Toddler Playing With Phone Tips Cops To Pot-farm Parents Have Growing

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Cannabis farm Little Hulton. Found when toddler dialed 999​

While speaking to the occupants of the house in Little Hulton, Salford, the officers smelt cannabis and discovered nine drug plants upstairs
A toddler led police directly to a cannabis farm after he dialled 999 by accident while playing with his parents’ phone.
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When the police operator heard a rustling sound and the line was cut off, they deployed neighbourhood officers straight to the scene in case someone was in danger.

But when they arrived at the home, they discovered a child, believed to be under two years old, had called 999 on the home landline
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While speaking to the occupants of the house, the officers found they could smell cannabis and discovered nine drug plants
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The 999 call was made from an address on Bournbrook Avenue in Little Hulton at 9.35am
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Officers seized the plants and what is believed to be a small amount of cultivated cannabis.
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An officer wrote: “Look what we found following an abandoned 999 call made by a child!”

They added: “How many times must we stress don’t let your children play with the phone?”
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They seized nine cannabis plants and a 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of cultivating cannabis.

Crime figures showed recently that during 2013 Greater Manchester was the cannabis farm capital of the UK with police seizing nearly 1,000 plants every week.

The statistics also revealed that Greater Manchester Police removed a gram of cannabis resin from the streets every four minutes.

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[LarzlovesJahi]

The statistics also revealed that Greater Manchester Police removed a gram of cannabis resin from the streets every four minutes.

Could anyone please explain that to me? Is that some kind of tourist bait, insinuating that the streets are made of gooey goodness? Or are they referring to busts? Is most of what is sold in the UK hash instead of buds?

 

[beans]

@LarzlovesJahi ....Streets Made Of Gooey goodness...bwaahahaaaa!

 

[myra manes]

Could anyone please explain that to me? Is that some kind of tourist bait, insinuating that the streets are made of gooey goodness? Or are they referring to busts? Is most of what is sold in the UK hash instead of buds?

It's some new-fangled resin wax, also known as butter ..

 

[Abroad]

Could anyone please explain that to me? Is that some kind of tourist bait, insinuating that the streets are made of gooey goodness? Or are they referring to busts?

The "removing" "from the streets" would be referring to busts.

 

[Benighted]

When I lived in London hash was much more common than leaf. We rarely saw actual buds.