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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 17422" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>The sheer idiocy of this is breathtaking. I mean, you could only believe this could happen, if there was some way in which the soup could have been contaminated with these things during manufacture. The chemicals are a long shot - the drugs, simply not possible except as the result of deliberate tampering.</p><p></p><p>I remember years ago our local church minister told me how one of his kids had poured a bowl of cereal and tipped out, along with the flakes, a cigarette stub. Yes, you CAN see how that would get in there, through poor hygiene.</p><p>And he didn't threaten to sue, or call the media - he just rang the company to let them know, in case it happened to someone else (because clearly there WAS a problem in hygiene that the company needed to know about). He was dreadfully embarrassed when the company sent him a crate of cereal! But grateful - seven kids to feed. Mind you, one of them would never touch that cereal again.</p><p></p><p>And that's another difference - he didn't ring the company to ask for money or recompense, he only wanted the problem fixed for others.</p><p></p><p>When there is a problem that the company can track back to the source, it's believable. The breakfast cereal people probably found the guy who was smoking on the packaging line, thanks to the minister's notification.</p><p></p><p>We had a legal problem here in Australia a few years ago, with a family claiming to have been poisoned by paracetamol that had been tampered with in the supermarket. The company had received extortion threats ("pay us or we poison your packages on the shelves at random") but nobody could have sued the company, because they were not responsible. It cost them a fortune, however, to pull their range from the shelves of pharmacies and supermarkets. They lost a lot of money, and this one family had already been poisoned because the product wasn't taken off the shelves fast enough. There was a lot of criticism claiming failure to act fast enough, but they had done what they could.</p><p>Then test were carried out. The family who had been poisoned were finally found to have been the ones behind the extortion attempt. They were all adults, so at least young children weren't involved, but even so they had almost fatally miscalculated. There had been enough trace of the poison they'd ingested (supposedly from contaminated headache pills) for it's 'signature' to be noted, and supplies of the same chemical batch were found on the property of this family.</p><p></p><p>They got a lot more than five years.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 17422, member: 1991"] The sheer idiocy of this is breathtaking. I mean, you could only believe this could happen, if there was some way in which the soup could have been contaminated with these things during manufacture. The chemicals are a long shot - the drugs, simply not possible except as the result of deliberate tampering. I remember years ago our local church minister told me how one of his kids had poured a bowl of cereal and tipped out, along with the flakes, a cigarette stub. Yes, you CAN see how that would get in there, through poor hygiene. And he didn't threaten to sue, or call the media - he just rang the company to let them know, in case it happened to someone else (because clearly there WAS a problem in hygiene that the company needed to know about). He was dreadfully embarrassed when the company sent him a crate of cereal! But grateful - seven kids to feed. Mind you, one of them would never touch that cereal again. And that's another difference - he didn't ring the company to ask for money or recompense, he only wanted the problem fixed for others. When there is a problem that the company can track back to the source, it's believable. The breakfast cereal people probably found the guy who was smoking on the packaging line, thanks to the minister's notification. We had a legal problem here in Australia a few years ago, with a family claiming to have been poisoned by paracetamol that had been tampered with in the supermarket. The company had received extortion threats ("pay us or we poison your packages on the shelves at random") but nobody could have sued the company, because they were not responsible. It cost them a fortune, however, to pull their range from the shelves of pharmacies and supermarkets. They lost a lot of money, and this one family had already been poisoned because the product wasn't taken off the shelves fast enough. There was a lot of criticism claiming failure to act fast enough, but they had done what they could. Then test were carried out. The family who had been poisoned were finally found to have been the ones behind the extortion attempt. They were all adults, so at least young children weren't involved, but even so they had almost fatally miscalculated. There had been enough trace of the poison they'd ingested (supposedly from contaminated headache pills) for it's 'signature' to be noted, and supplies of the same chemical batch were found on the property of this family. They got a lot more than five years. Marg [/QUOTE]
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