New Zealand finds of cocaine floating in Pacific

New Zealand authorities have intercepted 81 bales of cocaine floating in the Pacific Ocean, with a combined street value of around half a BILLION dollars. The bales, stamped with four leaf clovers and, for some reason, Batman, are thought to have been dropped off for a pick-up en route to Australia (you know, as opposed to having swum there themselves). The haul has been described as New Zealand’s largest ‘by some margin,’ and would have kept Australia’s entire drug trade happy for a year, or New Zealand’s for three decades. (We should clarify that this is because New Zealand is a much smaller country, not because Australians are all cocaine fiends.)