Elderly woman feeds weed to rabbits

A Brandenburg, Germany police officer noticed a plot of pot plants while driving by a house in the village of Golzow. When the cops rang the doorbells, an 84-year-old woman answered. She claimed to give them to her rabbits as food and that the animals like it. I bet they do. From The Local:

She told them that she had not grown the plants herself, but that they had simply started growing there, and had proven to be excellent rabbit food. Not only did the rabbits love eating the plants, they grew back very quickly after she cut them down, she told the investigating officers.

A spokesman for the Brandenburg police said her explanation had sounded plausible, but the officers could not leave her with the plants, rather cut them all down and took them to the forensics laboratory for testing.

"Drugs plot raid reveals old woman feeding rabbits with cannabis" (via Fortean Times)

• [Amelia_G]

  A friend of mine in college in Germany went on vacation and left his plants with his grandmother, accidentally including his struggling pot plant. (I think seeds could be legally sold at the time.) She did WONDERS with the thing; he absolutely recommends German grandmothers for herb help. Dude was a theology student, is now a Lutheran minister.

• [CastanhasDoPara]

  ‘…they grew back very quickly after she cut them down…’

  ‘…but the officers could not leave her with the plants, rather cut them all down and took them…’

  Well, I guess the cops are just idiots then or wanted a little free bud.

• [Bill Beaty]

  reed fed feed to wabbits
  weed
  wabbits WABBITS WABBITS

  Now I can’t get wabbist loose from my neuronal subprocessor network dedicated to syntheses of annoying internal entertainments.

• [ponto]

  And who’s going to explain it to the rabbits?

• [Anonymous]

  we have scrolled down this blog page enough
  it has made us consistently scoff
  -but the one post worth reading
  -has no chance of succeeding
  ’til the stoners and trollers sign off

  good poem, mate!

• [Cocomaan]

  Furry costumes suddenly make more sense to me.

• [arbitraryaardvark]

  “I had to start keeping it in tins with screw-on lids.”
  I tried that but the meowing kept me awake.
  I wonder how many acres it takes to support old ladies on a diet of weed and rabbits.
  I’m not sure if it’s old ladies per acre or acres per old lady, but i’m guessing it’s a high biodensity approach.

• [lasttide]

  This guy that crashed on my couch for a few days in college advised me to be sure not to leave weed or rolling papers around or else he would eat them. Seriously. I saw this guy snack on rolling papers like they were folding Pringles.

  • [knoxblox]

    Will wonders never cease?

    Actually, when I was in college, it was my cat I had to look out for. That little bastard would eat any pot that happened to be left out if you weren’t looking. I had to start keeping it in tins with screw-on lids.

• [holtt]

  Some real buzzkill commenters in here…

• [i_prefer_yeti]

  You misspelled wabbits.

  • [Anonymous]

    hahahahahahahahaha!

• [Thebes]

  If this was in the USA:
  A SWAT team would have kicked in her door and a dozen armed men would have pointed rifles at her until she was “subdued”.
  She would have been brought to a prison where they would do a cavity search and place her in a cage along with violent female prisoners.
  The DEA and Police would take her house, her car, and anything else of value she owned. They can do this without even bringing charges against her and its her responsibility to hire and pay for a lawyer if she wants it back, proving that she didn’t use the dope money to buy any of those things.
  She would either get a “public pretender” who encourages a plea deal in exchange for the prosecution dumping some of the dozen or so charges she faces- or else she could spend 20-40 thousand dollars on a lawyer that might help keep her out of prison rather than missing his golf game.

  Land of the Free*
  *(some restrictions apply, void where prohibited by law)

  • [Anonymous]

    amen. my god. we’re ridiculous.

• [Anonymous]

  Uh, shouldn’t you do that crossout thing with the word ‘testing’ and replace it with “testing” (ie, with quote marks)?

• [knobtheunicorn]

  Grass fed rabbits? Stew!

• [gwailo_joe]

  this seems to have a high hilarity factor, but…I’m having trouble:

  There once was a woman, aged and kind
  who the cops believed to be a little bit blind
  When they saw a warren of bunnies
  Acting a little bit funny
  said: “Those rabbits aren’t tharn, they’re stoned out of their minds!”

  Yet despite the old womans’ kindness
  Animal control wanted to euthanize for white blindness
  but the rabbits replied
  ‘you may prefer that we’d died
  so we’re moving to the Euphrates and Tigris’

• [Anonymous]

  “and took them to the forensics laboratory for testing.”

  Wonder what this consists of?

  • [Anonymous]

    I understand they have to ensure that the THC content of the leaves is sufficient to cause a “high.” This entails smoking the stuff, or eating it, much as bunnies would do, and in the same quantity. If you’re planning to get up to shenanigans, this is the town and now is the time. The police force will be incapacitated until the testing is complete.

• [Cowicide]

  rather cut them all down and took them to the forensics laboratory for testing.

