Police raid 79-year-old woman for pot, find tomato plants
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.Naturally, the cops didn't apologize. They were just doing their job.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.
UPDATE: The best bit? At taxpayers' expense, "the officers insisted on sending samples of the plants to be analysed."
Police raid 79-year-old woman for pot, find tomato plants
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