Before I even start this post, apologies for any porkies in the tail ....
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| Inedible Bangers |
Yes, its another tale of food foulness.
A Waiheke island community in Surfdale, was sizzling on social media in 2022, when someone was posting cooked sausages, slathered in tomato sauce, and wrapped in white bread, in to the letter boxes. It had started in April 2022, and had continued for at least once a month right through to January 2023 when the story broke in the New Zealand press.
When the prankster had first started, many of the victims attacked by the joker initially thought it was a drunk, but as the months went by, and the incidents continued, the "Surfdale Sausager," as the press dubbed them, remained uncaught.
One resident Jacob Coetze, was interviewed said “I know you’re out there. Just know one thing, you will be unmasked and your horrible deeds will be [known] by the community and you will be shunned.” Waiheke's most famous resident, Sir Peter Leitch aka "The Mad Butcher," said that he had never heard of the incidents and had yet to be targeted himself.
After the story was reported and went global there were reports of copycat sausagers across New Zealand, with one reddit poster saying 'Hi guys - I'm a mailman from New Zealand. This strange phenomenon spread like wildfire across the country for a short period of time. Multiple sausagers. Copycat sausagers. Put my hand in the sauce by accident several times. Disgusting. Still haunts me'.
1news in New Zealand sent its Breakfast Reporter Tessa Parker to look for the culprit and grill any would-be suspects on the island .... yep, the press loved it. She suggested the prime prankster was Jacob Coetzee, the man at the centre of the press coverage. "He's the one that says he's trying to solve the case and talking to everyone about it, it's the perfect cover up," said one Surfdale teen, and friend of Coetzee.
But after a solid grilling, in the end she concluded that Jacob's wasn't telling porkies, as according to his mum, Jacob was away for eight days when they got sausaged again. So having proved his innocence, 1news Breakfast was left without a leading suspect, and the case of the Surfdale Sausager remained unsolved.
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