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Marijuana garden...........

muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
I've missed the last two deer season openers due to medical problems. Now, at last, I am ready to, at least, sit on a stand and wait for an old buck to walk by. Today I read that they found a huge marijuana garden smack dab in the middle of my hunting area. When the deputies walked out of the woods, four "Mexican Nationals" opened fire on them, hitting one deputy in the arm. The shooter that hit the deputy was caught, but the news didn't say what happened to the other three. There goes my season again. Since this is a "draw only" state, I'm probably SOL. My son and I were going scouting this next weekend to the same mountain that the garden was found so maybe I should be thankful that we aren't going to be fertilizer for the plants.
I was wondering if anyone on the board has ever come across a garden while out hunting or has come across the booby traps that these scum SOB's set for people. Razor blades at eye level, deadfalls, pungy sticks, etc.

muley

**I love the smell of Hoppes #9 in the morning**
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  • squeakycsqueakyc Member Posts: 204 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Last spring a freind and I went to a favorite spot to pick mushrooms. It right along side of a busy highway, with a cemetary on one side and heavy bush on the other. We worked our way over a hill picking some mushrooms when we spotted some small buildings made from old storm windows. When we walked up and looked in their were pot plants about a foot tall. We left right away and went to the car and called the police. They came and removed the plants and thanked us. The Provincial Police station is on the the other side of the highway about 500 yards from the pot farm. Whoever set up there is real stupid or genius for setting up so close to the police. At least it was destroyed before it was sold to kids.
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    When I was in "High School" we would smoke weed where the cops would never suspect us, right in the parking lot of the Coral Gables Police station. L.O.L!! P.S., Been clean since 91'
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  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would think the traps you mention would not serve any real purpose. These farmers know that most hunters wouldn't realize what they were walking through unless specifically looking for it, and any surviving victim of such traps would bring the law back to the scene in a New York minute. I think their existence is one of those rural legends that is perpetrated just to keep people away. And because you are writing, I think it works well enough. However, I would certainly pose your questions to the Sheriff's Department, and ask them of the advisability of you scouting in the same area.

    Why does man kill? He kills for food. But not only for food; frequently, he must have a beverage.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Found a still one time. In NH??!! Really strange. Just got the hell outa Dodge, although I was tempted to leave a note asking to be added to their customer list.
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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, i have come apon almost a dozen pot fields in the time i've been building bridges and camping. they have ranged from a few plants to several hundred. most were well cultivated, but a couple looked abandoned. most were small plants about a foot or two tall, but we were surveying an area for a bridge in mayacca springs, fla and came on some plants that were between ten and twelve foot tall, with buds about eight inches. never found any boobie traps or the like but then they weren't on the beaten path either. oh yea most of the fields were in the ridges of east tennesse, one was afew miles out of dalton, geo. and the rest were in central fla. respt submitted dads-freehold
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,471 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Part of my job as a Probation officer requires home visits on our clients. There have been three times that I can remember where I discovered the client had a stand of Grass on their property in plain sight.

    Not exactly the kind of thing you want your P.O. to see.

    Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
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  • CWatsonCWatson Member Posts: 964 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was ten my family moved to Palmdale Calif.My family is large,I have four each of brothers and sisters.Since my family was large my folks bought two houses side by side.Me and one younger brother and a sister lived with the folks,the elder siblines lived next door.My oldest sister was a pothead and grew some pot plants out in front of the house like rose bushes!One day a Sheriff car pulled up and asked about the plants to my father who had pulled just before them.My father looked like he was goeing to have a stroke!After the deputies were convinced he didn't know they were pot he stormed into the second house lined up my elder siblines and grilled them.He could get them to give up who did it(our sis).He asked the deputies to take them all away,then they gave her up.The deputies had her pull the plants up and bag them.After they tossed them in the trunk they sat her in the back seat and let her cry for ten minutes then let her off with a warning!Two weeks later dad gave her a car and rented a u-haul and sent her to Florida.CW

    A near miss is still a miss!

    Before I got married I spent half my money on women and guns,THE REST I WASTED!

    Wasn't me(you?).......!
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Once upon a time, a long long time ago. There was this dumb kid that (of course) thought he knew it all. He was visiting with his future in-laws. One day while riding with his future brother in-law through some back roads of Nebraska. He kept seeing what he thought was a very familiar plant, 10 feet tall and as far as the eye could see. After a while, being sure of his expertise on the subject, he could stand it no longer, and begged the driver to pull over. With the excitement and anticipation that is only known to someone in this position, he jumped over the ditch and entered the field. To his amazement the field was full of some of the best looking plants this kid had ever laid eyes on. Jumping for joy and whirling around with outstretched arms he could not believe his good fortune. He had just found the proverbial "pot of gold" at the end of the rainbow. Literally tons of the stuff. Realizing the implications he suddenly became real quiet and took what looked to be the best of the plants and returned to the car to put his stash in the trunk. At the time he could not figure out what the sh*t eating grin was for, that was on the drivers face. With his mind going a million miles a minute, and planing his future life around his newfound wealth, he continued on his journey. Later that day upon arriving where he was staying, he hung the plants upside down. He could hardly hold in his enthusiasm on his new discovery. The next day unable to wait until the plant had dried properly he took a bud and placed it out in the sun to expedite the process. When all was prepared, he tried some of his future bankroll. (Insert drum roll here) He then found out why the driver had that sh*t eating grin on his face. It was HEMP. Yup, no THC content at all. Nada. No good. Junk. A waste of time. With disappointment flowing over his weakened body, he slumped back into his chair, and life went back to being the poor dumb kid again.Not saying that the kid is a genius now, but he was smart enough to get away from that cr*p a long time ago. William81; Absolutely no offense intended here.The reason the kid knew what the plant looked like was that his probation officer (for an earlier offense) had given him a plant to grow, which turned into having MANY plants. Later on when the kid got busted for cultivation, the police dropped all charges and hushed it up. I don't think the police thought it would be a good idea if the press got ahold of this story about a PO.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You're not going to find many boobytraps anywhere there's wildlife or livestock roaming around.

