In one case, a man dressed as a chicken apparently distracted bystanders while his accomplices made off with tally sheets.Electoral competition in Nigeria is fierce, as those holding political office have easy and unregulated access to vast pots of cash.
The first bust came on Saturday, July 25, when Nayarit state police discovered five vast pot plantations in the town of Rosa Blanca, close to the border with Jalisco.
Stranger things have bubbled up in the vast melting pot of popular culture.
A typical store averages 18,000 to 20,000 square feet and offers a vast melting pot of fashion that tries to appeal to local shoppers.
I heard it as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America, of our vast melting pot, of our unduplicated national pep, of our metropolitan madness.
The notion that a person may be so critical to an age that had he not been born he would have been invented seems startlingly true of Gershwin, who called his "Rhapsody" "a musical kaleidoscope of America, of our vast melting pot".
Here, Sam Riley's Sal and Garrett Hedlund's Dean Moriarty (both attractive enough presences) consume vast amounts of pot and beer, yet never even smile.
"Out of the vast melting pot that was art around 1900 came the many interweaving and sometimes contradictory strands that would make up the history of 20th-century art," explained Norman Rosenthal, exhibitions secretary at the Royal Academy, who was one of the show's organizers.
Forget the vast swath of red carpet, the smiling hostesses in matching outfits and the pot of towering multicolored flowers.
