Well, I've heard about this sort of thing before, but this is the first time I've seen conclusive photographic evidence. What happens is this : Money changes hands and the bananas are loaded onto a ship destined to take them to a new life in Europe. More than likely they want to go to the UK. Things get confused during the dangerous sea crossing and the handlers begin to get fed up with the constant demands coming from the bananas. Before they know where they're at, the bananas are tossed over the side, and wash up dead on the seashore.
It's a terrible story, but these things really happen everyday. The dream of a better life shattered suddenly at the hands of unscupulous individuals. These people shouldn't be able to get away with it. Look how many innocent bananas perished in this particular instance, and it didn't even make mainstream news. It' s almost as though nobody cares. They just turn a blind eye to the problem and hope it'll go away. Well it won't go away. What will it take before people sit up and notice?
Maybe it's just beacause people lack respect for bananas, they see them as some sort of Third World fruit. If it was Kiwi fruit it would be a different story, since the Kiwis come from a Commonwealth country. The loss of thousands of Kiwis in one go, and these fruit smuggling gangs would be shutdown overnight, there's nothing more certain. It's time someone stood up to this shameful fruit prejudice and put a stop to the illegal banana trafficking!
