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The scariest moments in your grow career?

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There's been so many close scrapes over the years....

Was driving home from picking up 2 pounds of weed, driving down a council estate road, kid ran straight out in front of me, of course I hit him, good job I was only doing 20, ended up driving off at high speed because his entire family appeared and wanted to lynch me. Dumped the weed in one of those yellow salt bins they have all over the place here and drove straight to the police station, told them what happened and stressed why I had left the scene of an accident. Kid was fine, broken leg, broken arm, but fine. Recovered weed, all was fine. Whew.

1997, living in big city, house had huge back garden with trees on all sides, compeltely private, had about 80 plants in the garden, I was sat in the front garden in a deckchair one day watching a parade of Islamic nutters beating themselves till they bled with chains wander by. Suddenly large police riot van pulls up outside my house, side door opens, a dozen policemen in full riot gear pile out, oh shit, I thought, I'm busted. They ran into next door's garden and went straight through the front door with one of those metal rams and reappeared a couple of minutes later with three Asian guys in cuffs.

Had 50-odd clones rooted in rapid rooters in the boot of my car, pulled up outside the pace I was taking them to about 60 seconds after the cops arrived and bust the place. I just got out, locked the car, walked to the shop at the corner of the street, bought a newspaper and a pint of milk, walked back to car, got in and drove home. That was fuckin close!

Was asleep on a friend's sofa after a night out, was woken by the police smashing in the front door, I had a quarter of hash in my pocket, that quickly went in the jail pocket and I wasn't charged with anything, my friend's housemate (unbeknownst to us) had been selling a lot of speed and they were after him, they got him and under a floorboard in his room they got 11oz of base, they found scales, many tins of baby powder, loads of wraps of cut speed, we never saw the guy again.

Was caught smoking a joint by university security guard (year after I graduated, but was still living like a student), had a couple of oz on me, so I chinned him and ran, must have caugth him right cos he didn't run after me.

Was sat in a room full of greek students smoking up a storm (I'd just sold them piles of hash), suddenly knock on door, head appears round door and speaks in Greek, suddenly everyone is up and panicking, they all fly out the door and I hear mass commotion outside in cooidor, I stick my head out and police are heading down corridor, mad Greeks decided to try and run past them to get away, half were caught, half got away, I jumped out the window (first floor), landed in a bush, hurt my ankle but got up and ran off on adrenaline and staight into the pub across the road, bought a drink and mingled with the crowd. The Greeks all got fined for the hash and refused to name who the fella was who disappeared out the window! lol

Was queing to get into a nightclub and the police showed up with a dog and walked it down the queue, damn thing sat down next to me (I was almost at the head of the queue) so I got led away and searched, luckily I had nothing on me, the dog must have smell the odour of weed on my clothes as I'd been smoking up a storm before we went out clubbing.

All those were years ago, but more recently, somebody sent me a newspaper cutting about a grow bust anonymously in the post, it was cut from my local paper, had been mailed locally, I tore down right away and was expecting a blackmail letter next or a bust or something, not heard a word since.
 

DemonsITN

New member
Dude, you are nuts Ganja. lol.

Myself, I was expelled from school in my junior year because I was a dumbass and brought weed to school and someone ratted on me.

I also got arrested twice in less than 2 weeks when I was 18, both during traffic stops. Both times I had around 20 grams on me, and they took me to jail where I had to spend the night. Really messed my shit up for awhile. The prosecutor wanted me to do time because I was caught twice in less than 2 weeks, but I ended up getting off with just a 3 hour drug program at a nearby hotel and a $250 dollar fine.

