Nonsense Thread

[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?

[MR E30 325is]

Absolutely agree. For an upcoming trip, I looked, but Airbnb stuff just doesn't seem worth it anymore. The rules and expectations don't make sense for the price.. better off paying for a boring room and saving that extra money for the area you wanted to explore in the first place.

Funny story. For that Washington trip I did with my girlfriend last year, one of our overnight accommodations was a tree house. Neat right? It looked fine in the pictures, and the price reflected the expectations. Nothing extravagant.
The listing said it was in an encampment off the grid. We were okay with that, we wanted something different. It said there would be a dirt road to get there, but nothing crazy; the listing said that their Civic makes the drive no problem.
I'm thinking, okay, I've done dirt roads with my lowered car. It's lower than stock but usable on any normal roads. I don't have to clench my cheeks for every dip in the road.

My girlfriend is the one that books the spot. She's given directions for the location, naturally. I don't look them over because hey, how bad can it be.
It's getting late at night. We're in the closest city to get a few supplies before heading out to the tree house/camp site. I forgot to bring a bottle of propane for our stove, oops. Checked 3 stores, none have any. Fudge. So we decide to eat like kings at McDonald's. By the time we're done, it's nearing 11PM. We should have already been there, but it is what it is.

Up the highway, into the forest. Over the hills, through the woods. This is taking a while. There's the turn-off, finally. 2-3 miles of paved road, great. Make a left at this checkpoint, and begin the dirt road.
Fellas, this was no simple dirt road. This was every crevice on the earth, condensed into the 6-gruuuueling-miles long journey deep into the forest. Bushes could brush my hand when out the window. Birds yelled at me to turn off the lights. Holes to China kept trying to steal my tires. The only thing missing was a desperate tow truck driver waiting for me to make a call. I was constantly feathering the clutch, and once in a while could make it into second gear. Some areas were wide enough for two cars, which I utilized to zig-zag around every untrustworthy pit in the "road." But sure, your average Civic could make it, if you didn't give a flying f ck about it.

And then, towards the end, you get, to, the river. A large vehicle could forge this. My dainty 2WD Tacoma could cross it as the water level was low and relatively weak. But my E30 could not. And frankly neither could a Civic. But fear not, there was a bridge!
A bridge, one that had stone approaches and the bare minimum of metal slats, spaced 3 inches apart, spanning the 20-foot crossing.
It wasn't the little bridge that had me worried. I walked it. I almost slipped and died on it. I wasn't concerned about the integrity of the bridge, at all. I was concerned about the immediate grade up to the bridge, from level, to like 20 degrees, straight back to level, within a span of maybe 10 feet. I drove up to it, and knew I was going to scrape and scrape and scrape. I knew I would destroy my oil pan if I hadn't already. I knew I would beach it. I would destroy the exhaust system I just built, and it would pull all the new exhaust studs right out of the head. So I said no. We're not doing this. We're not going one more mile after this bridge (the camp site was only a hundred yards from the bridge, so I'm told) but I wasn't going to try and angle it, or anything to make this work. No way.

So I drive in reverse for as long as I need to until there's enough space for me to make a 6-point turn. In the middle of the night, in the middle of the forest, in the middle of Northern California. I crawl my way back, keeping an eye on my engine temp (because that's been a problem), looking for the safest path between the trees. For 6 goddamn more miles. Waiting for any crazy person to come up and kill us, because of how easy that could have been.
But here we are, we made it. Off the dirt, then back on the highway. Past midnight now. Now what? Still in the middle of nowhere, still no cell signal. Actually there's finally enough signal for the map to load. Okay... closest civilization is back down the way we came. It's counter productive, but the next town ahead is about twice the distance with no guarantees of accommodations. Honestly, nowhere will be a guarantee, but it's late and I'm tired, so back down, about 30 minutes, to the closest city.

My girl falls asleep once we hit the highway. I wake her up once we're close to town, and have her call a few spots for a vacancy. One's open. We show up. The only room left is their jacuzzi room. I've never heard of that! It's outside the room, right? No, it's right next to the bed! Wow, living in luxury here. A hundred-some bucks later, and we're not sleeping in the car for a second night. (Yeah the first night didn't go well either lol).
No we didn't use the jacuzzi.

The host took days to respond, and didn't understand why we didn't show up. Eventually Airbnb refunded our money.

My girlfriend still wants to stay in a tree house one day. I guess the story's not over yet.

I deal with this kind of thing semi-frequently. People online will often say "passenger car" friendly/capable when describing some remote trailhead for a hike or a canyon. If we can, we want to take the Prius, it's faster and it gets 5x the gas mileage of the truck. But we learned our lesson a couple times, that peoples description of a road that any passenger car can go down is not precise whatsoever.

We've been on some 'passenger car friendly' roads in the truck and I couldn't believe any sane person would describe it as being car friendly. Haha. We are clearly in truck territory, maybe even lifted/armored truck territory.

People must not give a flying fuck about their cars.

[MR E30 325is]

Dude that's so funny, because the place I just stayed in was exactly like that.

Off topic;

My buddy and I own some land up in the high desert, near Barstow (two hours from LA). It's off a main highway, about 3 miles down a dirt road.

The other weekend, we went out there in preparation for an event we're having out on the land and we noticed a huge water pit on our land. Like an Olympic sized swimming pool. We walk over and we notice massive tents that people use to grow pot.

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

People were still building when we were out there and we saw about 4 cars driving in to get to the grow location.

We get in the trucks and dip, because this is obviously sketch af. As we're driving out, we saw a massive dust cloud being kicked up from a couple cars that were blasting down the road.

The called the goons to come chase us out... the road is wide enough for traffic to go one way, so we just went around them and got back on the highway.

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.

Untitled by Omar Mountain, on Flickr

Untitled by Omar Mountain, on Flickr

Get the fuck outta here.

Geez. Best of luck my friend.

[MrBurgundy]

Dude that's so funny, because the place I just stayed in was exactly like that.

Off topic;

My buddy and I own some land up in the high desert, near Barstow (two hours from LA). It's off a main highway, about 3 miles down a dirt road.

The other weekend, we went out there in preparation for an event we're having out on the land and we noticed a huge water pit on our land. Like an Olympic sized swimming pool. We walk over and we notice massive tents that people use to grow pot.

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

People were still building when we were out there and we saw about 4 cars driving in to get to the grow location.

We get in the trucks and dip, because this is obviously sketch af. As we're driving out, we saw a massive dust cloud being kicked up from a couple cars that were blasting down the road.

The called the goons to come chase us out... the road is wide enough for traffic to go one way, so we just went around them and got back on the highway.

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.

Untitled by Omar Mountain, on Flickr

Untitled by Omar Mountain, on Flickr

[Chilezen]

I think there are still come banger deals w Airbnb.

I'm heading to ABQ this weekend and I got a spot for 50 a night/20 dollar cleaning fee

Hotels are just so expensive nowadays. Like min 100 a night in ABQ for anything that's not a La Quinta

Sweet, that's a deal. I believe you, they're still out there, just less common than what I remember.
Like a few years ago, 2018 I think, I was invited to the last day of SEMA by my boss who had an extra pass for the day. I found a dinky apartment complex next to the Las Vegas convention center, with one oddly colored bedroom, for like $55/night. Free parking behind a gate, access to the kitchen, and walking distance to the show. Perfectly suited my needs.

I've noticed with every room I have had stayed in, it seems like AirBnb requires a bedroom to have a minimum amount of "wall art". So anytime I stayed somewhere, there was IKEA or Target or whatever generic prints and posters so the room wasn't too "bland". I'm sure the more expensive places I stayed at also had wall art, but at least they worked well and blended in with the room...

Anyway. Airbnb is nice service, when it meets the price you need it to be.

[econti]

It said there would be a dirt road to get there, but nothing crazy; the listing said that their Civic makes the drive no problem.
I'm thinking, okay, I've done dirt roads with my lowered car. It's lower than stock but usable on any normal roads. I don't have to clench my cheeks for every dip in the road.

You gotta remember that a normie's interpretation of fine probably includes blowing the front bumper right off and causing severe damage, but its fine because they don't notice until the mechanic says something at next service time.

I drive a small truck for work and the amount of people who say "access is fine no worries mate" because they have a SUV and can't comprehend that not everything behaves like a SUV is astounding.
I have torn up multiple lawns and been bogged a few times due to that, including someone who forgot to tell me that they aerated and watered the lawn the night before, and instead told me on the phone I should just drive right up to the house across the grass and it'd be all dandy.