Police raid house because of electric heater.

Energize · 14 Jan 2011 at 05:35

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ry-discover-home-guinea-pigs-Simon-Kenny.html

http://www.gainsboroughstandard.co....e_drug_raid_finds_guinea_pig_heater_1_2919355

Embarrassed police have issued an apology to a mother after officers swooped on her house thinking she had turned it into a cannabis factory - and found an electric heater for her two guinea pigs 'Simon' and 'Kenny'.

The officers had been alerted when a police helicopter picked up a hotspot on the roof of Pam's garage and assumed it was a drug den, when in fact it was a cosy home for her loveable pets.

Shocking that the police can obtain a warrant and raid someone's home on the vaguest of suspicions, people will people be raided for having bad loft insulation next!

tigerstyle · 14 Jan 2011 at 05:58

It's happened before: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-mistook-bad-insulation-cannabis-factory.html

Wasn't there some dogdy plan for councils to use the same technology to target these poor insulated houses as well?

The Halk · 14 Jan 2011 at 06:07

Shrug.

Nix · 14 Jan 2011 at 06:42

They must be really feeling the heat after this. Hopefully they can weed out their problems and start this year on a high.

Greenlizard0 · 14 Jan 2011 at 06:54

Hmm....I'm having issues with my neighbours and I just don't like them at all.

They too, have guinea pigs in the loft.

Amnesia · 14 Jan 2011 at 07:08

They should have just arrested her under the terrorism act and saved themselves some embarrassment.

Kenai · 14 Jan 2011 at 07:09

It was in Bradford though, so 9 times out of 10 it probably would have been a drug den.

PapaLazaru · 14 Jan 2011 at 07:30

I live in a quiet little village at the moment.

One of the big old farmhouses got raided when it snowed last year as a Police chopper saw no snow on their roof. Busted a massive cannabis factory. The Italian chap who owns it had unkowingly rented it out to some growers.

I was amused and annoyed at the same time. There is a lot of it going on, but surely the heat spot from a leccy heater is not enough to arouse suspicion. Clearly not!

B@Th*nG · 14 Jan 2011 at 07:42

Kenai said:
It was in Bradford though, so 9 times out of 10 it probably would have been a drug den.

christ, that's a worrying frame of mind

B@

grudas · 14 Jan 2011 at 07:45

our house got raided..

"suspecting stolen laptops/mobiles phones and so on.." found absolutely nothing.. not a single criminal charge at anyone in the family too... surprise doh.

Beans on toast Dave · 14 Jan 2011 at 07:49

who pays for the damage to the house? i bet its not the police

Jay.D · 14 Jan 2011 at 07:50

Energize said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ry-discover-home-guinea-pigs-Simon-Kenny.html

http://www.gainsboroughstandard.co....e_drug_raid_finds_guinea_pig_heater_1_2919355

Shocking that the police can obtain a warrant and raid someone's home on the vaguest of suspicions, people will people be raided for having bad loft insulation next!

How's this shocking? police have suspicion, they raid, they find nothing, they appologise...

The Halk · 14 Jan 2011 at 07:53

challengedavid said:
who pays for the damage to the house? i bet its not the police

The police pay the damage. The news article implied as much.

grudas · 14 Jan 2011 at 07:53

challengedavid said:
who pays for the damage to the house? i bet its not the police

well they tried to fix our door.. but i was broken to bad so they just left

since the house was rented.. the landlord had to fix the front door + the flat door downstairs and our upstairs.. none of them got fixed properly. only our from our own pocket.. i swear it can't be "legal" to just leave it tho.

meghatronic · 14 Jan 2011 at 07:57

grudas said:
well they tried to fix our door.. but i was broken to bad so they just left since the house was rented.. the landlord had to fix the front door + the flat door downstairs and our upstairs.. none of them got fixed properly. only our from our own pocket.. i swear it can't be "legal" to just leave it tho.

The police (i.e., city) always pay. Your landlord should've contacted them.

"andy" · 14 Jan 2011 at 08:08

lmao at how the daily mail are reporting it

in the reports i read yesterday the woman whos house it was seemed totally unbothered and accepted that mistakes happen

in the daily mail she is apparently on about contacting solicitors etc.

Cosimo · 14 Jan 2011 at 08:10

Amnesia said:
They should have just arrested her under the terrorism act and saved themselves some embarrassment.

She looks as if she needs some arresting.

Lakeland · 14 Jan 2011 at 08:10

Nix said:
They must be really feeling the heat after this. Hopefully they can weed out their problems and start this year on a high.

Literally a "boom, boom, tshhh"

int · 14 Jan 2011 at 08:12

It's a time tested method of finding and removing home-brew cannabis farms, a mistake or two doesn't outweigh the huge amount of places they've shut down and people they've convicted.

Jay.D · 14 Jan 2011 at 08:12

"andy" said:
lmao at how the daily mail are reporting it

in the reports i read yesterday the woman whos house it was seemed totally unbothered and accepted that mistakes happen

in the daily mail she is apparently on about contacting solicitors etc.

What good is an article in the daily mail if it isn't getting someone fired up?