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Hunting dog sniffs out secret pot plantation

Published: 25 Aug 11 08:36 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/35752/20110825/

A hunting dog in southern Sweden proved it had a nose for more than wild game after it abandoned the chase after an injured deer after catching a whiff of what turned out to be a marijuana plantation hidden deep in the forest.

The incident took place last Friday on the island of Öland off Sweden's east coast after a group of hunters had taken a shot at a deer in the forests between Vickleby and Stora Frö, the local Ölandsbladet newspaper reported.

In order to make sure the injured deer wasn't subject to any undue suffering, the hunters sent the dog after the animal.

It didn't take long for the dog to pick up a scent – but instead of leading the hunters to the injured deer, they instead stumbled across 12 marijuana plants covered in a net hidden among the trees.

“It was right in the middle of the forest,” Reinhold Liljedahl of the Kalmar police told the newspaper.

The hunters quickly realised that their dog had inadvertently uncovered a secret cannabis plantation and immediately alerted police who disposed of the contraband plants.

According to the paper, the deer which prompted the unintentional drug bust reportedly survived, but will now have to subsist on “regular grass”.

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09:27 August 25, 2011 by Dazzler
12 plants hardly constitute a plantation.
10:08 August 25, 2011 by Redbee
Hunters are dead eyed souless beings with little empathy for other creatures .Imagine oneself being injured and being chased by dogs and feeling stressed and fearful . (Such a big deal finding a a few pot plants.) There is such a thing known as karma where the hunter becomes the hunted ,imagine .
10:47 August 25, 2011 by LundenLad
there is a word Karma, but there is no evidence that is actually exists.

Hunters will be the ones with food on the table, while the dozy hippies starve.
15:17 August 25, 2011 by mamegoma
+1 LundenLad
20:39 August 25, 2011 by Redbee
Lundenlad ,

Vegetarians dont starve and usually have better health than meat eaters , it's a matter of choice .
23:13 August 25, 2011 by Decedo
only in Sweden would the hunter alert the police. In Canada they would have grabbed a few buds, dried them on the truck manifold and sparked them up, when they got home ;)
13:58 August 27, 2011 by jimmyjames
My dear "redbee" , everytime I hear/read a statement by someone like you the first word that pops into my mind is, seriously, "stupidity". Understand I do not say that to insult you, belittle you, anger you,,,,,,,I say it because it is the only thing that fits. Imagine, you are a parent, there has been a catastrophic calamity, the ways and means you normally obtain your food is gone, Sweden is in a very northern clime, most of the year growing crops in sufficient quality to sustain life is impossible, it is mid-winter, you and your children have not eaten in several days. You are going to tell me that even though the forest is full of deer your going to sit there and get weaker and colder and soon watch your children die one by one because you are too darn worried about your Karma to put a spear in a deers chest ??? As for your statement about vegans being healthier than people who eat a normal, varied diet of meat,fish,poultry and vegatables is a lie plain and simple. The is no society in the history of human beings that have survived soley on plants !!! They ate insects, birds, fish, birds in addition to plants. Get real and wake up and grow up. You get hungry enough you'll ring a chickens neck in a heartbeat. You just ain't ever been truely hungry. Chain yourself to a tree in the forest for a week and see what you'll eat to stay alive just one more day. People who make assine statements like you are always pampered and soft who have never endured any true hardship.
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