AFTER seizing a bumper crop of cannabis, detectives were making the most of their triumph.
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An officer from South Wales Police poses with the £300,000 cannabis hau
They boasted about the £300,000 capture in a blaze of publicity and posed for photos with some of the 1,000 plants in the haul.
However, while police were relishing the moment at the front of the drugs factory, thieves were busy at the back.
They broke in and started stuffing the cannabis into black bin bags to be loaded into a waiting van.
A neighbour, who was clearly somewhat more vigilant than the officers on the scene, noticed what was happening and raised the alarm.
But, by then, an estimated £15,000 of cannabis plants had been stolen.
An insider at South Wales Police said: ‘There are a few red faces around.
‘Everyone was chuffed with busting the huge factory and there was a blaze of publicity about it.
‘There was such a lot of cannabis inside we had to bring in council experts to dispose of it.
‘While we were waiting for that to happen, the thieves broke in through the back.’
Police uncovered the massive drugs farm by chance in a former nightclub at Merthyr Tydfil.
Officers were carrying out an investigation nearby when they got a whiff of the drugs and followed the scent to the disused building.
They burst in and found more than 1,000 plants under a sophisticated hydroponic lighting and irrigation system.
The plantation was so large that council waste experts were called in to dispose of the lucrative crop. To guard the seizure until they arrived, two Police Community Support Officers were told to keep watch at the front of the building.
But the rear of the old nightclub was left unguarded, leaving the thieves free to break in and grab a van full of the plants.
Yesterday South Wales Police said it had started an internal investigation into the blunder to find out if ‘scene preservation protocols’ were followed.
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I'll be your back door man...
I'll be your back door man...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Is there a Welsh equivalent of "Newfie" jokes?
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
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I'd need to know what a "Newfie" joke was first mate.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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"Newfie" - derogatory (somewhat) nickname for Newfoundlander, often the butt of jokes aimed at their lack of intelligence and/or common sense
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
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One example:
A Young, Newfoundlander man was walking around a field in Newfoundland, when he came across an old well. He walked up to the well, just to get a look. He noticed an old looking bottle in the well bucket. He picked it up. And suddenly a genie appeared before him.
The genie said, "For freeing me, I will grant you one wish."
The young man said, "Ok. I wish that there was a bridge going from Newfoundland to the mainland, you know, like the P.E.I. one."
The genie said,"I am sorry, but I can't do that. That would be TOO much change. That would be ALMOST impossible. It would change too many peoples lives."
So the young man thought for a second, then said, "Ok, then. I am a proud Newfoundlander, and I am sick and tired of everyone making fun of Newfoundlanders. SO I wish that Newfound landers were as smart, or even smarter than ANYONE else in the world. Or at least smarter than any other Canadian."
The genie said, "So, do you want two lanes, or four?"
And then there are jokes that play both on their stupidity and their funny accent:
Two newfies walked into a pet store. The first says "I want four budgies." Salesman-certainly sir, would you like two male and two female or all male or all female? Newfie-I don't care. I just want 4 budgies! Salesman-certainly sir, what color would you like? We have yellow, blue, gr... Newfie - I don't care what color they are, just put four budgies in a box for me. Is that too hard? Salesman - O.K. O.K. The two newfies pay for the budgies and leave. They drive out to this high cliff in Newfoundland and the first newfie reaches in the box and pulls out two of the birds, grasps them firmly and jumps off the cliff while flapping his arms. Of course he SPLATS at the bottom. The second newfie looks down at his friend's twisted remains and says "What a shame. this budgie jumping isn't all it's cracked up to be!"
A Young, Newfoundlander man was walking around a field in Newfoundland, when he came across an old well. He walked up to the well, just to get a look. He noticed an old looking bottle in the well bucket. He picked it up. And suddenly a genie appeared before him.
The genie said, "For freeing me, I will grant you one wish."
The young man said, "Ok. I wish that there was a bridge going from Newfoundland to the mainland, you know, like the P.E.I. one."
The genie said,"I am sorry, but I can't do that. That would be TOO much change. That would be ALMOST impossible. It would change too many peoples lives."
So the young man thought for a second, then said, "Ok, then. I am a proud Newfoundlander, and I am sick and tired of everyone making fun of Newfoundlanders. SO I wish that Newfound landers were as smart, or even smarter than ANYONE else in the world. Or at least smarter than any other Canadian."
The genie said, "So, do you want two lanes, or four?"
And then there are jokes that play both on their stupidity and their funny accent:
Two newfies walked into a pet store. The first says "I want four budgies." Salesman-certainly sir, would you like two male and two female or all male or all female? Newfie-I don't care. I just want 4 budgies! Salesman-certainly sir, what color would you like? We have yellow, blue, gr... Newfie - I don't care what color they are, just put four budgies in a box for me. Is that too hard? Salesman - O.K. O.K. The two newfies pay for the budgies and leave. They drive out to this high cliff in Newfoundland and the first newfie reaches in the box and pulls out two of the birds, grasps them firmly and jumps off the cliff while flapping his arms. Of course he SPLATS at the bottom. The second newfie looks down at his friend's twisted remains and says "What a shame. this budgie jumping isn't all it's cracked up to be!"
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
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We just call them Welsh jokes...Scooter wrote:Is there a Welsh equivalent of "Newfie" jokes?
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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I think the equivalent in Wales would be "valley". There was a trend for using generic Northern England stereotypes for the butt of Welsh jokes, but their tears were too much to bear, and it was equivocated with downs syndrome jokes, so we stopped.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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LMAO - Yep, those Yorkshire types are easy prey...
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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Bold, I like that.