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 [ZA] Magic mushroom bust 
#13477372 - 11/13/10 10:24 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Magic mushroom bust
November 13, 2010 - iol.co.za (South Africa)
 Residents in the quiet suburban street of Bohmer Road in New Germany were shocked to the core on Friday as the elite Hawks – Organised Crime Unit and Crime Intelligence officers swooped on what is believed to be the biggest hallucinogenic “magic mushroom” laboratory in the country.
A 59-year-old man was arrested at the scene.
The drive leading down to the modest house was cordoned off with police tape.
Flower pots and wicker chairs on the trellis-covered veranda gave the impression of a perfectly pleasant older couple living in gentle confines of suburbia, yet behind the house are four or five buildings hidden by bushes housing a massive drug operation which police say may well have been running for up to 10 years.
Even experienced officers at the scene were staggered by the scale of the operation.
The garage and the outhouses were packed with “magic mushrooms” in various stages of cultivation – from germinating spores to the dried end-product in vacuum-packs.
At the scene, Colonel AK Hoosen from the Hawks – Organised Crime Unit said they had not yet estimated a street value, but were waiting for a botanist to arrive before the operation could be fully quantified and the value of the drug haul calculated.
“This is the first major plant of its kind in the country producing magic mushrooms in such a controlled environment and in the middle of a suburb.
“It was a long investigation along with officers from Crime Intelligence and we believe this laboratory could well be the source supplying all the drug suppliers around the country,” said Hoosen.
Police officers clothed in white suits and masks were at the scene collecting evidence, while six employees of the suspect sat in the yard waiting to be questioned.
Inside the house was the study where the walls were covered with pictures and information on mushrooms, while there were piles of stacked literature on the same subject. Officers said the suspect had obviously done extensive research and had created the hygienic environment necessary to cultivate such mushrooms.
Magic mushrooms, known as shrooms, caps or buttons, are an hallucinogenic drug which produces a similar effect to LSD and a “bang” costs about R80 on the street. They can be eaten raw, dried, cooked in food or stewed in tea.
Police also confirmed they had seized an envelope from the house which had been collected from the post office yesterday morning.
It contained five different mushroom spores which had been sent from America.
The suspect is expected to appear in the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: veggie]
#13477385 - 11/13/10 10:28 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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"shocked to the core"
My heart sank. It was at that moment that I realised what I had found out could never be unfound. My god.
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could well be the source supplying all the drug suppliers around the country,” said Hoosen.
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: Green_T]
#13477442 - 11/13/10 10:45 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Good find. Its sad that people have to go to jail/prision, for simply creating something that was put on this earth naturally. He wasnt creating a harmful drug, or mixing with dangerous chemicals like many other drugs are. Simple was providing a rare plant to find, in mass quanties!
Hope he gets away, and runs!
P.S wait officers, I need to do research on these drugs, send them to me so I can accuraley calc the potency. I'll give you a full report! 
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: myl3sss]
#13478309 - 11/13/10 02:22 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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This article is terrible
"Flower pots and wicker chairs on the trellis-covered veranda gave the impression of a perfectly pleasant older couple"
They are probably perfectly pleasant people.
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Gastronomicus said:
They are probably perfectly pleasant people.
What planet are you on sunshine? They grow and probably take drugs therefore they are murderous, amoral drains on our society.
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: Psil]
#13479870 - 11/13/10 09:22 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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.za is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Africa. It is administered by the ZADNA.
None of the official names for South Africa can be abbreviated to ZA, which is an abbreviation of the Dutch Zuid-Afrika. This is a legacy of when Dutch was an official language in South Africa, before being replaced by Afrikaans, in which the name of the country is Suid-Afrika. Afrikaans joined English and Dutch as an official language of South Africa in 1925, and in the South African Constitution of 1961 Dutch was removed as an official language altogether, decades before .za was introduced. However, the .sa domain is used by Saudi Arabia and ZAR is also the ISO 4217 currency code for the South African Rand.
The international vehicle code for South Africa has been ZA since 1936.
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Edited by Humility (11/13/10 09:22 PM)
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: Humility]
#13480150 - 11/13/10 10:24 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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bust's like this,make me feel that one day i wont even be able to buy or posses spores without being slapped with a "conspiracy " charge. that sux. i keep mine in a album, right by the ol" microscope.
though i am prolly overly paranoid.
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: myl3sss]
#13480404 - 11/13/10 11:28 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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myl3sss said:
Good find. Its sad that people have to go to jail/prision, for simply creating something that was put on this earth naturally. He wasnt creating a harmful drug, or mixing with dangerous chemicals like many other drugs are. Simple was providing a rare plant to find, in mass quanties!
Hope he gets away, and runs!
P.S wait officers, I need to do research on these drugs, send them to me so I can accuraley calc the potency. I'll give you a full report!
Lol shrooms aren't a plant.
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: smoke dank]
#13480793 - 11/14/10 01:12 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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I feel sorry for him.
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: dustyn77]
#13481419 - 11/14/10 07:00 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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A Shroomerite?
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: veggie]
#13481423 - 11/14/10 07:04 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Magic mushrooms, known as shrooms, caps or buttons.
never heard shrooms being called buttons are they thinking peyote maybe.
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: Doc_T]
#13482284 - 11/14/10 12:52 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Doc_T said:
A Shroomerite?
Probably
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: Green_T]
#13482323 - 11/14/10 01:00 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Green_T said:
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could well be the source supplying all the drug suppliers around the country,” said Hoosen.
i enjoyed that too...
one dude in south africa sell the whole world its shrooms..
damn... guess i'll be out then since noone else knows how to do it or anything...
i like how the cops are always full on HAZMAT police when they bust a mush op...
you think they'd freak out and start shooting if they came in and tried to arrest you and in the struggle a jar was broken or a tray thrown...
"omg its deadly fungi!!"
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: Synocybin]
#13482331 - 11/14/10 01:02 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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It could well be deadly fungi.
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: Doc_T]
#13482373 - 11/14/10 01:12 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Doc_T said:
It could well be deadly fungi.
it could be and thats the way they to go into the whole situation so i can understand that..
i just always read about mush busts where everyone is wearing HAZMAT and what not and two things come to mind..
1. Props to the cops for having sterile procedure
and
2. What would they do if a jar broke?
just an honest question..
i dont want anyone getting busted and throwing jars at the cops feet to try to get away..
they will probably shoot.
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: Synocybin]
#13482397 - 11/14/10 01:19 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Considering that jar may have anything from aspergillis to anthrax to Ebola virus, I'd shoot you if you threw one at me.
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: Doc_T]
#13482431 - 11/14/10 01:27 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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no need to be hostile Doc..
i asked a question that i honestly had pop in my head while reading the article and got that but what about Mr. Mushrooms-are-a-plant up there?
noone said anything to him lol
honestly though.. these grow op's are getting busted more snd more often these days...
its sad
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: Synocybin]
#13482457 - 11/14/10 01:33 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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No hostility, just stating a fact. If I was a cop going in to a grow op, I'd want full hazmat too.
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Re: [ZA] Magic mushroom bust [Re: Doc_T]
#13486048 - 11/15/10 04:12 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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hey man give mr. mushrooms are a plant up there a break. He just woke up.. Im only human. Lemme restate that.
He was only providing a rare fungus in mass quanties.
Better? Im sorry im not perfectly correct.. Man chill out its just boomers...
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