Will a hillbilly really shoot you if you stumble across their pot field? This only happens on TV right? Because it seems the best way to have your crops found is when 200 LEO and civilian search and rescue stumble across your crop while looking for a missing hiker. I googled " Marijuana trespasser shot" and all I could find was a few cases where criminals shot at people but didn’t kill them. Which, doesn’t seem to smart either since if you get shot at you will obviously go tell the police. I did find a few results for Marijuana field booby trapped. Isin’t that going to have similar results? Attracting more attention than its worth.
Marijuana trespasser shot: https://www.google.com/search?espv=2&q=Marijuana+trespasser+shot&spell=1&sa=X&ei=miA0VZymL46qogTihIGAAg&ved=0CBsQvwUoAA&biw=1366&bih=681
I’m a bomb tech, and have been called to investigate former-military munitions used as booby traps on marijuana fields in National Forests.
Shoot? No. That requires constant vigilance (i.e. you live next to it) which easily ties a person to a criminal activity. Booby-traps however, I despise, and I if you plant one, I will fucking find you.
There are innocent people in the National Forests that you are putting at risk. I have zero tolerance, but infinite motivation. :mad:
Tripler
Mark my words–my motivation is clear; not a threat, it’s a promise.
Oh, forgot, but don’t the crops get burned/confiscated when a team is called out to deal with a trap? So how does a trap really protect a field then??? Glad you are doing your job though, thanks for that.
“Trespassing” is a questionable term in cases where the land is not theirs to begin with.
This US Senate report from 2011 mentions a number of incidents on public and private land, including at least one fatal shooting on property not belonging to the grower. It seems that a random hiker is more likely to get a gun pointed at them, not shot, but that encounters with law enforcement occasionally turn deadly.
This decade-old article mentions that booby traps and warning shots from the ‘hilbilly’ type (i.e. what the article refers to as “white, independent growers”) were both more violent and common in the 1980s.
That part is not my business, nor yours. I just render safe the suspect military munitions, and dispose of them later.
I keep very close ties with the County and State Bomb Squads though, and their main priority is to preserve evidence for prosecution, which I’m happy to do if able.
I have cold, dark, “look the other way” thoughts about those that plant booby-traps in National Forests.
Tripler
Cold. Dark. Especially against the innocent.
Back when thermal imaging was still ‘new’ our company was hired by various alphabets to use out equipment to go a hunting off in the hills & hallows where the roads don’t go.
Was a witness for the law most times. I got to go on all the good stuff because I was the airchine driver.
Now that stuff is on some cell phones… ::: sigh :::: So old.
Tripler, got a few things like that myself so I empathize & sympathize… Glad you are good at what you do.
Years ago in Jamaica I did a bike ride thing where a bus takes people and bikes up the Blue Mountain and then you cycle down. They warned us not to leave the main road.
I left the main road. I met an angry looking guy tending his crop. I smiled nervously and told him I was on his side, then I peddled away.
My brother had a similar experience in Hawaii around 1995, driving a rental car on random dirt roads among the sugarcane fields. When he passed a guy at roadside with an M1 he did a hasty Rockford turn & went back the way he’d come.
No peddling or pedaling involved.
I’ve always wondered why folks wish one other “happy 4/20” on Hitler’s birthday. Perhaps they’re not who/what they appear to be?
Got me.