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From SMH



As gardens go, this is not what the occupant of this Liverpool house wanted to see - over $1 million worth of marijuana plants stacked neatly on his front lawn by police.

Following an anonymous tip, Liverpool officers raided the house in Medley Avenue at 8am yesterday, arresting a 39-year-old man and discovering large marijuana plants growing in every room of the house.

"The people that live in the street have taken great interest in it, of course," Inspector Paul Kitley, of Liverpool police, said of the cannabis plants stacked in rows on the front lawn.

The bust - 355 plants in total which police value at $1.5 million - was one of the biggest Inspector Kitley had seen in such a built-up area, he said.

A person had phoned a constable at Liverpool police station last night and said there was something suspicious about the house. "The constable's done a bit of legwork and gone around last night and decided there was something there, because he could hear the whirring of the exhaust fans for the plants," Inspector Kitley said.

He informed his superiors and the house was raided this morning.

Now Inspector Kitley and Liverpool police want to express their thanks to the anonymous person who provided the information.

The Police Minister, David Campbell, got in on the act, expressed his thanks to the informant.

"A million dollars' worth of drugs that could have been sold to our kids is now off the streets as a result of an anonymous tip-off," he said. "I'd like to formally thank that person for coming forward and encourage others to do the same."

Inspector Kitley said the haul would be taken to a secure evidence room before being burnt in about a week.

The arrested man was taken to Liverpool police station and was last night charged with the cultivation of the illegal crop.

He spent the night in jail and is due to appear before Liverpool local court today.

A long time ago a couple of mates returned home to find that the council has radically trimmed a hedge that grew in front of their front fence. Sticking their "heads" up about a foot above the new hedge height were 7 plants the boys had been cultivating. They discovered later that the hedge trimming had happened around 8:30 that morning.

A properly-timed balloon flight over that incinerator would be interesting . . .

freddled gruntbuggly wrote:A properly-timed balloon flight over that incinerator would be interesting . . .

The flight would have been pleasant but don't those things need to land at some point?

Not if we take enough snack food to deal with mass-munchies.

Mick Sawyer wrote:

freddled gruntbuggly wrote:A properly-timed balloon flight over that incinerator would be interesting . . .

The flight would have been pleasant but don't those things need to land at some point?

Taily's full of enough hot air to keep you up there indefinitely . . . .