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Chicago cops seize pot plants: 'Big as Christmas trees' [2 football fields large]
Chicago Tribune ^ | October 3, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 10/03/2012 5:47:20 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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Video From 105th to 108th St; from Stony Island to the rail yard.
1 posted on 10/03/2012 5:47:24 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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“Stony Island?”

Can’t make this up, can we?


2 posted on 10/03/2012 5:50:39 AM PDT by RexBeach (Mr. Obama Loves To Spend My $$$$$$$$$$$$)
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Here it is October and they just now spotted this monster crop? Something’s wrong with that picture...


3 posted on 10/03/2012 5:51:05 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

"What a drag!"

4 posted on 10/03/2012 5:56:38 AM PDT by Fido969
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Heh-heh. When I clicked on the article there was a Google ad next to it for a hydroponic grow kit.


5 posted on 10/03/2012 5:56:46 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: equaviator

Somebody forgot to make the Harvest payment to the local gendarmes.


6 posted on 10/03/2012 5:58:56 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; sickoflibs
charlie brown Christmas, or whitehouse ???

and how do ya grow a tropical type plant in northern Ill, outdoors, and protect it from frost ???

7 posted on 10/03/2012 5:59:13 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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It grows like crazy in Il. Most of it is volunteer from hemp grown for rope long ago. This could very well such a patch. It has little drug value.
8 posted on 10/03/2012 6:04:39 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

A Pot Christmas Tree? I think I saw that in a Cheech & Chong movie once.


9 posted on 10/03/2012 6:07:11 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: CrazyIvan

If the plants are as big as Christmas trees, you can bet this is not “ditch weed.”


10 posted on 10/03/2012 6:08:53 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (In the game of life, there are no betting limits)
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I’ve been down that stretch of SI dozens of times. It is remote for being in an urban setting. They taped parts of Nightmare on Elm Street in that area.

I noticed fishermen coming and going all the time. I had wondered about how much illegal activity was going on there. Never considered weed since it was so soggy and tended to flood out in each good rain.


11 posted on 10/03/2012 6:24:03 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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a patch of marijuana plants the size of two football fields

Before he got hurt that was going to be their secret weapon against Santonio Holmes.

Da Bears!


12 posted on 10/03/2012 6:24:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: CrazyIvan
Most of it is volunteer from hemp grown for rope long ago.

good bet, as i cant see the risk/reward for an outdoor crop in N Ill...

ive got an ornamental/perennial thats a cousing of the dope plant, and when it goes to seed, it grows like a weed...

13 posted on 10/03/2012 6:29:26 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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“Here it is October and they just now spotted this monster crop? Something’s wrong with that picture...”

That is common in the Midwest. They don't bother looking much until Sept-Oct.

The reason is that pot stays green long after the normal weeds/bushes are turning color. Thus the pot really stands out and is easy to spot from the air.

I see police choppers and planes flying over my property every fall.

14 posted on 10/03/2012 6:34:38 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Obama’s stash?


15 posted on 10/03/2012 6:41:07 AM PDT by texhenry
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Yea, pot tress mean poor product.
A field this size should have been spotted long ago, this picture seems odd.


16 posted on 10/03/2012 6:44:59 AM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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Freelancers horn in on mob enterprise, cops to the rescue.


17 posted on 10/03/2012 6:45:10 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
“If the plants are as big as Christmas trees, you can bet this is not “ditch weed.”

I have sat on a John Deere 4020 and looked right at the tops
of it. I does get big around here! We used to joke about
running the baler thro it, then putting it in the car trunk
of someone we hated and informing the cops.

18 posted on 10/03/2012 6:53:36 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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That would make some doobie...


19 posted on 10/03/2012 7:09:11 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (In the game of life, there are no betting limits)
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There are some good close shots in the vid. This stuff is not “ditch weed,” which I’m quite familiar with. We used to pick it in Wisconsin. This was the good stuff!


20 posted on 10/03/2012 7:17:25 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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