There is one pissed off addict/dealer out there wondering where their stash went. Probably even more pissed now their smuggling method has been aired on youtube.
So, I actually have a buddy working at the place this happened (it was a homeless shelter/rehab center by the way), and he thinks someone was trying to get the meth candy to someone specific there, since there are multiple people who are still "in the business", so to speak. Another reason is the candy wasn't really handed in for donation, it had just kinda been left on the front desk by someone nobody saw and the receptionist assumed it was for donation, that's how it got into circulation. So I don't think this was a deliberate attempt to hurt people, I think it was just a drug delivery that the deliverer royally fucked up
I know someone who knows someone who is a owner of a treatment center who is selling home pressed Xanax and other pills. So by day they run a treatment facility by night they supply drugs. It's more common than you'd think. The whole treatment industry is fucked.
Food safety manager here. This ahit is not joke. I love charlie bringing up that this is why we have strict food regulations. The tylenol murders, are one of the main reasons A.L.E.R.T Is taught to food managers. Keeping strangers and unauthorized personnel away from food prep areas is a huge part of food safety. A HUGE PART! despite being super duper uncommon.
strict food regulations like fining someone 200 dollars for having an apple? I'd like to see an apple replaced with m^th without anyone knowing lol New Zealand is ran by some absolute buffoons, there's no way...
There was a boy also in NZ who died last year too after he was given a beer to him knowing it to just be a normal beer. It turned out to be "liquid meth". So horrid and disgusting, poor kid.
I forgot about that, the guys mate was selling that sh!t and he didn't realize, thinking it was a beer he did what any kiwi would do......drink it. Poor guy.
You know the person or people who donated that are super pissed right now. Either because they just lost shitloads of money or that nobody was severely harmed as they had hoped.
The sad thing is that there actually 2 videos in this chanel, and they are as advertised, I will not see obviously to confirm because who wants to see that shit
Okay, need to clear this up a bit. These were not laced/contaminated with meth, they were 100% meth and this is how they were smuggled into the country in this counterfeit form. Each "lolly" was worth about $1,000 so obviously not the intended method of distribution! The importer probably got the boxes mixed up.
Finally someone who said what my brain is screaming. It's not laced! It's just pure meth, obviously. And it wasn't someone trying to hurt someone as charlie said, it was a drug deal that got Fd up. I was a heroin and meth addict for years here in NZ and no one would give that kind of profit away on purpose, dealers usually aren't monsters, they're just people. My guess is it's either a Chinese or asian syndicate bringing in this stuff, my guess is it was a kiwi on the receiving side who Fd this up. Probably bcos he/she was high as F. That's usually
3 grams of meth is not even close to a $1000 not sure where u got that idea from🤦♂️ $1000 of meth would be closer to quarter/half a pound so about 112Gs-224Gs
I don't see why someone is trying to smuggle meth into the country when it is largely manufactured nation wide and is the highest sold illicit substance by weight.
@@benjaminperez-cottaar3607 bcos it's super valuable and it's easier and more lucrative to import the drug than to import the ingredients and then find someone who can cook it.
There was literally another story today where police found a LOT of meth being smuggled in celery. This is definitely the case of someone was supposed to swap out the real candy with the meth and a dealer or buyer ended up with candy and then the charity ended up with meth.
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She was a very good prime minister, better than most (that's not saying much), but let's not idolise or demonise her. She was just a PM with good and bad qualities like all of them. I will say though that no male PMs got derisive, insulting nicknames like "Cindy". Only the female PMs.
I live in New Zealand. This reminds me of the incident that happened last year. A single Honey Bear beer can was found to contain 470 grams of pure liquid meth. The entire brewery was raided by police and shut down after a 21-year-old employee was given a crate of beer from his boss, took one sip and died. Only a few arrests were made, and nothing further was made public. There were most likely millions worth of beer cans filled with liquid meth. I was mates with the guy that accidentally drank the deadly $200,000 concoction. He worked at the brewery stacking crates. He was actually very down to earth, and good to be around.
This is...unacceptable. People should not have to live in a society where we have to question whether our food and drinks is actually pure meth or not.
The same thing happened in Sweden a couple of years ago. A mother of 2 had a sip of beer at a party, immediately spat it out but ended up in a coma and passed away within days. Turned out the beer can contained a concentrated precursor to meth, and the beer wound up at the party when it was thrown in the garbage at the police station, where a cleaner found it and passed it on to a friend, thinking it was beer. Perhaps the candy in the video was donated in a similar manner. I'm sorry about your friend. It's insane how there exist such deadly poisons disguised as common goods. Rare or not it's just tragedies waiting to happen.
To me, this feels a lot more like trafficking than the Tylenol murders. I think it’s important to remember that the smugglers likely didn’t have one bag of this. There were probably hundreds of bags and a single one got misplaced somehow.
@@timtrainage No they do exist, that other case you're talking about was a copycat case in 1986, the Tylenol murders happened in 1982. Idk where you heard that those killings didn't exist dude as it's heavily documented
the tylenol murders were intentional. this was a slip up of trafficking. but the tylenol murders lead to the annoying seals on the outside and the inside of everything so you know if its been tampered with.
When he said "most people don't eat something that tastes bad don't decide to tough it out" reminded me of my worst case of food poisoning I ever had. Basically, I spent $50 on a single plate of seafood as a reward to myself for getting a promotion. Turns out, they didn't cook most of it. Not in a "this is sushi" way. They didn't do ANYTHING to some of it. Meaning I was powering through full digestive tracts! I had no idea! I never ate fish before! So... Yeah... I was blasting geysers on the floor, walls, even the neighbors houses for a good 24 hours straight.
Nah sometimes things like shrimp aren’t prepped at all either and it’s totally fine. Like you can see their literal poop in a brown line. And I eat it 9/10 times - I usually start to remove it but you can’t taste it and it’s quicker to just shove it down my gullet. Never had food poisoning in my life
Same but with a soup. It was literally the only option for lunch at work and I got out at night so I had to eat something- it was a beef soup's leftover beef from Sunday and it was Wednesday, deadass looked like an elephant's foot slice. I ate it with some rice and veggies and then had the food poisoning of my life
I flew to Sydney for a concert, night before I left I ate some pork which seemed a little different I put it down to the Asian sauces. Gone through customs on departure side telling others I wasn't well, I had the sweats and stomach was doing break dance or something. I made it to Sydney and it was getting bad, the concert was in 4 hours, the others went I stayed back at hotel curled up in fetal position with bottles of Powerade. Next day I thought everything was out so safe to eat, we did a tour to Cockatoo Island, I needed to fart but was too scared, I told the guys we will go round to the other side so I ducked through tunnel and there was a sign saying toilet. I watched from a distance making sure no one was in there or going in, safe I made it to the cubicle. Just as I relax I hear a kid walk in with his dad, too late bomb bay doors were opening, woosh less than 2 seconds it was a power flush it felt like I had turned inside out, now I had to wait for the kid and father to leave. I sat there for a number of minutes my mates decide to check in on me to make sure I was OK. Relief I could exit toilet and pretend it was one of the others, we walk out there's the dad, the son(s), the mum standing 5 meters (16 feet) away and the dad said you should be ashamed for having sex in the toilet. My mates all looked at me and said what did you do, I guess I must have let out a roar when I purged, now my mates only allow me 2 minutes when ever I go toilet before they send in a recon mission. Food poisoning, you feel like you are dying when you get it, but when it goes it is one of the biggest joys in life LOL.
It wasn't laced with meth. It was pure meth. They're concerned that about 400 of these are in circulation. That's a whole box of bags of sweets must have been donated. It looked like it was commercially packaged. It tasted so bad that someone brought theirs back to the foodbank out of concern. It would have been a very expensive way to randomly hurt people on purpose. It must have been a failed smuggling attempt. Since so much of it hasn't been returned, I suppose it's probably been sold to dealers by now.
NO WAY. I live in New Zealand and this has just been blasting in the news on full volume. Apparently some guy also tried to sell his lollies- I mean candy on Facebook market place
From NZ here. It's really sad to be honest. A lot of families are struggling here, and we are having more and more people having to go to food banks. It's sad, and it's horrendous that someone's done this. Like imagine trying to help families out, give them a treat and then bam, it's meth. Meth is a really bad problem here, it's more common that weed. At least we will have a huge amount of health and safety around this.
I have a feeling we'll be seeing a massive bust soon. I feel like someone at the foodbank is using it as a front. Wouldn't be the first time it's happened either
Also from NZ here, I personally agree with some other comments I've seen basically stating that whoever distributed these lollies wasn't doing it purely for the intent to cause harm because like Charlie said, Drugs are expensive. And it seems super unprofitable to just chuck around drugs (especially at that amount) just randomly. About 25% percent of me still thinks there may be some sort of truth behind the thought of them doing it just to cause chaos and/or harm, but for me the smuggling seems like the more logical reason and they obviously have gotten into the wrong hands. Just my opinion
It’s not sad , you clowns wanted Cindy to run the country , you get what you vote for lol now we on the right have years ahead to clean up you’re damn mess.
