Yea I had few close calls at hydro shops, I must say it was a strange, uneasy environment back then… I went to a new hydro store in Tampa fl , the guy behind the counter was a cool a dude. But didn’t understand or didnt care about the microscope he was under. Or it could have actually been a sting operation. He tried to talk to me about weed and I just brushed him off. You NEVER talked about that sort of Subject in the stores. About week later he was busted and shut down.
Went to a hydro store in Jacksonville FL about a month or 2 later, bought a bale of promix and notes and has bulb, loaded the stuff up in my car and just as I was getting in I seen 5-0 cruising up the street, I pulled out of there and he got in behind me and followed for a while… thought for sure there was going to be a welcoming party for me at my house. Nothing did happen, but on the news about a week later they had busted about 6 grow operations from hydro store stings in the Jacksonville area… that was a damn close one