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MrScorpio

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23. Some police have taken to using heat signature detection technology

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 03:32 AM

May 2016

Oh course, an overly warm house does not meet the legal requirement for probable cause.

However, that won't stop them from starting an investigation, rummage through your trash, checking you for priors, tracking down your credit charges, putting you under surveillance and building a case against you.

There's also launching a sting operation against you, sniffing around your property with K-9 units, tracking down your utility expenses, contriving false testimony, planting evidence, staging false complaints, lying to D.A.s and judges...

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What are the signs that someone is growing pot in their house? [View all] Baitball Blogger May 2016 OP

Odor. The cops can also detect grow lights via aircraft. Tobin S. May 2016 #1

It would have to be a very large and/or a very poorly concealed operation Major Nikon May 2016 #22

Actually, with all due respect.. liberaltrucker May 2016 #2

Why would you ask? Lochloosa May 2016 #3

Because it's the Lounge. Baitball Blogger May 2016 #5

Are you planning a cover up? In_The_Wind May 2016 #4

Cookies. rug May 2016 #6

I'd expect to find LiberalElite May 2016 #8

You don't need pot to crave those. rug May 2016 #9

HA! nt LiberalElite May 2016 #11

I once had a really bad sore throat with congestion. Chan790 May 2016 #25

I never understimate the benefits of oblivion. rug May 2016 #30

This message was self-deleted by its author rug May 2016 #10

The cops look at unusually high electric bills. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2016 #7

lack of snow on the roof Enrique May 2016 #12

LOL! Baitball Blogger May 2016 #14

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Kali May 2016 #33

Incense. As opposed to incensed. n/t UTUSN May 2016 #13

That is a really good question. femmocrat May 2016 #15

A sudden, drastic increase in the electric bill. rurallib May 2016 #16

For us it was when the task force started dragging garbage bags full of weed OriginalGeek May 2016 #17

The statute of limitations may have run out on why I know what I know about growing.... moriah May 2016 #18

Electric bill. (n/t) Iggo May 2016 #19

When the cops raid the house next door! denbot May 2016 #20

covered windows and lots of traffic grasswire May 2016 #21

The covered windows angle is interesting. Baitball Blogger May 2016 #24

in my case it really IS skunk odor Kali May 2016 #34

Some police have taken to using heat signature detection technology MrScorpio May 2016 #23

Grateful Dead music on the stereo, cookie crumbs lead ghostsinthemachine May 2016 #26

Fake pool painted over your grow room womanofthehills May 2016 #40

A Rainier Beer neon sign in the front window and lots of company at 2 am jmowreader May 2016 #27

All of the color leaves their property, kentauros May 2016 #28

Willy and Woody hanging' in the front yard lame54 May 2016 #29

Smiles on their faces. n/t malthaussen May 2016 #31

A laid back neighbor who rarely gets angry, noisy or obnoxious and greater-than-normal pizza deliver LanternWaste May 2016 #32

The inhabitants are happy lunatica May 2016 #35

Pizza boxes. CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #36

When the majority your curbside pickup garbage consists of empty Doritos and Cheetos bags jpak May 2016 #37

I've grown mine in the crawl space Blue_In_AK May 2016 #38

A $3000 monthly electric bill? baldguy May 2016 #39