Sunday, August 08, 2004

Here's an odd story for the post 9/11 world. I first saw this on an Argentine newspaper's site. Reading it in the New York Times, which I've linked to below - it just seems curious. When I think of an Argentine reading it - I'm embarrassed.

Sour Surprise for Officers Who Raided Container Ship

and in Spanish...Limones argentinos, "sospechados de terroristas" en EE.UU.

In what it called an "ongoing law enforcement operation," the United States Coast Guard stopped and boarded a huge container ship off the coast of New Jersey last Saturday. An anonymous but unusually detailed e-mail message had warned of a dangerous substance, with the hint of a link to terror. The Coast Guard scoured the ship. Tests were conducted. Days passed.

Yesterday, the results came back: lemons, up to a million of them. Not dangerous, as far as could be determined, but not suitable for lemonade, either.

The Coast Guard, in a press conference, said it had yet to find a hazard, biological or otherwise, associated with the Argentine lemons bound for Canada, but it planned to destroy them anyway

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