I don't smoke in the car anymore, and if I have weed on me when driving (most often just returning to the pad after copping a sack), I make sure that shit's hidden real deep, so a cop would have to completely tear apart the car to find it. I'm a lot more careful these days. Spending a few nights in jail tends to sober you up.
 

est1977

Active member
neigbor got raided at 5am and we thought they were coming for us lol,got busted like 10 yrs ago cause an old roomate was on probation and they did a probation search and found my seedlings and tossed em' took the roomate to jail for probation violation l was never charged or harrased
 

DocLeaf

procreationist
ICMag Donor
Veteran
A drunk crashed into the back of my car,, the boot was full of Jack Herer.. :eek:
,,,I n I nah care about drunk mans in cars,, just wanted to get the hell outta there before da babylon arrived :joint:

One time as a youth I's spat on a sodium bulb and it imploded in my face,, that was scary,, was blinded by the light for a while.. lol :bashhead:


The first time we discovered spider mites in a garden was perhaps the scariest time :wink:
 
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DocLeaf said:
A drunk crashed into the back of my car,, the boot was full of Jack Herer.. :eek:

I had a very similar experience happen. A drunk redneck slammed his truck into my rear while I was stopped at a light. I walked out, looked at the damage (~$700), shook my head at the asshole, got back in and drove away.

Probably more of a scary moment for him, than me. That was his lucky day.
 
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Water main broke, apartment manager came in and found 2 plants 4 weeks into veg, and immediately called the cops. The officer waited in the apartment manager's office for my car to show up so they could bust me.

That very same day my car broke down on my way home from work. When I do get home the maintenance manager sees this and comes to warn me. A friend came and we carried the plants and equipment out to their car and took off.

Eventually had to talk to that officer...I denied the grow and he was pissed...but he had nothing on me at that point as there was no evidence so he couldn't do shit.
 

ChaosCatalunya

5.2 club is now 8.1 club...
Veteran
I was growing in my mates house as my mad wife had banned me from flooding it, sorry, growing at home.....

[a little joke for all you domestic NFT growers....]

My friend had not taken as much care with the bills as he should, the gasman shows up to read meter for the 5th time, again no answer, so he calls the cops for a forced entry, they often find dead bodies in situations like this....... Anyway, mate's wife spots cops, stops them while they are drilling the door, calls her Husband and he calls me.

I am 20 miles away, all motorway and have a fast bike, I get told "There is a bad problem and you need to get here ASAP" ... so I did, unfortunately attracting the attention of the Pigs on the motorway by my 160mph flypast.....I had no idea I had passed a plainclothes car, or that they were behind trying to chase ..... until I heard sirens 100M behind when I slowed for a speedcamera and then the following 30mph roundabout .... cue very nasty chase, the ****s tried to knock me off, but failed.

I got away, found out that the grow was already safe and had to spend several months in different leathers/helmet. Despite one getting within a foot of grabbing me they never got [all of] my numberplate. :jump:

Same grow house, this time homebrewed NFT system in the loft by my friend alone this time...... an untidy wire was being compressed, on a hot day it caught fire. A modest fire by most standards, this one was luckily extinguished by a 15mm NFT feed pipe being melted through. Sadly after handily extinguishing the fire, there was another 100L of water in the loft, ceiling, walls, bed, bedrooom. My friend was free, but not popular with the wife.

:wink:
 
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bottletoke

Sometime ago i was running a house with 1 other person, this person was known to local police, had a load of charges and was on probation, but he was trustworty, registered the growhouse in his name, and knew how to grow so i went along with it.

Around 55 days into flower my partner calls me and tells me he got busted breaching his probation, and that they now needed no warrant to enter his property, so me and him rush to the house, and begin to harvest, for the next 4 hours we trimmed and took down the setup, the cops never came, but a few days later he blew up the kitchen making a big batch of BHO, and the fire dept came and police came, but he played it off as an accidental fire....
 

DocLeaf

procreationist
ICMag Donor
Veteran
When the meter man arrives on egged timers,, this has been known to raise pulses,, lol

Smoking 5skin reefers on jam sandwiches (police-cars) as kids also builds spirit :biglaugh:

Botrytis (aka bud-rot / grey mold) was an frigging nightmare first time,, don't know about scary, petrified it would spread more like...

