Weird Crimes of History: New Zealand's Avocado Crime Wave

Avocados have become a very popular health food in recent times. Nowadays, it is hard to go ten minutes without hearing someone tell you about all the amazing things avocados can do: they can help control blood pressure, they can help prevent cancer, they can give you a boost in Vitamin C, they can let you fly like Superman... ok, so the last one might not be true, but I wouldn't be surprised if some avocado-loving fitness nut ever made that claim with how much the fruit gets glorified (and yes, it's technically a fruit. It's basically tomatoes all over again, freakin' glorified salad ingredient).

In the nation of New Zealand, people have developed quite a hunger for avocados. This hunger is so strong that, after a shortage that began two years ago made avocados harder to come by and caused the prices of whatever was let to soar, New Zealanders started to steal avocados from local farmers. Many these produce thieves are part of a growing avocado black market which formed after the shortage and still exists in the country to this day. This black market is only made stronger by the fact that New Zealand's strict biosecurity laws prevent the government and markets from importing avocados. I don't know how the country is going to end these odd crime sprees, but I do know one thing: anybody who figures out a way to sneak some avocados past New Zealand border patrol might get rich quick thanks to New Zealander's newly developed avocado fixation/addiction!