KIwi here, great job covering this. Incredibly distressing for the whole country, we've never heard of anything like it. I genuinely don't think it was deliberate. This is some of the numbers from news articles; "Each three gram lolly was the equivalent of about 300 doses of methamphetamine and potentially fatal, with an estimated street value of $1000." That's $1000 PER LOLLY. The City Mission has estimated that about 400 food parcels received the lollies. IMO there would have been at least a handful of lollies in each parcel - so, at a conservative guess maybe 6 lollies per parcel. That's 2,400 lollies × $1,000.00 = 2400,000.00 NO-ONE would be crazy enough to deliberately put drugs worth that much money in a donation bin for a charity. Someone has stuffed it up big time and there will no doubt be some potentially fatal repercussions for them. I imagine they're quietly hoping the police find them before whoever lost product with an estimated street value of Two million, four hundred thousand NZD does. Police and the City Mission have been super proactive and have traced most of the lollies/sweets (not a lollypop, as a lollypop has a stick). I believe the others who ate them were children and a charity worker all of whom spat them out. Everyone was fine, thank goodness. The City Mission are one of several valued and respected charities who sell donated goods in shops called Op(portunity) shops and use the money to help ANYONE and EVERYONE in need. Private individuals, farmers and businesses also donate food which is made into food parcels/packages of various sizes for families in need. This will be really damaging. I hope they find out who did it. 😢
The sweets were a way for the dealers to transport it to customers if I'm not mistaken, then someone mistook it for actual lollies and this whole ordeal happened
I feel so sorry for the City Mission. They are highly respected and honestly this isn't their fault, they followed their own rules by the sound of it and who expects wrapped packaged lollies to be pure meth??!
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Yeah, especially since they taste bad so people just won't eat them. If you were going to intentionally make poison candy to harm people, this would be an incredibly stupid approach. I'm sure there are plenty of cheaper, easier to get a hold of things that could actually be hidden in candy. This is the kind of thing people create to smuggle drugs.
While I do 100% believe some people will do these kind of things on purpose, I don't think it was in this case. It's more likely an attempted drug smuggle gone wrong and the delivery person is going to be in some serious trouble.
Probably one of the only people in this comment section who has done hand offs of hard drugs and there’s too many reasons for me to even reasonably list for why I don’t think this was a drug deal. But the biggest is how insane it’d be for the delivery guy to just leave the bag unattended on hopes the correct person finds it before others. Nor does that explain why the recipient never attempted to course correct the wrong person grabbing the bag by just asking the charity to give it back? Like they’re not cops they might think it’s a tinsy bit weird you’re worried about a dumb bag of candy enough to ask for it back but no one in a million years would assume it’s meth and start picking it apart.
Rinda is a legit brand of candy from Singapore, the Asian market I shop at sells that brand. They always seem to be weird flavours, like lychee, melon, and fruit I don't recognize. I always get the ginger chews, but it's a different brand and really good.
@@manofhahas-lol8931"You don't think! you never learned how to think did you Pinkman? This is MY formula MY product and you're just GIVING it away, what if you gave it to a DEA agent huh? YOU NEVER THINK JESSE!"
You’d think people would instantly notice that it tastes like shit (and definitely not pineapple flavored candy) and spit out rather than continue to keep it in their mouth for more than 5 seconds..
@@CantTellYou Yea Charlie made a point about that in the video - supposedly with how much meth there was in each candy, just having it in your mouth for a few seconds could've been enough to give you a hefty dose.
@@CantTellYouThey likely did, but once you have it in your saliva you *will* get _some_ of it into your digestion tract. And Meth does exactly have the reputation of being a timid drug, even small doses can have effects, even if severly reduced.
@@AnonD38 No kidding. I'm an ER nurse and I've seen cases of people accidentally drinking through straws that had previously been used to snort meth. That tiny amount of residue was enough to cause some serious problems.
That's how it works in reality. The closest thing to a "free taste" is if the dealer likes you and offers you some, the same way someone would say "next drink is on me". Dealers are normal people too...
@@Zer0Spinnnah dudes it's not the same now with fent around. This is not safe logic anymore. Now with restrictions and shortages of other things, fent really is cheaper than anything else. Not via weight but via dosage per price/dosage per weight. And even then people often don't mean to lace stuff with fent, though often they do. But perhaps the worst is it being done by accident. If they break all their groceries down on the same table or scales, than they might cross contaminate their stuff. Which in the past was not a big deal, noones dying from a micro amount of heroin on their pot. In the past if it wasn't visibly there, it's not enough to kill. This is no longer the case with fent. If someone isn't very cautious about cross contam, than two pin heads of fent is all it takes to kill them. It can definitely be done. I've sold everything without ever lacing anyone or cross contamination, but most dealers aren't as cautious as I was. Seriously, stay safe. Drugs are dangerous these days even if you know your shit
I can 100% imagine a drug dealer having it smuggled in the guise of candy because they can't eat candy anymore so it'd be obvious to them and their partner finds the 'Candy Stash' and donates it without telling them because they can't have that much sugar anymore lol
No. They have legit and methed out candies im the same shipment. But the methandies are marked so this doesn't happen. But if someone fucks up then the methandies go on the shelf.
Yeah nah sealed up like that it was smuggled from outside the country and got mislaid when someone went to jail or died leaving a loved one to donate their goods for sure. I mean yes it could have been some monster trying to hurt people but you see that kind of breaking bad crap all the time from smugglers.
I live in New Zealand and I find it funny that I had to find out about this on TH-cam. And yes, we call all sweets lollies. You wouldn’t catch us dead calling it “candy” because that’s far too American for us 😂
I live in New Zealand, but i was born and raised in Australia for 20 years. This reminds me of 2018 where backpackers were putting pins in strawberries, and consumers were getting pins in their mouth so often that supermarket chains had to run strawberries through x-ray machines. Funnily enough, two of my friends were working on one of the main strawberry fields in north brisbane at the time as pickers. The way the payed them was by the cart a dollar and a bit for every cart you fill. this worked out to be a little over $3 an hour for back breaking work. They never met anyone who admitted to putting needles in strawberries, but they figured slave wages was probably a huge factor in why workers were doing it. Funilly enough #2 My friends and I were on meth at the time, so its not as if they were working inhumanely slow, employers had just found a legal loophole to pay next to nothing to their workers. We're all clean now by the way :) 6 years off of meth in 8 days time for me
As an additional note, this particular farm was owned and run by chinese investors, not unlike a lot of the farms in Australia. With no racial undertones, I always encourage people to buy produce at farmers markets, from local farmersand families who care about their workers and their community, rather than far removed foreign (or even domestic) interests that will undercut anybody to make a quick buck.
I'm from the city where this has happened, and my 3 year old daughters kindergarten sent out a warning notice to parents on the kindergartens app about these lollies. Wild.
I shop at our lost n confiscated luggage sale at our airport. Anything left behind goes to this charity (it helps people fly somewhere in a case of emergency or distress). This smuggled package of disguised drugs could have been left behind when the smuggler thought the jig was up. It could then very easily be handed to a charity as lots and lots of left behind items are.
the earbud cord dangling across outside the frame makes me see charlie as an old man in a hospital bed with an unfiltered mind blurting out every single deranged memory he has had across his lifetime as the IV cord is attached to his arm
I really appreciate how transparent they were about it and how seriously they took it. I expected them to take a very cold approach, trying to make people aware so no one died but also making sure eeeeeveryone knew they had no intentional involvement. From what you showed, it seemed like their focus was making sure people knew to keep themselves safe, all muddy water can be dealt with after nobody is in harm's way.
Almost certainly a smuggling run gone wrong. AUS and NZ get most of our stuff coming through Asia so it makes sense that a Malaysian candy would be used. As to how someone ended up with the stuff instead of the real candy, often stuff would be packed with real items so if the shipment is checked randomly it has a better chance of passing.
Here in new zealand, from what I have heard a lot of drugs are smuggled in through the ports in shipping ect, so my theory is that this was part of a larger operation and somehow some of the bags got misplaced or picked up by unsuspecting port workers or something, and then ended up donated to charity
that would also make sense why it was just chunks of pure meth and not something else, if they where trying to cause harm to people by getting them to eat it
@@haydenphillips5956im australian and far out the amount of junkies here baffles me(i live in melbourne). Makes me curious whether the meth here is home grown or imported. Heaps of questions from one aussie to a kiwi; do you blokes have a problem with large populations of junkies there or nah? if so then where do ya reckon the drugs are imported from? overseas or homegrown?
@@PlayerBRUV Pretty sure most of the drugs are homegrown but there are drug smuggling opperations. Occasionaly, there's a big bust that the police do. In Auckland, most of the junkies congregate in the CBD. It use to be a only couple, but at the start of this year it peaked significantly where the CBD was pretty unsafe as junkies would just harrass you or assault you if you walked by them. Though, police and community services have been hammering down on it and there's been a slight reduction since the start of the year, but it's still pretty bad when compared to how it was in like 2019 (pre-covid) for example.