It's always funny how in hindsight we can laugh at 12years worth of porridge,, although a lot more sobering when brethrens have to eat it :wink:

"Stay outta trouble you crazy kids"- Mr Wolf
 

xu2x

New member
Me and my gf were at long time friend's home. Us and another couple. I brought some smoke for them(little under an ounce) + a pic of me holding some huge buds (my face and hands blacked out of course). Someone associated with the address was doing some stupid ass things(i don't wanna get too detailed). The home got raided as we were there. In handcuffs in back of leo car. They searched us, ran our ID and let us go! Un-fuckin-believable! They looked at the pic I had, asked us about it and said it was off the internet lol. Gave it back to us and let us go! True story!
 
This year, when an another breeder send me 4 cars of cops and 3 dogs in my fake adress for have more place in business i presume. I'm not alone in this case, but the only one breeder, and we all have serious issue for him.
 
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British_Bulldog

Another scary moment: I lost my house keys, with enough going on to get in serious trouble......after looking for 2 hours for them, I parked away from the address in case 'the man' was waiting for me, and scouted it out.

I thought if they are there waiting for me, then at least I'm gonna go to get a good meal down me first before owning up, lol

However, the coast was clear, and I walked up to look around the parking area to see if I'd dropped the keys there - no sign of them!

Fortunately, it didn't look like I'd been busted.....so far!

I was thinking to get a locksmith out the next morning to open the door, although that wouldn't have been totally safe either, as if he'd come in, he would have seen stuff going on, but that was my only option, and to try and keep him out.

So, I was planning to sleep in the car, and made one final last ditch attempt to find the keys........I got a torch out as it was now dark, and rummaged around....

Unbelievably, I found them down the back of the passenger seat in the corner!

That was a relief, I can tell you!

And it's at times like that, that make you appreciate the values of a 'normal' life, rather than being arrested and looking at a prison sentance :(


Peace
 

Pythagllio

Patient Grower
Veteran
I disconnected the hose to my flood tables but forgot to turn off the timer. When it went on the pump did exactly what it was supposed to do, and 25 gallons of nutrient solution spewed forth. I lived on the 10th floor of an apartment building at the time (1997). Even worse, my downstairs neighbor was the vice mayor of the city in which I lived. Man was I shaking when the maintenence guy pounded on my door and demanded to be let in. Anyway, I refused and he went away. I ended up getting a nasty letter from management telling me if they showed up at my door demanding entry I had to let them in. Yeah, right, hold your breath dude. Anyway, the tarp and frame wen in the next day.
 
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basement420

Kinda a stupid mistake on my part and a small scare but I haven't grown that long and this was the biggest scare, of course it was also my first experiment at growing. This was my junior year of college, I had been living in a 4 bedroom apartment with three of my good friends, none of them smoked or anything but they all said they were okay with me doing so. I decided to try to do two plants in DWC under CFLs in the closet to my room. Well they were into flower, which actually never finished, but we had decided to have a small party nothing really bad or anything. Well I cannot remember why but out of nowhere a uniformed police officer is at the door knocking. My dumbest roommate just slams the door open and the cop notices everyone drinking and we had a hookah rolling in the living room, only tobacco. He decided that he has probable cause to enter and check IDs and make sure no one underage was hiding from him. Well my few lights were on and of-course i was in the main room when the cop entered so there was no way for me to conceal the plants, i thought i was f-ed. Well he popped his head in my room took a quick glance around and walked out, he never said a word and he didn't even actually give anyone a ticket for anything. I was so happy when he finally left. I look back on it now and for that little of a plant and such it would have been a slap on the wrist first time offense but at the time I was scared senseless.
 

bobblehead

Active member
Veteran
My scariest moment ever...
I had received a notice for a fire inspection the night before I was leaving for spring break. Luckily I checked the mail before getting in the car to go!
So, I canceled my plans, took everything down, covered the holes in the ceiling, and hid 200+ plants in the attic.

So the inspectors come, and while we're in the back room, under the plants, the ceiling tile falls... The inspector said "I didn't do it!", I put the tile back up, and passed if off like it was no big deal. I mean I'd only be in jail if he had looked up, right?

I made it, and I should be inspection free for a long time now!
 

