What if the police came to your house

Have you ever thought about what would happen if the police showed up at your house? You would be sitting there with your tweezers, baggies, postage scales, magnifying glass and something you are going through that looks a little like something illegal. Well did you ever wonder? We do look a little wild guarding are stash.LOL

I'd say,hey, what do you have to trade?

I keep a box of fresh donuts handy for just such an "emergency"

To say nothing about the entire wall covered with growlights! The florescent glow flows out the windows at night here at Dave's Farm. :)

Dave

I know you meant this as funny (and it is! LOL!), but it can also turn serious. A girlfriend of mine was spread-eagled on the hood of a cop car last year because the cops thought the wild bloodweed on her place was marijuana! They had been watching her place for a while and raided it with guns drawn and everything! Even kicked her door in! And she's as far from being a pothead as Aunt Bea is!

I've got good books with pictures and info on any plant I have that even resembles "weed" and keep them handy in case of a raid. I'm even considering asking the PD if I can give a class on the plants that resemble marijuana and how to tell them apart. Hubby and I are planning on having kids in the near future and the thought of them having to see me or their father like that scares me to death! I just hope that if it ever happens my kids haven't learned the "What kind of bird don't fly" joke! LOL!

scary laws in your country - possession of marijuana in this country is much less serious than in the states, all you'd get here would be a rap over the knuckles! the police (wisely i think) are concentrating on the dealers that peddle the really evil stuff like cocaine and heroin, not someone smoking a bit of 'wacky baccy'.

lol here they fly the helocoper over every evening,like
dave my place in the early spring was lit up like a christmas tree,i really don't know how i would handle it.
i know i would be scared to death to move,how long would it take them to firgure out my plants were legal,i better get some donuts just in case this spring,

True story' When we once lived in Ca.our older
neighbor reported us to the local police'
She lived right next door too'Long story short,
they were Japanese Aralia(sp)LOL Really ticked
her off when the officer(my classmates dad)
enjoyed a cup of java with us,lol'''Sis'

haha sis, that's funny, mind i can see why they thought it might be pot, leaves are kinda similar shape i suppose... nice neighbours you got though!

HAD lil,that was waaaayyy back when,lol'Yeah,
they were in full sight,planted along our
driveway,lol'

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Lilith, each state is Different. In Oregon, you can carry up to an ounce and IF you get caught with it, it is only a misdomeaner. Many times they simply confiscate it and write you a ticket...All depends on where you live.

I have wondered what they will think when they see the grow lights glowing. Here if you get caught, your name is on the front page of paper, and you're in deep dodo.

Honibee, last week I was sitting at my kitchen table cleaning seeds and and my 18 year old son came home from work. At first he did not say anything and then after getting something to eat he stopped dead in in tracks and said "MOM,I AM NOT SURE WHAT YOU ARE DOING BUT IT REALLY LOOKS ILLEGLE!!!" i JUST CRACKED UP AND TOLD HIM THEY WERE PLANT SEEDS AND NOT WHAT HE WAS THINKING. sue

Here,everything is put in the newspaper'
It's great,especially when anyone gets
in trouble,can't hide it from mom/dad,lol''
Great thread,thank you Honibee'''Sis'