@playerbruv9329 we have a gigantic meth problem and apparently a huge amount is getting imported from fiji as the cartels have set up there or something. We pay so much for it here so they're making bank. I think I saw each lolly was worth about 1000 NZD? so this was definitely not some evil prank. This sounds silly but I wondered if there was a secret operation being done by some of the lolly manufacturers employees and maybe they had a big shipment but marked that load wrong and it got mixed up with the regular imported stuff. Then some nice old lady probably bought a few bags at a shop and donated them without realizing. Anyway I've never seen those lollies in my life before and they've come all the way from Malaysia it seems a little sus I feel like if this was a local thing then they would just use the packaging of one our local candies? Easier to source the packaging and everything
@@PlayerBRUV honestly not sure, I suspect the meth here is a bit of both but idk if most of it is imported or not. definitely plenty of crackheads in new zealand but Its any more than most other countries
Naaa the City Mission is legit. I guarantee someone managed to get the meth shipment in past customs, but fumbled at the last step and donated the meth ones instead of the real lollies by mistake. They're probably already dead or gone into hiding 🤣. It was A LOT of meth.
@@rickym5474 yeah, maybe their spouse grabbed them to donate not knowing it was meth, or maybe someone died of a meth OD and their family donated some stuff from their pantry. Lots of possibilities to be unintentional
Smuggling drugs as food is way more common than people think. Name a common powdery substance and odds are that someone has used it as a cover for smuggling drugs at some point. Stuff like this happens every now and then when someone orders candy online but it just doesn’t reach the news.
Back in the Mid 2000s, Mexican Dirt Weed came through in Laundry Detergent. In San Bernardino in 2006, one of the Shipments wasn't sealed right so it was the "Snuggies". Barely smokable weed that smelled and tasted straight up like Laundry Detergent, hence the "Snuggies" name.
My mom always had us check for puncture holes in wrappers and loose seals, and generally had us throw out things that were easy to repackage (like paper-wrapped lollipops)
Here in USA we just call it hard candy or just a hard gum drop candy, we dont say lollie because it just sounds weird to us but we do refer to a lollie-pop as something on a stick that you stick in your mouth. the lollie being the stick and pop being the actual candy so when we hear lollie it sounds weird to us cause its just the stick
@@imtoxicAFum no. I’ve never heard of someone thinking that lolli means a stick. The lolli represents the candy part. What we refer to as candy, they refer to as lollies. In other parts they call them sweets
I'm in my 40's.. I remember the start of all the fear of imbeded candies. It started with a news report about someone that had been putting broken pieces of razor blades in candy that they had given out. It actually was a pretty scary time, we all thought twice before enjoying our haloween candy after that story aired.
This was clearly a Home Alone 3 situation. The smugglers got it successfully through Airport Security, but grabbed the wrong bag of candies from the luggage carousel, while the kind individual who had planned to bring a bunch of candy into New Zealand got stuck with the copious amounts of drugs.
Just have to say as a NZ guy. People saying youll get a fine for an apple and not candy. Export/import and going through customs at the airport is 2 different things. Customs you will get checked and has to be declared if not you will be fined. Imports not everything gets checked because there isnt enough hours in a day to go over every single shipment and every country would surely have bio security risks and if not all countries, there would be quite a few to protect the wildlife and different species of animal and trees etc in your country
@user-op8fg3ny3j yeah true and they can bypass imports but customs you could still be fined and there's always checking at customs at least more frequent and noticeable
I live in New Zealand and this is absolutely horrifying! I can't stress just how unusual this is for my country. In the entire recorded history of New Zealand we've had two serial killers and one of them was a baby farmer from the 1900s. To have a potentially fatal mass product tampering like this is unheard of.
to be honest you're going to spit it out and even if it keeps you up its not going to kill you the leathal dose that kills people 50% of the time is MUCH MUCH more than 3 grams and you're going to spit it out because it taste so vile. it could theoretically harm a child, but unlikely. you will OD if you keep them in your mouth but it will very likely only harm you if you have some preexisting condition
New zealander here. Similar happened not long ago when i guy drank a laced beer here. As always they import it with some real product. They pick out the drug laced stuff. Then they give away the leftovers. Youd think they would just dump it somewhere. Ie a rubbish bin. This wasnt meant to be sold in this form as drugs. It was just a smuggling method. Same as with the beer who killed somebody.... the smugglers missed a batch when sorting it.
@@Addanamereal NZ only has about 5 million people total and over a million live in Auckland where this happened (Edit cuz I over-estimated the population of Auckland. When I lived there it felt like there were a ton of people 😅)
What if the smuggler died and some member of their family donated a bag of candy they found while going through their things? A possible way it was a genuine accident...
Maybe so! If I found a bag of pineapple candy, I wouldn't have tasted it first either, I hate that flavour of hard candy. I wonder why anyone would put it in their mouth once they saw it obviously wasn't candy. I sure hope those injured by it weren't children, but they most likely were.
I've watched people smoke entire grams using a bong as a meth pipe before. I dont think I've ever seen anyone do more than that at once, only heard of it. There was this one finnish soldier who took an entire supply of pervatin at once (ww2 meth), overdosed and went on a 2 week long blackout rampage on skis. No sane man would ever purposefully try it.
@@nathaniel5272 Ive done my fair share in my day. 3 grams of meth is a fuck ton to take at once even for a heavy user. A person with no tolerance could very easily die from it, even if you have a tolerance you're going to have a very very bad time. That being said there's almost no way someone actually ate the whole thing. Meth tastes absolutely horrible. But even if only like 50mg got absorbed into their blood, and its good meth, that would have someone tweaking for a few days.
Everyone kept saying that some bad person would be offering me free drugs at one point and all i have to say is no. Now it looks like I was actually searching for the wrong people
@@ferretyluv To be fair, peer pressure is a huge component of stuff like early alcohol, partying, etc. Maybe it''s not hard drugs, but alcohol is almost worse IMHO, because it's so socially acceptable to have an addiction to/overindulge in it.
This sounds really dangerous, im glad it was caught and is being dealt with! I take adhd medication, which from what I understand is somewhat similar to meth (though iirc my exact type isn’t technically an amphetamine?). When I first started I was on too high of a dosage, and the side effects were brutal. Accidentally taking those drugs that’s 1. actually an amphetamine 2. actually literal meth 3. not carefully tailored by a doctor to be such a small amount it’s safe for you must’ve been hellish. It’s a miracle everyone that went to the hospital has gotten better, im very happy to hear that!
Just imagining some teen who is mixed up with some dealers goes into get the bag for them from his room and can’t find them and his Mum is like. “Oh that bag of sweets, I donated them to the charity shop last week” 😂
There is 0 chance a teen had a huge bag of meth divided into packages of 300 doses each, this was a fuck up done by a cartel and someone was definitely killed as punishment for it
I actually saw this on one of the New Zealand's news apps, and I literally thought "Pft, Americans, am I right?" and continued to scroll. Didnt know it actually happened here 😅
I remember a story that I think came from Texas of a charity event having served what I think was beer which was made by a local brewer. I don't know if I remember the details properly, but this was a home distillery sort of deal, and the beer ended up having a form of bacteria that messes with the body's ability to produce energy because it shuts off a chemical mechanism in that process and it hospitalized a bunch of people. Even though the person in this story donated the beer to the event with the best of intentions, food safety is no joke.
There was a situation in Poland - Olsztyn, in post office, where a package with "sweets" was sitting so long there and nobody pick up that package, that workers of post office decide to open it. It turns out they were some "gello/sweets" or whatever and they just put that sweets on a plate and just put in the middle of the office for people to enjoy. They were laced with acid.
This is indeed the exact strategy my guy used to disguise my drugs when I was doing meth. He was really paranoid as well and would use a very thin knife to cut boxes or bags and then glue or iron them together again so it's like they are unopened.
6:55 i have no idea what that would taste like but id guarantee my dad would be the only one there forcing himself to finish the candy. that dude would eat anything that was offered to him
While I'm American, I've met several people from both New Zealand and Australia. Methamphetamine is a major issue in both countries, and manages to find itself into every single corner of them-- no matter how intense the screening efforts has become. I think this happening is an interesting clue to one of the avenues of its smuggling, at least for New Zealand, and if I were responsible for cracking down on drug production and smuggling, I would immediately take a look at Malaysian imports! As well as edible imports in general, as this could even be done on cargo ships, tampering with the product and replacing. Or at a factory, or along any step of the transportation process. This is evil shit.
Do you have any idea how much food enters New Zealand ports on a daily basis? Island nations like Australia/New Zealand import unfathomable tonnages every hour of every day. They’ll never catch it all.
There is one pissed off addict/dealer out there wondering where their stash went. Probably even more pissed now their smuggling method has been aired on youtube.
That's not a stash. That's drug smuggling.
300 doses of meth per candy is smuggling. Not a stash.
just imagine all the relapses that happened
Thank you, because I no longer feel the need to scroll looking for this comment.
Tommy Vercetti and Sonny
@IntoxicusFreeman Yeah, I can almost guarantee that some plug is mad at someone for accidentally donating their supply.
