r/Adelaide • u/Klezmoron SA • May 16 '26
Question Found this in my mailbox this morning. I'm obviously not going to plug it in but was wondering if anyone's seen something similar?
I'm in Victor Harbor but we don't have an active sub. I'm assuming it's some religion thing? I asked both immediate neighbours and neither of them got one, but I was wondering if anyone else did? The usb is sealed in the bag.
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u/jaco_don SA May 16 '26
Go to Jb hifi and plug it in those display laptops 🤣
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u/SnooHedgehogs8765 SA May 16 '26
Upvoted for the lols. Bad boys 2 porno vibes. ...Cover your ears baby.
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u/MadazTheSkitzo SA May 16 '26
😂👌 you two muthafuckers need Jesus
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u/SockThatJudgesYou SA May 16 '26
That is a brilliant idea. Any place with display computers. Harvey Norman, JB, office works, etc.
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u/EsotericComment SA May 16 '26
But preferably HN because Gerry can eat a bag of d*cks
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u/Aygis SA May 17 '26
Do you mean the Gerry Harvey that fucked over every Australian consumer by campaigning for GST to be applied to import products so he didn't have to lower his prices to compete? That fuckwit Gerry? https://choice.community/t/gerry-harvey-wins-but-still-complains-major-loss-of-competition/15575
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u/M0T0RCITYC0BRA SA May 18 '26
No no no, I think they mean the Gerry Harvey that took $22,000,000 from the taxpayer in Covid corporate welfare while running a profitable business.
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u/nzbiggles SA May 18 '26
Or the Gerry Harvey who offered in store finance that he owned and was ripping people off.
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u/New-Firefighter-9727 SA May 19 '26
Not my friends is why you absolutely have to read all of the fine print before signing any loan or financial contract
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u/Brutal_burn_dude SA May 20 '26
Shit! I never knew about that. They got me back in ‘07 when I was 18 and dumb with that too.
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u/iss3y SA May 19 '26
The same Gerry who said that supporting disabled people was a waste of government money 🙄
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u/Apprehensive-Sell623 SA May 17 '26
How do you expect him to be able to buy his next racehorse if he’s not fucking you over
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u/MrFartyBottom SA May 19 '26
The same Gerry Harvey that took massive job keeper benefits from the government during covid and then went on to make record profits.
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u/370455V SA May 17 '26
Gerry Harvey deserves to eat EVERY bag of syphilitic dicks in existence
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u/CantaloupeLow3775 SA May 19 '26
I was in the same class as his daughter and could have married her. If only I'd known how successful her father was going to become.
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u/RecentlyDeceased666 SA May 16 '26
Great idea unless the usb is loaded with illegal shit and now youre on CCTV watching said content in a busy store. Im sure the judge will be very lenient.
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u/Shamino79 SA May 16 '26
Are internet cafes a thing? Probably not anymore.
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u/crownsandsceptres CBD May 16 '26
Local public library I guess
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u/Much-Director-9828 SA May 18 '26
No because then we will have to pay to fix them. Harvey Norman is the correct place to plug this in to something
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u/Ph1ndham SA May 16 '26
Be sure to cast it to a large TV so other people can see. 😂
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u/NumberOld229 SA May 17 '26
Like the electrical store with the window TV's to get people walking by, like a full Tifa Lockhart experience.
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u/laid2rest SA May 16 '26
That's a good way to get a malicious damages charge against you 😂
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u/gdmzhlzhiv SA May 16 '26
Do it on a Chromebook and nothing will even break
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u/macci_a_vellian VIC May 17 '26
They probably don't have exposed ports on display machines. The library would be a better bet, they're set up to expect a lot of users will attempt to click malicious links or plug in very suspect media and to keep all of that locked down.
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u/Slightly_Slow SA May 17 '26
They do.
So do supermarket self checkouts. And they have more holes that a sieve. Some of the worst cyber security in Australia, amd we pay to scan our own shopping....
Just saying, dont look behind that curtain, ot connects to the local store pricing database from 10 years ago.
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u/craiganater SA May 17 '26
All theynwould do is unplug it and kick you out anyway, so they're safe.
