Stealing Poison Peppers

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Stealing Poison Peppers - Story Here

Spanish thieves who made off with three tons of green peppers hoping to make a healthy profit, might instead get a bad case of indigestion: the vegetables are toxic.

A farmer in the southern region of Andalusia whose field was raided by the thieves warned the peppers had been treated with a pesticide whose effects will not wear off for at least another week.

"The peppers are not fit for consumption yet. It could be dangerous to eat them," said Sebastiana Soriano, a friend of the farmer...