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Police bust cannabis farm after noticing snow quickly melting on the roof

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If Walter White taught us anything, it’s that a massive drug producing operation is difficult to hide. However rather than Mexican gangs or a brother-in-law police detective, these cannabis farmers were recently rumbled by the weather. Police officers were alerted to the house in the Netherlands after neighbours noticed the snow on the roof had melted far quicker than anywhere else on the street. After raiding the building they found several lamps used to grow the illegal plants heating the roof of the building up, melting the snow. This method of catching out crooks who grow drugs has become very common amongst police in the country, and they have even released images, such as the one above, letting citizens know what to look for if they suspect any of their neighbours of growing cannabis, and asking them to tweet the police if they see any suspicious roofs. However doing so has led to people becoming concerned that homes with sauna’s or poor insulation could be lead to p

Muslim mayor of Rotterdam tells extremists who don’t like freedom ‘f*** off’

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The mayor of Rotterdam has launched an attack on Islamist extremists living in the West who ‘turn against freedom’, telling them ‘if you don’t like the humorists who make a newspaper, f*** off.’ Ahmed Aboutaleb, whose father was an imam, pulled no punches as he spoke about the murder of 17 Parisians last week, 12 of whom died at the headquarters of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Speaking to current affairs programme Nieuwsuur, the 53-year-old attacked ‘backwards’ anti-freedom extremists and defended the tolerant values of what he called the ‘We Society’. ‘It’s incomprehensible that you turn against freedom like that, but if you don’t like this freedom, for heaven’s sake, get your suitcase, and leave,’ said Mr Aboutaleb, who leads one of the Netherlands’ most populous cities. ‘There might be a place where you belong, and be honest with yourself about that, don’t kill innocent journalists. ‘This is so backwards, so incomprehensible, go away if you can’t find