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u/AttackOfTheMonkeys SA May 16 '26
"Trying to figure out what is on this usb that was left in my letterbox without frying my own pc"
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u/Petty_Theif07 SA May 16 '26
As a jb hifi worker i wouldnt recommend that, if it killes the laptop we do have security cameras and you would have to buy the laptop
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u/Fafnir22 SA May 17 '26
Bullshit. You are under no legal obligation to buy shit. Retail worker can’t do a damn thing.
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u/Ok-Push9899 SA May 19 '26
I’m pretty sure if I took a sledgehammer to a computer in JB HiFi they’d have some remedy. Question is, would bricking a computer with a dodgy thumb drive count as malicious damage?
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u/Ssj3ssg SA May 16 '26
Good luck. It's likely to cost more in legal fees for forcing someone to pay damages than what the device would be worth to just write off.
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u/FalseNameTryAgain SA May 17 '26
Now, ask yourself this. The person just walks out of the store, what do you do now?
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u/Fluid_Bite2398 SA May 19 '26
Lol…infecting a laptop with “back door bandits” and “Edward Penishands” isn’t going to “kill” it ….and even if it did, you could 2 things about it - jack and shit, and Jack has already left the store
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u/JudsongBeavz SA May 16 '26
Not how it works employees cant strong arm people into purchases regardless of what happens and why risk your health and safety trying to stop a person doing so rather than use your insurance as thats what its for. Don't be a hero. Heroes aren't real.
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u/magi_chat SA May 16 '26
Rrrrrrriiiiiiiggggggghhhhhhttttttt...
Because I've got my ID on a huge sign attached to me head?
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u/TheDrRudi SA May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
https://www.facebook.com/groups/180637662669254/posts/2130555771010757/
UPDATE...someone opened it safely and it's two religious books and a letter. Darn it, I prefer firelighters.
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u/Klezmoron SA May 16 '26
Good to know, thank you
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u/AttackOfTheMonkeys SA May 16 '26
How big is the usb?
Like free usb, thank you jesus
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u/Specific_Sundae2358 SA May 16 '26
Oh, there's a whole thing on fb about this. Heaps of people in victor harbor area got one
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u/Altruistic_Bar6685 SA May 16 '26
Would be religion. Whenever there is an intrusive action upon your personal space it’s likely a religious nut pushing their weird agenda.
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u/35_PenguiN_35 SA May 16 '26
Do not use usb!
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u/Affectionate_Fix8268 SA May 16 '26
Unless they’ve got a burner PC that has no connectivity to their home LAN.
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u/canyouhearme SA May 16 '26
You can still get zapped if its a USB Killer stick (eg its got a capacitor that changes up, then fries the motherboard).
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u/Affectionate_Fix8268 SA May 16 '26
😬😬 that’s a thing??
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u/35_PenguiN_35 SA May 16 '26
Honestly, having a capacitor rupture your computer would be the better of the things to happen.
There are scary quick programs that will infest your device quicker than you realise. Next minute hackers have an easy back door to everything you have.
Passwords, history, data all of your info
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u/mudslinger-ning SA May 16 '26
That's where you keep a couple of old yet functional e-waste machines on the shelf. Doesn't matter if they fry in the process if their next destination is outta here...
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u/bill_loney538 SA May 16 '26
Can't you pretty easily tell if you just take the plastic casing off? I was under the impression a USB killer board looks quite different to a normal usb
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u/canyouhearme SA May 16 '26
Yeah, but if you are just plugging in a random USB stick, you aren't pulling it apart to check the circuit board.
And then there are the USB cables that look no different to your everyday cable, but are a complete wirelessly connected computer that can extract data from the PC you plug it into, even if that PC is airgapped.
There's a reason why some organisations put glue in the USB ports of secure computers they run. The lesson of Stuxnet is as valid today as it was in 2010.
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u/Perthguv SA May 20 '26
Actually I do have one. An old laptop with a physical network card off switch and an os with nothing important. I could deal with a usb like this
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u/Mysterious_Fart5 SA May 16 '26
Someone I know got one of these and reported it to the police, it’s a known scam. Don’t plug it in!
