had to pull em so much hard work wasted :/

[gimmenobammerweed]

When i started the grow i had paranoia as the months went on i grew use to the mindset that everything is fine, they dont know anything and my life was normal.
At Lowes there would be people following me/watching me. when i first entered a strange man was in front of me. he stopped and turned his head to the side so he could see me behind him. I think he was seeing if i would go out to the gardening area for soil. so i went the opposite direction. Once in a different area across the store there was a man that would follow me around (without looking at anything else besides where i was. he didnt even have a shopping cart). I would go to different isles and before turning the corner i would see the same person going everywhere i go. There were 7 people all together 4 of which were in groups of 2. The groups of 2 would stand in areas where i was most frequently looking at supplies. The others would check to see where i was going or be in a certain area watching. i even tested this to make sure it was not paranoia by double checking everything each person does. When i was looking for a metal sheet of mesh wire a guy rolled his cart right next to me in the isle. After i left the isle to go back to a different part of the store he would stay at one section of the store and when i returned to the area he would be following me again. This same guy checked out across from me at a different register at the same time only buying a Mountain Dew. And one group of 2 was behind me at the check out buying something really random and cheap yet they were there for over an hour. like i said before this is not easy to explain and i dont expect any of you to understand it. please i do not need to be ridiculed.
about a month later a helicopter was flying right next to my window let me remind you im in a 2 story apt so someone flying that low next to a window is on to something.

If you're trying to be discreet what are you doing roaming around home depot for over an hour. I don't think they were saying, "Look at this guy and his 1 bag of soil. I bet he's growing pot!". I think it was more like, "Check out this weirdo who keeps wandering through the store. I bet he's trying to steal something!". Good luck growing man, relax, at the end of the day it's just weed.

 

[Figong]

If you're trying to be discreet what are you doing roaming around home depot for over an hour. I don't think they were saying, "Look at this guy and his 1 bag of soil. I bet he's growing pot!". I think it was more like, "Check out this weirdo who keeps wandering through the store. I bet he's trying to steal something!". Good luck growing man, relax, at the end of the day it's just weed.

Agreed, go in, grab the cart - grab your shit, check out, get home and set the stuff up.. no need to wander up and down aisles for an hour with 1 bag, it does make you look quite suspicious.. would to me, anyway.

 

[SnotBoogie]

Oh my god, smokers wonder why people think we are dumbass potheads.....


So let me get this straight. you think this helicopter was like, scoping you out?

Do you not think, maybe in cop school, they were like "yeah when youre spying on someone, try not to fly your huge ass helicopter 20 metres away from them"

And why exactly would being 20 metres vs 200 metres make any difference to them? Do you think someone buys a helicopter but no optics to go in it?

Do you even know how much aviation fuel costs? Hiring a highly trained pilot, copilot, navigator/observer?

What sequence of events would lead the police to be like "the obvious next course of action is to use a helicopter to look in his window" rather than just....sending the police to your house?


Jheez. Anyone who complains about police choppers being a waste of money should take into consideration the number of people stopping their crime coz a cop farts in their direction.


edit: ohgod the guy above being followed by the fbi while he buys his trowels and garden mesh. Words fail me.

 

[Figong]

Oh my god, smokers wonder why people think we are dumbass potheads.....


So let me get this straight. you think this helicopter was like, scoping you out?

Do you not think, maybe in cop school, they were like "yeah when youre spying on someone, try not to fly your huge ass helicopter 20 metres away from them"

And why exactly would being 20 metres vs 200 metres make any difference to them? Do you think someone buys a helicopter but no optics to go in it?

Do you even know how much aviation fuel costs? Hiring a highly trained pilot, copilot, navigator/observer?

What sequence of events would lead the police to be like "the obvious next course of action is to use a helicopter to look in his window" rather than just....sending the police to your house?


Jheez. Anyone who complains about police choppers being a waste of money should take into consideration the number of people stopping their crime coz a cop farts in their direction.


edit: ohgod the guy above being followed by the fbi while he buys his trowels and garden mesh. Words fail me.

What's even funnier is that you're giving him benefit of the doubt with meters.. he'd said feet - yet yours is still hilarious to me, and you hit many solid points.

 

[BarnBuster]

This would be your worst enemy and gets the most people busted. The undercover rat attack.

 

[OSAMAbinSMOKIN]

I had the same thing happen to me at home depot, then i realized i wasn't wearing pants again.....

 

[isomo]

Disagreed.. FLIR can see through walls and ceilings both... here's a video to prove it from a UAV:

[video=youtube;Ub2YZJov91w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub2YZJov91w[/video]

As the video poster mentions... "The rafters in the roof and the heat lamps in the bathroom are clearly visible."

Imagine that flying next to my window.
My grow tent at the time was 84.4F and a room temp of 78F. I am sure they could see a big heated tent sitting in a cooled room. -isomo

 

[isomo]

I can't stop laughing.



So, let me get this straight... you're 19, not a "pot head", paranoid, exaggerating, can't spell, terrible grammar, can't add, look sketchy, and felt the need to share?

One of three things needs to happen. One, give up on growing, you're not cut out for it. Two, move to a legal state and stop acting like a fool. Three, keep doing what you were doing and laugh at your naive nature. I suggest #3.

There's no way a police helicopter came to check out your grow op.
You sound sketchy, so asset protection/security is obviously going to follow you around, it's their job. Buying supplies at a hardware store is not illegal, they can't call the cops on you unless you steal or hurt somebody. They're not the cops, so respect them and they will leave you alone.

i said it was hard to explain and it was. i also didn't revise it and yes i can count, but i left out 1 group of 2 people because i didn't feel like explaining anymore.

