Dive Brief:
- Canadian law enforcement is investigating a bizarre crime in which sewing needles were stuck in potatoes that were shipped across the Atlantic provinces.
- Police don't know who would do such a thing, or why, but they do know where: the sabotaged spuds have been traced to a Linkletter Farms, a family-owned business with hundreds of workers in the area around the town of Summerside on Prince Edward Island.
- The needles were first detected at a french-fry plant, but have since surfaced at grocery stores across Eastern Canada.
Dive Insight:
There's something incredibly nasty about this crime, but we'll avoid the urge to psychoanalyze whatever psycho is behind it. In the meantime, we have to wonder just why are there so many wacky and frightening crimes happening in the food industry at this particular point in time.