A couple in New Zealand decided to admit themselves to the hospital after eating a bean casserole they’d made in their slow cooker.
This wasn’t the first time that they’d chosen to do so.
On other occasions when they’d eaten this particular bean casserole – as well as a different beef casserole – cooked in their slow cooker, the couple had also decided to go to the hospital for treatment.
Both of them felt nauseous, dizzy, flushed, and also had heart palpitations swollen tongues.
The doctors couldn’t figure out what had happened.
Auckland Regional Public Health Service ran tests on the couple’s leftover bean casserole – but to no avail. There was no trace of drugs or medicine discovered in the food.
However, after the Health Service ran similar tests on the slow cooker, the couple’s doctors were finally able to determine what had happened.
The slow cooker had been contaminated with methamphetamine – crystal meth. There were traces of the drug all over the inside of the cooker, as well as on both sides of the lid.
The police have yet to discover how the slow cooker came to be contaminated, or who contaminated the appliance. Methamphetamine is traditionally smoked and discarded, not coated on products or surfaces.
There are currently no other leads on this strange case.
