Police show you can have your hash cake and eat it
“It was an accident,” said Alwin Don, police spokesman in the southern province of Zeeland.
The cake had been seized by police in an unrelated investigation and stored in a refrigerator — close to lunch packets served to suspects being held in cells at the police station in Goes, 180km south of Amsterdam.
“Clearly it looked a lot like the other lunch packets,” Mr Don said of the cake, which was handed over with a cup of coffee.
“Officers returned to the cell a half hour later and the suspect told them: ‘I think you’ve given me something you weren’t supposed to’,” Mr Don said.
The man had only nibbled at the cake and a doctor who was called to examine him said he suffered no ill-effects. “It was pure coincidence that this man got the cake,” said Mr Don.
