Increased Demand for Avocados Inspires a Crime Wave in New Zealand!

Increased Demand for Avocados Inspires a Crime Wave in New Zealand!

OHMIGOD IT'S AVOCADO MADNESS!

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New Zealand is in the midst of an avocado crisis. The Guardian reports that, after increased demand and a poor farm season started driving up prices, some opportunistic Kiwis began stealing unripe avocados from farms and selling them to grocery stores and restaurants in Auckland. Since January alone, there have been at least 40 large-scale thefts from avocado orchards. The typical avocado heist is somewhat less complex—though no less nefarious—than the more traditional museum theft, casino heist, or bank robbery. Thieves usually sneak into the orchards under cover of darkness and simply rake or pick pears from the trees by the hundreds. After tiptoeing off with their bounty, the criminals quickly sell them off (so far, farmers haven’t thought to mark their avocados the way police sometimes mark bills).

This wouldn't happen if the avocados were armed! Won't somebody think of the guacamole!?

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