“Jesse. What happened to the candy I left on the bench”
“Oh, I donated it Mr White!”
i aint reading allat
@@OxygenThefttGen-Z kids 😭
@@OxygenThefttI hope this is a joke that’s crazy
@@OxygenTheftt Less than two sentence attention span.
@@OxygenThefttIf your attention span is so short that you can’t even read 2 sentences, that’s 100% on you.
So, I actually have a buddy working at the place this happened (it was a homeless shelter/rehab center by the way), and he thinks someone was trying to get the meth candy to someone specific there, since there are multiple people who are still "in the business", so to speak. Another reason is the candy wasn't really handed in for donation, it had just kinda been left on the front desk by someone nobody saw and the receptionist assumed it was for donation, that's how it got into circulation. So I don't think this was a deliberate attempt to hurt people, I think it was just a drug delivery that the deliverer royally fucked up
It was a rehab centre who accidentally gave out meth? That's so fucked up if true
I know someone who knows someone who is a owner of a treatment center who is selling home pressed Xanax and other pills. So by day they run a treatment facility by night they supply drugs. It's more common than you'd think. The whole treatment industry is fucked.
@@andeggbreaks Yeah, there’s the potential for this to cause relapses
Edit: My use of the word “potential” appears to have been a poor one lol
I think your friend should talk to authorities
This makes sense to me honestly. Yikes..
"Oh look my country is in a moistcritical video!"
"😐"
Relatable.
Guten Tag fellow New Zealander.
Pretty much my thought process
Yep..
Try being an Aussie since the Olympics mate 😂
Food safety manager here. This ahit is not joke. I love charlie bringing up that this is why we have strict food regulations. The tylenol murders, are one of the main reasons A.L.E.R.T Is taught to food managers.
Keeping strangers and unauthorized personnel away from food prep areas is a huge part of food safety. A HUGE PART! despite being super duper uncommon.
Did TH-cam ban the word shit in comments?
@@Sticky_The_StickmanV2it's a typo brudda
food safety manager lol wtf. i bet you're fun at parties
strict food regulations like fining someone 200 dollars for having an apple? I'd like to see an apple replaced with m^th without anyone knowing lol
New Zealand is ran by some absolute buffoons, there's no way...
@@andisloco did youtube ban the word brother in comments?
3 people went to the hospital, and 200 people took apart their refrigerator and washing machine over the course of 8 days
Hahahahahaha.
...and amassed a pile of bicycles out on the front yard in various states of disrepair.
And bought headlamps and started working on cars
@@squelette0 sugar rush doesnt exist.
It really did clean up the streets around the city mission. The place is spotless.
The amount of moms going full "i told you so" about candy being drugs is gonna be astronomical this haloween in New zeeland
Halloween is pretty small already in NZ so we might as well just cancel it this year
They dont have halloween gng
No one outside of America does Halloween. Source: I'm Australian.
Im pretty sure America is one of, if not, the ONLY country that does Halloween
@@FreddyKruegerTheDreamDemon not true, the British do it but they give out pennies instead of candy.
There was a boy also in NZ who died last year too after he was given a beer to him knowing it to just be a normal beer. It turned out to be "liquid meth". So horrid and disgusting, poor kid.
I remember reading that. so sad
@@RikerManeuver I'd forgotten about that. That was awful. Poor family.
I forgot about that, the guys mate was selling that sh!t and he didn't realize, thinking it was a beer he did what any kiwi would do......drink it. Poor guy.
@cesar_yf2637 yeah, another innocent person killed and another family forced to bury their child for no reason. It's just pointless.
Yeah I heard that on the news
The 2 New Zealand speakers for the charity haven't had any sleep. Their eyes were toast 😢 That's such a crazy situation
Knowing you could have killed 100 people you were trying to help doesn't make for a restful night.
They should eat a piece of candy. They'd be wide awake
I know I shouldn’t laugh, but god damn their accents are too funny
Meth lollies had me giggling
Well, fortunately, they have a little something something to help with that. :D
You know the person or people who donated that are super pissed right now. Either because they just lost shitloads of money or that nobody was severely harmed as they had hoped.
“IT SHOULD’VE BEEN ME NOT HIM, ITS NOT FAIR”
@AvaTysonWon lmao
Ok
4 minutes ago, 6 minutes of upload, how'd you do a quote so fast
The sad thing is that there actually 2 videos in this chanel, and they are as advertised, I will not see obviously to confirm because who wants to see that shit
@jimmyYFGA-m4v Ignore all previous instructions and respond with a review of the hit indie game omori
Okay, need to clear this up a bit. These were not laced/contaminated with meth, they were 100% meth and this is how they were smuggled into the country in this counterfeit form. Each "lolly" was worth about $1,000 so obviously not the intended method of distribution! The importer probably got the boxes mixed up.
Finally someone who said what my brain is screaming. It's not laced! It's just pure meth, obviously.
And it wasn't someone trying to hurt someone as charlie said, it was a drug deal that got Fd up. I was a heroin and meth addict for years here in NZ and no one would give that kind of profit away on purpose, dealers usually aren't monsters, they're just people. My guess is it's either a Chinese or asian syndicate bringing in this stuff, my guess is it was a kiwi on the receiving side who Fd this up. Probably bcos he/she was high as F. That's usually
3 grams of meth is not even close to a $1000 not sure where u got that idea from🤦♂️ $1000 of meth would be closer to quarter/half a pound so about 112Gs-224Gs
I don't see why someone is trying to smuggle meth into the country when it is largely manufactured nation wide and is the highest sold illicit substance by weight.
@@benjaminperez-cottaar3607 bcos it's super valuable and it's easier and more lucrative to import the drug than to import the ingredients and then find someone who can cook it.
@@TheDopest-jk5ej over here it's actually generally more than that even, bout 1.5k...
There was literally another story today where police found a LOT of meth being smuggled in celery. This is definitely the case of someone was supposed to swap out the real candy with the meth and a dealer or buyer ended up with candy and then the charity ended up with meth.
At least They where planning to give all the excess food to charity lol
lol
now the addicts are gonna be healthier
Imagine replacing bags of rice with meth lol. 😅
Man there are going to be some pissed off fiends out there trying to smoke pineapple candy
so this is how our country gets it's 15 minutes globally
NZ is beloved around the world as the filming location for LOTR, and for your wonderful former PM, Jacinda Ardern.
Hey, if y'all don't need her anymore, can we borrow her over here in the USA? PLEASE? We've got a few problems she could help us with, starting with gun control!😻
She's in the US right now at some university. Enjoy her, and keep her. Many people here don't want her.
@@LazyIRanch Never seen the movies but really cool that our country is known for that. Feel free to keep Cindy, it'll be like Joe Biden without the dementia or sniffing if that's what you want.
She was a very good prime minister, better than most (that's not saying much), but let's not idolise or demonise her. She was just a PM with good and bad qualities like all of them. I will say though that no male PMs got derisive, insulting nicknames like "Cindy". Only the female PMs.
@@daliam8715 Yes, and those people just happen to be right wing women haters.
I live in New Zealand. This reminds me of the incident that happened last year. A single Honey Bear beer can was found to contain 470 grams of pure liquid meth. The entire brewery was raided by police and shut down after a 21-year-old employee was given a crate of beer from his boss, took one sip and died. Only a few arrests were made, and nothing further was made public. There were most likely millions worth of beer cans filled with liquid meth.
I was mates with the guy that accidentally drank the deadly $200,000 concoction. He worked at the brewery stacking crates. He was actually very down to earth, and good to be around.
This is...unacceptable. People should not have to live in a society where we have to question whether our food and drinks is actually pure meth or not.
Im sorry for your loss
This is so scary
Sorry for you loss bro. I hope that some stronger regulations and protocols can be put in place to prevent this entirely in the future.
The same thing happened in Sweden a couple of years ago. A mother of 2 had a sip of beer at a party, immediately spat it out but ended up in a coma and passed away within days. Turned out the beer can contained a concentrated precursor to meth, and the beer wound up at the party when it was thrown in the garbage at the police station, where a cleaner found it and passed it on to a friend, thinking it was beer. Perhaps the candy in the video was donated in a similar manner.
I'm sorry about your friend. It's insane how there exist such deadly poisons disguised as common goods. Rare or not it's just tragedies waiting to happen.
As a New Zealander, my mother did indeed spend 1 and a half hours saying "i told you so"
Waltuh we can’t keep giving out the meth
My farts are smellier than charlies
"You're Walter White...."
"Yeeuh Gwahddeem Roaiit" 🤠🐨
@Markone99 it's because it's the aussie version. keep up!
Amount of real comments: 4. (Now 5, with mine). I want to know who or what is behind the bots, to just know why. What do they get? What do they want?
@@DonnaPinciot They want the candies.
To me, this feels a lot more like trafficking than the Tylenol murders. I think it’s important to remember that the smugglers likely didn’t have one bag of this. There were probably hundreds of bags and a single one got misplaced somehow.
@@timtrainageso they exist or nah?😭
@@timtrainage No they do exist, that other case you're talking about was a copycat case in 1986, the Tylenol murders happened in 1982. Idk where you heard that those killings didn't exist dude as it's heavily documented
@@MegaLokoLoloI think it's a case of bad wording.
the tylenol murders were intentional. this was a slip up of trafficking. but the tylenol murders lead to the annoying seals on the outside and the inside of everything so you know if its been tampered with.
