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The mushroom poisoning in Vic.... I am gripped

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Dustyblue · 09/08/2023 04:58

This has been all over the news. I live one town over from Leongatha and believe me, it's the talk of the towns.

We have loads of mushrooms around our place but wouldn't dream of eating them. About 90% of foraged mushrooms in Australia are poisonous.

Then again, you do get groups of people who think they know what they're doing, and perhaps they do.

Meanwhile this is suss-as.

Three people died from suspected mushroom poisoning after sharing a meal. Here's what we know - ABC News

Three dead and another fighting for life: What we know so far about suspected mushroom poisonings in Victoria

Police continue to investigate three suspected mushroom poisoning deaths after a family lunch last month in Leongatha in Victoria's east. Detectives have not laid any charges, but say the woman who served the meal remains a suspect. Here's what we know...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-09/poisonous-mushroom-deaths-victoria-leongatha-explainer/102703430

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TerfTalking · 09/08/2023 12:15

I can’t understand why anyone would be so daft as to pick and eat wild mushrooms 😳 so dangerous!

Me neither, I mean, they're like a quid a punnet. I'm all for foraging a few wild blackberries for a crumble, but the worst that can happen there is finding a grub.

FamBae · 09/08/2023 12:22

WannaBeRecluse · 09/08/2023 11:05

Tears or lack of it mean nothing. We all respond to such things differently. There's a rather famous historic case where a mother was accused of not showing enough emotion and being cold. Not guilty.

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Agree, but apart from the lack of tears he also stabbed his wife 32 times, unfortunately for him she lived to tell the tale; I was just instantly reminded of him when I watched her interview.

tothesea · 09/08/2023 12:24

It’s all very odd. The video interview is very uncomfortable …I hate that people are door stepped by the media like that BUT it’s so odd she says something like ‘they never did anything to me’ why would you say that about people you have possibly killed accidentally.

Honeychickpea · 09/08/2023 12:25

MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 09/08/2023 10:41

My 2 cents...

The Husband is behind it all- imprisons ex wife, gets custody and inheritance.

As believable as guessing guilt from body language in a video.

I suspect the same.

Mummyoflittledragon · 09/08/2023 12:27

ChurlishGreen · 09/08/2023 11:50

But you would have been acting out a conventional idea of grief to an acting class, the way a thriller writer will make someone innocent in a murder plot behave according to conventional ideas of innocent behaviour — crying, grief-stricken, unable to eat, blaming themselves, etc etc.

Real life is just messier, and grief and shock express themselves in more unexpected ways. When my beloved grandad died in my teens (he was essentially my third parent, always lived with us), the whole family got the giggles in the car on the way to the funeral, promptly infected grandad’s other son and our cousins, and we all spent the whole service trying not to laugh and failing — the pews were shaking. We would have looked heartless and frivolous to a neutral observer, but we were heartbroken. Just also laughing like drains.

I only know what I’ve read on here about this case, and have no idea about this woman’s guilt or innocence, but I’d be wary of making deductions from anyone’s behaviour in the public eye in this kind of scenario. Guilt or innocence doesn’t always look the way it would in a film.

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But you will have been acting out a conventional idea of grief to an acting class, the way a thriller writer will make someone innocent in a murder plot…

No not at all. This is not how professional acting classes work, at least not how I was taught. I was taught to feel and to react as the character that I had created. The first stage, which lasted a year, we basically hardly talked at all, focusing on reacting organically and not at in a prescriptive way. We basically had to learn to be a completely different way. In that stage, it was much less about character creation as you had to remove all predetermined ideas of what acting was before you could actually start to act realistically. This is why when someone says they don’t believe an actor / character, it’s because the actor is forcing it rather than feeling it.

Mummyoflittledragon · 09/08/2023 12:31

Oh and to add to that @ChurlishGreen I had a parent, who died when I was in my teens so I know about strange reactions first hand.

VictoriaVenkman · 09/08/2023 12:45

Not RTFT so may have been mentioned, she could have dehydrated them, ground them up and added to food that way.

WannaBeRecluse · 09/08/2023 12:50

FamBae · 09/08/2023 12:22

Agree, but apart from the lack of tears he also stabbed his wife 32 times, unfortunately for him she lived to tell the tale; I was just instantly reminded of him when I watched her interview.

