Talking Points

Published June 12, 2013 4:00am ET



What was it in the bananas boxes that prompted a Danish supermarket to call the police?

Workers in a produce department in Copenhagen, Denmark, were wondering why some boxes of bananas seemed unusually heavy. When they cracked open the shipment they found about 220 pounds of what police believe is cocaine. Jens Juul, a spokesman for the Coop supermarket chain, said more bags with white powder were found later in a separate shipment from Colombia at a central dispatch facility in suburban Copenhagen.

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