September 20, 2003
Upstairs - Pot; Downstairs - Tot
Another interesting fact about the Eldridge Street pot farm: Downstairs was a children's day care center and next store was a middle school. According to the Daily News, the day care center started to pay "closer attention" to the entrepreneurial neighbors after a leak (possibly from the $1 million farm's special irrigation system). Brilliant. Police investigators told the Times that the farm looked like "an Amazon forest."
And in tangentially related news, charges of trespassing and child endangerment (something about taking pictures of a 9 year old girl) were dropped against Phish bassist Mike Gordon in HEMPstead, NY.
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Upstairs there was pot.
Downstairs was a tot.
Stop! Stop! Tot!
Do not smoke that pot!
call me cynical, but i just don't think that many of new york's 'finest' would be intelligent enough to correctly work most remote controls, let alone consider pointing it at something other than a television. even pointing it at a stereo would probably be a stretch for half of them! sounds like they probably got more of a tip off then they are lettin on, don'tyathink?
read that daily news article again, 'the door was ajar, they spied pot plants inside', sounds a bit like that, 'oh, we knocked and heard someone say come in' type of biz.
damn those stupid cotton industry imperialists for subjecting us to this persecution!
Here comes cop.
Cop goes to the top.
There he finds the pot.
"What?! Pot!"
says the cop on the top.
"I do not like the pot on top!"
Did the dime drop?
Or was it just a stop
where he found the crop?
(from "Pot on Top")
Okay, hoofin, write some more, get someone to illustrate it, create a proposal to peddle to underground/liberal publishers...
Some guy named Seuss beat me to it.
It's my understanding that these pot farms require enormous amounts of electricity to run. I know that one of the things industrial pot growers (organized crime) up here in Canada like to do is use a whole house in the suburbs, and try to tap into the neighbours power lines, thus spreading the joy of higher bills.
I wonder how they were powering this thing?
Uhhh... speaking of which, when I checked out the article at the Daily News, all the links on the sidebar were to hydroponics companies.