Just a quick heads up to those of you in The Solent area!
I’ve never heard of a banana slick before, might be worth indulging in a little beachcombing 
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Sanisburys will miss those, illegal to remove, of course. I preferred the Wood Mountain.
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The illegality of beachcombing for other people’s bananas didn’t actually occur to me up until now Davey! 
that was quite a slip up.
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My Sanisburys was 
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According to reports authorities are being complete killjoys and telling people not to go and help themselves to bananas washed on shore. Apparently it’s against the law and you can get a £2.5k fine. How silly to waste them!
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The container couldn’t have had something useful instead of bananas, such as chocolate or even camera lenses? 
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Hi
The scientist in me is going to spoil the fun again.
Banana skins are porous and absorb lots of nasty stuff from water and the Solent is not the cleanest seawater in the UK.
The skins are so absorbent they are used to absorb pollutants and heavy metals in industry and waste treatment.
They are used for making very high grade activated carbon, the sort of stuff used in laboratory and military respirators.
Whilst the outside of the skins seem watertight, the absorbed nasties make their way into the fruit and concentrate there.
Bunches of bananas that have been in the sea can be really nasty.
You can google it if you want.
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I for one am more than happy to take your word for it Swimmy! 
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I can remember many builders vans and people, including me, making the most of this windfall.
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Strictly speaking is it looting anyway?
I thought maritime law regarding shipwrecks or lost cargo allowed you to take it away.
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Only if your Mother served ale in the Jamaica Inn.
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I can remember another wrecked container ship, it had motor bikes on it. I remember seeing on the news people ‘rescuing’ them from containers & wheeling them away. Anyone else remember that?
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We know a song about a boat carrying bananas (Harry Belafonte)
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I can’t remember motor bikes but I do remember thousands of bright yellow rubber ducks setting off across the oceans after falling off a container ship … I think scientists found they came in handy for tracking ocean currents.
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I remember those too & the Lego containers that got wrecked, never found any Lego though.
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