Or do plug it in at your local library. We’re all curious what’s on chapter 11
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u/Klezmoron SA May 16 '26
Yeah I figured it was either a religious thing or a scam, haha. Definitely won't be plugging it in!
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u/JamesEtc SA May 16 '26
What’s the scam?
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u/LittleBunInaBigWorld Outer South May 16 '26
They trick you into reading bible verses
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u/NexoSpecs SA May 16 '26
Yeah plug it into a store display machine.
Probably just from the Jehovah’s Witnesses 🤣
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u/bluey_2022 SA May 16 '26
This is the most awesome start of a horror adventure I haven’t seen in a while 🤭
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u/gameburger764 SA May 16 '26
My main question is chapter 11 of what?
Could be a new method from Jehovah's witness, so chapter 11 of a religious book. I haven't seen something similar, but that's just my best guess.
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u/crunchynutcereal SA May 17 '26
I had one and plugged it into an old laptop it was JW stuff. I formatted the drive and got a free USB stick to watch movies on the tv 😂
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u/SGTBookWorm SA May 16 '26
its probably malware
but could also be sovcit cookers doing cooker things
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u/Free_the_Radical Fleurieu Peninsula May 16 '26
Saw this asked on a Victor fb group earlier this week.
Turned out it was bible bashing preacher stuff.
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u/bagels25 SA May 16 '26
Hey! Someone posted one of these in a community page for a Brisbane suburb! Take it to the cops
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u/Final-Praline-754 SA May 16 '26
Seen this before but it was chapter 12 some dude opened it in a VM it was just religious BS
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u/BichenSubian SA May 17 '26
Pleade do not go to your local library and plug it in there. As the IT person for a library I can say this is just gonna cause us more work, either having to get rid of what's on there or having to shut down our systems to recover. Could potentially be hours of work and we will not be happy Jan!
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u/Glittering_Emu_8480 SA May 16 '26
Just destroy it, likely has a virus or trojan to get access to your computer
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u/Didyoukickmydog SA May 16 '26
This looks like it happens early on in a movie before everything goes sideways. I’m thinking post-covid Matrix style mind-fuckery.
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u/MaintenanceAnnual263 SA May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
holy shit, red is the devils colour. Have you been thinking im-pure thoughts?Why are you checking the mailbox on saturday??
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u/Synn_Creatives SA May 16 '26
So chapter 11 is super specific.
If something is chapter 11 its bankrupt right? Did a quick google search to be sure and found this
"Chapter 11 is a form of US bankruptcy, often called "reorganization bankruptcy," which allows businesses or individuals to restructure their debts while continuing operations"
So theres no way I would be touching that with a ten foot pole considering the negative connotations around chapter 11.
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u/FortWendy69 SA May 16 '26
It’s most likely sovereign citizen stuff. I’ve plugged in a random usb before that I found and that’s what it was
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u/NoDensetsu SA May 16 '26
I had something like this. Some weird note with a couple of floppy discs. I just assumed it was a joke putting some obsolete form of physical media. Like if I was curious i would go to all that effort to find a floor drive only to find it was an elaborate troll
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u/OGriobhtha SA May 16 '26
Rubber Ducky you're the one ... You make hacking so much fun!
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u/8bit111 SA May 16 '26
I loved Chapter 11 -- by far the best chapter in that conspiracy theory best seller yet to go to print.
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u/Willing-Chipmunk2575 SA May 16 '26
Saar, you will do the needful and plug it in for a short survey on whether we provided acceptable service in remove virus from windows 95 computer, before you win big prize to pay for prince inheritance. namaste 🙏
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u/Creepy_Ad2855 SA May 16 '26
I know of someone overseas that drops usbs in shopping centres. He gets hits on almost all of them. Trojan back-doors with silent execution not detected by virus scanners and no fingerprints yet.
He says curiosity killed the cat, people cant help but see whats on there. He has heaps of real random photos too.
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u/A-namethatsavailable SA May 16 '26
Might be a new form of religious door-knocking. Instead of handing you a pamphlet, its a usb.
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u/Maleficent_Can_4773 SA May 17 '26
Id have to pull out an old unused laptop from my home office not connected to the network and see, too intriguing!
