Police ruins hemp crop and 2 years worth of research.

[Zeemlapje]

[url]http://www.nu.nl/algemeen/2075102/politie-erkent-fout-bij-ruiming-wietplantage.html[/url]

Dutch article, but I'll translate.

LELYSTAD - Politie Flevoland heeft vrijdag toegegeven een fout te hebben gemaakt bij het ruimen van een hennepveld afgelopen woensdag bij Lelystad.

[b]LELYSTAD - Last Friday local Police have admitted they made a mistake clearing a hemp field last Wednesday in Lelystad.[/b]

Op het veld stonden geen geestverruimende hennepplanten, maar zogenaamde vezelhennepplanten.

[b]On the field there were no mind-altering cannabis plants.[/b] - (Our journalists fail to understand the difference between hemp and cannabis.)

Na een anonieme tip trof de politie een veld met 47.000 hennepplanten aan en begon vervolgens met de ruiming van de planten.

[b]After an anonymous tip the police found a field with 47.000 hemp plants and proceeded to destroy the plants.[/b]

Het bleek echter te gaan om een proefveld van Wageningen Universiteit. Het onderzoeksinstituut had daarvoor alle benodigde vergunningen in huis.

[b]However, the field of hemp was a testing field from the University of Wageningen. The reasearch department had all the required licenses for the field of hemp.[/b]

Patroon

[b]Pattern[/b] - (Here comes the fun part, the police trying to justify their stupid mistakes on wasting our tax money.)

Volgens de politie paste het hennepveld naadloos in het patroon van illegale kweekvelden die regelmatig worden aangetroffen in Flevoland.

[b]According to the police the hemp field fit the profile of other illegal cannabis fields that are regularly found in Flevoland[/b]

Ook door de wijze waarop de hennepplanten verdekt in een maisveld stonden opgesteld, ging de politie er van uit dat het om een groot en illegaal veld ging.

[b]Also because of the way the hemp plants were coverd in a cornfield, the police expected that they were dealing with an illegal crop.[/b] - (Duh, we've got enough freshmen trying to get high of hemp stolen from hemp fields that are open.)

De politie neemt de zaak intern hoog op en betreurt de gang van zaken. Naar aanleiding van deze zaak worden de procedures opnieuw tegen het licht gehouden om herhaling te voorkomen.

[b]The police takes the case serious and pity what has happened. Because of this case procedures will be more researched to prevent repeation.[/b]

Fuck, there goes our tax money. Guess what's more fun? The police even [b]KNEW[/b] they were having an experiment there because the University was granted permission and that had been notified to authorities.

What does a hemp field look like?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DjwAA2Pdb8[/media]

[Adrego]

This is bullshit, if it was a 47,000 strong ACTUAL Cannabis crop, then Ok, but how could they be so idiotic as to not check this out first?

Ignorant twats.

[Arid]

Wow, that problem could have been solved by opening their god damn eyes.

[BnevolntElefant]

inb4 drugs are bad

[Anubis678]

I read about this somewhere... Probably via StumbleUpon... who knows

Anyways, that's some fucked up shit

[drain]

Drug war FTL.

[firestorm0]

[b]FUCKING liars![/b] Anonymous tip? FUCK that.

[Zeemlapje]

Lots of outdoor crops and indoor grows get busted because of anonymous tips. Our citizens are even stimulated to anonymously 'tip' things instead of heading down to the police station. It's pretty much what's raping our society if you ask me.

[Vacoy]

agreed, my friend and dealer got busted by an anonymous tip. really pissed me off, at least have the guts to show yourself.
good thing he only had 4.8 grams on him, lol :P