The cargo company should be prosecuted for littering. Unless they can convince some benevolent locals to go help them clean up the spill.
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2025
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What in the orphan crushing machine is this shit?!
https://maritime-executive.com/article/bananas-ahoy-as-overboard-containers-wash-ashore
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, and in the meantime, volunteers are scouring the beaches, aiding in the cleanup (and possibly taking a few bananas home as a reward).
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 😂
Thanks for the quote! I realise I replied snarkily - I'm not mad at you of course, just at the quote
its insurers are fully engaged in the process
I am now imagining an insurance office where suddenly an alarm goes off:
The lights turn red, a siren howls, and everyone jumps up from their seats and runs to a garage where black vans are wating with the engines running.
They drive to the beach and frantically start picking up bananas, in a race against time and decomposition.
I was thinking some sort of boardroom with a big screen on one wall, showing a beach covered in bananas, with some bald fella, who is unmistakably French, looking on, then waving his hand and saying “Engage.”
But alas instead it's a board of lawyers that are engaged in a race to find a loophole to get out of this without spending anything cleaning.
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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.
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"The guards were on the river bank to make sure the poor didn't take the fruit from the river, when that was too expensive it was collected in a pile and doused in kerosene. The hogs were burned as well all for the sake of profit" -grapes of wrath
I honestly think about it to this day. We didn't give milk to the homeless during covid. Farmers dumped it all for profit. We don't grow food to feed We gro food to make profit.
Came to the comments just to make sure that passage was on top.
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british government more protective of bananas arriving on shore than they are refugees
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.
This government has arresting people for demonstrating against that government's 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 nothing in comparison.
Sometimes I suspect that making sure people suffer is their whole point.
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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.
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Not really archaic - if this was valuable stuff washing up on shore, the law would still be relevant.
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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
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
The tarantulas have usually abandoned the bananas by the time we eat the bananas.
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Wonder what all that banana skin soaked up.
Ocean water that everyone swims in perfectly fine
That delicious plastic and sewage and population. It does a body good.
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Prosecuted for what? Enjoying a meal? A succulent, banana meal?
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.
May I introduce you to the Daily Express
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In their defense, the warning could just be a CYA thing if someone eats one, gets sick and wants to sue for food poisoning.
Excuse me. There's a sign at Ramsett Park that says "Do not drink the sprinkler water," so I made sun tea with it, and now I have an infection. Sir? Sir, are... are... are... are you listening to me, sir? Sir, I'm talking to you! Sir! Sir, are you aware that there is waste in your water system?
That'd make sense, but they didn't warn about the possible consequences; they warn that you may be prosecuted
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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”
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 :<
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But...
The Charter of the Forest declared that people are free to sustain themselves from the land.
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Nah, they were dumb enough to lose them, those bananas are fair game.
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.
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You need to leave alone the earthly process of food falling off container ships. It's nature's way.
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.
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Anyone that eats the bananas they find on the beach won't need the law to punish them
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This reminds me of when a large whiskey distillery broke in 19th century Ireland and many people died. Not from large quantities of alcohol sweeping people away (something like that happened in London in the early 19th century) but from passerby drinking so much of the stuff they died of alcohol poisoning.
Most Irish way to die ever!
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Dailymail is not a reputable source.
Doesn't salvage law allow to take the bananas? Or does it not apply anymore If they wash ashore?
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