How does this happen??
A food pantry for the homeless in New Zealand is scrambling to track down about 400 people who may have received candies laced with lethal amounts of meth.
This seems to have been an accident — because who donates candies with a street value of $600 apiece? — and the three people who've been treated for their near-overdoses have all recovered.
A charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand unknowingly distributed candies filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine in its food parcels after the sweets were donated by a member of the public.
Auckland City Mission on Wednesday said that staff had started to contact up to 400 people to track down parcels that could contain the sweets — which were solid blocks of methamphetamine enclosed in candy wrappers …
The amount of meth in every single piece of candy was up to 300 TIMES THE LETHAL LEVEL.
Ben Birks Ang, a Foundation spokesperson, said disguising drugs as innocuous goods was a common cross-border smuggling technique and more of the candies might have been distributed throughout New Zealand.
Luckily, the candies tasted just awful, so most people who tried them, like any terrible candy you'd pop in your mouth, spat them right back out. If they'd tasted better, we'd be covering a whole different story here.
Malaysian brand Rinda made it known that it was not actually their product inside their brand's pineapple candy wrappers:
We want to make it clear that Rinda Food Industries does not use or condone the use of any illegal drugs in our products.
So here's your friendly reminder that when you pop a piece of candy in your mouth and it just doesn't taste right, spit that bad boy out immediately, fam.
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