FREE! Dutch police were presumably ecstatic to find a garden gnome made of MDMA. The comically incongruous four-pound object was found among narcotics hauled in during a drug bust and tests showed what it was made of.

Police in southern Netherlands were in for a surprise during a drug raid at a house when they found a 2 kg garden gnome made of MDMA. Although MDMA, also known as ecstasy, is an illegal substance in the Netherlands, the country is among the world's leading producers of the hallucinogen.

But police in southern Netherlands weren’t prepared to find a particularly curious garden gnome during the bust. According to a BBC report, officers found a garden gnome weighing about 4 pounds made of the drug MDMA. It was found among a whole host of other narcotics during a drug search.

Police in the Netherlands seized a garden gnome made entirely of MDMA during a drugs bust on Thursday evening.

Police in the Netherlands say their suspicions were aroused when they spotted a garden gnome among "varied suspected narcotics" during a drug bust. "Many of us are aware that drugs come in many shapes and sizes,

Ornament weighing nearly two kilograms - or four founds - was among a stash of narcotics discovered in the southern province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands