Nonsense Thread

[Northern]

Nothing as exciting as Desert Narcos, but I had my site visit with my garage contractor this morning and he didn't seem phased by anything I want to do, so I'm taking that as a good sign.

Power might be an issue since there's no line of sight to any poles on my street, but my backup plan is to just run power from a 60A sub panel in my basement workshop, and overspec the new stuff so I can bump it to 100A later if needed.

Excited to finally have somewhere to work on all my automotive junk - hopefully finished by end of summer.

[MrBurgundy]

Plot twist, this is burgs' weed farm.

Hit me up for all your outdoor high desert weed needs, boys.

[roguetoaster]

Plot twist, this is burgs' weed farm.

[bradmer]

Seriously, that could have gone way worse than it did.



Yup.. People don't get it, man. They live in their cities, or in some suburb. They have no concept of what's happening and they hinder the ability for our government to become something that's actually useful in the name of.... .....I don't even know anymore...

Even when it comes to the point of why people need the 2A.. At least I could have helped myself out there if things got bad..

Anyways, that's getting into some P&R shit.

Super sad..

I've been thinking about it and I've been noticing trucks with large water tanks driving in and out constantly.

I use the land to throw music events and we have about 500 people out there. My next one is April and we've already spent like 20k putting it together, so when we went out there the other week to make sure everything is okay and that's when we noticed this.

Anyways, the last event, we noticed the water truck guys who shuttle water to the other grows that are around the land were just kind of watching us and the event.

I think they intentionally set up another location on our land to keep that many people from going out there and reporting this shit.

That's just a speculation.

Anyways, now I have to scramble to find another venue..

Yours is an amazing story, I have heard about this kind of thing happening in the forest but have never seen pictures. Your photos of their shit are amazing, you would think the DEA would love to see them along with an address. Also agree with what others have said in that you were fortunate to have gotten out of there, its' not like they were going to have a conversation...those are the folks that are bringing in fentynal.

[varg]

There is nothing inherently political about defending your own life with an equal level of force. However, I doubt they were shooting directly at you, as I believe they'd rather warn you than kill you, as killing you may result in scrutiny that they don't want on their operation.

Doubt it. A dead guy buried in the desert is a lot less of a liability than a guy telling the DEA he got shot at when he found a pot farm on his land.

[Optimator]

Even when it comes to the point of why people need the 2A.. At least I could have helped myself out there if things got bad..

Anyways, that's getting into some P&R shit.

Gotta love how California taxes legal marijuana growers to the point that at market lows, growers would sooner destroy their crops than to sell it to avoid the tax burden--a degradation in pricing power in part caused by a supply glut from these illegal growers. A part of the taxes levied on growers should be used to reduce these illegal ops, but I guess it's too much of an ask to have a government that serves the people.

There is nothing inherently political about defending your own life with an equal level of force. However, I doubt they were shooting directly at you, as I believe they'd rather warn you than kill you, as killing you may result in scrutiny that they don't want on their operation.

[MrBurgundy]

Jebus, that's brazen. Glad you gtfo'd and nothing bad happened.

Seriously, that could have gone way worse than it did.

That's fucking wild. If only we had, say, a wall, or I don't know, maybe a team of guys who's job it is to patrol the border to prevent this sort of thing from happening.

Yup.. People don't get it, man. They live in their cities, or in some suburb. They have no concept of what's happening and they hinder the ability for our government to become something that's actually useful in the name of.... .....I don't even know anymore...

Even when it comes to the point of why people need the 2A.. At least I could have helped myself out there if things got bad..

Anyways, that's getting into some P&R shit.

Super sad..

I've been thinking about it and I've been noticing trucks with large water tanks driving in and out constantly.

I use the land to throw music events and we have about 500 people out there. My next one is April and we've already spent like 20k putting it together, so when we went out there the other week to make sure everything is okay and that's when we noticed this.

Anyways, the last event, we noticed the water truck guys who shuttle water to the other grows that are around the land were just kind of watching us and the event.

I think they intentionally set up another location on our land to keep that many people from going out there and reporting this shit.

That's just a speculation.

Anyways, now I have to scramble to find another venue..

[McGyver]

I have client who worked narc for 35 years and told him about what we found. He was not even surprised. He advised me to never go out there again.

That's absolutely insane! Your best advise is to not go out to your land ever again!?!?!

So what's your plan?

[2mAn]

MrBurgundy You werent carrying any of your AR's?

[rturbo 930]

That's the most frustrating part..

Literally armed Mexican nationals taking privately owned American land...

***sends more money to Ukraine***

The cops were like yeah, they've been shooting people, chasing people off these roads blah blah blah..

The deputy was like we have to get a search warrant because it's not fenced off.. LOL

BRUH.. It's shitty that something of this nature has to climb the bureaucratic ladder of doom.

It's a literal invasion...

That's fucking wild. If only we had, say, a wall, or I don't know, maybe a team of guys who's job it is to patrol the border to prevent this sort of thing from happening.

[MrBurgundy]

A search warrant... are you kidding me?!

I've listened to the stories of those guys that would go down into central and Sourth America to destroy the drug operations .... now it's here, under our nose, and it's just crickets from the people we pay to protect us. .... just a little blown away right now.

Yeah, I was blown away as well.... I was so angry...

The deputy was super cool and tried to be as helpful as possible, but it's one of those counties where they have 2 deputies patrolling a massive area, so they can't even respond to calls out there because they're outnumbered... It's infuriating, to say the least.. He told me if they point a gun at you, do what you have to do, but that goes without saying. It was just alarming to hear PD even recommend that in a place like California.

I feel bad for law enforcement and obviously the people who are in my shoes too.

I have client who worked narc for 35 years and told him about what we found. He was not even surprised. He advised me to never go out there again.

Moral of the story- stay strapped, because if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time like we were, it can get ugly real fast and if you call 911, they're not gonna come.

[AceAndrew777]

A search warrant... are you kidding me?!

I've listened to the stories of those guys that would go down into central and Sourth America to destroy the drug operations .... now it's here, under our nose, and it's just crickets from the people we pay to protect us. .... just a little blown away right now.

[MrBurgundy]

That's wild. The fact that this is happening in our literal backyard and there's little/no immediate recourse being done. What on earth is happening?

That's the most frustrating part..

Literally armed Mexican nationals taking privately owned American land...

***sends more money to Ukraine***

The cops were like yeah, they've been shooting people, chasing people off these roads blah blah blah..

The deputy was like we have to get a search warrant because it's not fenced off.. LOL

BRUH.. It's shitty that something of this nature has to climb the bureaucratic ladder of doom.

It's a literal invasion...

[DEV0 E30]

We called the Sherriff and they basically said it's a huge problem and they're gonna be a while until they can do anything out there since they're basically a cartel army.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-11/illegal-marijuana-grows-have-overrun-the-california-desert

Some pics from the land of their grow op.

Jebus, that's brazen. Glad you gtfo'd and nothing bad happened.

[AceAndrew777]

We soon realized that our land has been hijacked to grow weed by the Mexicans..


We called the Sherriff and they basically said it's a huge problem and they're gonna be a while until they can do anything out there since they're basically a cartel army.

That's wild. The fact that this is happening in our literal backyard and there's little/no immediate recourse being done. What on earth is happening?