‘Cheeky’ pranksters hid cannabis plant in town centre flower display — and the council watered it for MONTHS
PRANKSTERS hid a cannabis plant in a town centre flower display — and the council’s gardeners watered it for months.
The rogue shrub was discovered only when local Martin Steers caught a whiff of it while shopping.
Police were called in and council workers eventually found the wayward weed among a bed of red and white flowers and pulled it out.
Martin, 48, a keen gardener, said: “It’s so cheeky, I was gobsmacked.
I was on my way to do the weekly shop when I saw it and did a double take.
“It didn’t look right and it stuck out like a sore thumb.
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“When I rubbed its leaves, my hands reeked of this sweet pungent smell for about an hour. It was definitely a cannabis plant.”
Linda Brook, 72, who lives nearby in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, said there should be “questions asked” of how the errant herb came to be in the flowerbed.
She added: “It’s either somebody playing games or it just happened to be among the other seeds.”
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A spokesman for Tunbridge Wells Council said: “A member of the public reported what they described as a cannabis plant in a planter in the town centre.
“The plant has been removed."
