The Local Police have cracked down – they claim – on street sellers, especially those selling pirated goods… Argh, Jim Lad!
One of their patrols nabbed a lad from Senegal (only one?) and in the same area they nabbed somebody selling vegetables: boxes of garlic and cherries, as well as 60 kilos of melons. The ‘Senegal Bust’ scooped 800 music DVD’s and 200 pirated films. The Chief of the Local Police, Mateo Franco, said that the material had been confiscated on the Calle Real and on the Paseo del Altillo.
It’s all part of a campaign to crack down on illegal sales, explained the Councillor for Citizen Safety and Local Police, Dolores, Sánchez Montes, who, by the way, is the councillor that shut down the Saturday Flea Market run by the cancer association (AECC). I mention this ‘by the by’ should you be stumped for somewhere to send your hate mail
The Town Hall wishes to emphasis that the consumption of such vegetables could be dangerous, as they have been grown without any controls – in other words, you might end up glowing in the dark or growing an extra head.