Funniest vegetable-related phrase of the week, maybe the year

Here's one you'll like. This story was funny enough already: a man was caught trying to smuggle two pigeons into Australia. Inside his trousers.

Even better is the picture captured at the scene, depicting a pair of rather hairy legs and some knobbly knees, with avian-concealing tights (worn under his trousers, evidently) around his ankles, pigeon-parcels still in position. Priceless.

But here comes the deal-breaker. Police also found what the BBC reporter covering the story described as an "undeclared aubergine".