    The reason you find people around them is to ward off these animals, not shoot at every hunter who stumbles upon your garden. For some reason, deer and rabbits love to raid these gardens (imagine that). Most patches I've seen in our area have chicken wire enclosures, either around the individual plants or a small clearing.

    What's the logic of defending your patch with firearms when it's eventually going to draw law enforcement like flies?
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  • ccasey612ccasey612 Member Posts: 901 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Two summers ago I was visiting my grandmother in thomasville Ga and we where walking thru our land to the pond to fish. We saw a pretty big patch of it. I did not know that you could grow it in that kind of climate.

    If you will blame gun makers for every shooting then blame car maker for every car accident.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,690 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The stories of punji stakes and fishooks strung at eye level are bs put out by cops to demonize pot growers. If you are cruising through the woods and step on a punji stake or get a fishook in the eye, you will not be dead. You will go back for medical care and will tell the law and they will go get the pot patch.

    "Not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it is enough."
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think you guys are probably right about the booby traps. In all the stories I've read about LEO's finding these gardens around here, I don't remember once reading about them finding traps around them. Last year my son was hunting in a wilderness area near here and had hiked in a few miles. He came across some irrigation pipe high upon a hill where none should have been. He started to follow the pipe out, but remembered my instructions on stuff like this and beat it out of there. Good kid.
    Here is the story from the local newspaper if you're interested. Nothing extraordinary but I still like reading about these dopers going down.

    http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/display/inn_news/news2.txt

    muley

    **I love the smell of Hoppes #9 in the morning**
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  • txnhntrtxnhntr Member Posts: 136 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    yeah a couple years ago i was mowing on my tractor around some fence rows, right out by the highway. i noticed some weird looking vines growing in and around the barbed wire. of course i did not know what pot looked like. these growers had planted there plants in the depressions at the bottom of the fence posts to hold rain i guess. as the plants got taller they wrapped them around the wires. they were alreadt about 8-10 feet long growing horizontally. the buds looked like cucumbers hangin off a vine. i called the law, come to find out it was the county inmates who picked up trash along the highway who had planted them. any way thats what the leo told me.

    here is another good one. several weeks ago me and my partner found an 1986 mercedes for sale for 300.00 bucks, really clean but with a nock in the motor. we bought it an fixed the motor. this past weekend we was cleaning up the inside and vacuuming and we found a secret compartment with a big plastic bag in it, it was under the console. we opened the bag and lo and behold there was several littler bvags with some white rocks in them. i guess the guy we bought the car from forgot his crack. needless to say we surrendered the sh*t to leo right away

    glen e nuinez
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,471 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No offense taken pickenup....There are morons in every profession

    Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
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  • wipalawipala Member Posts: 11,067
    edited November -1
    Several years ago when I was a deputy sheriff we had found a good sized pot patch and we had the local national guard unit help us pull up and burn several hundred pot plants. We piled up the green plants with old tires and deisel poured over the lot and lit it. While we were watching it burn we saw several of the guardies slip around downwind and suck in big lungfuls of the smoke and promptly get sick from the burning rubber and diesel mix.

    Remember here at DeeDee"s If we can't kill it, it's immortal
    D.D.Snavely
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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, yes i have heard from some gardeners that rabbits and rats and posibly deer have aquired a taste for the stuff, which reminds me that some of the plants had wire mesh around them, that i observed. i also observed avt tire tracks, either 3 or 4 wheelers at diferent spots. which leads me to assume from the price of them that it is a lucartive bussiness. respt submitted dads-freehold
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    2weeks ago,2 greenhouses were found full of marijuana plants estimated street value 1.2 million dollars,found within 2 miles of my house.No, before anyone asks,I do not mess with that stuff.

    Rugster,you may have read about it in the local paper.

    "It was like that when I got here".

    Edited by - 4wheeler on 08/23/2002 12:52:47

    Edited by - 4wheeler on 08/23/2002 12:53:41
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not while hunting, but I grew up in a area that was a major hemp producer prior to the war of Southern misbehavior. Used to find stands of wild hemp all the time.

    A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
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