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    My buddy once had an epic hydroponic set up going in his garage. One day the garage door went up for some reason. Guess someone saw it and called the cops. They went full on raid of his garage only to find some of the best fucking vegetables in the city. He said they were actually visibly upset that he only had veggies

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      That’s terrifying. Those stupid cops will kill your baby with a flashbang, shoot your dog and then murder you becauese you were holding the TV remote during their veggie raid.

      Even if he really was growing some pot plants, it shouldn’t even be a big deal.

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        LoL, this just reminded me of the movie “Shoot 'em Up” with Clive Owen’s character being a stone cold badass while munching on carrots he grows in his garage.

        BTW, though it is a cartoonishly ridiculous action flick, “Shoot 'em Up” is a terrifically fun movie to watch.

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          Thank you for the recommendation, I know I love him as an actor, but mostly because I only know his character in the Sin City movie

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      Cops get pissed when their hunches are wrong because they still believe the hunch, they just think you got away with it

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      Not weed, but I was going to HS prom in the 80’s and my date had a bottle of sparkling grape juice she showed me when we parked. 3 cop cars came out of nowhere, zoomed up and got us out of the car. I was laughing knowing it was non alcoholic. But the look on the cops faces was priceless. Just total disappointment. They all had to look at the bottle just to make sure. Hadn’t thought about that in years until your comment.

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          There might also be a followup examination with a thermal camera of the property, which with a server farm, would also show significantly elevated temperatures.

          This is why most of us in the USA live in constant fear that our hobbies of basement aluminum smelting operations will land us on the wrong side of the law enforcement.

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            While everyone else lives in fear that their basement aluminium smelting hobby will land them in the morgue due to the fumes.

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            Imagine if growing a plant in your home was legal and the police had to figure out something else to do with their time

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          I’ve had cops come around to check out what they could when I was living with roommates and we had all kinds of equipment that used lots of electricity. We actually got a letter from the power company telling us we were in the 99th percentile of residential power use and to consider how much money we could save if we lowered our electricity useage. I’m sure if the cops saw anything they could construe as evidence when they were snooping around they would then easily get a warrant and do a raid.

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      Happened not long ago that, for the same reason, police raided a tomography & XRay clinic. Guess what, an MRI needs serious power to work…

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        If I remember right, one cop brought his rifle in which got sucked into the MRI machine.

        Even the warrant was based on a cop lying iirc. The basis boiled down to something like “energy use and tinted windows”, which, you know… Medical imaging and patient privacy.

        Idiots and asswipes.

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    I had the opposite happen one time. Our provider came out to check our electric meter because our usage dropped significantly when we had our old AC replaced. They thought we were stealing power and came back a aecond time to double check.

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    I once flipped on all my synthesizers at the same time, sparking a main plug (I cannot reach) so I had to call the building owner. An electrician had to come fix it.

    2 weeks later a guy was standing at my door unannounced, wanting to measure everything and check my rooms for a potential weed farm.

    I now turn them on in small groups to prevent it happening again.

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    Reminds me of the story of the people working on running a business in their apartment, for whatever Linux distro it was, in the 2000s that was caught and had to move the servers for obvious reasons.