20 minutes east of me.How they ever thought they would go unseen is beyond me lol
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You always see these massive operations and you always think you know if it was 1/100th the size youâd still make an enormous amount of money and youâd still be running.
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Yep agreed Vernal.Back in 2000 where i grew up north ,30minutes south of me they raided a farm with 19000 plants the OPP said it was noticeable in plane from the air miles away lolâŚ
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12,000 plants, holy shit. More like corn hidden in a pot field.
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Like damn bro 50lbs not enough every season? All the drones, helicopters, planes, shit even google earth.
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No kidding can make enuf for mynhead and avfewvspecial people thats all i need
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I remember 20 years ago all the Big indoor illegal grows were getting popped by passing the hydro meter.like your harvesting 100lbs plus at a time pay your hydro and you have no problem lol
Now the big thing with organized crime and the easy access to med licenses is they are getting families of 4 to get the 494 plant license each, so one house can grow 1986 plants
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People donât pay their water bill?! You can run your hose all month or have a leaky main and not use more than $800. I had a toilet run 24/7 for a month and it was like $100 extra.
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No they were bypassing the electrical meter and stealing power.If they had just paid for the power usuage they would have went undetected.
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Oh that stuff. Impossible these days with smart meters. Used to be a âvictimless crimeâ like cable descramblers lol. That being said yeah theyâre gonna miss a few hundred thousand watts.
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Used to be able to slow the wheel down with a magnet paint it gray to blend in with the box lol
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My man. My dad showed me how to use a lighter to roll back odometers to sell a car back when that was possible haha. Whatâs the world coming to?
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I used to use an.old meter and put sleves over the prongs plug it in and thef day before the meter readervcame by put the correct meter in they never i had a bunch of new clips that go on the lock part i dont think i paid more that $200-300 for power for over a year
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I know technology kinda sux sometimrs
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Am I the only that when a bust goes down, wonders what genetics they were running?
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Nope i wonder all the time to lol
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At least the math kinda adds up⌠1200ish CDN per plant?..averaged across little indoors to big corn-scaring trees? 
When âsmartâ meters were coming in around 2005 I saw a meter reader & asked him if he cared about me messing with the meter(magnet). He said heâd seen ghetto neighborhoods with a salad 
fork jammed in to stop the meter & others that were just too unsafe. Those would just get a lien on the property every ten years. 
And he was slated to be replaced by a 
smart meter in 9 months so he said he didnât give a $%^&*( what I did to it. 
ââŚtalkin bout the ghettoâŚâ 
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I remember those days well lol On big grows they did it because the usage would of been an obvious tip off to the power company , who then would notify the pigs. That alone wouldnât be enough to bust but it put prying eyes on the location and eventually they would acquire what was needed for a warrant.
The smart people just ran many smaller grows instead and had no need to steal power. Which at the time actually carried a stiffer punishment usually then the actual growing.
The other thing that happened was lots of very big grows moved to industrial parks and such. The largest of which I can recall was the old Molson brewery . Now that was ambitious to say the least haha
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@anon60559124 you know it bro.Molson Brewery was set up as a live in grow.they had a full time cook and a video game lounge,a stocked bar and lots of jars of bud to smoke.That was a huge kickass operation.
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