"I didn't know they were weed" - riiight

[sandgk]

Tell me that this isn't just the slighest bit disengenuous:
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Cannabis plants removed from Berlin foster home

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A Berlin foster mother was ordered to remove a marijuana crop her teenage son had been growing in the garden where six small children under her care have been playing.
The Protestant church in Berlin told Silke B. to get rid of the marijuana plants, according to a report Friday in Bild newspaper, which printed pictures of the unmistakable plants next to a small pool full of children.
"Either the plants are removed or the children will be taken away," Marianne Bartzok, a church staff member, told the newspaper. Silke's son Sven was later seen carrying the plants away in plastic crates, the daily said.
Silke B. said she did not know what Sven was growing, but added: "I had a feeling it was something bad."

Yeah riiight - didn't look like anything you had ever seen.

What kind of rock was Silke B living under?

 

[buckeyeboy]

"I didn't know it was weed," is just a little bit worse than, "I tried to inhale, but I couldn't." Both are ridiculous IMO.

 

[Captain Hindsight]

Well, I'm not quite sure what weed looks like in the first place, but this woman has to be a sheer dumbass if she thinks that the police and authority are going to believe her claims of "Oh I didn't know that it was weed."

Bullshit.

 

[Pheasant]

"I didn't know it was weed," is just a little bit worse than, "I tried to inhale, but I couldn't." Both are ridiculous IMO.

I would have been willing to bet quite a bit of money that my mom would never have been able to recognize marijuana plants growing next to the tomatoes in her garden....she probably would have said something like: "what are those ugly weeds growing over there, why don't you cut them down for me?"
There are some people who have no idea what a pot plant looks like....probably a lot more than you would think.

 

[Muck]

I would have been willing to bet quite a bit of money that my mom would never have been able to recognize marijuana plants growing next to the tomatoes in her garden....she probably would have said something like: "what are those ugly weeds growing over there, why don't you cut them down for me?"
There are some people who have no idea what a pot plant looks like....probably a lot more than you would think.

Agreed 100%, although my mom has probably grown it intentionally at some point in her life. lol

Maybe she just thought they were baby Buckeye trees.

 

[martinss01]

not everyone was a pot head before they grew up. unless she went through 2 bags of doritos during her interview i see little reason to doubt her story.

 

[StooGrimson]

I would have been willing to bet quite a bit of money that my mom would never have been able to recognize marijuana plants growing next to the tomatoes in her garden....she probably would have said something like: "what are those ugly weeds growing over there, why don't you cut them down for me?"
There are some people who have no idea what a pot plant looks like....probably a lot more than you would think.

Agreed. Both my wife and my mom have no clue what pot looks or smells like. That was kind of a good thing growing up...