Hah! Don't I know it...as a matter of fact my neighbor (at the time a detective on the narcotics squad) brought me a pic of our farm one day from a bird's eye view They were apparently in the area looking for pot from a helicopter so he told them to check my place! (We both got good pics, free, of our land!) As for now-a-days, I reckon I'd be more concerned with someone calling the po-lice on me for the way I dress. (I'm kinda beginning to wonder if they think I've gone a little haywire.) Ya see, after entering a very dry bit of info on the database I was given permission to use "'Shoe-ism", and dress it up a bit. In an effort to gain some insight, I remembered that since some of my very distant ancestors wore fig leaves I'd better give it a try. Found out right off they should be soaked in water to soften them up a bit. Also it is important to rub the fuzz off. (Off the LEAVES, Zany!) Bending over (forwards)is recommended only when your south end is facing the same direction the wind is blowing...you don't want to appear inconsiderate. (For you men out there, bending over backwards is not recommended. It'll attract the attention of a chicken hawk.) As for accessories that must be added to my new attire (and due to fig leaves not having pockets) I've found the need to strap my Rambo knife tightly to my right leg for easy access (great for cutting oversized okra), my pocket watch is wrapped around my left elbow and dangles securely from its chain, and altho I still wear my straw hat I find when I collect various bird feathers I must insert them in the hatband to keep my hands free (I've got quite a collection of them up there now!) Yes Friends, altho all this seems like the common-sensical thing for me to do I'm beginning to think the Law might be coming this way soon. I've noticed my neighbors way off in the distance have gone from wearing bi-focals to binoculars for some reason. (There musta been a sale somewhere...more and more folks are getting them.) And it seems to me, course now it just might be my imagination, that on windy days they're out in ever-increasing numbers! (Oh well, at least they don't take pictures...the po-lice might be sorely tempted to confiscate their cameras due to indecent "exposure").

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ROFLMBO!!! Shoe you are truly priceless! Gigglin so hard my DH Woke up! And he was asleep upstairs! I will now spend the day with an amazing mental image "flashing" thru my mind!

Shoe,
You be one crazy nut.

Chicken hawks, eh? LOL! When we first bought our house, I thought we might have wacky tabaccy plants growing at the back property line, but they turned out to be tiny buckeye tree seedlings! http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/ODNR/Education/buckeyetrees.htm . Like goobers, we mowed over them until they didn't come back any more. Ah well!

ive had them show up at my greenhouse many times looking around saying whats that i tell them its a marigold lol

shoe lolololo uuuuuuuuuu rrrrrr ttttoooo fffffuuuuunnnnnnnnyyyyylol
lov nana

I hope they bring their work clothes and a stout pair of boots if they show up here, weeding is mandatory for any visitors, and it would be cheaper on them than the lawsuit, lol.

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Pot growing and naked gardeners. You people are all depraved! :) Shoe, I think you should commission an artist to make a statue with your likeness au natural, so the neighbors can get a good look, day and night. I keep thinking I should get that fence done in the front, but then, what would my neighbors have to do?

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Yes, the cops are always at my house...
Yes, they're always inside...
Yes, I've been caught in my jammies...
Yes, they interrogate me about what I grow...
Yes, they examine the green stuff under the lights...
Yes, the cops write things down...
Yes, the cops watch me late at night outside...
Yes, the cops comment about my flashlight escapades at 1am
Yes, the cops come in cars, vans and on horses...
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...what else would you expect when you live in "Cop and Fire Land" and they're all of your neighbors...watching you garden...lol.
Trish

Late last spring, I awoke to flashing police lights outside the front of our house. Half-awake, I first thought it was a fluorescent bulb on the grow lights that was flickering (the utility room is just off our bedroom......) Then my son appeared in the door of our bedroom to tell us the police were outside.

We hurriedly put on clothes and went to the door. No, they weren't at our house, but they had trapped a speeder or drunk driver who had made the mistake of turning onto our street, which dead ends one house down from us. My husband was a bit concerned that my grow lights glowing through the windows would raise their suspicions.

I guess they might be suspicious, but I figured people growing funny stuff usually try to hide it, not put it in plain sight of anyone passing by. Plus it'd be hard to mistake my 'maters and impatiens for anything other than just what they are.

Lately I've been wondering where I can get one of those pill-counting thingies the pharmacists use, to count out my bigger seeds. But I've been hesitant to ask because of what someone might think :)

And just for the record, I (jokingly) encouraged Horseshoe to include the HISTORICAL uses for fig leaves in the database; I did NOT think he'd try them for his own personal wardrobe!!!!!!! Serves me right for even raising the issue, huh? giggle.......

