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  It was a fruitful morning for a pair of prison guards who uncovered some monkey business when they spotted $17.8 million of cocaine hidden inside a shipment of bananas donated to the Texas prison system. Two sergeants at the Scott Unit set out on Friday morning to pick up two pallets of already-ripe fruit - 45 banana-filled boxes - from the Ports of America in Freeport. When they arrived to grab up their load, they found one of the boxes felt different from the rest. One of the sergeants snipped away the straps and rummaged around until he uncovered a bundle hidden under the bananas. Inside, was a white powdery substance. U.S. Customs showed up to help, and positively identified the substance as cocaine. After scouring all the boxes, agents found a total of 540 packages of coke, with an estimated street value of nearly $18 million. The Drug Enforcement Administration, and Customs and Border Protection are both investigating, according to a prison press release. But, it appears, the perpetrator has already split.This message has been edited. Last edited by: wcb6092, _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | ||
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I'll bet the perpetrator peeled out.......................... -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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I see what you did there. Harshest Dream, Reality | |||
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You knew this thread would be ripe for puns...... -------------------------------------—————— ————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman) | |||
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Hope they can peel back this mystery. | |||
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No way IN HELL you're putting my picture in the newspaper/web after that. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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It appears to me that the sender or original recipient made an error. I do not see how prisoners could pay for that much coke. -c1steve | |||
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Somebody was monkeying around with that banana shipment. And that's NOT a racial slur. | |||
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The warden has some 'splainin to do. ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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I was just thinking the same thing. ——————————————— The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Psalm 14:1 | |||
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I knew there was a reason that I was feeling funny after eating bananas sometimes. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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I'll bet some third world guerillas are going ape shit over the loss. I'd be checking all the outbound lettuce and cabbage boxes for the payment. | |||
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 Sounds like they're biased against primates who need a little pick me up Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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You're not the one getting wacked. The Cartel knows you just got lucky. The one that's going to have an untimely death is the idiot that messed up the shipment. ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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Yeah somebody’s gonna get killed over this. | |||
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I'd be taking a real close look at whoever gets shanked next in the joint. Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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I'll go out on a limb and say that I suspect that the involvement of the prison is merely coincidental. This was some sort of smuggling operation that mixed up what was supposed to be going where. Those who had it to donate had no idea what it really was either. What would anybody in a prison be able to do with a pallet full of drugs? There was a case a few years back where a gun safe out of Mexico showed up to a guy's house here in the US filled with weed. Similar situation. Wrong label applied to the wrong box only to be discovered by innocent parties. Somewhere out there is a drug smuggler up to his eyeballs in bananas only now finding out where his drugs ended up. | |||
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I’m with you, who donates fruit to prisons? Nobody with that much money was dumb enough to “donate” that and think it would get through. I know there are plenty of guards involved in illegal activities within the prison but I wouldn’t think enough to get that in unnoticed. | |||
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Wait, what's hiding in Big Boys shirt?This message has been edited. Last edited by: downtownv, _________________________ | |||
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