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Michael Soldan
05-17-2005 17:16:47
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Well I thought I had seen everything and then a good friend of mine asked me to do some maintenance work on some of his farms, starting with a farm house he had rented out. The renter was busted with $750,000 worth of equipment and plants. Firts he covered all the floors with plastic tarpaulines, every window with heavy black plastic. On each floor he boxed a window, leaving the window open a third, from the box was 12"flex tubing that ran around the perimeter of each room and was attached to the wall. A slit was cut about every three feet to let outside air in around the plants as the lamps tend to get quite hot. Garden hose was run from the bathroom to each room to water and humidize the grow area. The guy ripped the feed lines to the sink off and hooked in there. He removed all the shelving in the basement and optimized that area as well. The rooms were wall to wall with 15" planters, one room had smaller planters, where the plants were just started. Above the planters, conduit was strung suspended from the ceiling for the lights. Two areas contained all the ballast boxes and transformers for the lights. There were about 200 of these and they weighed about 20 lbs each, thousands of feet of electric wire...I spent two full days to disassemble and carry out the equipment and the planters. The Provincial police removed the marijuana, and the lamps, cut the wires on the ballast boxes and transformers, everything else remained. There were over 800 planters to dump and stack. The house, which is a very decent home was not damaged by the grow Op as some are. Apparently the high humidity causes black mould which can destroy a home, still it will cost my friend around $400 for my labour, a couple of hundred for a plumber and a new door for the one the Provies busted in. The house still needs the windows cleaned, the floors vacuumed and the kitchen and bathroom floors scrubbed...now get this..I was told yesterday that the guy running the grow Op had his case dismissed and is free as a bird to rent another house somewhere in Ontario and be up and running again..seems that the provincial police forgot something during the raid...its called a "Search Warrant" ! I believe this house was set up professionally, the quality of workmanship was excellent, the wiring neat and functional, likely a gang out of Toronto..they could have a hundred grow ops going at once and if one goes down ..no big deal..its getting bad all around southern Ontario for grow ops, they are usually Asian, they use city homes or country homes, wherever they can find them. Incidentally this particular Gook by passed the hydro meter and had stolen all the energy he used from Hydro One, so all Ontarians paid for his energy...and our Federal Government is considering decriminalizing marijuana so its not a crime to possess it..which house on your block will be your neighbourhood grow op? Now you know why I said I had thought I had seen everything! Mike in Exeter Ontario
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