Smelly Flowers Spark Police Raid
I could not resist posting this quirky article tale about an amusing though unnerving 'flowery screw-up' ...
by Tracy Anderson
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Police raided the home of an elderly couple in Bristol, England because a flowery plant in their garden smelled like pot.
Ivor and Margaret Wiltshire of Kingswood had just returned home from a holiday when they found their front door kicked in. The entire house and garage was searched.
The raid was apparently sparked by the smell of a tiny creeping flower called Moss Phlox that grew in their garden. The plant smells like and is often mistaken for pot.
This was the second time this happened. A similar incident occurred four days earlier to Ivor's neighbors David and Christine Difford.
The couple was visited by a gang wearing Halloween masks who demanded drugs.
"They shouted, 'Give us the weed, man' and searched the loft. It was frightening," David narrated.
Police later apologized to Ivor, a retired engineer, who showed them the smelly plant. The offending plant apparently didn't bother Ivor since he has no sense of smell.
"It is estimated that about four percent of the world's adult population (162 million) use cannabis annually and 0.6 percent (22.5 million) daily. The possession, use, or sale of psychoactive cannabis products became illegal in most parts of the world in the early 20th century. Since then, some countries have intensified the enforcement of cannabis prohibition while others have reduced the priority of enforcement," according to the editors of Wikipedia.
Moss Phlox, on the other hand, is scientifically known as Phlox stolonifera and is also called creeping phlox, flowering moss, ground pink, or moss pinks.
It is native to the eastern United States in forests in the Appalachian Mountains from Pennsylvania south to northern Georgia.
"We can't believe such a small plant has caused so much trouble," Ivor said.
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I love flowers, especially the sweet-smelling types. The smelly ones could be really off-putting.
Couldn’t agree more …
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Lorrette
I like flowers a lot, but the ones with bad odour are very off-putting. Each time I want to make a floral gift, I always ensure the flower is delivered to me first before sending it to the recipient of my gift.
Wow, that is extremely caring of you.
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Lorrette
oh no!! i would so be freaking out if that was me!
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You and me both!! but it still is a funny one!
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Lorrette
Lol, very funny post! The poor couple though.
Thanks Kasey – yeah you have got to feel kind of sorry for them ….in between giggles!!!!
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Lorrette
Thanks for the nice post, i read it with huge interest. i like flowers and got some advantage from your information
Thank you for visiting, if you are keen on flowers you might want to pop over to rosegardenmania.com this is a site with some really great content on roses, worm farming, recipes with roses (food) and some rather funny post from Sherry, Margarita and the rest of the Rose Garden Mania Team.
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Lorrette
ROFL! Ok, well I guess you can’t blame the Police. I have to get one of these plants and mess with our local police dog!
LOL…let us know how you go!!
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Lorrette
Hi,
Very nice post. I am really fond of flowers. I always do the gardening in my free time.I have a garden of red roses.
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Thank you we are most encouraged and thank you for your kind words.
Again, a pleasure