Hundreds of coffee cans wash up on beach

Thursday, December 10, 2015

INDIALANTIC, Fla. -- Hundreds of sealed coffee cans and vacuum-packed coffee bricks washed ashore along Florida's Space Coast, and officials believe they may be from containers that fell off a barge last weekend. The yellow-and-red packages of Cafe Bustelo dotted the beach Tuesday in Indialantic, where beach combers were scooping them up and stuffing them into bags. As many as 25 containers fell overboard, including one that contained batteries.

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