• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    Members of the British government have been calling for strong efforts to ensure the shipping company and its insurers will pay the costs of the cleanup. Seatrade, which operates the vessel, said its insurers are fully engaged in the process, and in the meantime, volunteers are scouring the beaches, aiding in the cleanup (and possibly taking a few bananas home as a reward).

    • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
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      Oh goodie, the insurers are fully engaged! I’m sure they will help clear the quickly rotting food off the beach just as much as the volunteers who are physically there doing actual work.

      God I hate pencil-pusher culture, it’s so weird 😂

      Thanks for the quote! I realise I replied snarkily - I’m not mad at you of course, just at the quote

      • mech@feddit.org
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        its insurers are fully engaged in the process

        I am now imagining an insurance office where suddenly an alarm goes off:
        The lights turn red, a siren howls, and everyone jumps up from their seats and runs to a garage where black vans are wating with the engines running.
        They drive to the beach and frantically start picking up bananas, in a race against time and decomposition.