'ing a few every day... But I run out at some point. Anyhow, lived a few weeks this past year on nothing but oats, frozen veggies and powders just fine so I'm not seeing myself joining any KFC smuggling ring any time soon... Still, if I ever run out of albumin, the neighbors better keep their dog indoors... That's all I'm saying.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by ElizabethGreene on Tuesday September 21 2021, @10:27PM (5 children)
The moderation on this thread seems very different from what I normally see. It would be interesting to look at the moderation history and see if it's out of baseline.
(Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Tuesday September 21 2021, @11:28PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 21 2021, @11:30PM (2 children)
It also reads like one of the Usual Suspects took a break from his meds.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:30AM (1 child)
Azuma Hazuki's a "she", and she's always like that.
Or honestly, even worse, so maybe she's on her meds for a change. Still, higher dosage needed.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:39AM
I appreciate you letting me life rent-free in your head, but the place is in awful structural shape and full of dust.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:53AM
If the topic is important enough to him to warrant the +1 on the question, would you say the -1 on the factual and accurate answer as "redundant" is a "fraud"?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:46AM (8 children)
I understand lockdowns suck and all but it is now so bad that there is a blackmarket for cold soggy fastfood? How desperate are people? At first I thought it was some new cool drug. Surprise! It's just chicken ...
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Wednesday September 22 2021, @12:58AM (7 children)
Story is, they had to change the name to KFC, because what they cook has been genetically engineered enough that they cannot legally call it "chicken". Or that's what I herd. As for the Kiwi lockdowns, better than being dead. And moderations? What moderations? Did notice I received some 34, in the last daily report.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:09AM (6 children)
You are truly ignorant. It won't kill you. It might kill the elderly, but then the flu can do that too. Fatality rate is a fraction of a percent unless you are already in quite poor health.
And if you ARE one of those weak or old people... just take your vaccine and stop being such a coward. You can't shut down the rest of the world to assuage your cowardice.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday September 22 2021, @01:13AM
Evidently, we can, and should. Perhaps we should have an "avoided mortality" lottery? BTW, I am almost 2400 years old, puts me in a high risk category. Don't kill some of us to satisfy your greed!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:10PM (4 children)
"99% survival rate" doesn't tell the whole story. Do you understand why a wounded soldier is more of a burden to an enemy than a dead one? Do you understand the concept of knock-on effects and cascading failures?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:36PM (3 children)
It would be interesting to know how all the a-holes on this forum feel about this if/when they get a "mild case" and are plagued by effects of it for the rest of their miserable lives.
When I was young, who knew that down the road chicken pox could end up causing life debilitating shingles pain? My mother-in-law has a case like that...saddest thing in my family at the moment. she actually has a very high tolerance for pain too. For over a year and a half, 24 hours a day, she feels like shes being bitten by an army of fire ants.
One can only imagine what this nasty mother fucker might end up causing. Good fucking luck with all of that.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Wednesday September 22 2021, @06:38PM
...Oh and yes, I got the vaccine for that as well...due for the second shot after next week.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 23 2021, @12:39AM (1 child)
It's not nice of me to say but I sincerely hope Runaway and people like him get Covid. I don't want them to die from it. I want them to survive it and end up broke and fragile, which IMO is worse than death. Anyone spreading this antivax plague rat bullshit deserves this.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Thursday September 23 2021, @04:56PM
I hate to admit it but you're 100% right. What they're doing is just pure fucking evil. Most of them aren't even necessarily anit-vax in any way, but are just being apologists for those on the right that decided this new "wedge issue" is a good political strategy...dead American's be damned.
Not at all surprising from those who've decided that casting false/fabricated doubt on free elections...basically the thing that's dismantled democracies throughout history...is also a good political strategy...democracy and America be damned.
So 100% yes...there isn't a fucking disease to cruel, nor a hell hot enough for Runaway and all these mother fuckers.
(Score: 2) by Revek on Wednesday September 22 2021, @04:14AM
But the we all the know the gravy must flow.
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