  The time spent by the cops investigating? The time spent digging up the plants? Now it’s going into a forensics lab for testing? Paperwork must be processed…

  How much did this entire affair COST?

  Meanwhile:

  • Alcohol availability is closely related to violent assaults. Communities and neighborhoods that have more bars and liquor stores per capita experience more assaults.

  • Alcohol use is frequently associated with violence between intimate partners. Two-thirds of victims of intimate partner violence reported that alcohol was involved in the incident.

  • In one study of interpersonal violence, men had been drinking in an estimated 45 percent of cases and women had been drinking in 20 percent of cases.

  • Women whose partners abused alcohol were 3.6 times more likely than other women to be assaulted by their partners.

  • In 1997, 40 percent of convicted rape and sexual assault offenders said that they were drinking at the time of their crime.

  • In 2002, more than 70,000 students between the ages of 18 and 24 were victims of alcohol-related sexual assault in the U.S.

  • In those violent incidents recorded by the police in which alcohol was a factor, about nine percent of the offenders and nearly 14 percent of the victims were under age 21.

  • Twenty-eight percent of suicides by children ages nine to 15 were attributable to alcohol.

  • An estimated 480,000 children are mistreated each year by a caretaker with alcohol problems.

  • [Victor Drath]

    Nicely said, Cowicide. I often feel the same as you but don’t wanna bother writing it out. :) I is lazy.

    I don’t smoke weed, can’t really stand the smell, but common sense tells you alcohol is far worse yet it’s perfectly legal. My car was wrecked a few years ago by a drunk driver. Can’t say I’ve ever heard of anyone (or any rabbit) crashing cars or dieing from weed.

    • [Cowicide]

      Can’t say I’ve ever heard of anyone (or any rabbit) crashing cars or dieing from weed.

      Have you ever seen rabbits driving cars…. on weed?

    • [TooGoodToCheck]

      You won’t die from smoking weed, but you do increase the risk of having a car accident if you drive high.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_cannabis#Effects_on_driving

      • [TooGoodToCheck]

        Actually, you won’t die from overdosing on weed, but you could still give yourself lung cancer. Inhaling any kind of burning plant mater is going to be kind of bad for you. Of course, there you’re talking long-term risk. There are a _lot_ of thing you can do that might knock a couple years off at the end of your life.

        • [Anonymous]

          What you say is just common sense. Which in this case means “your reasonable speculation doesn’t actually match with reality — check your facts!”.

          No link between marijuana smoke and lung cancer has ever been demonstrated. In fact, the most thorough study to date saw a slight _anti_-correlation. ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html )

          Science, kids. It means actually checking your assertions.

• [tyger11]

  This is how you create Vorpal Bunnies – by harshing their buzz, man.

• [Inventor86]

  Actually in that area of Germany they used to grow Hemp for rope manufacture a long while ago..
  Its not to unusual to see a patch of weed growing as weed somewhere.. But mostly its of the harmless non smokable variant..
  My parents (who seem suspiciously knowledgeable in that area) sometimes point out patches I wouldnt have noticed myself…

• [jimh]

  Why exactly are they testing it? They know it’s pot, right?

  Unless if by “forensics laboratory” they mean “living room” and by “testing” they mean “smoking out”.

  Fuzzie buzzy bunniez! also.

• [blueelm]

  Silly Rabbits!

• [_sin07_]

  That’s one way to lower they’re sex drive.

• [billstewart]

  Happy Bunny says Cops Are Mean!

• [Felton / Moderator]

  Camberwell Carrot, anyone?

• [Anonymous]

  silly rabbit, weed is for kids

• [braininavat]

  I bet if the police had investigated further they would have discovered some rabbit shaped bongs on grannies house.

• [von Bobo]

  this “weed” is likely just harmless hemp that is incapable of getting anyone high. Seems like a zero expendable, highly renewable source for rabbit feed (along with a hundred other uses).

  Now, why is it illegal again?

• [MeOnBoingBoing]

  Cannabis is an annual so there’s no way it “kept coming back” every time she cut it down. If the police knew this fact they might look upon the whole scenario differently. :)

  • [IronEdithKidd]

    Not much of a gardner, are you?

    Tomatoes, cilantro, dill and marigolds are annuals, but they are remarkably good at volunteering to return (these are plants that we grow every year, there are many, many other examples).

  • [holtt]

    Do you ever wonder if this might be… oh… urban legend?

• [iluvhatemail]

  and then she ate the rabbits and tripped her balls off. the end

• [BookGuy]

  This is how I imagine the conversations of those rabbits:

  “Dude, have you ever looked at a carrot? I mean, REALLY looked?”

  “Flopsy? That’s a funny word. Flopsy.”

  “I don’t know what a White Castle is, but I know I want to eat something there.”

• [Anonymous]

  Silly wabbits, weed is for cops.