XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: proto@panix.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Alang  wrote:   
      
   > "Police officers in Scotland were disappointed to learn that the   
   > people they intended to arrest for growing marijuana were growing an   
   > equally innocuous, but unfortunately legal, plant -- tomatoes.   
   >   
   >     Uniformed officers burst into Lulu Matheson's house in the village   
   > of Shieldaig, Wester Ross, kept her son Gus in his bedroom for two   
   > hours, handcuffed her grandson Stephen, and turned the house upside   
   > down.   
   >   
   >     The high-profile afternoon raid involved three squad cars, seven   
   > officers and sniffer dogs. They told the family they were looking for   
   > cannabis, but after searching for several hours had to concede the   
   > green plants visible in the window from the roadside were tomatoes.   
   >   
   > Naturally, the cops didn't apologize. They were just doing their job.   
   >   
   > UPDATE: The best bit? At taxpayers' expense, "the officers insisted on   
   > sending samples of the plants to be analysed."   
      
   I've heard of cops that can't shoot straight, but not to be able to tell   
   mary jane for tomatoes, they must have high on something. Probably drunk   
   with power.   
      
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