25kg of cocaine hits Spanish supermarket shelves

[mawilson 2,133]

Drug smugglers in Spain are at least 25 kilos of cocaine short after boxes of bananas

in which they'd hidden the Bolivian marching powder ended up on supermarket shelves.

The alarm was raised on Saturday morning when several one kilo packets were found

in a box of "enormous green tropical bananas" in a Madrid branch of supermarket

chain Lidl.

According to El Mundo, the bananas came from Mercamadrid, Madrid's central wholesale

market. By the time the drugs were spotted, they had made their way to Lidl outlets across

the capital and in Cáceres and Plasencia, Extremadura.

One shaken Lidl employee said: "Two or three police cars arrived and they went straight

for the bananas. They tipped them out onto a table and began sifting them."

Lidl admitted that "nothing like this had ever happen before". The supermarket declined

to say how may outlets were affected until the police had concluded their investigation,

but assured shoppers that all of the offending bananas had been pulled from the shelves.

Spanish TV reports last night noted that boxes of bananas are commonly used to get cocaine

into the country, although it's not clear just how smugglers came to lose track of this

consignment in what El Mundo called a "sensational error".

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Edited January 4, 2010 by mawilson

[Amby 490]

nice try

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I think Eric was behind it.

[scandal 951]

Somebody's in trouble with the boss over this screw-up.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

One shaken Lidl employee said:

apparently she had already found the stash.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Yes, we have no bananas.We have-a no bananas today.

[Nessa 23]

lol