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"code enforcment" cops / undercover DEA?

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maybe i smoked too much and im too paranoid....i was just at the hydro store 30 min ago, in the back putting in a co2 tank into my trunk and this code enforcment cop comes rolling through doing like 2mph.. on his phone....
im soooooo paranoid now its SICK. hehe so is he DEA doing "reaserch"???
now i know they camp out the stores. i see the sheriff's cars camped out front on the routine.... i usualy keep rolling and come back later...lol! ok... so was it just a coincadence???im hoping so! damn that CO2 tank felt nice in my hands..... *DROOL* cant wait to give it to my girls tonight.. ..

just sharing the story...

any one else see these "code enforcement" cops around the grow store?? ive seen them before, so thats not a first, i guess its just paranoia...
 
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weed_snob

Member
huh, that would freak me out. Ive never heard of code enforcement before, kinda like citizens patrol?

From here i would say their is nothing to be done, just make sure their isn't anything interesting in the trash or anything else around that they can beggin listing on a warrant. and if they come by for a knock and talk you aren't home, even if they start yellin "we know you are home" dont say shit, let them waste their time at your door. Better to come up with a fake explination for the nieghbors why the cops were around than to open the door and hear the words, "I smell marijuana"
 
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Guest

i plan my hydro trips months in advance and just get everything at once. might be excessive but i take every precaution i can think of. i agree with the rest, get your co2 some place else.
 
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Guest

agreeing with everybody above basically. Anything you can get somewhere besides the hydro store, its better to get somewhere else. CO2 is CO2. The lower prices elsewhere were also mentioned too.
 
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badboyg

Member
HEY.... FYI ALL

be preped to give some ID of some sort.. most, if not all will ask you your INFO to get CO'2.. I homebrew and had to give ID to get a tank filled.....

be safe they are making it hard to do anything they do not want OR they have so much documnatoin that its easy to pop you
 
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Guest

i was buying the whole kit, fuzzy, silanoid, plumbing etc. i was just holding the tank when he drove by.... i got all hot and idzzy it was shit.. . i live in a huge apt complex so no bad trash. i usualy take my clippings and bag-em drive 1-3 cities over and then toss it, like at denny's LOL!
-i herd about the ID for CO2 also... i read that cops wanted to know who bought large amounts... doubt it related... my tank should last 3-4 months so thats cool. just got scared.
 
Pythagllio

Pythagllio

Patient Grower
Veteran
Propane is much cheaper. Buy your tank on Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day at Home Depot or Lowe's and you'll stand in line with the bar-b-que crowd.
 
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Guest

pythagllio's got it, the key is to blend in. Another idea is to act like you're into paintball. If you have some extra money to throw around walk into a paintball store and get a bunch of paintballs along with a large tank. Ask them approximately how many times you could fill up a 12 ounce bottle off this big tank, or something like that. you can say you're having a bunch of people over to play or something. Just make sure they give you the CO2 and not the other gas that is supposedly better for paintball, i forgot what it is, but its more expensive, so that should help you not to accidently get the wrong one
 
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fiveminuteslate

Member
zerocool,

I have seen a few of these in may around too. I only made note of it when I saw one driving through my neighborhood a few weeks ago. Saw him 2 times in the same week, but not since....

was a white truck with a tag on the front with a number on it.. i want to say it was 555, which is so ironicly phoney sounding it made me paranoid...

although I think it was nothing to worry about...

what did the truck look like?

-5minl8
 
billycw

billycw

Active member
Veteran
getting a co2 tank at a hydro store is how i got busted. thats the only probable cause they had to watch me. and never saw me do anything illeagle but came anyways. never answer door for cops!
 
MTF-Sandman

MTF-Sandman

OG Refugee
Veteran
irishSoCo said:
pythagllio's got it, the key is to blend in. Another idea is to act like you're into paintball. If you have some extra money to throw around walk into a paintball store and get a bunch of paintballs along with a large tank. Ask them approximately how many times you could fill up a 12 ounce bottle off this big tank, or something like that. you can say you're having a bunch of people over to play or something. Just make sure they give you the CO2 and not the other gas that is supposedly better for paintball, i forgot what it is, but its more expensive, so that should help you not to accidently get the wrong one
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Watch out telling em it's for paintball...if your CO2 tank doesn't have a siphon tube, it'll alert them that you're not using it for refilling smaller tanks...and siphon tube tanks discharge liquid CO2 (vs. gaseous CO2), which could damage your regulator/solenoid.
 
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Blazned

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what you should do is build an economical greenhouse, and all the equipment you get at the hydro store, is for your "hobby" of growing hydro vegetables. but you actually have to have the "decoy" functioning. Also bring some of your vegetable harvest to the guy at the hydro store just for good measure. the only real problem with this is having two of everything. but it is a real good way of throwing off cops. hell, you could even run cheap adds in local papers and the like advertising your organic vegetables. good cover for why people coming to your house. Also you could experiment with dry ice as your CO2 source; just set it up high in some water, the "fog" will fill your grow room. I know it works, cause I vegged mothers this way for about 8 years. when dry ice is put into water, CO2 gas is released in a "fog". You can buy enough for a grow season and put it into a deep freeze for storage. that way you are not going there all the time and buying small amounts and drawing attention to yourself; and as other dude said, buy it on a BBQ holiday, down here around Mardi Gras, it is common for people to buy a pickup truck load in order to keep the beer cold all day at the parades. yes you can drink in public here, but pretty much only during Mardi Gras.
 
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Guest

Blazned said:
what you should do is build an economical greenhouse, and all the equipment you get at the hydro store, is for your "hobby" of growing hydro vegetables. but you actually have to have the "decoy" functioning. Also bring some of your vegetable harvest to the guy at the hydro store just for good measure. the only real problem with this is having two of everything. but it is a real good way of throwing off cops. hell, you could even run cheap adds in local papers and the like advertising your organic vegetables. good cover for why people coming to your house. Also you could experiment with dry ice as your CO2 source; just set it up high in some water, the "fog" will fill your grow room. I know it works, cause I vegged mothers this way for about 8 years. when dry ice is put into water, CO2 gas is released in a "fog". You can buy enough for a grow season and put it into a deep freeze for storage. that way you are not going there all the time and buying small amounts and drawing attention to yourself; and as other dude said, buy it on a BBQ holiday, down here around Mardi Gras, it is common for people to buy a pickup truck load in order to keep the beer cold all day at the parades. yes you can drink in public here, but pretty much only during Mardi Gras.
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Way too much work to cover growing that way. Just do what others said and be cautious where you purchase things.
 
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Guest

good call on the siphons for the CO2 tank. I had no clue about that. Good stuff to know
 
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