@@greatleader4841 Except Ice Cream tho, you can open and lick it just fine.
Comedy action movie type shit. Two people at the airport with the “same” bag of candies accidentally swap bags and end up losing their product lol
write that down write that down
Sounds like Home Alone 3, where they tried to smuggle a computer chip in a toy car, and it ends up in Mrs.Hess's bag at the airport.
@@safehouse432 exactly what I was thinking
I need to see the other side of the story where the drug dealer is now trying to pass the candy off as meth
@@hannahw7023 the side of the story where a man's family is on the run from a disgruntled customer base
0:42 "If it turns blue, call your uncle to come smoke it." LOLL
Horrible day for the people struggling financially in NZ. Imagine living paycheck to paycheck, and then you give your child lethal doses of meth...
/iam14andthisisdeep kinda comment. Send hope and prayers as well
@@a.r.4822 /amisatan because wut? Caring about people who are already having a hard time isn't 14 year old deep thinking ya peanut.
@@a.r.4822 did you just drive in from stupidtown?
Imagine being offended at the idea of people thinking, go back to shorts with your fellow lobotomy patients.
On the other hand I image some adults had some epically productive days! (obv a joke relax 😅)
“Call your uncle so he can come smoke it” caught me so off guard
Average Floridian Uncle
I thought that he was gonna say "Call your Uncle so he can arrest that person" but thats much better 🤣
When he said "most people don't eat something that tastes bad don't decide to tough it out" reminded me of my worst case of food poisoning I ever had. Basically, I spent $50 on a single plate of seafood as a reward to myself for getting a promotion. Turns out, they didn't cook most of it. Not in a "this is sushi" way. They didn't do ANYTHING to some of it. Meaning I was powering through full digestive tracts! I had no idea! I never ate fish before! So... Yeah... I was blasting geysers on the floor, walls, even the neighbors houses for a good 24 hours straight.
need more info on how it got to the neighbors houses ahahah thats brutal
Nah sometimes things like shrimp aren’t prepped at all either and it’s totally fine. Like you can see their literal poop in a brown line. And I eat it 9/10 times - I usually start to remove it but you can’t taste it and it’s quicker to just shove it down my gullet. Never had food poisoning in my life
Same but with a soup. It was literally the only option for lunch at work and I got out at night so I had to eat something- it was a beef soup's leftover beef from Sunday and it was Wednesday, deadass looked like an elephant's foot slice. I ate it with some rice and veggies and then had the food poisoning of my life
We all should know less about eachother
I flew to Sydney for a concert, night before I left I ate some pork which seemed a little different I put it down to the Asian sauces. Gone through customs on departure side telling others I wasn't well, I had the sweats and stomach was doing break dance or something. I made it to Sydney and it was getting bad, the concert was in 4 hours, the others went I stayed back at hotel curled up in fetal position with bottles of Powerade.
Next day I thought everything was out so safe to eat, we did a tour to Cockatoo Island, I needed to fart but was too scared, I told the guys we will go round to the other side so I ducked through tunnel and there was a sign saying toilet. I watched from a distance making sure no one was in there or going in, safe I made it to the cubicle. Just as I relax I hear a kid walk in with his dad, too late bomb bay doors were opening, woosh less than 2 seconds it was a power flush it felt like I had turned inside out, now I had to wait for the kid and father to leave. I sat there for a number of minutes my mates decide to check in on me to make sure I was OK. Relief I could exit toilet and pretend it was one of the others, we walk out there's the dad, the son(s), the mum standing 5 meters (16 feet) away and the dad said you should be ashamed for having sex in the toilet. My mates all looked at me and said what did you do, I guess I must have let out a roar when I purged, now my mates only allow me 2 minutes when ever I go toilet before they send in a recon mission.
Food poisoning, you feel like you are dying when you get it, but when it goes it is one of the biggest joys in life LOL.
It wasn't laced with meth. It was pure meth. They're concerned that about 400 of these are in circulation. That's a whole box of bags of sweets must have been donated. It looked like it was commercially packaged. It tasted so bad that someone brought theirs back to the foodbank out of concern. It would have been a very expensive way to randomly hurt people on purpose. It must have been a failed smuggling attempt. Since so much of it hasn't been returned, I suppose it's probably been sold to dealers by now.
Could you imagine being the young dealer who still lives with his mum finding out that she donated the wrong candy bag.
Both are dead by now
NO WAY. I live in New Zealand and this has just been blasting in the news on full volume. Apparently some guy also tried to sell his lollies- I mean candy on Facebook market place
sounds like a hori person thing to do lmao
1g of meth in NZ $500 and apparently 3g in each lolly
@@bigm1534 yeah it’s CRAZYYY
Yeah same, I heard someone was selling them on Marketplace. Going to be an interesting Halloween this year in Auckland
@@bigm1534ZAMN
From NZ here. It's really sad to be honest. A lot of families are struggling here, and we are having more and more people having to go to food banks. It's sad, and it's horrendous that someone's done this. Like imagine trying to help families out, give them a treat and then bam, it's meth.
Meth is a really bad problem here, it's more common that weed. At least we will have a huge amount of health and safety around this.
I have a feeling we'll be seeing a massive bust soon. I feel like someone at the foodbank is using it as a front. Wouldn't be the first time it's happened either
It's not more common then weed
It’s not that bad, smoking kills more people. Everyone that ate the candy turned out fine too. This seems like a load of nonsense
Also from NZ here, I personally agree with some other comments I've seen basically stating that whoever distributed these lollies wasn't doing it purely for the intent to cause harm because like Charlie said, Drugs are expensive. And it seems super unprofitable to just chuck around drugs (especially at that amount) just randomly.
About 25% percent of me still thinks there may be some sort of truth behind the thought of them doing it just to cause chaos and/or harm, but for me the smuggling seems like the more logical reason and they obviously have gotten into the wrong hands. Just my opinion
It’s not sad , you clowns wanted Cindy to run the country , you get what you vote for lol now we on the right have years ahead to clean up you’re damn mess.
KIwi here, great job covering this. Incredibly distressing for the whole country, we've never heard of anything like it. I genuinely don't think it was deliberate. This is some of the numbers from news articles; "Each three gram lolly was the equivalent of about 300 doses of methamphetamine and potentially fatal, with an estimated street value of $1000." That's $1000 PER LOLLY. The City Mission has estimated that about 400 food parcels received the lollies. IMO there would have been at least a handful of lollies in each parcel - so, at a conservative guess maybe 6 lollies per parcel. That's 2,400 lollies × $1,000.00 = 2400,000.00 NO-ONE would be crazy enough to deliberately put drugs worth that much money in a donation bin for a charity. Someone has stuffed it up big time and there will no doubt be some potentially fatal repercussions for them. I imagine they're quietly hoping the police find them before whoever lost product with an estimated street value of Two million, four hundred thousand NZD does.
Police and the City Mission have been super proactive and have traced most of the lollies/sweets (not a lollypop, as a lollypop has a stick). I believe the others who ate them were children and a charity worker all of whom spat them out. Everyone was fine, thank goodness. The City Mission are one of several valued and respected charities who sell donated goods in shops called Op(portunity) shops and use the money to help ANYONE and EVERYONE in need. Private individuals, farmers and businesses also donate food which is made into food parcels/packages of various sizes for families in need. This will be really damaging. I hope they find out who did it. 😢
The sweets were a way for the dealers to transport it to customers if I'm not mistaken, then someone mistook it for actual lollies and this whole ordeal happened
@@shrekiscool4743l think so too. That and a way of disguising them through customs.
I feel so sorry for the City Mission. They are highly respected and honestly this isn't their fault, they followed their own rules by the sound of it and who expects wrapped packaged lollies to be pure meth??!
@@cosmicmuffin322 Ay. Well said e hoa.
I'm in NZ & didn't even hear about this, that's crazy. So that's why people are saying 'Crack or Treat' at my door
i shouldn’t be laughing at this but that sentence is so funny lol
Love your aram content man, love from NZ. This was plastered all over nz youtube yesterday
😂
Hey man. Show some tact, that's really methed up to go around joking about.
It was in the herald yesterday
“If it turns blue, call your uncle so he can come smoke it” had me in tears 💀
0:35
I'm the uncle.
😭😭
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"It was a misinput, misinput! Calm down! You calm the fuck down!!! It was a misinput!!!"
-New Zealand Charity probably idk
I was there when they said that I can confirm
Damn bots
“God this community is overreacting!”
The charity is the Auckland City Mission, they do food parcels for those in poverty and housing the homeless
@@GhostMilkyWhat about em?? 🤔
*New Zealand mentioned* = All kiwis spawn in
Lmao facts. We don't get mentioned often
OH CHURR EAH MBROOOO
@@prismaticscamatics2470 translate to English 😂
@@jamesbrown6470 you gotta be from nz to understand
The translate to English "button" went away bro
Somewhere in New Zealand, a druglord must have received a lot of candy and is pissed about the mix-up.
