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Anonymous #1
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Cops at Hydro Store
#13059566 - 08/16/10 02:26 PM (13 years, 9 months ago) |
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Felt like venting this to someone just had kind of a freaky experience. Went to a local hydroponics store to get some verm and as soon as I turn down the street it's on there's an undercover cop in front of me, he was going like 5 miles an hour past the hydroponics store and almost came to a complete stop at one point as if he was writing down license plates. So I didn't go to the hydroponics store because that freaked me out, I went about a mile down the next road turned around and came back, and on my way back I saw two marked police cars blocking the road in front of the store. Not to mention two more cop cars at a street light a little farther up probably unrelated but the cops blocking the entrance to the store freaked me out.
I always thought it was a myth and people were bein about police watching these places but this was just ridiculous.
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dokunai
Cactus, Cannabis, Cubensis

Registered: 01/31/10
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Loc: Hyphal Heights, USA
Last seen: 7 years, 4 months
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Most peoples' fears stem from Operation Green Merchant, which started with a nationwide raid in October 1989 that caught over 100 people and thousands of weed plants, all with information obtained from hydoroponics store surveillance. It went on until 1991 and ultimately netted over 1,200 arrests and nearly 1,000 grows.
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danielx
whatup!


Registered: 10/13/08
Posts: 6,500
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its not paranoia if they really are out to get you
-------------------- Long live kratom
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Anonymous #2
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Re: Cops at Hydro Store [Re: danielx]
#13062705 - 08/17/10 03:06 AM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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We drove three hours to visit the nearest hydro store one day. We get there and there is an "Accident Response Vehicle" just sitting in the strip mall with the hydro store such that they can see the license plates of anyone leaving the parking lot... It was a rainy day so perhaps the vehicle was just sitting there waiting on the inevitable accident call, or filling out paperwork from a previous accident. Or perhaps they were there conducting surveillance on the hydro store. We went in anyway, never had any visit from local cops, but the vehicle wasn't registered to the growhouse anyway.
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johnm214



Registered: 05/31/07
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Loc: Americas
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I'd cover up the license plate, personally, and block the VIN number visible through the windshield. Though of course your better off parking a distance away and walking. Covering the plates seems to be illegal even on private property in some states, but it seems a better option- doubt they'd hassle you if you uncovered them before entering a public roadway.
It always boggles my mind to hear of crap like this given my personal experiences with real crimes and the lack of interest garnered by them. Someone steals something in a burglary and they don't even wanna dust for prints or interview the neighbors, but they have all the time in the world to dick around on the side of the road writing down license plates or handing out speeding tickets.
I love whenever they try to lay off a few part timers in my neck of the woods due to budget concerns, the police union bitches about the effect on safety in our communities it will inevitably have. Give me a break. We don't control their resource utilization, and while they are still sitting on the side of the road writing bullshit tickets and watching people going to the greenhouse, I'd say they have a surplus of manpower.
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Anonymous #1
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Re: Cops at Hydro Store [Re: johnm214]
#13063353 - 08/17/10 10:11 AM (13 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yea I thought they would have something better to do then watch every person going to a hydroponics shop. I also thought there would be enough people going there to grow legal gardens that they'd be wasting there time but judging by the people I was seeing there the time I did go I guess not.
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