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Friday Photo: The effects of cocaine on Dutch agriculture

    A cocaine-addled driver led Dutch police on a wild chase through a cornfield in Dussen, Netherlands. According to the AP, he crashed through a fence, knocked over two apple trees and zig-zagged through the field—destroying four police cars in the process—before crashing into a ditch.

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A cocaine-addled driver led Dutch police on a wild chase through a cornfield in Dussen, Netherlands. According to the AP, he crashed through a fence, knocked over two apple trees and zig-zagged through the field—destroying four police cars in the process—before crashing into a ditch.

Sam duPont is a Master's candidate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and focused his capstone research on transitional democracies and elections in fragile states.
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