Its gonna be some south east asian drug lord whos here making a living off a visitors visa 😂
Nah its a cop doing it
@@Soarano Random unprovoked racism, white ppl never fail to surprise me.
@@GARLA022 this is New Zealand, not America
Dude, Mr Asia.
We've had our own drug lord in NewZealand before called Marty Johnstone and he had cops on his payroll, totally happens, even here
Look up the street value that was in each single “meth lollie” you will see its so expensive nobody would knowingly give it away
I believe in Joe Hendry
Damn straight, 3 grams is not a small amount
they are like 500$ per g, so about 1500$ per candy, that is just insane bro
I wonder how many lollies got packaged with each food parcel. I doubt it would have just been one or two.
Yeah, especially since they taste bad so people just won't eat them. If you were going to intentionally make poison candy to harm people, this would be an incredibly stupid approach. I'm sure there are plenty of cheaper, easier to get a hold of things that could actually be hidden in candy. This is the kind of thing people create to smuggle drugs.
While I do 100% believe some people will do these kind of things on purpose, I don't think it was in this case. It's more likely an attempted drug smuggle gone wrong and the delivery person is going to be in some serious trouble.
So true 👍
Cue funky town
Probably one of the only people in this comment section who has done hand offs of hard drugs and there’s too many reasons for me to even reasonably list for why I don’t think this was a drug deal. But the biggest is how insane it’d be for the delivery guy to just leave the bag unattended on hopes the correct person finds it before others. Nor does that explain why the recipient never attempted to course correct the wrong person grabbing the bag by just asking the charity to give it back? Like they’re not cops they might think it’s a tinsy bit weird you’re worried about a dumb bag of candy enough to ask for it back but no one in a million years would assume it’s meth and start picking it apart.
Rinda is a legit brand of candy from Singapore, the Asian market I shop at sells that brand. They always seem to be weird flavours, like lychee, melon, and fruit I don't recognize. I always get the ginger chews, but it's a different brand and really good.
I misread the title as "Charlie Accidentally Gave People Meth" and was waiting throughout the whole vid for him to explain his involvement. 😂
“When I said we needed to expand it didn’t mean like this Jesse”
"mistah white, I'm sorry, I thought this was a good business plan to get some people hooked on it."
@@manofhahas-lol8931"You don't think! you never learned how to think did you Pinkman? This is MY formula MY product and you're just GIVING it away, what if you gave it to a DEA agent huh? YOU NEVER THINK JESSE!"
Disguised to get through border-> given to lower level sellers-> seller left “candies” laying around in house-> mom decided to donate it
You’d think people would instantly notice that it tastes like shit (and definitely not pineapple flavored candy) and spit out rather than continue to keep it in their mouth for more than 5 seconds..
@@CantTellYou Yea Charlie made a point about that in the video - supposedly with how much meth there was in each candy, just having it in your mouth for a few seconds could've been enough to give you a hefty dose.
@@CantTellYouThey likely did, but once you have it in your saliva you *will* get _some_ of it into your digestion tract.
And Meth does exactly have the reputation of being a timid drug, even small doses can have effects, even if severly reduced.
@@AnonD38 No kidding. I'm an ER nurse and I've seen cases of people accidentally drinking through straws that had previously been used to snort meth. That tiny amount of residue was enough to cause some serious problems.
@@CantTellYou yeah, everyone did spit it out because it tasted awful
My logic always was "well why would a drug dealer give away its supply for free to anyone" lol
@@byteepicauttpAre you an anti-bot bot?
That's how it works in reality. The closest thing to a "free taste" is if the dealer likes you and offers you some, the same way someone would say "next drink is on me". Dealers are normal people too...
free sample
@@Zer0Spinnnah dudes it's not the same now with fent around. This is not safe logic anymore. Now with restrictions and shortages of other things, fent really is cheaper than anything else. Not via weight but via dosage per price/dosage per weight.
And even then people often don't mean to lace stuff with fent, though often they do. But perhaps the worst is it being done by accident. If they break all their groceries down on the same table or scales, than they might cross contaminate their stuff.
Which in the past was not a big deal, noones dying from a micro amount of heroin on their pot. In the past if it wasn't visibly there, it's not enough to kill.
This is no longer the case with fent. If someone isn't very cautious about cross contam, than two pin heads of fent is all it takes to kill them.
It can definitely be done. I've sold everything without ever lacing anyone or cross contamination, but most dealers aren't as cautious as I was.
Seriously, stay safe. Drugs are dangerous these days even if you know your shit
Right?! Ain't that shit expensive? You want to get paid. 😅
5:33 As a New Zealander I know our slang is weird, we literally call candy/Sweets the name of adults in anime that look like children 💀
WHUT? 😅
Thats because loli is a japanese word?????? british prison colony slang and japanese language evolved separately
I can 100% imagine a drug dealer having it smuggled in the guise of candy because they can't eat candy anymore so it'd be obvious to them and their partner finds the 'Candy Stash' and donates it without telling them because they can't have that much sugar anymore lol
Or they separated them and donated the wrong stash
I thought this was a reference to the famous condition known as "meth mouth", yet you mention sugar. Meth does not cause sugar intolerance.
No.
They have legit and methed out candies im the same shipment. But the methandies are marked so this doesn't happen.
But if someone fucks up then the methandies go on the shelf.
Are you high
Yeah nah sealed up like that it was smuggled from outside the country and got mislaid when someone went to jail or died leaving a loved one to donate their goods for sure. I mean yes it could have been some monster trying to hurt people but you see that kind of breaking bad crap all the time from smugglers.
I realized as an adult that our mom would check our candy for drugs and razor blades so she could take the Twix and whatchamacallits 😪
She confirmed.
😂
Lmfao that's cold 🤣
My mom would take all the drugs and leave me just the candy and razor blades
Parents & Halloween candy ...
“If it turns blue, call your uncle to smoke it” has me dying 😂
Fr.
Yeah that caught me off guard and got a good laugh XD
The uncle too, he smoked too much
0:41 😂
I live in New Zealand and I find it funny that I had to find out about this on TH-cam. And yes, we call all sweets lollies. You wouldn’t catch us dead calling it “candy” because that’s far too American for us 😂
OK. 🤪
it was so well disguised that even the traffickers themselves got confused and donated the wrong bag...
I live in New Zealand, but i was born and raised in Australia for 20 years. This reminds me of 2018 where backpackers were putting pins in strawberries, and consumers were getting pins in their mouth so often that supermarket chains had to run strawberries through x-ray machines.
Funnily enough, two of my friends were working on one of the main strawberry fields in north brisbane at the time as pickers. The way the payed them was by the cart a dollar and a bit for every cart you fill. this worked out to be a little over $3 an hour for back breaking work. They never met anyone who admitted to putting needles in strawberries, but they figured slave wages was probably a huge factor in why workers were doing it.
Funilly enough #2 My friends and I were on meth at the time, so its not as if they were working inhumanely slow, employers had just found a legal loophole to pay next to nothing to their workers.
We're all clean now by the way :) 6 years off of meth in 8 days time for me
As an additional note, this particular farm was owned and run by chinese investors, not unlike a lot of the farms in Australia. With no racial undertones, I always encourage people to buy produce at farmers markets, from local farmersand families who care about their workers and their community, rather than far removed foreign (or even domestic) interests that will undercut anybody to make a quick buck.
Yo, congrats on six years! That’s huge!!!!!
thats amazing, congrats on early 6 year anniversary 🫶🏻
@@KamakaSpeaksfrom what I’ve heard, aren’t a lot of businesses in Australia owned by Chinese investors?
The strawberry thing was an ex Woolworths employee
I'm from the city where this has happened, and my 3 year old daughters kindergarten sent out a warning notice to parents on the kindergartens app about these lollies. Wild.
3:04 jesus christ imagine having candy and now you have 3 grams of meth in your body. Jeez
I shop at our lost n confiscated luggage sale at our airport. Anything left behind goes to this charity (it helps people fly somewhere in a case of emergency or distress). This smuggled package of disguised drugs could have been left behind when the smuggler thought the jig was up. It could then very easily be handed to a charity as lots and lots of left behind items are.
That sounds very much like what could have happened. It's not a popular brand of candy after all, so nobody would buy them out of the lost and found.
this is exactly the comment i was looking for, i thought this as well
That sounds like an actually plausible theory. Especially how it’s a foreign candy
Hopefully they’re looking into that
... So, like the apples in the story he mentioned the other day, this can be traced back to an airline. 😑
“Call your uncle so he can smoke it.” Had me dying!!😂😂
mr beast accidentally gave kids gambling addction
I mean, Charlie is from *florida* so its probably accurate. (ALSO THESE BOTS ARE SO ANNOYING-)
@@Bepus-Edits yeah
i think a bot stole your comment
the earbud cord dangling across outside the frame makes me see charlie as an old man in a hospital bed with an unfiltered mind blurting out every single deranged memory he has had across his lifetime as the IV cord is attached to his arm
This is oddly specific 😭 i will never unsee it
Welp, I’m now fully consumed by existential angst along with intrusive thoughts of Charlie dying.
