Cannabis, Piercings & Tattoos For Window Cleaners

Gardener for cannabis farm jailed: A window cleaner has begun an 18-month jail term after taking the blame for setting up a cannabis factory in Bishopstoke. Luke Taylor, 22 refused to divulge who had helped him set up the operation last summer. Southampton Crown Court accepted he could not have solely financed the plot that needed a £1,000 deposit on the house as well as the first month’s rent.

Prosecutor David Jenkins described how officers acting on a tip off raided the house in Guest Road. He said: “Nobody lived there and the whole purpose was to convert it into a cannabis factory.” In three rooms they found 88 plants growing well that would have yielded a crop of 17 and a half ounces every three months. 

On arrest, Taylor admitted he tended the plants with nutrients found at the scene but refused to say why he rented the house and what would have happened to the cannabis. “This was a commercial enterprise into which a great deal of thought and expense had been put,” remarked Recorder Stuart Jones QC. “I am far from persuaded it was for his own use.” Taylor, who lived with his parents in Bognor Regis, admitted producing cannabis. See also "Getting High On Window Cleaning."

Hole-ly cow! What a way to raise cash: One Oxfordshire resident is set to raise money – and eyebrows – with an unusual stunt for Comic Relief. Duncan Wileman, 29, plans to get a few more additions to his 25 piercings and countless tattoos. The window cleaner, from Carterton, said: “For Red Nose Day, I’m planning to have 36 piercings put into my chest and stomach. “They will make a circle, which will then have red cotton threaded through to make a red nose.”

The painful stunt will be carried out in the next two weeks, before Red Nose Day on Friday, March 18. And it’s not the first time Mr Wileman has pushed the pain barrier to raise money for the charity event. He said: “I like to try and do something different every year. “Two years ago, I had a red nose tattooed on to my knee and raised more than £100.I’m sure this one will hurt, but, hey, it’s for charity.”

Mr Wileman had his first piercing when he was at school and his first tattoo at 18. He said the most painful was a skull tattoo in his ear, which he described as “the worst 20 minutes of my life.” He added: “I think it’s body art – a way of expressing yourself. “One day I’d love to get a ‘metal mohawk’, which is where they put metal implants across your head.” Mr Wileman’s first tattoo was a black and white skull on his right arm. He also has a tattoo of a dragon on his back and a heart tattoo bearing the name of grandmother Edie Oliver, who died last year, on his left shoulder.

If you remember, Donald Trumpolis, a window cleaner got a tattoo of Window Cleaning Resources's brand of window cleaning tools, namely the Slayer Squeegee - even though he had never used one!