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Police vow on fortress "cannabis cafe" [UK]
    #7543197 - 10/21/07 03:03 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Police vow on fortress "cannabis cafe"
October 21, 2007 - The Argus

A controvesial "cannabis cafe" has reopened just days after police used a tractor to smash their way in.

During the dramatic raid the side of the building collapsed while people were still inside.

Now the owner of the cafe, which police believe is being used to sell cannabis, has tried to turn it into an impregnable fortress.

He has stacked car tyres filled with concrete around the building in Freshbrook Road, Lancing, and installed razor wire to deter intruders.

A spokesman for the owner, who did not want to be identified, said: "We were back up and running within days of the police raid."

One of those inside at the time said: "It was like something out of a Bruce Willis film. Somebody could have very easily been very badly hurt of even killed."

Another said: "It could have easily collapsed completely with everyone inside it. As it was people did get minor injuries, bumps and bruises, and one woman suffered an asthma attack."

But police were unapologetic about the estimated £20,000 worth of damage caused to the building when the tractor pulled away a window so officers could gain entry.

And they vowed to step up the pressure in a bid to close the cafe once and for all.

Chief Inspector Lawrence Hobbs, Adur district police commander, said the building's previous defences forced his officers to use the tractor.

He said: "We have held meetings with the local residents and they clearly want us to close this place down.

"With the fortifications that have been made, at great expense, our options were diminishing. That meant we had to take the relatively drastic action of employing a tractor during the last raid.

"We considered the health and safety implications very carefully and were confident nobody would be hurt, and nobody was.

"We are not deterred by the owners' latest comments or their refortifications. We will continue to execute warrants as and when we feel it is necessary.

"There has to be a recognition that these types of illegal enterprises will not be tolerated.

"This is not about recreational drug use on a minor scale. We are not talking about an individual having a quiet joint in their own home.

"We are talking about 30 or 40 people in one place, many of them from out of town. We are also tackling the people who are profiting ffrom thousands of pounds a week from the proceeds of crime."


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Re: Police vow on fortress "cannabis cafe" [UK] [Re: veggie]
    #7543346 - 10/21/07 03:46 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Many from out of town? Well think about that. If it was legal, these places would be quieter and even more respectable than pubs.


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Re: Police vow on fortress "cannabis cafe" [UK] [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7543452 - 10/21/07 04:17 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

why couldn't they just walk through the door? doesn't make sense to me.


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Re: Police vow on fortress "cannabis cafe" [UK] [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7543938 - 10/21/07 06:29 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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Many from out of town? Well think about that. If it was legal, these places would be quieter and even more respectable than pubs.



I agree entirely.

I can't believe they would actually use a tractor to try and raid the place with people inside. Pigs are assholes.


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Re: Police vow on fortress "cannabis cafe" [UK] [Re: usg543]
    #7543946 - 10/21/07 06:33 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

because they're police and all they know is "STOP RESISTING!"


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Re: Police vow on fortress "cannabis cafe" [UK] [Re: ButterWeasels]
    #7544043 - 10/21/07 06:55 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Excesses like these are becoming more commonplace. From 72 officers deployed to arrest one peaceful antiwar protester in the vicinity of Parliament square, to shooting a Brazilian wearing denim and jeans seven times in the head, to nearly killing a room full of peaceful tokers. This is not normal behavior from civil servants that are entrusted with our lives and protecting us. This is the behavior of thugs enforcing the will of the government, with no common sense or restraint, or even fucking tact displayed.

But what do you expect? The stigma attacked to the police service makes only those with inferiority complexes join, the good officers are in the minority, and tarred with the same brush that the uniformed bastards rightly deserve to be.


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Re: Police vow on fortress "cannabis cafe" [UK] [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7544312 - 10/21/07 07:50 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

"This is not about recreational drug use on a minor scale. We are not talking about an individual having a quiet joint in their own home.

"We are talking about 30 or 40 people in one place, many of them from out of town. We are also tackling the people who are profiting ffrom thousands of pounds a week from the proceeds of crime."

I can't believe they made that comparison. I guess 40 people toking peacefully is worse than a kegger at a frat house where girls are getting date-raped and people are dieing of alcohol poisoning.

Get your guns guys it's only a matter of time till we get to use them for what they were made for:hellfire:


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Re: Police vow on fortress "cannabis cafe" [UK] [Re: pabloescabar]
    #7544402 - 10/21/07 08:08 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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I can't believe they made that comparison. I guess 40 people toking peacefully is worse than a kegger at a frat house where girls are getting date-raped and people are dieing of alcohol poisoning.




yeah your comparison was much better. :rolleyes:


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Re: Police vow on fortress "cannabis cafe" [UK] [Re: pabloescabar]
    #7544415 - 10/21/07 08:10 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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Get your guns guys it's only a matter of time till we get to use them for what they were made for:hellfire:




Guns? The thing farmers, police, and soldiers have. Here we have bricks. And hammers. And stanley knives. And for the more determined to survive Glasgow, stanley knife gaffa taped onto hammer.


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Re: Police vow on fortress "cannabis cafe" [UK] [Re: veggie]
    #7545965 - 10/22/07 07:57 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

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veggie said:
Police vow on fortress "cannabis cafe"
October 21, 2007 - The Argus

One of those inside at the time said: "It was like something out of a Bruce Willis film. Somebody could have very easily been very badly hurt of even killed."




YIpee KIyaeeee fuckin potheads!!!!


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