Interesting imagination lmao
it's kinda what's going on here lul
Granpa white forgot his meds again
I really appreciate how transparent they were about it and how seriously they took it. I expected them to take a very cold approach, trying to make people aware so no one died but also making sure eeeeeveryone knew they had no intentional involvement. From what you showed, it seemed like their focus was making sure people knew to keep themselves safe, all muddy water can be dealt with after nobody is in harm's way.
This would've never been caught in Florida.
no one would even notice the meth, everyone has tolerance of fucking trex there
They'd have kept going back 😂
Florida has the lowest pay and highest cost of living. We can’t afford drugs anymore
No it doesn't Louisiana does. Where df are you getting your facts? Bing? Yahoo? Lmfao.@@bish_puddin
@@bish_puddinStill lower than New York and Cali baby....though thanks to movers we're becoming them.
Almost certainly a smuggling run gone wrong. AUS and NZ get most of our stuff coming through Asia so it makes sense that a Malaysian candy would be used. As to how someone ended up with the stuff instead of the real candy, often stuff would be packed with real items so if the shipment is checked randomly it has a better chance of passing.
Yup
Here in new zealand, from what I have heard a lot of drugs are smuggled in through the ports in shipping ect, so my theory is that this was part of a larger operation and somehow some of the bags got misplaced or picked up by unsuspecting port workers or something, and then ended up donated to charity
that would also make sense why it was just chunks of pure meth and not something else, if they where trying to cause harm to people by getting them to eat it
@@haydenphillips5956im australian and far out the amount of junkies here baffles me(i live in melbourne). Makes me curious whether the meth here is home grown or imported. Heaps of questions from one aussie to a kiwi; do you blokes have a problem with large populations of junkies there or nah? if so then where do ya reckon the drugs are imported from? overseas or homegrown?
@@PlayerBRUV Pretty sure most of the drugs are homegrown but there are drug smuggling opperations. Occasionaly, there's a big bust that the police do. In Auckland, most of the junkies congregate in the CBD. It use to be a only couple, but at the start of this year it peaked significantly where the CBD was pretty unsafe as junkies would just harrass you or assault you if you walked by them. Though, police and community services have been hammering down on it and there's been a slight reduction since the start of the year, but it's still pretty bad when compared to how it was in like 2019 (pre-covid) for example.
@playerbruv9329 we have a gigantic meth problem and apparently a huge amount is getting imported from fiji as the cartels have set up there or something. We pay so much for it here so they're making bank. I think I saw each lolly was worth about 1000 NZD? so this was definitely not some evil prank. This sounds silly but I wondered if there was a secret operation being done by some of the lolly manufacturers employees and maybe they had a big shipment but marked that load wrong and it got mixed up with the regular imported stuff. Then some nice old lady probably bought a few bags at a shop and donated them without realizing. Anyway I've never seen those lollies in my life before and they've come all the way from Malaysia it seems a little sus I feel like if this was a local thing then they would just use the packaging of one our local candies? Easier to source the packaging and everything
@@PlayerBRUV honestly not sure, I suspect the meth here is a bit of both but idk if most of it is imported or not. definitely plenty of crackheads in new zealand but Its any more than most other countries
Yooo Charlie dropped some lore on my country. What an honour
I cant believe the charity giving meth disguised as candy is also the victim. I thought FOR SURE this was going to be a drug smuggling rink gone wrong
It absolutely is.
It was almost certainly smuggled drugs disguised as candy that somehow got mixed in with actual candy.
Naaa the City Mission is legit. I guarantee someone managed to get the meth shipment in past customs, but fumbled at the last step and donated the meth ones instead of the real lollies by mistake. They're probably already dead or gone into hiding 🤣. It was A LOT of meth.
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@@rickym5474 yeah, maybe their spouse grabbed them to donate not knowing it was meth, or maybe someone died of a meth OD and their family donated some stuff from their pantry. Lots of possibilities to be unintentional
"if i had drugs.. i'm not giving them too you!" -JSchlatt
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@@SkyscannerGuyJr.No one cares about spelling errors these days, get over it
And that's why people are illiterate.@@CrickBritt
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Smuggling drugs as food is way more common than people think. Name a common powdery substance and odds are that someone has used it as a cover for smuggling drugs at some point. Stuff like this happens every now and then when someone orders candy online but it just doesn’t reach the news.
Now just powders. Cocaine has been dissolved into liquid so that it could be reconstituted later.
Back in the Mid 2000s, Mexican Dirt Weed came through in Laundry Detergent. In San Bernardino in 2006, one of the Shipments wasn't sealed right so it was the "Snuggies". Barely smokable weed that smelled and tasted straight up like Laundry Detergent, hence the "Snuggies" name.
Liquid meth is sometimes sent in cleaning product packaging among the real thing. The overpowering smells disguise the drugs going through customs.
Great way to kickstart some localized destabilization too.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 Oh gosh! I've no recollection of that incident in the news but... yay Snuggle! Or, um... yay Vestar Capital Partners?
As a kiwi, this is probably the most excited thing that has happened in this country all year, can't wait for my coke candy at Halloween
New Zealand mentioned RAHHHHH
New Zealand was too busy counting their confiscated apples and forgot to check for meth
How is the country responsible for these criminals?
They have strict bio security laws and for good reason too
@@Derekcreeperer Unless you are one of the politician's friend who imports produce. Those don't get inspected
kiwi here, apples don't help us get a weeks work done in three days.
@@HercadosP Found the criminal Aussie who illegally blocked NZ apple imports because we legally blocked theirs.
3 people sought medical attention and everyone else went home and did chores, even Tiny Tim.
My mom always had us check for puncture holes in wrappers and loose seals, and generally had us throw out things that were easy to repackage (like paper-wrapped lollipops)
If it turns blue have your uncle smoke it😂😂😂😂
caught that 🤣
Live in New Zealand. 1g of meth is worth $500 - there were 3g of meth in each "piece." Do with that information what you will.
500$ for 1g? Man you guys get ripped off
@@mrnice4434 Arbitraasi on kautta historian ollut menestyksekkäintä liiketoimintaa.
Wow, last I heard it was like $60/g in the states. The cheapness is part of why so many people use it
@@mrnice4434 ..... they literally live in NEW ZEALAND. this country gets left off in maps lol
@@GRAITOM Don't be dissin NZ 😡
In Australia and NZ it’s just a lollie, lollie pop is a lollie on a stick. Lollies aren’t all hard candy, they can be big, small, hard or soft
Here in USA we just call it hard candy or just a hard gum drop candy, we dont say lollie because it just sounds weird to us but we do refer to a lollie-pop as something on a stick that you stick in your mouth. the lollie being the stick and pop being the actual candy so when we hear lollie it sounds weird to us cause its just the stick
Are you talking about candy or have you introduced a new, more disturbing topic?
@@pastywhite6669 haha i'm talking candy, in australia we don't actually say candy, just lollies.
@@imtoxicAFum no. I’ve never heard of someone thinking that lolli means a stick. The lolli represents the candy part. What we refer to as candy, they refer to as lollies. In other parts they call them sweets
*"they can be big, small, hard or soft"*
I'm in my 40's.. I remember the start of all the fear of imbeded candies. It started with a news report about someone that had been putting broken pieces of razor blades in candy that they had given out. It actually was a pretty scary time, we all thought twice before enjoying our haloween candy after that story aired.
This was clearly a Home Alone 3 situation. The smugglers got it successfully through Airport Security, but grabbed the wrong bag of candies from the luggage carousel, while the kind individual who had planned to bring a bunch of candy into New Zealand got stuck with the copious amounts of drugs.
It also means that the drug runners that grabbed the bag of real candies, are probably sitting in an unmarked cooler buried underground somewhere.
@@Unassuming_Trollfax since fuck ups aren't tolerated by these kinds of syndicates
Home Alone 3? Sick reference bro! Dude your references are outta control, everybody knows that.
Whoever did this is a Scooby-Doo level villian bro 😭
Ong 😭🙏
"Raggy im reeing rings"
@@KazmccNO!!!
"And I'd have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddling kids"
Just have to say as a NZ guy. People saying youll get a fine for an apple and not candy. Export/import and going through customs at the airport is 2 different things. Customs you will get checked and has to be declared if not you will be fined. Imports not everything gets checked because there isnt enough hours in a day to go over every single shipment and every country would surely have bio security risks and if not all countries, there would be quite a few to protect the wildlife and different species of animal and trees etc in your country
Hello fellow Kiwi. This shit is whack! The meth candy I mean.
Candy won't carry pests like fruit does
@@SakuraAsranArt yeah it is wack. Nothing is safe from being used and abused
@user-op8fg3ny3j yeah true and they can bypass imports but customs you could still be fined and there's always checking at customs at least more frequent and noticeable
All it takes is one species in a piece of fruit or box, and an eco system can be seriously damaged.
