Oops! Cops raid Georgia man’s home after mistaking okra for weed

[theHandpuppet]

Sometimes words truly do fail.

Raw Story
Oops! Cops raid Georgia man’s home after mistaking okra for weed
Travis Gettys
03 Oct 2014

A Georgia man was awoken Wednesday morning to find a police helicopter hovering overhead and sheriff’s deputies at the door to search his property for drugs.

“They were strapped to the gills,” said Dwayne Perry, describing the heavily armed officers.

Agents from the Governor’s Task Force for drug suppression flying overhead spotted what they believed to be marijuana growing in the yard of Perry’s home in Cartersville, reported WSB-TV.

But the plants were, in fact, okra....

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[In_The_Wind]

1. I've never seen an okra plant grow that tall.

[theHandpuppet]

2. Don't like okra so I've never grown any

But I do know okra leaves look NOTHING like marijuana.

[In_The_Wind]

3. That poor guy must have been scared. I know I would have been.

The leaves do not look the same. I've grown okra.

[theHandpuppet]

4. Do you wonder how much that raid cost?

I'm sure all the money they spent on the raid wasn't needed anywhere else.

BTW, I've tried okra just about any way you can cook it and it's one of the few veggies I've no taste for.

[In_The_Wind]

35. Nope, no idea. Yes, the money could have been better spent.

I like fried okra the best. I was born in Georgia. Maybe it's an acquired taste.

I won't think any less of you because you (like many other folks) dislike okra. It has a bit of a slime texture. Like eating raw oysters.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. they grow very tall. just in a pot mine have grown 4 ft tall

Random pic fromweb

[In_The_Wind]

36. All of my plants were short.

I'm impressed.

[Liberal_in_LA]

41. probably you had a type thast doesnt grow tall

[TexasProgresive]

24. We had some one year that was 12 to 15'

I found out later that you can cut the main stalk and pick off of the side shoots. I hope they got okra itchies all over their faces and arms. Stupid is a stupid does.

Edit to add-just like that pic!

[oldandhappy]

5. Pathetic!!

I have no other word, pathetic.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Land of the Free my a$$! End the GD War on Drugs NOW!

[HereSince1628]

7. Another embarrassing, albeit potentially deadly, moment in the war on drugs

Okra




The outstanding similarities to cannabis are pretty obvious. Both -are- green!

[Savannahmann]

8. Everyone who made the mistake

Everyone involved is demoted to traffic guard duty. Morons.

[SummerSnow]

18. No, they might mistaken pedestrians for gang members

and school bus children for illegal immigrants.

[Eleanors38]

9. Couldn't recognize okra. In Georgia. Consider.

[2banon]

31. I know!! Jaw dropping Stupid, considering this took place in GEORGIA!

[Eleanors38]

39. Next: Collards!

[valerief]

11. I knew before clicking the link the guy was white.

If he were black, he'd be dead now.

[theHandpuppet]

20. No kidding.

Check out these stats that I posted this morning...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1083588

[valerief]

21. Yes, I saw that. I wish I could say it's amazing, but in racist America

it's not.

[exboyfil]

12. Not funny given another innocent man

was killed in a night raid in Georgia recently.

http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/local/dublin/2014/10/01/warrant-meth-raid-led-to-fatal-laurens-shooting/16538903/

[DustyJoe]

15. not newz

If the news article made no mention of the shooting victims race, then it isn't newz.

[packman]

13. Obviously none of you tried to smoke Okra

or had okra brownies. The Souths best kept secret- damn it, now everyone knows.

[TexasProgresive]

25. Ya mean my relatives were all high on okra when I was a kid

I though it was the beer.

[chrisa]

14. They didn't execute him in his sleep? Are the police going soft?

[valerief]

22. He's white. nt

[onethatcares]

16. I wonder who

turned him in.

[SummerSnow]

17. Doesn't even look the same. WTF

[KamaAina]

19. What kind of Southerner doesn't know what okra looks like?!

[RebelOne]

38. I don't. I live in Georgia and have never seen an okra plant.

The only okra I am familiar with is in the frozen food section of the supermarket.

[WinkyDink]

23. Okra: Gateway to SpaghettiOs.

[Agony]

26. They fucking apologized to him!!!!!!?

Oh, right… he's white.

life in post-racist america.

that last sentence is sarcasm

[scarletwoman]

27. If they outlaw gumbo, only outlaws will have gumbo! nt

[The Magistrate]

29. That, Ma'am, Is A Chance I Am Willing To Take....

Never could stand the stuff.

[scarletwoman]

32. That is a pity, Sir.

You willl have to wrest my Creole cooking from my cold, dead hands.

[Hoyt]

28. At least this time they didn't shoot him, but then he gets a break for being white.

This stuff needs to stop.

[dballance]

30. Good thing he's white.

Otherwise he'd probably be dead now.

[kestrel91316]

33. Good lord. The only thing they have in common is that their leaves

are both palmately compound.

Some horticultural retraining is definitely in order.

[NV Whino]

34. Georgia cops can't tell okra from weed?

Yikes! What's the world coming to?

[TeamPooka]

37. The war on drugs is a war on Americans. Legalize! nt

[Politicalboi]

40. I wonder what would have happened if

Mr. Perry had a small bag of weed in his house.

[Wella]

42. Actually, I'm surprised they weren't going after the okra

The FDA is now armed and they are running raids on organic farms and some people growing their own food.

http://www.naturalnews.com/033280_fda_raids_timeline.html