Three blind mice take a trip

Press, 15 April 1988, Page 1

Three blind mice take a trip

Special correspondent Auckland ; Three “blind”! mice squealing with euphoria in a Kawerau shop attic have attracted attention from more than just rodent removers. The rat pack found themselves in the middle of a fullscale police raid, after an assistant at the Kawerau shop called workmen to investigate the squealing. [ Sergeant Tqny Moller, of Kawerau, said the assistant

[had heard strange noises comiing from the ceiling of the shop, and noticed a small cav•ity growing in the plaster. Workmen were called in to investigate, but in their search jfor the squealers found three carton boxes and a[sugar bag I filled with cannabis; A gaping hole was already [chewed out in the I sugar bag I and by the time police reached the scene the mice were well on their way to high heaven. “Those mice were drugged

out and spaced out,” Sergeant Moller said yesterday. When the police recovered the cannabis on Wednesday afternoon, Sergeant Moller said the mice would not distance themselves from the stash. The usually timid, shy creatures stayed close to policemen until the last leaf was picked up. No arrests had been made yesterday, and Sergeant Moller said the police had yet to talk

to the shopowner, [ who was away from Kawerau on business. . The rocking rodents are presumed to be still living in the ceiling. Nobody wanted to bother them during their special buzz, it seems. ‘The police are not micecatchers,” Sergeant Moller said. “The mice should be getting enough punishment though — the drugs should be wearing off.” M