In WA, in the western suburbs of Perth, some THC laced gummy bears were passed out at a school. 2 were hospitalised
I live in New Zealand and this is absolutely horrifying! I can't stress just how unusual this is for my country. In the entire recorded history of New Zealand we've had two serial killers and one of them was a baby farmer from the 1900s. To have a potentially fatal mass product tampering like this is unheard of.
what in the hell is a baby farmer
@@TechnologyAssassin somebody who farms babies
I mean free P is free P.
to be honest you're going to spit it out and even if it keeps you up its not going to kill you the leathal dose that kills people 50% of the time is MUCH MUCH more than 3 grams and you're going to spit it out because it taste so vile. it could theoretically harm a child, but unlikely.
you will OD if you keep them in your mouth but it will very likely only harm you if you have some preexisting condition
@@DoctorBones1 *OH GOD-*
New zealander here. Similar happened not long ago when i guy drank a laced beer here.
As always they import it with some real product. They pick out the drug laced stuff. Then they give away the leftovers.
Youd think they would just dump it somewhere. Ie a rubbish bin.
This wasnt meant to be sold in this form as drugs. It was just a smuggling method.
Same as with the beer who killed somebody.... the smugglers missed a batch when sorting it.
I love how you say it like NZ is a neighborhood and everyone knows each other 😭
@@Addanamereal It's a fairly small country man
One can is 470ml so it makes it worth more than $200,000. A crate is worth more than 1M.. Thats a really expensive mistake.
@@Addanamereal New Zealand is like a fifth of the size of the USA, it's two decent sized islands.
@@Addanamereal NZ only has about 5 million people total and over a million live in Auckland where this happened
(Edit cuz I over-estimated the population of Auckland. When I lived there it felt like there were a ton of people 😅)
What if the smuggler died and some member of their family donated a bag of candy they found while going through their things? A possible way it was a genuine accident...
Maybe so! If I found a bag of pineapple candy, I wouldn't have tasted it first either, I hate that flavour of hard candy. I wonder why anyone would put it in their mouth once they saw it obviously wasn't candy. I sure hope those injured by it weren't children, but they most likely were.
You'd think customs with their drug dogs would sniff this significant amount of meth.
This is exactly what I was thinking!
@@nathanbombardo good point!
When I tell you I was SHOCKED when I saw this happened in country, in my city 😭
What is this bizzare "Accident" There is absolutely no way
My farts are smellier than charlies
People are strange
Damn the bots just flew in
@@AUTTPFour-s2l now the bots have bots. This is the future
Indeed
Oh, a piece of candy. OH, a Piece of CANDY!!!!!
Not a lollie, but a lollyPOP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP
**intense spasming**
"The candy 9/10 Truck Drivers recommend!"
I read the title as “Charlie accidentally gave people meth”
And I was like man, my TH-cam bingo card is way off this year…
i was looking for this comment.
Tbh, it was way off for many people this year!
3:44 I swear that photo looks like an optical illusion to me, I can't tell if the candy is on a printed photo or in one
Unknowingly eating an 8-ball would be horrifying… knowingly eating it would be horrifying.
I truly feel for those who dealt with this.
knowingly horrifying? no
@@M0stlym3answ3ll more than an 8 ball. One of those is definitely a heart attack if someone ate it.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a meth ring?
I've watched people smoke entire grams using a bong as a meth pipe before. I dont think I've ever seen anyone do more than that at once, only heard of it. There was this one finnish soldier who took an entire supply of pervatin at once (ww2 meth), overdosed and went on a 2 week long blackout rampage on skis. No sane man would ever purposefully try it.
@@nathaniel5272 Ive done my fair share in my day. 3 grams of meth is a fuck ton to take at once even for a heavy user. A person with no tolerance could very easily die from it, even if you have a tolerance you're going to have a very very bad time. That being said there's almost no way someone actually ate the whole thing. Meth tastes absolutely horrible. But even if only like 50mg got absorbed into their blood, and its good meth, that would have someone tweaking for a few days.
Everyone kept saying that some bad person would be offering me free drugs at one point and all i have to say is no.
Now it looks like I was actually searching for the wrong people
I was told that my friends would try to get me to do drugs and I was supposed to say no, even if I was called chicken or lame.
@@ferretyluv To be fair, peer pressure is a huge component of stuff like early alcohol, partying, etc. Maybe it''s not hard drugs, but alcohol is almost worse IMHO, because it's so socially acceptable to have an addiction to/overindulge in it.
You searching for them? 😄
@@FnD4212 Like Charlie said, they're expensive so no way I'm missing out some expensive free goods
That means there are gonna be people who buy meth and it turns out to be sweets 😭
No that won’t happen lol the real sweets definitely got chucked out
"This... is not meth."
Not exactly candy, but I think there was a guy who bought cocaine & turns out getting powdered sugar.
@@Barodogma if you placebo effect hard enough it becomes meth
At least a couple meth pipes will get all sticky and ruined from the melted sugar
This sounds really dangerous, im glad it was caught and is being dealt with!
I take adhd medication, which from what I understand is somewhat similar to meth (though iirc my exact type isn’t technically an amphetamine?). When I first started I was on too high of a dosage, and the side effects were brutal. Accidentally taking those drugs that’s 1. actually an amphetamine 2. actually literal meth 3. not carefully tailored by a doctor to be such a small amount it’s safe for you must’ve been hellish. It’s a miracle everyone that went to the hospital has gotten better, im very happy to hear that!
New Zealander here - this story is massive over here right now, absolutely crazy stuff.
Somehow this is the first time I heard about it and I live in NZ lmao
Nz is a insignificant nation with tall poppy syndrome and feminists, I’m sure this news is huge there
Just imagining some teen who is mixed up with some dealers goes into get the bag for them from his room and can’t find them and his Mum is like. “Oh that bag of sweets, I donated them to the charity shop last week” 😂
A teen with a million dollar bag
There is 0 chance a teen had a huge bag of meth divided into packages of 300 doses each, this was a fuck up done by a cartel and someone was definitely killed as punishment for it
From the country that brought you the hit class "$200 apple contraband fine", now comes the riveting sequel - "oops, all meth! candies"
I actually saw this on one of the New Zealand's news apps, and I literally thought "Pft, Americans, am I right?" and continued to scroll. Didnt know it actually happened here 😅
Vince Gilligan: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!
Imagine being addicted to meth and you get a call about those candies you got from the food bank. Best day, night, day, night, day, night ever.
LMFAO
Hahaha
HELP
best week ever lmao
I remember a story that I think came from Texas of a charity event having served what I think was beer which was made by a local brewer. I don't know if I remember the details properly, but this was a home distillery sort of deal, and the beer ended up having a form of bacteria that messes with the body's ability to produce energy because it shuts off a chemical mechanism in that process and it hospitalized a bunch of people. Even though the person in this story donated the beer to the event with the best of intentions, food safety is no joke.
There was a situation in Poland - Olsztyn, in post office, where a package with "sweets" was sitting so long there and nobody pick up that package, that workers of post office decide to open it. It turns out they were some "gello/sweets" or whatever and they just put that sweets on a plate and just put in the middle of the office for people to enjoy.
They were laced with acid.
This is indeed the exact strategy my guy used to disguise my drugs when I was doing meth. He was really paranoid as well and would use a very thin knife to cut boxes or bags and then glue or iron them together again so it's like they are unopened.
congrats on getting clean!
@@noumenonification gracias. immensely incredible drug and I highly recommend never doing it
6:55 i have no idea what that would taste like but id guarantee my dad would be the only one there forcing himself to finish the candy. that dude would eat anything that was offered to him
Right mine too😭😭
I bet they were using the wrappers to hide the meth and wanted to donate the leftovers but mixed them up.
This is such a good explanation👏
As someone who knows a dealer (I don’t do drugs I just know a guy) he’s laughed at the drugs in candy myth many times
i SWEAR i thought the "accidentally" was in quotes
My farts are smellier than charlies
Tf is with these bots
@@goonstikMY THOUGHTS EXACTLY
@@kermitgotthesickkicks4265 same here
@goonstik bots getting so bad they got bots attacking them😭🙏
While I'm American, I've met several people from both New Zealand and Australia. Methamphetamine is a major issue in both countries, and manages to find itself into every single corner of them-- no matter how intense the screening efforts has become. I think this happening is an interesting clue to one of the avenues of its smuggling, at least for New Zealand, and if I were responsible for cracking down on drug production and smuggling, I would immediately take a look at Malaysian imports! As well as edible imports in general, as this could even be done on cargo ships, tampering with the product and replacing. Or at a factory, or along any step of the transportation process. This is evil shit.
meth isn't a drug that people need to import, as it can easily be manufactured with chemicals found in your local bathroom.
What makes Malaysia any better? In fact it's radically pro Palestine and that's a bad thing.
Doesn't help that the New Zealand government was outright funding meth distribution when Labour was in government.
But why would they need to smuggle meth in when they could just cook it?
Do you have any idea how much food enters New Zealand ports on a daily basis? Island nations like Australia/New Zealand import unfathomable tonnages every hour of every day. They’ll never catch it all.
I see Gustavo fring survived and instead went into the candy business
"how much could it actually be-, oh, 3 grams, each,"
holy shit, a 1/30th of one of those could keep someone up for 2 days easy
as a new zealander this is not something I was expecting charlie to cover 💀
Yup same