JohnCenaFan28
02-06-2009, 06:01 PM
Secret service agents in Ukraine have impounded hundreds of tonnes of bananas - for five months.
The Ukrainian secret service - the SBU - impounded a Greek-owned cargo ship loaded with bananas as part of a drug smuggling investigation.
No drugs have been found but security chiefs have said they will not release the ship which is being held in Odessa.
Now the ship's crew has been issued with nuclear war-style bio-hazard suits and respirators to protect them from the toxic rotting bananas.
Valery Osipov, head of a local ecology group, said: "We are now raising this with the SBU, the port authority and the regional environment department.
"They need to understand the situation and release the crew from this 'banana prison'."
-Nova
The Ukrainian secret service - the SBU - impounded a Greek-owned cargo ship loaded with bananas as part of a drug smuggling investigation.
No drugs have been found but security chiefs have said they will not release the ship which is being held in Odessa.
Now the ship's crew has been issued with nuclear war-style bio-hazard suits and respirators to protect them from the toxic rotting bananas.
Valery Osipov, head of a local ecology group, said: "We are now raising this with the SBU, the port authority and the regional environment department.
"They need to understand the situation and release the crew from this 'banana prison'."
-Nova