One of the biggest drug busts of the year happened today when police announced finding over 100 kilos of cocaine hidden inside bananas on display in Lidl’s supermarkets across Madrid.
“Something went wrong”
Police surrounded Lidl supermarkets across Madrid and sniffer dogs examined the fruit section of every one of the discount supermarkets after a Lidl store worker found packages of cocaine inside the bananas he was putting on display.
Lidl’s said that the discovery was “a shock” and said it was cooperating with police, according to El Mundo newspaper.
It appears that bananas were slit open and small packages of the drug hidden inside the fruit before it left Ecuador.
A Lidl’s store worker told of how “three or four police cars turned up in the carpark and sealed off the fruit section, before sending dogs through; they then put all the fruit on a central table and opened them. Occasionally they would shout out “here’s one!” as they ripped the fruit apart looking for drug bags”.
Crikey! Cops sealing off the fruit section, then ripping open bananas looking for drugs. Does it get any funnier?
That reminds me I’m supposed to purchase some for mother after I get off from work tomorrow. Wonder if I’ll find anything?
Yep, lot’s about this on the news over here. Classic case of the police discover a big narcotics case, and they decide to let it go to the next distribution point to see who makes the pick ups and nobody came. Oh well, word got out. Anyways, they had the coke hidden inside bananas, quite artfully done as they knew that perishables got through customs more quickly, and so, less thoroughly inspected. Somebody at the international distribution level of LIDL had to know about this. Here LIDL hires south american immigrants, so who knows, but since the ‘shipment’ was distributed to several stores, it’s certain that a lot of employees were involved.
Shit, I been sitting outside Vons for 5 days checking their bananas each day…
Reminds me of the IBM Dos 5.1 game where you had to have your gorilla throw a banana over some city buildings. You try to hit the other gorilla with your banana and vise versa.