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Dutch gardener jailed

  • 04-11-2009 08:40AM
    #1
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭


    Ha, poor guy, sure it was only a hobbie :P

    Link

    You do need an email to access the page, but basically a man of 53 was jailed for 3 years for growing weed in his garden. Some buchaile.

    Metro, page two top left hand corner.


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  • #2
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    Siena Careful Vellum wrote: »
    Ha, poor guy, sure it was only a hobbie :P

    Link

    You do need an email to access the page, but basically a man of 53 was jailed for 3 years for growing weed in his garden. Some buchaile.

    Metro, page two top left hand corner.


    Its ok, i am that great...


  • #3
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    While Rapists are getting 1 year and people committing GBH suspended sentences...



    Lovely f!cking country.....


  • #4
    jaffa20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,672 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    I think it's ridiculous. If it was for personal use, i don't see the problem. He wouldn't have got anything back home. 3 years is a bit much!


  • #5
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    jaffa20 wrote: »
    I think it's ridiculous. If it was for personal use, i don't see the problem. He wouldn't have got anything back home. 3 years is a bit much!

    Well, I know for a fact he sold it to at least one person ;)


  • #6
    denhaagenite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭denhaagenite


    LOL it's always happening here. Whoever said he would have got nothing at home is very much mistaken. Only last week a friend took pics of an apartment across the way from him being raided because they were growing it on the balcony! There are helicopters with heat sensors flying overhead sometimes, and I once found a load of leaves along the road when I was going to the tram.


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  • #7
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    There's a hippy couple (Dutch I think also) who live three doors away and from my back window for the past few years I have witnessed some small horticultural ... eh ... shenanigans :cool:


  • #8
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    jaffa20 wrote: »
    I think it's ridiculous. If it was for personal use, i don't see the problem. He wouldn't have got anything back home. 3 years is a bit much!
    He's not at home.
    When in Rome...


  • #9
    Pat Sheen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Pat Sheen


    [Tsk]..Growing your own cannabis is the riskiest way of getting hold of that particular "safer than alcohol or tobacco" drug. Everybody knows that. The black economy can't run on air. If you buy your cannabis in small quantities as and when you need it from your local dealer and you're unlucky enough to get caught because it's only a little bit the penalty will be small. So don't grow your own you'll go to jail and drug dealers have to eat too y'know.


  • #10
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    I dont understand.

    Ive never heard of an Irishman going to jail for growing shamrock


  • #11
    c0rk3r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭c0rk3r


    Who gardens in their own bedroom ? Obviously this guy was taking the piss
    Siena Careful Vellum wrote: »
    Well, I know for a fact he sold it to at least one person ;)

    Drug dealer who deals drugs goes to jail

    I don't see the problem


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  • #12
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Terry wrote: »
    He's not at home.
    When in Rome...

    He's Italian? :confused:


  • #13
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    If this is what a Dutch Gardener does, he deserves longer.

    In before, "if we legalise weed we can cure cancer, fill the budget deficit and qualify for the world cu...oh wait....snooker's on...pass the Doritos".


  • #14
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,096 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    You can't win with some. We give pissy sentences and folks are moaning, and we then hand down a fair and just sentence and folks think it's too much?

    The guy is a criminal, was growing an illegal drug, was caught and jailed. Job ****ing well done!


  • #15
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    c0rk3r wrote: »
    Drug dealer who deals drugs goes to jail
    I know a couple of lads you've dealt for years, been caught doing that, had fist fights with cops in the street and lots of fighting in general, been infront of a judge at least 3 times that I can remember and the last time they where finally sentenced to a week (well it was more than a week but that's what they served). Came out of prison dealing on the phone as they where walking out the door.

    53 year DUTCH man grows a bit of weed in his back garden, for his own benefit and he gets 3 years??? That's not right, I seen the law let off old folks before I don't know why they picked on him.


  • #16
    Kipperhell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭Kipperhell


    That is a crazy sentence but it does sound like he may have been able to plead guilty and get a lesser sentence. It also sounds like you should never p*ss off a judge when in front of him.


  • #17
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    ScumLord wrote: »
    53 year DUTCH man grows a bit of weed in his back garden, for his own benefit and he gets 3 years??? That's not right, I seen the law let off old folks before I don't know why they picked on him.
    I'd imagine the trial judge would have heard a little more about the case than 40 words from the venerable and impeccably well researched Metro.


  • #18
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    Who is the victim of this crime?


