ANOV Time?
The pilot admits it was pretty much happenstance they stumbled on it, but a good job recognizing it for what it was:
- The lush crop of pale green plants growing in neat rows on the far South Side was, by one estimate, just days from being ready to harvest.
Unfortunately for the grower, Chicago Police got there first — and spent Wednesday hacking away at what’s thought to be among the city’s largest marijuana operations discovered growing outdoors.
The crop, spotted by a Cook County sheriff’s officer on a routine helicopter patrol Tuesday, might be worth as much as $10 million on the street, police said.
$10 million? Cut it, dry it, package it, sell it, fund the Helicopter Unit.
posted by SCC at 12:04 AM
59 Comments:
What was the hurry? Why couldn't they wait for th owner?
Did the first officer on the scene that identified the contraband pot inventory a sample as per G.O.?
Nothing like that Brownfield reefer grown on some solvent-and-heavy-metals soaked Superfund site...
Dude, where's my helicopter?
dumbass helo jockeys!
should have set up surveillance on it
I thought CPD found it?
..........with many forests still in Chicago, we bet there's more " fields of dreams " where that came from. Odds are there were probably a lot of harvesters out there tonight picking away at their crop before the big bad whirleybird crew sweeps down on them. Good job. It's pot luck you might say!
Ten minutes after reading this item I ran into this link -- The House I live In.
Face reality, regulate the stuff, collect taxes, and dry up the money those f*cking kids are killing each other over. And save a large fortune on prisons.
Remember how well Prohibition worked the other time?
Ill bet there will be a spike in random drug testing
How about sit on it and catch the bad guy...
Nah lets parade it out for the cameras
Rahms war/Anov on drugs has allowed these guys to do this. Great job but a crop as big as this is embarrassing. Enjoy your lime light and at a boy garry. Your saying Grow in Chicago its just a ticket.
I guess it would be too much work to wait a bit so you actually get some heads with the loot???
When it's all laid out in nice, evenly spaced rows in the middle of the 'hood...
Dude...hoping they were going to burn it soon, been camping out in an abandoned van @ 103rd & Doty ever since the news broke.
They were growing it in case a need for medical marijuana hits the state. Barry could use some after the debate last night.
How about sell it to California pot shops and fund our pensions.
Wow, the County's helocopter found it. Gee, where was CPD's chopper? I never knew the County had a chopper. We could have called on them once in a while.
What a waste of tax payers money," Police aint got nuffin better to do"
to the legalize weed crowd,
the arguement that kids are killing kids over where they can sell weed is false. kids are killing kids because someone stepped on their shoes, made a crack about them on facebook, etc...theses kids are seriously fucked up in the head, as is their mother and grandmother
Overheard at party:
Mayors office&revenue can't understand why POs are not writing more ANOVs for pot. Seems the mayors newfound jacpot of money is not there.
Too bad they never asked the guy on the street about the time involved to make a few bucks for Rham.
Bro, I smoke that much weed on an average weekend.
Chong
Wonder how many cops you could hire if we just taxed the crap, booze is way worse than pot anyways. Such a backwards world
Another waisted opportunity. How many new PO's can 10 million pay for ?
Why isn't Tommy Dart all over the press saying "I", I, I...
Legalize and get it all over with.
10 millón dólares ya right .......
Could this be our new outdoor range?
Since the weed was "chopped down" I am sure it will grow again next year for another terrific press event.
Oh no, the sky is falling! Why in the world is this stuff still illegal? No one has ever died as a result of ingesting the stuff, and it has proven anti-cancer properties that are just being recognized. Wasting precious time and manpower on enforcing these outdated laws borders on incompetent. And no, I do not use the stuff myself.
All that pot and less than 1 mile from the 4th. dist. station. If someone was standing on the hill to the west of 004 they might have been able to see it.
Great that only means more bodies left in vehicle trunks!
dam dam dam dam!!!!!!!!
The answer to the cities financial problems is staring them right in the face and yet they will set it up in flames.
However if they legalize and tax the drugs making it a legit business, then the political apparatus loses the crisis tool that they use to exploit, to justify and enhance their own social economic well being while building their empires.
It's hard to ask for more cops on the beat, more taxes to pay for them if the violence and drug problems go away. Why it will hurt growth! If there's no growth then how will we justify clouted promotions of their friends to Sargent, Lieutenant, and Captain?
How can we motivate the masses if we lose the gang violence fear tool, the drugs fear tool. Fear is a powerful motivator. Fear put people like Hitler, Stalin, and a list of many others into power.
We need to use that fear like we use "the children" speeches for more money, more control, more power.
Stop with the fear already.
This drug battle is bankrupting us but for the clouted ones it is working out so well they want to expand it to fear of firearms!
We can't control the drugs what makes anyone think that we can control the firearms.
We refuse to even control the flow of illegal immigrants because they need new ponzi's to keep this economic growth ponzi scam going. Hell we even run guns down to the drug cartels to keep the fear scam going.
We don't want to stop the violence, stop the gangs. We want to leverage them for profits. We want to make it look like we care that's all. It's all about looks not actions.
Not a single politician will connect the dots on what our Illegal Immigration lack of enforcement policy is doing to our health care system/cost.
Not a single politician will connect the dots on what the thousands of shootings in Chicago is doing to our health care system/cost.
Instead, the politicians want to cut health care benefits for the people that worked and earned them though pensions and social security.
Who's the winners? Big corporate pharma. Insurance and government subsidies are blowing cost of health care out of this world.
Over the last ten years health care costs have exploded at an average annual rate of over 9% per year! Has our paychecks grown by that amount? Has our health care insurance max. coverage grown by that amount? Nothing has.
