Amost but not quite getting busted
About 12 yrs ago I rented a place in a quad round a communal garden.
Entrance to the flats was by a covered alleyway off the main road.
One afternoon while pottering the garden one of my neighbours came over to point out a rather dodgy looking guy who had apparently been standing in the alleyway. for over an hour.
Being nosy and suspicious I went up and asked him what he was doing there.
He flashed some card at me and said he was drugs squad waiting for T*** from the flat beside mine to come home so they could do a raid and catch the guy red handed .
Erm oh, ok then.
Knowing a few of my other neighbors indulged in the odd smoke or two I popped round as casually as possible to let them know that drug squad were hanging around and went back to my weeding ( no pun intended)
With half an eye on the guy in the alleyway I carried on, chucking stuff onto the bonfire inside an half oil drum we used as a BBQ
Then all hell broke loose.
Shouting, a door being smashed in and cops everywhere.
Neighbours spill out of their flats to watch and some shout obscenities.
Then someone nudges me and nods towards the bird table.
And there under it amongst all the other things grown from the seed spillings are several very small hemp plants.
Now we all know that such plants grown from birdseed are useless for getting high on, but nevertheless, not something you want in evidence when the drug squad are around.
So we sidle over and start to pull them up.
One of the cops comes over to ask the crowd to move back and calm down
Then glances over at us, looks at whats in our hands.
Then someone shouts, he gives us a look then runs back to the melee happening next door and we lob the plants into the bonfire
When all the fuss died down and the door was being boarded up, a couple cops came over and looked, but of course there was nothing left to see.
And even if there had been , it wasnt technically what it looked like
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Thu 16 Dec 2010, 2:17, Reply)