Skunk under house becomes probable cause for armed police raid

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Source: CBC News

A Gatineau, Que., man is demanding an apology from police after his home was raided at gunpoint Thursday.

Oliver MacQuat said around 7:30 p.m. Thursday a team of armed police officers entered his rural home on Montée Paiement with guns drawn, on the assumption they were busting a marijuana grow-op.

... Police found no drugs on the property.

MacQuat said police confused the smell of marijuana with the scent of a skunk that lives beneath the front of his home.

"A senior officer came in and said there is a skunk … everything is clean," MacQuat said.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2011/01/08/ottawa-police-raid-108.html

[RKP5637]

1. I'm at a loss of words for this one other than WTF. n/t

[Renew Deal]

2. Do skunks smell like weed?

:shrug:

[lazarus]

4. we used to call very cheap bad weed "skunky"

:D

[Tunkamerica]

6. no, there are very good strains that have that smell.

[MrSlayer]

7. Actually they do.

Like very, very good weed.

[WhiteTara]

8. weed smells like skunk

in the fall in Mendocino county, the air is pungent with the smell of ripe and harvesting pot. You can almost get high driving the highway.

[frylock]

11. good skunks do

[Richard D]

3. Oh jeeze

I have a skunk living under my house.

[LiberalEsto]

5. Perhaps Pepe Le Pew

is growing his own little secret garden of weed

[provis99]

9. If this had happened in America, the cops would have shot the skunk.

Free the skunks from police oppression!

[slay]

10. If we would just LEGALIZE IT - all these problems would stop.

[petronius]

12. I would say that every search this department ever made, based on an

officer's nose, should be thrown out and the evidence suppressed. And these guys should be deemed inexpert smellers until they've been in for some serious olfactory retraining...

[killbotfactory]

13. Do a lot of canadian grow-ops have armed resistance?

It's not like they can flush a bunch of lights and fertilizer and plants down the toilet when the cops present a search warrant.