No online reference I could find, but the blue collar bible the Daily Telegraph ran this story today. In a situation reminiscent, yet infinitely worse than the infamous Dickson-Cockroach-Dim-sim-Fiasco, Canberra man John Suthern is suing Streets Ice cream for Mercury poisoning he sustained eating a tub of ice cream in 1996.
Streets recalled around 4,000 tubs, but allegedly not before Suthern had imbibed a good deal of the deadly metal. The poor bloke allegedly started suffering symptoms of poisoning after which he lost his job, house and wife of 17 years. They showed a 40 minute video of Suthern’s condition in court that sounded incredibly harrowing, with Suthern physically disfigured and begging his wife to give him drugs to kill the pain.
The hearing still continues, but I’d like to know how these ridiculous things end up in foodstuffs on regular occasions. Metal filings, bits of wire and in this case mercury – it seems bizarre to comprehend how they make their way into packaging and in the case of this Canberran, cause devastating repurcussions.
Gimme the cockroach any day.
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