Just keep importing more illegal immigrants and let the shootings continue so that we can use them as tools to support big pharma's profits and big politicians ego's.
Follow the money. Wake the eff up.
The BIG news about this story that is not being reported is that this field is less than 3/4 of a mile from the 005th District Police Station and Area South Headquarters, home to over 500 police officers from patrol, detective division, and various other units.
Anonymous said...
.. Face reality, regulate the stuff, collect taxes, and dry up the money those f*cking kids are killing each other over. And save a large fortune on prisons.
Remember how well Prohibition worked the other time?
10/04/2012 01:43:00 AM
Amen!!!!
Why not harvest it, sell it, including city, county and state taxes. Legalize it and legalize carry conceal. Allow citizend to buy guns in the city, tax them, stear away from Chicks gun in Dalton.
WALLAH!!!
Millions of money into city and state funds, allowing hiring of more police and other benefits.
Making the dealers sell theirs at compeditive prices, they will go out of business, gangs will cut back due to availability of "NOW LEGAL" drugs and may move out of city. Stop harboring illegals, cut back on public aid and in no time the city, county and state will have a surplus of money.
(If your reading this: Its more for the politicians pocket, also) PROBLEMS SOLVED!!!
I agree SCC 10 million would sure help our pension fund.
How did they grow that crop so well when other crops were wiped out due to the drought? They should get a Nobel Prize for their horticultural expertise! I wonder if they got fired by the Chicago Park District because they were a threat for being so smart and knowing what they are doing. How did Tom Dart not get into this? Who owns that land? Could it be some Cook County lawmakers who changed possession charges to ANOVS? Inquiring minds want to know!!!
Rahms war/Anov on drugs has allowed these guys to do this. Great job but a crop as big as this is embarrassing. Enjoy your lime light and at a boy garry. Your saying Grow in Chicago its just a ticket.
10/04/2012 03:58:00 AM
No less embarrassing than the 2 footballs fields of weed e found growing on the railroad tracks between Sox Park and headquarters?
Dozens of coppers walking by it on the way to work every day, and no one saw it. Too funny.
Wow, the County's helocopter found it. Gee, where was CPD's chopper? I never knew the County had a chopper. We could have called on them once in a while.
Hey dumbass, there IS no County chopper! The City's copters are paid for with City AND County monies! Some of the crews are CPD, others are County.
Apparently some of us don't take the time to read
up on the newer units, and how they are financed.
It wasnt Luck, it was vast experience and training that lead the helicopter to see the weed. Oh My God, let me get the fishing waders on.
didnt tiny dancer and mcbushmills just decriminalize pot? bragging that it would release cops from paperwork and unburden the courts? Now just today, there is our fearless leader saying that seizing the weed fields will bring down violent street crime. which is it?
OT have you seen where they are going to be putting school zone cameras. They are starting to put down school zones in white paint on streets before and after schools so they can say that there are notices of school zones. Start looking and you'll probably start noticing more and more of them around.
Ten minutes after reading this item I ran into this link -- The House I live In.
Face reality, regulate the stuff, collect taxes, and dry up the money those f*cking kids are killing each other over. And save a large fortune on prisons.
Remember how well Prohibition worked the other time?
10/04/2012 01:43:00 AM
You make too much sense for these idiot politicians to take heed. Just say no!
On the news, they showed one of the county workers walking toward the plants, getting ready to rip them out.
He had a very sad look on his face, watching all this primo herb go to waste.
Doesn't matter where it was located, this could not be seen by anyone from anywhere on the ground, this stuff was growing about 300 feet in from Stony Island and the other side is the rail yards, so say all the crazy things you want, but it is what it is, I was out there and nobody could have known about this crop, it was pure LUCK.
No less embarrassing than the 2 footballs fields of weed e found growing on the railroad tracks between Sox Park and headquarters?
Dozens of coppers walking by it on the way to work every day, and no one saw it. Too funny.
10/04/2012 03:01:00 PM
Too funny? Kiss my ass.
Legalize it and taxercize it! Then hire more police. (apologies to Bob Marley)
if they're gonna burn it why not just sell it and make some money for the city, still gonna get burned anyway
Since we both share the helicopter, I guess the county's crew is better.
You nosy fuckers. How do you think us oldsters are supposed to pay for our health insurance now? Who put that jerk that can see in the chopper?
This must have been really low grade stuff, compared to the fancy super-grades pampered with grow lights and hyrdoponics and fertilizers and such.
Ditch weed.
Surprised there's much market for that anymore.
Gee, maybe we could have sat on it for a while and actually caught the folks cultivating it???
Oh, wait, that would have taken manpower and delayed our headline grabbing publicity by a few days ......... nevermind
to 12:22 p.m. post. Dude, you have way to much time on your hands. Good job CPD/County helicopter unit
The BIG news about this story that is not being reported is that this field is less than 3/4 of a mile from the 005th District Police Station and Area South Headquarters, home to over 500 police officers from patrol, detective division, and various other units.
10/04/2012 12:29:00 PM
And the 004th district!! That's the first thing I thought of when I saw it on the news. Meanwhile, members of management (loosely worded) on tv practically twisting their joints out of place smacking themselves on the back and congratulating themselves for "finding" 2 football fields of weed that has had time to be planted and grow over 10ft. Yeah, GREAT JOB there!
Sell the weed, Save a pension!
one chopper. three or four magnetic, removable signs for doors.
Who gives a shit it's a bunch of weed. It probably really is a bunch of retirees. I hope it is and not the football team from Marist or something.
I guess the FLIR camera was broken, or they might have seen the spotter who was in the woods.
too bad air wasn't there when the ground guys hit it and flushed the spotter, who ran home? Or was it grounds keeper running back to the golf course next door( Bill Murray from caddy shack comes to mind).
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