Bananas donated to Texas jail add up to $ 18 million worth of cocaine

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No, it's not an episode of breaking Bad. This is the real life.

On Friday, Sept. 21, the Texas Criminal Justice Department (TDCJ) posted a report on a drug mix on Facebook that looks just as wild as the hit CMA television series.

The department received 45 boxes of bananas from Ports of America in Freeport, near the Gulf of Mexico. But it turned out that the donation was a bigger gift than any of these organizations could have imagined, containing an additional 540 packages of cocaine valued at nearly $ 18 million.

"Sometimes life gives you lemons, sometimes it gives you bananas," joked the TDCJ.

According to the post, the discovery was made by two of his sergeants after noticing "something that was not right" with the boxes after unloading. Once they started separating these suspicious boxes, they discovered a white powdery substance and notified the port authorities.

Of course, when life gave them bananas, it was actually a ton of cocaine.

Not many other details are known about this twist of weird events. But the TDCJ assured its followers that the Drug Enforcement Administration, US Customs and Border Protection were now investigating the issue.

I guess we'll have to wait for Season 6 of breaking Bad This never comes to fully understand the turn of the plot of sending a massive cache of illicit drugs into a literal prison.