{"id":5373,"date":"2013-10-15T16:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T16:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5373"},"modified":"2013-10-15T16:30:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T16:30:26","slug":"police-return-hire-van-full-of-cannabis-to-glasgow-rental-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5373","title":{"rendered":"Police Return Hire Van Full Of Cannabis To Glasgow Rental Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Marijuana

John McKinnon’s hire van was full of marijuana plants that had been confiscated in a police raid — but police had forgotten to remove the plants before returning the van.<\/p><\/div>\n

Scottish police recently hired a van for a drugs raid in the Glasgow area. Following the raid, the van was returned to the hire company — with a substantial amount of cannabis still in the back.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, the hire company concerned didn’t check inside the van before hiring out again, to unsuspecting father-of-two John McKinnon, who then drove it from Coatbridge back to Glasgow<\/a>, before he opened up the back and realised that he had a problem.<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0Daily Record<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>the van had been hired by Lanarkshire police for used by plain-clothes officers.<\/p>\n

The hire van’s unfortunate driver told the paper:<\/p>\n

“there was a strong smell of cannabis in the cabin, but it was only when I got back to the office and opened up the back that I realised what was in it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess the moral of the story is that some van hire companies don’t check their vehicles very carefully when they are off-hired — plus you never know who has hired a vehicle before you, nor what they might have used it for.<\/p>\n

A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said that “enquiries are at an early stage to establish the circumstances and it would be inappropriate to comment further”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Van hire customer John McKinnon got a nasty surprise when he realised the van he had hired near Glasgow was still full of cannabis after having been used for a police drugs raid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[1787,1048,1678],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5378,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5373\/revisions\/5378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}