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Queensland strawberry growers are pleading for “calm and common sense” in the wake of deliberate contaminations found in punnets of the fruit across the nation.

More than 100 reports of tampered fruit are being investigated by police across the country, many of which are thought to be fake or copycat cases because the Australan media is covering this anti-social trend with the same excitement that Fox News reports on a school shooting.

While supermarkets take matters into their own hands by installing blue lights in the fruit veg section, the federal government yesterday announced a new roll-out on no-questions-asked fruit injecting rooms in a preventative measure to restrict public exposure to the tampered fruit.

However, as far as stopping the fruit tampering epidemic goes, investigators are circling in one one suspect.

Former child pop star Nikki Webster.

Now 31 with a husband and young child, Nikki Webster is best known for her starring role in the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics opening ceremony and her subsequent top of the short charts single “Strawberry Kisses”.

Speaking to the media today, Agricultural Minister David Littleproud MP says he doesn’t want to believe the reports, but says their is early indication that Webster may be involved in the current strawberry contamination crisis.

“I just… I thought she grew out of it” said a dissapointed Littleproud.

“Please Nikki, We have an entire industry suffering here!”

“Leave the strawberries alone!”

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