Three hospitalised with suspected Death Cap mushroom poisoning

Masquara said :

Masquara said :

Embarassing beatup (broadcast nationally) by the ABC with its unprofessional standards. Old mushrooms that have gone off will make you feel pretty sick. Obvious cause, complete non-story.

Even worse, ABC reporting on the news this morning, still in terms of “suspected deathcaps” while – at the same time and in the same item!!! – passing on the advice from the ACT Health authorities to simply dispose of any mushrooms bought at Woollies pre Easter (e.g., duh, if they’re that old they will have gone off and don’t eat ’em). If there was the faintest suspicion that these were toadstools or whatever, they would have been sending officers around to your house to collect those Woollies mushrooms and check them. In fact, Woollies would have sent managers around in a fit of freakout at how toadstools could conceivably gotten into the major, streamlined agribusiness processes employed in those old railway tunnels where the mushrooms are grown. Shockingly poor work by the local ABC. If they can’t get a simple shock story right – after the fact – what hope is there for considered, accurate reporting in other spheres?

The only embarrassing beat up around here is your manufactured outrage at the ABC. Smh.com.au, news.com.au, the ABC…they’re all reporting the same story, in the same way!

If you’re so determined to have a go at the ABC, surely you can find a better story to pick on.

Masquara said :

Embarassing beatup (broadcast nationally) by the ABC with its unprofessional standards. Old mushrooms that have gone off will make you feel pretty sick. Obvious cause, complete non-story.

Even worse, ABC reporting on the news this morning, still in terms of “suspected deathcaps” while – at the same time and in the same item!!! – passing on the advice from the ACT Health authorities to simply dispose of any mushrooms bought at Woollies pre Easter (e.g., duh, if they’re that old they will have gone off and don’t eat ’em). If there was the faintest suspicion that these were toadstools or whatever, they would have been sending officers around to your house to collect those Woollies mushrooms and check them. In fact, Woollies would have sent managers around in a fit of freakout at how toadstools could conceivably gotten into the major, streamlined agribusiness processes employed in those old railway tunnels where the mushrooms are grown. Shockingly poor work by the local ABC. If they can’t get a simple shock story right – after the fact – what hope is there for considered, accurate reporting in other spheres?

Abc are reporting on a media release issued by act health, as are many other news agencies. How does this make it an embarrassing beatup and unprofessional standards?

Would you prefer they spend taxpayer dollars staking out woolworths or going door to door looking for anyone else that bought mushrooms from Dickson?

Embarassing beatup (broadcast nationally) by the ABC with its unprofessional standards. Old mushrooms that have gone off will make you feel pretty sick. Obvious cause, complete non-story.

If it was woolies there’d be a 100 cases. Not 3 in the same house.

bd84 said :

Bought them from Woolies? Sounds like bulls%$t… Looking to try and make a quick buck or hide their own stupidity for picking and eating them themselves is more like it.

Unless someone else thought they were funny and spiked the mushrooms at woolies, but then death caps look nothing like those sold at Woolies.

Mushrooms bought from Woolies, Coles, or any major supermarket are going to have been grown in a controlled environment. I’m thinking a large number of big dark sheds, whose only purpose is growing supermarket mushrooms. 100% death cap free.

If these people have gone and picked their own mushrooms, screwed up and cooked up some death caps, before deciding that they’d try to make themselves look less stupid by blaming Woolworths…well, I hope Woolies lawyers nail them to the wall.

Bought them from Woolies? Sounds like bulls%$t… Looking to try and make a quick buck or hide their own stupidity for picking and eating them themselves is more like it.

Unless someone else thought they were funny and spiked the mushrooms at woolies, but then death caps look nothing like those sold at Woolies.