Hehehehe!!! We gets what we sows, Vols!! Thank you so much!! I recommend you try it!! Especially since ya'll live on a dead-end road!! More privacy, eh? (Just watch which way the wind blows!!) (She's the best folks! Ain't nuthin' like her!)

We live in a small town, and s**t disturber that I am, I enjoyed taking a small baggie of oregano and asking my postman to weigh it so I could get an idea how much it would cost me to mail. After some friendly banter, I left it with him for his spaghetti.

Grow Lights. The only ones you need to worry about is the metal halide, sodium vapor types..

The DEA killed a friends crop of Hops. A close relative
of whacky tobaccy.


Local Chief says that Druggies are growing a type of mushroom, so they don't need the lights anymore.

Shoe, A fig leaf doesn't proctect you from chiggers..

Byron

When we were first farming, Stan's best friend from highschool had just become a deputy sherrif. He had all kinds of fun pulling in the driveway with the siren on. I think that was when the neighbors started calling us "Crazy Stan and his weird wife." The last time the cops came, we were signing a complaint against some neighbors who played their music so loud that folks 4 miles away were wondering what was going on. Stan gave up trying to sleep at 4am and went to the barn where he could still hear the music over the silo unloader and barn cleaner. It turned out not only were they noisy but they WERE raising wacky weed.

HorSeshoe, you are something else. What a hoot!

I'm new to DG and have heard noises about the Shoe-stories, but this was my first to read! What a hoot!!

Horseshoe, I thought I might take your lead and try out your "fig frock", but with a butt the size of mine I'd have to use Paulownia leaves and I'm fresh out...

Well, I've got news for all of you !!! I've been to Shoe's greenhouse, and have seen him in all his fig-leaf glory. He's not joking !!! Well, maybe a little. The reason he knows how important it is to bend over in the right direction is because of that rambo knife. When he bent over to strap it to his leg, thus enters the chicken hawk. I felt plum sorry for poor old shoe. But he finally managed to free himself, but not before getting that dangling watch caught in the chicken coop wire. Now that was pitiful. Sorry I couldn't quit laughing long enough to run to my car for my camera, or you would see pics of this episode. Sorry Horseshoe, just couldn't resist. Can you ever forgive me for spilling the seeds----er---beans ? LOL --mtnhooger

Hey there mountain hooger, any freind of Shoe's is a freind of mine! I can just picture Shoe with a in full glory: Fig Leaf, Rambo knife and......... Maxi Pad stuck to one foot!!!
LOL
Byon, OUCH Chiggers!
And YES! I have often wondered what would happen, as well in my car. I mark my collection bags with indelible ink , and I have a reference book in the car as well. So I guess I could back up my story! I figure they are welcome to look all they want! Its a free country! Pretty much anyway.

I used to have a super huge saltwater fish tank (6 feet long) in my house. I used to grow corals and eels. I had the lights set to come on a little later in the day and go off around midnight. I also had grow light in the late winter and spring for seedlings. Well a few years ago my neigbors were have a domestic fight. The one came to my home. When the police showed up they naturally came in my house to talk to the neighbor and saw the fish tank and grow lights. The one cop told us that they had seen the lights and had been wondering for sometime what we were growing. It ended up that all the cops came in the house to see my 2 eels and corals.

Sari...hah!! Reckon you showed them nuthing 'fishy" was goin on at your house!! Michelle, now don't you be getting in close w/ mtn hooger and learning more'n you want to!!! She may send ya pictures or something!! AND, as for you MTN HOOGER!!!...ah-hmmmm....it sure sounds like you know your way around here!!! (Hmph...tellin' 'em all my secrets! and verify-ing my dress code!...I'll get ya for this!!!) Don't worry folks, I'm behaving over here. And remember, if anyone wants new attire I'm offering fig leaves this autumn. Just let me know whether you need them for anterior or for posterior (and for some of ya let me know if you need an extra set for the upper lobes.) (I really don't mean to be offensive.)

Too much! Thanks everyone!!!!
:)perL