Agricultural Warfare?

Pod people

Monsanto will infiltrate its copyrighted seeds into farms and then sue the farmers. Maybe this is similar.

Didn't someone post about receiving seeds from China a few weeks ago? Everyone told him he was crazy.

Some folks in my gardening group here in New England have received seeds that look like cardamom. Weird!

OP, are you in the UK? I was wondering how you are able to link successfully to Daily Mail.

And R1, that was funny as hell!

must have some kind of virus or other poison that will fuck up the ecosystem.

I ordered seeds from a place in Nevada and they came from China. they were clearly not the type of seeds that I ordered. you can't even trust intentionally ordered from the USA seed companies, I am not surprised in the slightest by this.

I just ordered some seeds from Hungary, so I'll be very careful checking the packaging before I plant anything. I would have a difficult time defeating my own curiosity if I received some of those mysterious seeds, but it sounds like most recipients are appropriately suspicious. A couple of years ago, I ordered some seeds from the UK (I'm in the US), and they somehow were shipped to Australia, and opened and inspected there before making their way to Ohio.

Off-topic, but related: Check your Amazon account and order history. Something strange is going on at their site and authentic customer service is unavailable.

Plant them!!! Plant them. At least in a pot at home in a controlled environment.

Gimme your seed, bro!

Probably invasive weed species. They’re hoping you either plant them or throw them in the garbage & they will eventually grow in a landfill & go to seed, spreading on the wind. I’d put them in a jar of rubbing alcohol until they dissolved.

There’s more than one way to cause economic damage to an enemy. Invasive weeds, invasive marine life that crowds out food fish, invasive giant snakes and setting wildfires. All it takes to start a wildfire is a match. Mighty good investment for the amount of money you invest. Billions of dollars in damage every year from wildfires. Maybe trillions.

There have been similar stories lately as seeds showing up as a free gift with random internet purchases...all from China. Many of these mysterious seeds seemed to arrive in place of jewellery orders from China.

Probably some murderous bamboo.

Remember when Gilligan and the rest of the gang planted irradiated seeds and got super powers?

This is a scam they are running. It’s complicated but it’s basically sending an “empty” box so they can get a tracking number to use as a decoy for fake products like Lysol, m95 masks etc.

They use seeds because it has to be something light in weight.

Sending the empty packages buys them both a tracking number and a few days to clear the charges.

Sorry to ruin the fun.

It’s true that someone on DL posted about this a few weeks ago and everyone called him crazy. Say what you want, DL is often on the cutting edge, even still!

[quote] it’s basically sending an “empty” box so they can get a tracking number to use as a decoy for fake products like Lysol, m95 masks etc.

Explain, please. They’ve got a tracking number from seeds. What’s it got to do with fake Lysol.

[quote] Some folks in my gardening group here in New England have received seeds that look like cardamom. Weird!

What the hell does Cardi B’s mom have to do with anything?

I received random unsolicited seeds and a piece of plastic garbage from China in June. I reported the brushing scam to the FTC right away and received a tracking number, but no further follow up. Good to know I should contact the Department of Agriculture as well for disposal instructions.

This is by far the weirdest thing to come along - it's something only a fevered delusional mind could come up with.

r16 there are many scammers online setting up fake accounts to sell high in demand Covid PPE products. People place their orders, and they send these packages filled with nothing to make it look like the order is being fulfilled. They pocket the funds and scram.

That is why Amazon and Ebay temporarily suspended sale of PPE products earlier this year, due to this and price gouging. But the big online stores have extremely sophisticated technology to detect fraudulent sales and accounts, and drop ship scammers. Ebay is extremely adept at detecting fake accounts.

that was for r18

So I go online, order Lysol & China sends me seeds & uses the tracking number as proof to show they sent me something?

Don't sleep near them.

People love anything from China because it's cheap. Walmart anyone?

Acquaintances in Taiwan receiving them also.

Jesus Christ. Couldn’t they have sent plastic beads or something? The seeds seem so nefarious.

They're invading Connecticut!

Contact your Ag department ... dont plant, dont toss ...

There is an online form or phone number to call ...

Could this be a Jack-and-the-beanstalk story?