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43. Luggage search

The security team at King’s Cross train station perform a luggage search. When the train arrives from Cambridge, all of the passengers need to form a long queue and, one-by-one, show the contents of their luggage. They don’t find anything strange until a woman with a red scarf over her head opens her bag…

Security Officer: We have something here! It’s a parcel with white powder in it.

Laura: Let’s have a look. What is this parcel?

Security Officer: Madam, what is this?

Woman in the Red Scarf: It’s nothing, just sugar.

Laura: Sugar? This isn’t sugar… But it isn’t drugs either… It has a label, but it’s written in Chinese. Officer, does anyone in your team speak Chinese?

Security Officer: No, but one of the shopkeepers in the train station is Chinese, my friend Alan. I’ll go and get him immediately.