Given they accidentally dropped off $2200 USD in banknotes and what I’ll very conservatively call $500 USD worth of cannabis (it’s likely vastly higher than this due to possession of any amount being illegal everywhere in the island nation) outside a charity shop, yes, it’s newsworthy in the sense of being a goofy, one-off story that can go at the bottom of the “More news” section or in the “New Zealand” section.
BBC News publishes a pretty wide spectrum from local/regional news articles all the way up to being a viable source for international news.
When I worked in a store as a 16-year old, handling bottle-returns (we use a deposit system), there were full bottles of liquor and beer returned occasionally.
I don’t see this as being much different.
Also when I flew back from Amsterdam once, even though we went through our pockets and bags, supposedly, I had forgotten a bag of weed to one hoodie pocket. So essentially I attempted to smuggle drugs internationally.
Sure, neither of those equal the amount here because this is for selling. But this is still a very small amount. It’s a hustler of weed that I can promise you exists in every township and village and neighbourhood you can imagine, pretty much globally.
What is more newsworthy to me is that people still consider amounts of weed like this newsworthy. Everyone knows cannabis is mild af yet we still pretend it’s dangerous, much in a similar way that around Christmas everyone pretends Santa is real.
You’re completely removing the humor that elevates this to newsworthiness. It’s not the fact that “low-level drug dealers exist in New Zealand” that’s newsworthy; it’s the fact they accidentally donated their stash to a charity shop – the humor being dually in the real incompetence of two low-level, low-stakes criminals and in the absurdist alternate reality image of two altruistic drug dealers earnestly donating their drugs and profits to make the less-fortunate happy.
So if the if this is “comical incompetence” to you, then I guess your most hilarious anecdote is when you one forgot your car keys in the pockets of your other pants? Or your wallet at home when you went to a store? Lost an expensive phone because you forgot to pick it up from the table you sat in?
That amount of weed and money was probably forgotten for a good while to those pants, because it wasn’t central to the dealer’s life or hustling.
Losing that amount of weed is just pretty everyday and doesn’t seem humorous to me at all.
That amount of weed and money was probably forgotten for a good while to those pants, because it wasn’t central to the dealer’s life or hustling.
… What article did you read? These two had a backpack full of $2200 USD and over 40 g of cannanis – in a country where any amount is illegal – and left it outside a charity shop while they waited for their car to be serviced. They didn’t intentionally donate the backpack which accidentally contained the stash; they straight-up left it unattended knowing what was in it while they waited with the intent to pick it back up.
Yes, that is laughably incompetent. They knew the drugs and cash were in there and left it completely unattended for an extended period in front of a shop that takes donations in a country where its discovery will get them up to years in prison (had they not been 16; I don’t know how that shakes out).
These two had a backpack full of $2200 USD and over 40 g of cannanis – in a country where any amount is illegal
And I’m a person who grows and sells weed and who’s friend-circles are all smokers, in a country where any amount is illegal. And here a cannabis smoker is basically equated to a junkie shooting up.
And I’m telling you, that’s a small amount. Especially the 40g. If that was all the person had, they wouldn’t have lost it. The only way they lost it is that it was just a small part of their inventory. Which is is. 40g is nothing, and it’s even put in dimebags. This is an everyday hustler and that’s about a days worth of sales. Albeit this guy isn’t a grower, because he hustles dimebags and I don’t know a single grower who sell dimebags like that because of the amount of work you have to put in only for marginal increase in profits. Which is why that 2200 isn’t a days worth of profits, but it is a day or two worth of sales for a hustler.
Hell I just got donated more weed last week and a friend lost an equivalent amount of euros.
Unless you’ve never forgotten anything anywhere, no, that’s not “laughably incompetent” just because you’d think of 2200 as a fortune and 40g as a huge drug stash.
It’s exactly the sort of thing older teenagers and early 20’s do; hustle weed.
But hey if it humours you I’m not judging you for laughing, I can understand it from someone who doesn’t understand the real world.
This is newsworthy?
Pfff.
