Close friend popped :(

[BKindication]

The difference, BK, is that a power company likes that 1200$ a month...why would they try to get rid of somebody who is paying them 1200$ a month...they're making a killing off us pot growers, they probably like us, except the ones stealing power.

As much as they may love money, no power company is going to risk their contract with the city to get a few extra bucks. People get busted because of power companies reporting spikes all the time. It's not just LEO subpoenaing power records to target individuals, the power company will report you to LEO if they think your usage is suspect. I know old heads who have run 20k watt grows in urban areas, stole power, never got caught, and are now happily retired. Paying isn't an option in those cases. This bus sounds like it wasn't quite at that level, and it was in a rural area, so a generator would have been less suspicious.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

50-100 a week HAHAH wow fuck the media. each plant weighed 35 poudns ahha you mean with the pot of soil and wet?

fucking idiots.

dude should have had a generator for soemthing like that. sounds hardcore!

 

[tokemaster]

the dollar value on the last post was pretty reasonable. that's rare for podunk cops and media. 10lbs out of a 40 foot bus sounds plausible.

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I doubt he was getting 10...doesn't look that big from the pics,
the flowering lights don't seem to be 1000 watters...not bright enough.

the veg lights are 400's...wish there were more pics...not what I was expecting when I first heard about it. not as clean and high tech as I thought it might be.

 

[SlevinK]

Clever location. A generator might have kept it flowing on the stealth...

I wouldn't mind a few huge storage boxes buried in my back yard, hehe.

 

[opt1c]

i just can't believe that the local media stated he was pulling 50-100 pounds a WEEK; not month; not year; every 7 days... people are dumb

 

[nomaad]

i stand corrected by photographic evidence. i was imagining a tight operation... i know people pulling down a good deal more than 10 lbs in a buried 20ft shipping container... but that shit is dialed in.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

man i wish i cuold bury a shipping container but my backyard is fucking tiny, absolutely no way to get one in.

the things i wuold do if i hit the lottery.

until then its gonna be the rat race until i have money to blow on properties with buried growcabs and snowmobilies and outdoor gun range.

its nice to dream

 

[RetroGrow]

If the only reason he stole power was to hide what he was doing, I can feel for the guy.

But stealing power to grow something that earned him so much money seems stupid and really wrong.[/QUOTE

It's stupid, and it's wrong, but he doesn't deserve to go to prison for it and have his life ruined.
To those living in med states and doing everything legally, congratulations, but not every one has that luxury.

 

[johnnyla]

stealing power using 120? if you are going to steal why not steal 240 and add some dehumidifiers.

that's why he got caught. he was stealing power.

the underground bus thing is an old school hippie grower thing. not the stealing power part.

 

[Hydrosun]

stealing power using 120? if you are going to steal why not steal 240 and add some dehumidifiers.

that's why he got caught. he was stealing power.

the underground bus thing is an old school hippie grower thing. not the stealing power part.

How about that is why he has any problems, because growing a weed in your backyard is none of anyones business otherwise

Peace,

 

[Wev]

Don`t Steal.
Thieves are the lowest form of life. The Scum that can not get anywhere in life without taking from someone else.
I work in the Electrical Industry and I say don`t do it.
The Grid Now knows down to almost a pinpoint where that power is going. Pay Bills. Nothin is Free.

 

[MMAJAY]

Yes, Kinston is a shit hole, lol. Not much there and not many jobs. The only thing good about it is its close to the coast.

Yes this story was told by the media many times over in 10 diferant LEO ways.

Me telling this story as reported in no way hurts him or puts me at risk. I know he wasnt pulling much from this grow for a fact. The plants were nice but he didn't have many watts like LEO said.

He was not a big time dealer like the sheriff wants to make it look like. This was a very small bus and not a full size bus and not all of it was used for the grow. He was smart and never showed anyone where it was or much about it.

I know many more details but its better off i keep it at he was not as big time as our local media made him out to be but more a LEO propaganda political lashing.

Yes according to LEO he was growing 10-15 LBS a week on some of the reports. We all know that that kind of weight is a fantacy that we all wish we could do.

When this goes to court in a year or two i am pretty sure that it will be hard for 12 people to send a fellow southerner to prison for such a small grow. Now the electricity part he is going to get F***** on.

The LED report to me is the funniest shit i have heard to date. I wish i had LEDS that could pull 15 lbs a week in a small room.

The only info i disclosed here that the media didn't allready release or the cops new of was the truth of him not being a major drug dealer but a good generous guy who liked to smoke pot with his few close friends. He surely aint a hard criminal like the police wan't everyone to think.

 

[Norrath]

Very interesting. i wonder if there are any discussion threads all ready to read about underground lair gardens...what logistics would you have to jump through, how is it cold or is it hot? how deep? any raging issues offhand? etc....

none the less, i think he is somewhat a pioneer, these types of grows arent well documented AFAIK and it's QUITE the engineering feat, indeed. Not any bloke could hook this up as well as he did - as far as teh article reads.

still, what a crook. I dont condone stealing, but i can understand and kinda sympathize...kind of. if i turn on the criminal in me

 

[guest2012y]

I got caught with a buried school bus and did 5 years in prison,my sister's boyfriend ratted me out. The state too everything,including the 10 acres it was buried on. I had mine under a goat pen. Anybody who has questions about the set up just ask.

 

[IWanaGetHiSoHi]

Very interesting. i wonder if there are any discussion threads all ready to read about underground lair gardens...what logistics would you have to jump through, how is it cold or is it hot? how deep? any raging issues offhand? etc....

Without a buried bus and HPS lamps running at 8 feet the temp is 53 degrees F.

 

[grasspass]

Power companies know how much power is going out and how much money is coming in. If the math doesn't add up, they know some one is stealing or they have a technical problem that needs fixing . They will look for and try to isolate the problem.

 

[Dr.Dank]

that sucks man I feel bad for the guy, there is so many commercial haters on here is ridiculous fucking gay grow some balls motherfuckers just saying people need to get their herb I wish i know someone that had good canna at the moment i would be cheefing real goooood
dr.dank

 

[IWanaGetHiSoHi]

that sucks man I feel bad for the guy, there is so many commercial haters on here is ridiculous fucking gay grow some balls motherfuckers just saying people need to get their herb I wish i know someone that had good canna at the moment i would be cheefing real goooood
dr.dank

Nobody was hating on Commercial Growers they were commenting on dude stealing power. According to 1 report it is what got him popped. Do you think you have any less hate than any other "fucking gay" person? I think you might be a bipolar HomoPhobe whom Half Of secretly wants to have relations with people of the same sex and is suffering from self loathing.

 

[Dr.Dank]

Nobody was hating on Commercial Growers they were commenting on dude stealing power. According to 1 report it is what got him popped. Do you think you have any less hate than any other "fucking gay" person? I think you might be a bipolar HomoPhobe whom Half Of secretly wants to have relations with people of the same sex and is suffering from self loathing.

lol if your growing commercial you kinda have to be stealing power buddy..... and I'm no Homophobe my uncle who taught me how to clone when i was 15yrs of age was gay he passed away and he was one of the coolest people I've met to date. The police can say whatever they want that guy got cought because he told someone and they ratted him out simple as that. thats for you

 

[CrossEyedMary]

Most of the stories you hear about people getting busted are from stealing power.