‘Interior design feature of 2018’ – police find novel use for Buckfast bottle during house search
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‘Interior design feature of 2018’ – police find novel use for Buckfast bottle during house search

POLICE in Northern Ireland came across a novel use for a Buckfast bottle during a house search.

The tonic wine, which is popular in Ireland and Scotland, has in the past been linked to crime in the latter country.

However while carrying out searches this week, the PSNI in Banbridge came across some creative minds who found a novel use for the distinctive green bottle.

Among the drug and cash seizures, they discovered a Buckfast bottle being used as a light shade.

“I thought the moment of the week was my colleague recovering a mobile phone from the (No. 2 unflushed) toilet bowl of one suspects house where he thought we wouldn’t go,” said a member of the PSNI Banbridge District Support Team.

Bright idea (Image: PSNI Banbridge)

“But no, shared by kind permission of the occupier of one abode, the interior design feature of 2018.”

Classy and understated, you’ll agree.

Maybe the Room to Improve team should have gone for the budget Buckfast option when renovating Daniel O’Donnell’s home recently to save on costs.

Challenging, interesting, varied. Good words to describe policing in ABC.

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Posted by PSNI Banbridge on Saturday, January 13, 2018