 

[isomo]

Crap, now I'm paranoid. I got a single bag seed plant growing under 2 40w t-12's and a couple of 60w incandescent sun agros in clamp lights. And I got all the bulbs at HOME DEPOT! *listens for choppers* Seriously, if they busted me they'd point at the plant and laugh. Good info in this thread though. I've got a trash bag and a dryer so I'm good. Anybody know of good deals on IR detection goggles? You know, just in case.

at the time i was using 4 50w big ass cfl's. i couldn't even touch them without being burnt.

 

[isomo]

Oh my god, smokers wonder why people think we are dumbass potheads.....


So let me get this straight. you think this helicopter was like, scoping you out?

Do you not think, maybe in cop school, they were like "yeah when youre spying on someone, try not to fly your huge ass helicopter 20 metres away from them"

And why exactly would being 20 metres vs 200 metres make any difference to them? Do you think someone buys a helicopter but no optics to go in it?

Do you even know how much aviation fuel costs? Hiring a highly trained pilot, copilot, navigator/observer?

What sequence of events would lead the police to be like "the obvious next course of action is to use a helicopter to look in his window" rather than just....sending the police to your house?


Jheez. Anyone who complains about police choppers being a waste of money should take into consideration the number of people stopping their crime coz a cop farts in their direction.


edit: ohgod the guy above being followed by the fbi while he buys his trowels and garden mesh. Words fail me.

//lolwut
damn.
what a douche bag. yeah it's something you never see in life, but it happened. If i could have taken a picture i would have.
for once i thought i could get on here and let people know hey, shit really does go down. It's not often a helicopter flies next to your window.
and for anyone else who wants to call me a "tweeker".. just shut the f*ck up.

 

[Figong]

Imagine that flying next to my window.
My grow tent at the time was 84.4F and a room temp of 78F. I am sure they could see a big heated tent sitting in a cooled room. -isomo

I can imagine it, but FLIR -through- a house is not allowed as evidence in a court of law, nor is it grounds for any form of no-knock or a sneak and peek.

 

[lemonogkush]

if they had seen anything from the chopper they would have had a couple dudes rope down on you from the chopper and straight into your window... thats why I always sleep with my pants and shoes on so I can get a running start out of my crib. Have a planed escape route.. it would be too late to chop and flush those plants down.

 

[djwimbo]

Imagine that flying next to my window.
My grow tent at the time was 84.4F and a room temp of 78F. I am sure they could see a big heated tent sitting in a cooled room. -isomo

i said it was hard to explain and it was. i also didn't revise it and yes i can count, but i left out 1 group of 2 people because i didn't feel like explaining anymore.

You are missing all the points that every person has explained to you.

You are either a troll, or cannot fathom your own intellect.

I'm sure they're just waiting outside for you to crop those pounds, for their evidence locker.

Why the hell was your tent 84 degrees?

 

[Ruello]

really? because there are several states where theyll put you away for 15 years for any cultivation what so ever.

 

[silverhazefiend]

The biggest point of the story is the cops NEVER CAME ..he talks like his suspicion was warranted ..

And second putting ya plants in the trash bag in the dryer ..was a not a smart move ..they would have searched your ENTIRE house ..so u would have still gotten a cultivation charge ..AND trying to hide evidence if the cops wanted to be a dixk ..

I would NEVER wanna have u as a friend ..ur the type of guy to spill the beans as soon as a cop looks at u ..I could only imagine if they put pressure on ..

What's sad is you keep talking as ur right ..and ur dead wrong ..it's funny how everything just stopped right after u cut the plants up really ? Helicopters in ur window ? ..if I were u I wouldn't even bother to grow ..just finish college or whatever and then try again ..bc right now ur mind state isn't even ready for that type of life .......

 

[strikinghigh55]

...Why the hell was your tent 84 degrees?

with 4 CFLs.
I think you had a heater in the tent. Possibly signaling the police chopper through heat signatures. IMO

How exactly do we know YOU aren't a cop or narc of some sort? Trying to scare us into throwing our plants in the laundry everytime we hear a chopper. Shame on you, officer.

 

[passthat2me]

it was two plants!....how much ''hard'' work couldve been wasted?.....2 plants vs. education.....next time keep it to yourself....those dates you showed off too...leaked out your info...hell hath no fury!

 

[MidwesternGro]

My apologies, isomo. I was merely testing a prototype of my man-powered flying machine when I detected the sweet scent of ganja wafting from your apartment window. I remember seeing you peek between the blinds as I huffed and puffed as my legs powered the propeller of my latest invention. I am sorry that I was but a paltry 20 feet from your abode, but I am sure you will rest easier knowing that I, too, grow marijuana. Here are the blueprints to the metal beast that you saw in the sky on that fateful day:

 

[36OhBuds]

Lol if you were walking around like a shoplifter crackhead and staring at my loss prevention employees and not picking anything up off the shelves and continually returning to certain parts of the store -- I would probably have my loss prevention people follow you around too. You looked like you were trying to steal something.

But that's just me. Oh and the mountain dew? He was getting that on his employee discount.

 

[Figong]

with 4 CFLs.
I think you had a heater in the tent. Possibly signaling the police chopper through heat signatures. IMO

How exactly do we know YOU aren't a cop or narc of some sort? Trying to scare us into throwing our plants in the laundry everytime we hear a chopper. Shame on you, officer.

The funny part about that, the heli story.. although it may have been partially real (only in terms of the heli flying) was exaggerated on all other accounts, and no one in their right mind would believe that a Bell is threading the needle and getting that close to a building at any point.

Edit: I only know of a few pilots that could almost do it, and they're military.. are you growing cannabis to support Al-Queda? Sure it was a police heli and not an Apache gunship?