  • #19
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,096 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Robbo, exactly what I was thinking. The report makes it out that all was easy going and rosy and all that. He's a drug dealer and I don't give a flying **** what sentences have been handed down in the past, it's high time we got serious on drug dealers in this country.

    From here on in, no sympathy and no leniency for dealers. The bigger the haul, the more lethal the drug, and the more lengthy the sentence. That's my view.


  • #20
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,096 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Sheeps wrote: »
    Who is the victim of this crime?

    Who can say, all we know is that they got the "dealer" before he MIGHT have had a chance to snare a victim, or victims. Bit like a preemptive strike if you will


  • #21
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Sheeps wrote: »
    Who is the victim of this crime?
    The Dutch guy.
    Robbo wrote: »
    I'd imagine the trial judge would have heard a little more about the case than 40 words from the venerable and impeccably well researched Metro.
    Unless he had a shed full of plants growing on a commercial scale then there's no reason to be so heavy handed. Even if it was commercial it's hard to say he should be locked up, at his age he could be supplying older people and people suffering from terminal conditions. There's no guarantee there was any other crime going on and if that's the case they had no reason to go so hard on him.


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  • #22
    Pat Sheen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Pat Sheen


    c0rk3r wrote: »
    Drug dealer who deals drugs goes to jail

    Drug dealer? It doesn't mention anything about drug dealing..


  • #23
    Robbo
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Unless he had a shed full of plants growing on a commercial scale then there's no reason to be so heavy handed. Even if it was commercial it's hard to say he should be locked up, at his age he could be supplying older people and people suffering from terminal conditions. There's no guarantee there was any other crime going on and if that's the case they had no reason to go so hard on him.
    What do you have to offer over the original evidence other an spurious conjecture? The only arbiter of whether the punishment was overly harsh is the Flying Dutchman and his solicitor, who may appeal the sentence.


  • #24
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Sheeps wrote: »
    Who is the victim of this crime?

    My sense of moral indignation?


  • #25
    Pat Sheen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭Pat Sheen


    walshb wrote: »
    The bigger the haul, the more lethal the drug, and the more lengthy the sentence. That's my view.

    What if the drug isn't lethal at all though?


  • #26
    Davei141
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,541 ✭✭✭Davei141


    walshb wrote: »
    Who can say, all we know is that they got the "dealer" before he MIGHT have had a chance to snare a victim, or victims. Bit like a preemptive strike if you will

    LOL. You do know what cannabis is right? Seriously you have no idea whatsoever what you are talking about so can you please stop throwing in your bull**** opinion, you sound like a senile 90 year old biddy giving out on joe duffy.


  • #27
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    walshb wrote: »
    He's a drug dealer and I don't give a flying **** what sentences have been handed down in the past, it's high time we got serious on drug dealers in this country.

    Where does it say he was a dealer?

    walshb wrote: »
    From here on in, no sympathy and no leniency for dealers. The bigger the haul, the more lethal the drug, and the more lengthy the sentence. That's my view.

    I think they should legalise marijuana, sell it through registered outlets and tax it. The taxes can go back into the public coffers.


  • #28
    Dopey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 391 ✭✭Dopey


    That has to be a misprint.


  • #29
    Davei141
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,541 ✭✭✭Davei141


    Pat Sheen wrote: »
    What if the drug isn't lethal at all though?

    He will explode trying to contemplate how something that is not lethal is illegal.


  • #30
    Irishcrx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,861 ✭✭✭Irishcrx


    walshb wrote: »
    Who can say, all we know is that they got the "dealer" before he MIGHT have had a chance to snare a victim, or victims. Bit like a preemptive strike if you will

    Yeah cause god forbit he'd sell the little bit of weed and haul more victims of his awful evil in..oh what a demon drug it is, causing all sorts of problems violence on the street , domestic abuse , uncontrolable emotions,people killed...oh hang on that drugs legal but it's ok cause the government encourges us to drink more...for the economys sake like :rolleyes:


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  • #31
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,096 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Davei141 wrote: »
    LOL. You do know what cannabis is right? Seriously you have no idea whatsoever what you are talking about so can you please stop throwing in your bull**** opinion, you sound like a senile 90 year old biddy giving out on joe duffy.

    Wow, bit OTT that:rolleyes: Maybe your a dealer and I've offended you?

    So, I could go and dissect your post, but it's probably a waste of time.

    Now, could you elaborate on WHY: "no idea whatsoever what you are talking about"


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