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| Marijuana Farm Nearly Invisible on Terraced Slope |
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Posted by FoM on September 01, 2001 at 11:10:32 PT By Monte Morin, Times Staff Writer Source: Los Angeles Times 
To hear narcotics investigators tell it, whoever cultivated more than 2,000 marijuana plants in rugged Trabuco Canyon was part botanist, part camouflage expert and part mountain goat.Toiling for months on the plantation, the growers hiked up near-vertical slopes in the Cleveland National Forest, hauling young seedlings and irrigation hoses with them, then digging terraces into the canyon slopes to sow their crops. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #2 posted by dddd on September 02, 2001 at 16:24:30 PT |
| ..yea kerouacko,,,shooting a rattler is rarely necessary,,but ya gotta remember who we're dealin with here,,a bunch of hyped up rookie sheriffs,who were probably armed to the teeth with fresh,clean Glocks that had only been used on the firing range...For alot of these guys,the high point of their day is that macho,studly rush they get from pulling the trigger,,,it's lucky a rattler was the only thing that got shot...dddd [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #1 posted by kerouacko on September 02, 2001 at 01:44:43 PT |
| "narcotics agents spent three hours hiking to it and even killed a rattlesnake they stumbled upon" Having grown up in the Arizona desert, I never once found the need to kill any of the mulitude of rattlesnakes I encountered, even after the time I nearly stepped on a coiled 5'-6' Western Diamondback. It didn't attack me, I didn't attack it. I'll tell you, I was scared as heck as I watched it slither away from a distance. But I firmly believe that there is no justifiable reason, short of an actual snakebite (for identification to ensure the right anti-venom is used) or for food, that a human should ever need to kill a snake. But why should we expect anything less from the real "snakes." Let it be, let it be. [ Post Comment ] |
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