Heavily armed drug cops raid retiree’s garden, seize okra plants

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Heavily armed drug cops raid retiree’s garden, seize okra plants

Article Washington Post By Christopher Ingraham:

Georgia police raided a retired Atlanta man's garden last Wednesday after a helicopter crew with the Governor's Task Force for Drug Suppression spotted suspicious-looking plants on the man's property. A heavily-armed K9 unit arrived and discovered that the plants were, in fact, okra bushes...

...Indeed! Like cannabis, okra is green and it has leaves.

Okra busts like these are good reason for taxpayers to be skeptical about the wisdom of sending guys up in helicopters to fly around aimlessly, looking for drugs in suburban gardens.
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...The Cannabis Eradication programs have historically inflated the size of their hauls by including non-psychoactive "ditchweed" in their totals of plants seized. In past years, ditchweed accounted for up to 98 percent of seized outdoor plant totals. According to the ONDCP, ditchweed still makes up an unspecified percent of outdoor plants seized.
It is also unclear how many of the seized plants are actually okra.

.. Complete article @: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...entrandom_3_na

[Peacemaker]

Besides being hilariously funny, can't these people entrusted with ensuring public safety find something useful to do? Thanks for the chuckles.

Heavily armed drug cops raid retiree’s garden, seize okra plants

Article Washington Post By Christopher Ingraham:

---.. Complete article @: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...entrandom_3_na

[Shandi]

This article is from Oct 2014, although still of interest, and any of us can be victimized. Not much we can do about it.

[Star Man]

And just today, heavily armed police raided a mah jongg game being played by four old ladies in a retirement home in Florida.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/elderl...egal-gambling/

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