Posted on 10/08/2012 2:34:29 PM PDT by MalPearce
They had bought the plant as a shrub at a car boot sale, without realising that is was a cannabis bush.
After the drugs raid Bedfordshire Police took to Twitter to comment their find and posted a photo of the bush growing in what looks like an ordinary suburban garden.
The tweet from Bedford Borough’s local policing team read: 'Seized today. Elderly couple bought shrub at car boot sale, tended carefully-biggest cannabis plant we had seen!!'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Bush’s fault.
I don’t know whose chin whiskers I like better?
The Sheriff said that was the biggest mj plant he
ever saw..maybe so
In VN they were so big you would need an axe to drop
the ones I saw
Could this mean that my purchase of unpolished quartz crytals in a glass vial might be bogus? Whatever could they really be?
Is it disturbing if I still think she’s kind of cute?
OMgoodness I wish there was just a like button. I have been laughing so hard with this tread.
Just Grandma and Grandpa planting a “Money Tree” to help with retirement......LOL
I tried to grow it in a pot
And then it got high... honestly, Officer
So I spread it round the plot
And then it got hi-i-i-iiigh
And now you’ll confiscate the lot
And I don’t know why!
It’s not leylandii! It’s not leylandii! It’s not leylandii! Do do be doo be dooby do bum
“THe dog received an ASBO...”
Ah, but you see, they only grow like tree trunks if they’re not maintained for aesthetic horticultural value as part of a well-ordered, coordinated English country herb garden.
It is a pretty plant, that very characteristic shade of green, and it grows like crazy.
Ah, college.
Was there a 3s Company where one of the girls entered what Jack thought was a pot plant into a horticultural show?
That's not what the link says:
"A spokesman [...] would not say if the couple would face any charges over the cannabis."
A car boot sale is a peculiarly British event where people gather up unwanted items from their house, drive to a field very early on a sunday morning, and sell stuff from the “trunk” (sorry, i’m English, I find it hard to use that term!) to other people.
A bizarre phenomenon
Alternatively, it’s like having a yard sale where the people buying stuff don’t know where ya live. All you do is pay a small sum to the organisers, who’re often local charities, and with 200+ cars doing the same thing it’s a great way to help fix the church roof and get rid of all the crud you no longer want.
Best places to pick up garden plants, household tools, steel-capped boots and old electrical bits, so the standard British garden shed dwelling absent-minded boffin inventor types will invariably head straight from church to the car boot on a Sunday. It’s traditional.
Not as much if you say she should lose the beard. Literally.
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