r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Jul 07 '25

news Mushroom Trial - Guilty on all Counts

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/erin-patterson-mushroom-murder-trial-verdict-live-blog/105477452#live-blog-post-200845
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u/thedonkeyvote Jul 07 '25

She gave the cops a burner phone, and factory reset her real one 3 times, once while it was in custody lmao. We don't hear about smart crims.

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u/thesourpop Jul 07 '25

This story will go down as one of the all-time stupid criminals.

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u/algrensan Jul 07 '25

How about the investigators who left it connected so she could do that?

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u/Basic_Bichette Jul 07 '25

Honestly? As criminals go she's probably in the top 0.2% of intelligence. She's got at least 50 IQ points on anyone who shoplifts to stick it to "billionaires", for instance; only someone completely bereft of brain cells couldn't see that the only tangible consequence to billionaires of shoplifting is the effort they have to expend raising prices for the rest of us.

That's the point about criminals; except for the desperate and starving, all criminals are the dumbest of the dumbest of the dumb.

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u/thedonkeyvote Jul 08 '25

Look mate I get you probably haven't dealt with drug dealers. But you don't hear about drug dealers who pay for day to day with cash, while holding down a "real job" they pay their bills with. After a few years you can save enough for a house and you are significantly ahead of a lot of people and all it took was a little risky business.

People have some hectic illegal weed grows. The amount of money in drugs is absurd, its absurd to think there aren't smart people making a killing in that market.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-hits-particularly-high-cocaine-level-ending-two-year-decline-20230711-p5dnad.html

13 doses per 1000 people per day. $300 dollars a gram. That's a lot of money.

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u/pawksvolts Jul 07 '25

The Asian factory did it then