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The Strawberries That Brought a Town to Its Knees: The Needle Mystery
The Strawberries That Brought a Town to Its Knees: The Needle Mystery
The thought of a sewing needle hidden inside a strawberry turned a common snack into a national fear and cost an industry everything it had; what began with one person swallowing part of a needle in September 2018 became a crisis that deployed over one hundred police officers and left nearly every case unsolved. How did a domestic sewing needle, buried inside fruit from a Woolworths punnet, trigger nationwide panic and economic collapse?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the first hospital visit and a Facebook…
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