Cops Find Cocaine in Bananas

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fbrdphreak

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Customs agents inspecting a shipment of plantains thought some of the green bananas seemed unusually hard and cut them open, finding more than 750 pounds of cocaine stuffed inside what turned out to be phony fruit.
Smugglers molded the plantains out of glass fiber, filled them with cocaine and painted them to look like the real fruit, a large, green member of the banana family popular in the Caribbean and Latin America, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said on Thursday.

The culprits painstakingly scattered the fakes throughout 1,080 boxes of genuine plantains shipped from Ecuador to the Port of Miami, agency spokesman Zach Mann said. Federal agents were still sorting through the shipment, laboriously cutting each plantain open to separate the contraband from the edible ones.

The smugglers probably had a simpler sorting plan in mind: "Turn off the air conditioning and let them rot, then pull out the fake ones," Mann said.

Agents were trying to track the shippers and the intended recipients, he said.
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:thumbsup: for originality
:beer: for the guys who caught it
 
Joemonkey

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makes you wonder how many times they have done this previously without getting found out
 
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I bet they will go for watermelons next. Think of how much cocaine they could fit in one of those.:shocked:
 
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gigapet

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Originally posted by: Joemonkey
makes you wonder how many times they have done this previously without getting found out
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id guess for every shipment they discover at least 1000 get through.
 
OutHouse

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The smugglers probably had a simpler sorting plan in mind: "Turn off the air conditioning and let them rot, then pull out the fake ones," Mann said
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why doesnt customs just do that as well?
 
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I liked the fact that to find the cocaine...they had to break open every plaintain that they had in the shipmenet, thus wasting all the food...I hope they made a giant banana bread batch or something that'd just be sad if thehy didnt.
 
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Juno

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Originally posted by: globalcitizen
I bet they will go for watermelons next. Think of how much cocaine they could fit in one of those.:shocked:
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Pineapples! :eek:
 
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