Igignokt

Member
I was driving home from campus at 10 or 11PM with a pound in my trunk...get pulled over and breathalyzed just because it was a saturday night and I was coming from campus...I had been drinking beers earlier in the day and was only 18 or 19 at the time. I passed it, but talk about a bad time to get a DUI/minor while driving

Then on another note, I did get caught once. There was a housing surplus around campus, so I was able to rent one BR out of a 4BR apartment and they'd just keep the other 3 doors locked. My friend got kicked out of his house and was stayin with me and being that our parents are friends, they were upset that my friend was having such an easy time being kicked out of home so they decided to make the management aware that another was living there. Maintenance man comes by to do a room inspection, finds a few plants growing in one of the locked rooms...calls police, all that. They take everything. I go to court shitting my pants, and unbeknownst to me, MJ had been decriminalized in MN so I didn't even have to sit in court all I had to do was pay a $280 fine!
 
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My Girl Call NYC Fire Dept

My Girl Call NYC Fire Dept

We had a little minor fire in the back or the Dryer. I was driving down my block with a buddy and I had a few monsters and 30 + in 4" pots. I shit myself I was saying to him that is not my house.. I must have said it 10 times till I seen them walking in with Axes and Pry Bars in and out. I ran in and asked if everything was cool... They explained to me what happened I thought I was Fucked..:fsu:


When they left my house I screamed @ her and she did not even realize what she had done. I was just happy to still be free I actually celebrated that night. Then that's when I went even more Urban and moved the whole Opp to another Location... Now they come into do fire inspections because it is a Warehouse. I kind of knew that was going to happen so I went with 2 Sealed rooms.. They can come and inspect all they want I don't have keys for those rooms there is just Comp Servers in there.... We do disaster Recovery for large private company's on secure severs with no internet access.. To All the criminals I know in the neighborhood that ask what I have in their. I tell them I keep offshore gambling records and voice recordings back ups in the spot.

So far So GOOD Thank God
 

~fvk~

the Lion is going Guerrilla...
So... I found out that it's a lot quicker to have to destroy evidence than to grow it

So... I found out that it's a lot quicker to have to destroy evidence than to grow it

yeah never really had one...
 
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Barf

Member
est1977 said:
neigbor got raided at 5am and we thought they were coming for us lol,got busted like 10 yrs ago cause an old roomate was on probation and they did a probation search and found my seedlings and tossed em' took the roomate to jail for probation violation l was never charged or harrased

That's fucked up dude. He probably got kicked out of school too cause we was already on probation? Nice going there, he was trying to get the cops of his ass and you fucked him.
Should have manned up.
 

ourcee

Active member
so I'm running an op in a duplex, got ~100 ladies downstairs, 48 trainwreck and 48 NYCD, a few mothers and a few rooting clones. needless to say the bloom room was pretty full, the TW were a month in and the NYCD a few weeks.

Friend who was living at the place called me freaking out about a helicopter going over the other day (we were near a major highway/air route fyi). I tell him to calm his tits and relax, helicopters go over all day every day.

a week or two later I end up spending a few hours watching the grass grow, all while packing some.... ok lots :wink: , of bowls of some kryptonite.

Ends up we hear a helicopter hovering over us at about 10 pm at night, literally able to hit the chopper with a rock from our patio, needless to say we were shitting ourselves, it must have done 10+ circles over our general area, the neighbors all outside seein what the commotion is.

I look down (had a nice view from that patio) and see that the road is blocked off from the only two ways in, got cherries and berries at both intersections so we promptly decided "oh fcuk" was the appropriate answer.

all the meanwhile were baked out of our skulls, paranoia is running high, so instead of potentially losing it all, we chop everything, after seeing the chopper leave and the cops still blocking off the intersection we kept up our clipping tryin to fit as much into jars as possible, thinking that a knock on the door real soon was inevitable and he was gonna park out on the public street with everything in a car thats not registered to him.

ends up they were doin somethin else :badday:

in retrospect we shoulda coulda woulda left it up, but safer then sorry imo.

seeing the nuts and bolts on a police chopper with your bare eyes, while your on the ground(however 'lifted' :wink: ), is no fun.
 
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