Scott B. wrote:Well, have you heard about the Hartes family? Their mistake? Shopping at a gardening center, drinking tea, and living where there's some less-than-adequately trained public servants.
anygunanywhere wrote:If you are not doing anything illegal why should you be worried?
What color for sarcasm?
I got the sarcasm
I'm going to do what I want just like I did last year and still wonder if one day I get a visit from the man.
I have 17 acres and basically no neighbors, if I wanted to do something illegal, it wouldn't be 25 yards from my house.
In certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law to pursue a natural justice.
jgatz_1911 wrote:Post promoting illegal conduct in violation of Forum rules was deleted, as was the new Member's registration.
That is exactly what I want to avoid. I have a 2 year old and a prego wife if it were just me, I might have a different attitude.
Jusme wrote: if I were the OP, and they(deputies/police officers)came knocking on my door, I would invite them in offer them coffee or cold drinks, let them look at my plant shed and take pre-orders for home grown tomatoes. I'm not sure if your post was made in jest, but the idea that you need to be confrontational with the police, to the point of using deadly force to prevent them from looking into a potential, criminal activity, warranted or not, seems a little too over the top.
This is what I was thinking.
In certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacy, it is necessary to act outside the law to pursue a natural justice.
jgatz_1911 wrote:Post promoting illegal conduct in violation of Forum rules was deleted, as was the new Member's registration.
That is exactly what I want to avoid. I have a 2 year old and a prego wife if it were just me, I might have a different attitude.
Jusme wrote: if I were the OP, and they(deputies/police officers)came knocking on my door, I would invite them in offer them coffee or cold drinks, let them look at my plant shed and take pre-orders for home grown tomatoes. I'm not sure if your post was made in jest, but the idea that you need to be confrontational with the police, to the point of using deadly force to prevent them from looking into a potential, criminal activity, warranted or not, seems a little too over the top.
This is what I was thinking.
Just a side note, during my time as a LEO, most illegal growing operations were found not through heat signatures, but through a sudden increase in electrical usage. When the electric company came out to investigate(usually to see if another home had been put on the same meter), the perpetrator was discovered.
Take away the Second first, and the First is gone in a second
jgatz_1911 wrote:Post promoting illegal conduct in violation of Forum rules was deleted, as was the new Member's registration.
That is exactly what I want to avoid. I have a 2 year old and a prego wife if it were just me, I might have a different attitude.
Jusme wrote: if I were the OP, and they(deputies/police officers)came knocking on my door, I would invite them in offer them coffee or cold drinks, let them look at my plant shed and take pre-orders for home grown tomatoes. I'm not sure if your post was made in jest, but the idea that you need to be confrontational with the police, to the point of using deadly force to prevent them from looking into a potential, criminal activity, warranted or not, seems a little too over the top.
This is what I was thinking.
Just a side note, during my time as a LEO, most illegal growing operations were found not through heat signatures, but through a sudden increase in electrical usage. When the electric company came out to investigate(usually to see if another home had been put on the same meter), the perpetrator was discovered.
I wonder if the cost/benefit ratio of having an alternate power source would be financially feasible from a profitability standpoint? Cost of fuel and size of generator needed?
Chance favors the prepared.Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless. There is no safety in denial.When seconds count the Police are only minutes away. Sometimes I really wish a lawyer would chime in and clear things up. Do we have any lawyers on this forum?
Scott B. wrote:Well, have you heard about the Hartes family? Their mistake? Shopping at a gardening center, drinking tea, and living where there's some less-than-adequately trained public servants.
I love me some fried okra, but it has to be done right so it doesn't "slime" ya.
Pickled okra is good too. All my grandkids know it as "fuzzy pickles".
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams
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Dad loved it. He tried to make me eat some a long time ago. Never again. 