Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/17/hawaii-police-seek-fruit-thiev.html
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Follow the smell of disgusting rotting flesh, it’s sure to be the durian thieves.
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What kind of animal would do such a thing
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I looked for more information on this story. I love how subsequent “game of telephone” reporting call this a theft of US $1000 equivalent of durian.
Were it only the durian, I’d be very suspicious of the downwind neighbours.
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If the thieves decide to take them off island, and eat one on the plane, they can be sure that someone will start punching the back of their seat.
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Hmm. Can’t find a Dr. Evil gif for “ONE. THOUSAND. DOLLARS!”
Catching them will be easy, just employ a bloodhound, and search in the opposite direction of where it goes.
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We don’t have VAT in Hawaii. We do have a general excise tax that pyramids so much that our local anti-tax fanatics would like to replace it with a VAT.
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Stealing someone’s harvest is NOT the aloha spirit. Stupid haoles
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I looked for more information on this story. I love how subsequent “game of telephone” reporting call this a theft of US $1000 equivalent of durian.
Notoriously inflated street price
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I know who did it!
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people.
FTFY.
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rotting corpses? dead fish?
It clearly smells/tastes like rancid fried onions mixed with custard.
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I was sitting at my gate at the Taipei airport when two elderly Filipino ladies pulled durian out of a purse for a pre-flight snack. I’ve never seen a crowded gate area empty so fast. Everyone was smashed against the wall across the airport corridor. I didn’t want to give up my good seat near the boarding doors so it was just me and the ladies chillin’. After 5 long stinky minutes I started to acclimate to the smell and it didn’t seem so bad. (After hearing about the fruit for many years, this was my first actual encounter).
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Shaun Cassidy?! Say it isn’t so!
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“Duri-under arrest”
-these police, probably.
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There is so much wonderful fruit in Hawaii. Why in the name of all the merciful gods would you steal durian?