Given they accidentally dropped off $2200 USD in banknotes and what I’ll very conservatively call $500 USD worth of cannabis (it’s likely vastly higher than this due to possession of any amount being illegal everywhere in the island nation) outside a charity shop, yes, it’s newsworthy in the sense of being a goofy, one-off story that can go at the bottom of the “More news” section or in the “New Zealand” section.
BBC News publishes a pretty wide spectrum from local/regional news articles all the way up to being a viable source for international news.
Yeah, this is a “man finds winning lottery ticket in dumpster” type feel-good story.
It could have been any one us!
When I worked in a store as a 16-year old, handling bottle-returns (we use a deposit system), there were full bottles of liquor and beer returned occasionally.
I don’t see this as being much different.
Also when I flew back from Amsterdam once, even though we went through our pockets and bags, supposedly, I had forgotten a bag of weed to one hoodie pocket. So essentially I attempted to smuggle drugs internationally.
Sure, neither of those equal the amount here because this is for selling. But this is still a very small amount. It’s a hustler of weed that I can promise you exists in every township and village and neighbourhood you can imagine, pretty much globally.
What is more newsworthy to me is that people still consider amounts of weed like this newsworthy. Everyone knows cannabis is mild af yet we still pretend it’s dangerous, much in a similar way that around Christmas everyone pretends Santa is real.
You’re completely removing the humor that elevates this to newsworthiness. It’s not the fact that “low-level drug dealers exist in New Zealand” that’s newsworthy; it’s the fact they accidentally donated their stash to a charity shop – the humor being dually in the real incompetence of two low-level, low-stakes criminals and in the absurdist alternate reality image of two altruistic drug dealers earnestly donating their drugs and profits to make the less-fortunate happy.
It’s okay for some news to just be funny.
That’s not a huge sum for a person hustling weed.
So if the if this is “comical incompetence” to you, then I guess your most hilarious anecdote is when you one forgot your car keys in the pockets of your other pants? Or your wallet at home when you went to a store? Lost an expensive phone because you forgot to pick it up from the table you sat in?
That amount of weed and money was probably forgotten for a good while to those pants, because it wasn’t central to the dealer’s life or hustling.
Losing that amount of weed is just pretty everyday and doesn’t seem humorous to me at all.
… What article did you read? These two had a backpack full of $2200 USD and over 40 g of cannanis – in a country where any amount is illegal – and left it outside a charity shop while they waited for their car to be serviced. They didn’t intentionally donate the backpack which accidentally contained the stash; they straight-up left it unattended knowing what was in it while they waited with the intent to pick it back up.
Yes, that is laughably incompetent. They knew the drugs and cash were in there and left it completely unattended for an extended period in front of a shop that takes donations in a country where its discovery will get them up to years in prison (had they not been 16; I don’t know how that shakes out).
And I’m a person who grows and sells weed and who’s friend-circles are all smokers, in a country where any amount is illegal. And here a cannabis smoker is basically equated to a junkie shooting up.
And I’m telling you, that’s a small amount. Especially the 40g. If that was all the person had, they wouldn’t have lost it. The only way they lost it is that it was just a small part of their inventory. Which is is. 40g is nothing, and it’s even put in dimebags. This is an everyday hustler and that’s about a days worth of sales. Albeit this guy isn’t a grower, because he hustles dimebags and I don’t know a single grower who sell dimebags like that because of the amount of work you have to put in only for marginal increase in profits. Which is why that 2200 isn’t a days worth of profits, but it is a day or two worth of sales for a hustler.
Hell I just got donated more weed last week and a friend lost an equivalent amount of euros.
Unless you’ve never forgotten anything anywhere, no, that’s not “laughably incompetent” just because you’d think of 2200 as a fortune and 40g as a huge drug stash.
It’s exactly the sort of thing older teenagers and early 20’s do; hustle weed.
But hey if it humours you I’m not judging you for laughing, I can understand it from someone who doesn’t understand the real world.
It’s more newsworthy that weed is still illegal in NZ.