Thief makes off with $40,000 in bananas

Published: July 6, 2008 at 11:13 AM
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NEW YORK, July 6 (UPI) -- A Delaware police officer said "a whole lot of potassium" is missing after someone stole two trailers carrying $40,000 worth of bananas.

The trailers were found in the Bronx borough of New York Saturday, but the bananas were mysteriously absent, The New York Post reported.

"Someone's got a whole lot of potassium," Delaware State Police Cpl. Jeffrey Whitmarsh said.

Whitmarsh said the banana trailers went missing Thursday and a New York police officer discovered them unattended along the road.

Officials said an investigation of registration plates indicated someone stole the fruit-filled trailers.


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