Anybody remember this article? Tomato plants misidentified as pot plants

[Ziggaro]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/cops-mistake-tomato-plants-pot-article-1.1338781

Just wondering if any of you remember this. I think I might have seen it in a post here, but can't remember.

I still pull this article up once in a while to show friends and they're all amazed.

I pulled up all the comments to see if anybody caught on..that these were definitely 100% (unhealthy) pot plants.. and the comments are full of people as ignorant as these police.
I mean.. the cop lady has her iphone out trying to ID the plants and still can't. What a lucky break..

 

[aridbud]

Yeah, I recall.....even had grower friends in NW plant tomatoes like you would pot, and trimmed the leaves bluntly to confuse those 'looking for' cash crop.

 

[Midnight Tokar]

It seems like I remember something about a "pot" bust In Georgia (may be a neighboring state?). The goofball cops thought Okra was weed! You'd think all good Southerners would know what an Okra plant looks like!

Edit: Yep, Georgia. Here's a link: http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/us/georgia-okra-marijuana-raid/

 

[Rubber Chicken]

Is that real??

They thought they were herb but then realized they were only tomato plants (but they ARE herb plants)?

 

[Sisu]

It seems like I remember something about a "pot" bust In Georgia (may be a neighboring state?). The goofball cops thought Okra was weed! You'd think all good Southerners would know what an Okra plant looks like!

Edit: Yep, Georgia. Here's a link: http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/us/georgia-okra-marijuana-raid/

Yeah, I remember that one. I was thinking, wtf is next, kudzu?

 

[Rubber Chicken]

How can you be so daft to 'check' online and get it completely wrong?

And to also post pictures of the 'tomato' plants

 

[stoned-trout]

I have always called em tomato plants too...yeehaw