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That must have been a hard case to sit on the jury for. That poor woman.

TruJay · 09/08/2023 13:04

This is horrifying if not an accident, those poor people.

The video looks like Chunk’s confession in Goonies

Yuluml · 09/08/2023 13:06

Where is the video? I can't find it.

harriethoyle · 09/08/2023 13:11

Huh @JenWillsiam ?! I hope you stretched before that reach!!

Titfortat78 · 09/08/2023 13:13

And she or her children never eat any of what she cooked. As well as exH having gastrointestinal issues and nearly dieing. Not suspicious at all.

Titfortat78 · 09/08/2023 13:17

My brother in law does I've never eaten anything he's cooked using them. But I showed him the video of the news announcement to put him off.

KatharinaRosalie · 09/08/2023 13:20

Me neither, I mean, they're like a quid a punnet.

It's not about the money, supermarket mushrooms have no taste and are in no way comparable to for example a porcini or saffron milk cap.

MentholLoad · 09/08/2023 13:25

KatharinaRosalie · 09/08/2023 13:20

Me neither, I mean, they're like a quid a punnet.

It's not about the money, supermarket mushrooms have no taste and are in no way comparable to for example a porcini or saffron milk cap.

you can't taste anything if your dead though

Emotionalsupportviper · 09/08/2023 13:29

Dustyblue · 09/08/2023 04:58

This has been all over the news. I live one town over from Leongatha and believe me, it's the talk of the towns.

We have loads of mushrooms around our place but wouldn't dream of eating them. About 90% of foraged mushrooms in Australia are poisonous.

Then again, you do get groups of people who think they know what they're doing, and perhaps they do.

Meanwhile this is suss-as.

Three people died from suspected mushroom poisoning after sharing a meal. Here's what we know - ABC News

Australia as a country is just out to kill people - spiders, snakes, sharks, and now mushrooms - you name it, it's out to get you.

coffeeschmoffee · 09/08/2023 13:31

Emotionalsupportviper · 09/08/2023 13:29

Australia as a country is just out to kill people - spiders, snakes, sharks, and now mushrooms - you name it, it's out to get you.

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😂😂😂

KatharinaRosalie · 09/08/2023 13:33

you can't taste anything if your dead though

Yes that's why it's important not to eat mushrooms you don't know. Or, eat mushrooms at someone's place who doesn't like you much..

TommyNever · 09/08/2023 13:35

I can’t understand why anyone would be so daft as to pick and eat wild mushrooms 😳 so dangerous!

It's safe if you know what you're doing. I lived in farming country for many years surrounded by pasture that yielded bumper crops of common field mushrooms every autumn. Never had a problem, just years of delicious eating.

HaveYouHeardOfARoadAtlas · 09/08/2023 13:42

press Now saying that the seized dehydrator was in the house. Not in “the tip”. Which I had taken to mean a local waste site.

FairyBreadQueen · 09/08/2023 13:43

I also agree with not judging based on appearances.

I recall poor Lindy Chamberlain. And Joanne Lees. And Kathleen Folbigg- women who were eviscerated by the press for their apparent guilty demeanours and/or by assumption. Mainly that they did not react the way people decided they ought to with cameras shoved in their faces.

HavfrueDenizKisi · 09/08/2023 13:44

Wow I think people need to reign in the 'I can tell she's guilty from her interview and behaviour' bullshit.

Australian media have a poor track record (and the police) as mentioned: Lindy chamberlain, Kathleen follbig and I remember when Peter Falconio was murdered (by Bradley Murdock it turned out) and the media/general public had it in for his girlfriend Joanne Lees because she didn't cry or wasn't emotional enough on tv apparently. Extremely disturbing armchair detective stuff. See also the hounding of Nicola Bulley's partner here in the UK recently.

I'm not saying the case doesn't raise questions but all the armchair psychology is bloody awful.

Stravaig · 09/08/2023 13:44

I suppose you'd have to dehydrate and powder them? Otherwise mushroom haters would eat around them, and mushroom lovers would recognise that they weren't a safe edible mushroom. You could selectively add powder to any part of a meal.

LizzieSiddal · 09/08/2023 13:45

I don’t understand why she spoke to the press! Surely she’d have been told not to but lawyers etc.

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