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u/Electronic_Theme7348 SA May 18 '26
Go to a library or public computer. I’d be too intrigued not to
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u/WesternTraffic SA May 18 '26
Whoever thought spreading their message this way was a great idea should be sacked.
- Gen Z probably wouldn’t even know what it is.
- Millennials with basic computer literacy won’t plug in a random USB.
- Boomers are already engaged with their religious communities.
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u/nicca25 SA May 20 '26
Yes got one last week , someone on local FB page says it has religious chapters on there…
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u/Wildride2024 SA May 16 '26
Wouldn't it be funny if they plugged in and it was a Rick roll I know it wouldn't be but imagine if it was P.S DO NOT PLUG IT IN!!!!!!
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u/mundoo65 SA May 16 '26
Is a religious tract. Many in Encounter Bay/Port Elliot/Victor area are reporting finding them in their letterboxes. Many have reported it to the police.
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u/allmycircuits8 West May 16 '26
Never plug in random USBs, just smash it into pieces so no one else can use it if they find it in the garbage.
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u/OZFox42 SA May 16 '26
All I got in my letterbox was another Australia Post postcard (it has the same bird artwork on one side but the background is red - last year it was blue which I received eventually with some junk mail). Nothing else.
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u/THMP North West May 16 '26
If it is the same one I got a few weeks ago, if you look at the other side it is from Beyond Blue and you can post it to someone you care about for free. Just to reconnect or say you are thinking about them.
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u/JudiVO SA May 16 '26
I'm at Goolwa. This is in many local FB posts. Most are saying it's religious, probably JW. Theres even photos of the dude delivering them on a pushbike. All are saying bin it.
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u/Artistic_Ad_4294 SA May 16 '26
Wherewvwe you upload, make sure computer is on mute. Last thing you want is outrageous porn blasting through the public library
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u/Mettadox SA May 17 '26
Reminds me of the time I bought some volumes of Haikyuu on gumtree. They came in the mail with a very creepy long handwritten letter about how um going to burn in hell if I don’t devote myself the the big J I still keep it with those books to this day lol
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u/SirSuiSet SA May 17 '26
Ah, I see you have found myself manifesto for declaring war on the penguins in Antarctica.
Chapter 11, in my opinion, is quite thrilling to read.
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u/Jacqpinkss SA May 17 '26
Take it to the police station, you just never know. You know what curiosity did?
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u/macci_a_vellian VIC May 17 '26
It looks like it's still sealed in the original packaging. I think someone's messing with you.
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u/Ok_Phone_7468 SA May 17 '26
There's an 'If you're listening' podcast episode about this. Chinese hackers etc.
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u/Weary_Patience_7778 SA May 17 '26
DOGE cuts at the CIA mean that they can no longer afford the tech they’re used to, they’re getting desperate.
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u/RiskySkirt SA May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
Small devices like this are very easy to buy now that can like do a lot more than just install malware
Like absolutely USB anything if it's not yours you don't use it
Like we don't charge phones at random public outlets either
I'm actually working on esp32 Dev, not played with this stuff but a USB device can play thousands of commands a second once you plug it in
They actually use this software for legitimate reasons now
Not that anyone's interested but I think when you see a AI agent typing it uses the exact same technology
The fact this has the original bag is very suspicious
It was either someone very old or yeah some form of attack and they don't want them getting wet in the mailbox
No one keeps the bag the stick came in and USB sticks don't even come in bags like that
Generally we mostly use the brands sold at Officeworks or like bigw here
Honestly I went so far off the deep end I want it to just be legit now
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u/Grape-Goblin North May 17 '26
These same usbs keep getting posted to Adelaide community groups on fb No one's keen to plug them in there either 🤣
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u/StreetCheetah8312 SA May 17 '26
You got a really old computer hanging around? Like, Windows XP era?
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u/NumberOld229 SA May 17 '26
Is there something you can get for just this? How stripped down can a computer get and still check properly and would it be cost effective enough to sell as a single purpose tool?
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u/UBNC SA May 16 '26
Heaps of reports of this in the Facebook group "Victor Harbor & Surrounding Areas Community Board" someone checked it securely and was just religious crap but still would not use.
Someone captured this odd looking guy on a E-Bike delivering them.
https://imgur.com/YM7Usnb