From News.com.au:
A DISGRUNTLED grape grower allegedly plotted to blow up a Victorian winery and make it look like a terrorist attack, a court has been told.
Bergamin Wines and Spirits managing director Steven Bergamin allegedly planned to blow up Gapsted Winery, in northeast Victoria, as a payback for undercutting the price of grapes.He allegedly struck a deal with an undercover police officer – posing as the would-be bomber – to destroy the winery.
“I want the job done and I want it to look like terrorists have done it,” Detective Senior Constable Damian Jackson said Mr Bergamin had told him.
The brilliant Mr. Bergamin called off the bombing after he learned that the winery he was targeting was going broke.
There’s a lesson in economics here shrouded beneath all the cloak and dagger idiocy. If your grape buyers are suddenly asking for prices on fruit that you find unsustainable, and you can’t find anyone else to sell them to, your solution isn’t to blow up the offending winery, it’s to find a new line of work.
Perhaps pull out the vines and plant some homes. I hear they age well and go nicely with family dinner.
