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Second-hand clothing outlets across Melbourne say they are being inundated with brand new high visibility workwear, as the conspiracists who spent the last few days pretending to be angry tradies run out of steam.
Some councils have also stopped offering free landfill disposal for charities due to the abundance of hi-vis, that is now clogging up the bins and clothing racks of op shops.
This is on top of the usual rubbish items like stained and ripped clothing, soiled bedding, broken furniture and unusable electrical parts that cheapskates offload onto charities instead paying for a tip run.
One volunteer at the Flemington St Vinnies outlet says suspiciously hi-vis items are pilling up in the hallway, after filling the racks and the donation bins.
“It’s getting a bit much” says Kerry Flemenken, who is now astutely aware of how big of a role these fake tradies played in yesterday’s bizarre riots that far-right-extremists had attempted to attribute to the construction unions.
“We’ll do our best to offload this. But some of these shirts and jackets still have the tags on them.”
“It’s the cleanest workwear I’ve ever seen”
Ms Flemenken who runs the store, said she knows there’s a lot of people out of work in Melbourne right now, and hopefully some of this spike in hi-vis will find a good home with some actual disenfranchised workers – instead of the YouTube brain nutcases that bought the brand new workwear off the shelf at King Gee and Lowes.
“Hopefully whatever clothing we sell can help someone find a bit of work.” she says.
“I’ve seen a lot of overweight gentlemen with neckbeards dropping off these items”
“The type of blokes with dark orange nicotine stains on their fingers who cause their poor mothers endless grief by refusing to move out of home well into their forties”
“They must’ve had so much fun playing dress ups yesterday.”
“Good for them to fold the laptop for a little while and get a bit of exercise”
