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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChicago police find about 1,500 pot plants in city
CHICAGO (AP) In Chicago, a bustling urban metropolis where skyscrapers are as likely to sprout up as anything a farmer might plant, someone decided there was just enough room to grow something a little more organic: Marijuana.
The plants grew even taller than the tallest Chicago Bulls. However, just days before the crop on a chunk of land the size of two football fields would have been ready to harvest, a police officer and county sheriff's deputy in a helicopter spotted it as they headed back to their hangar about three miles away.
On Wednesday, a day after the discovery of the largest marijuana farm anyone at the police department can remember, officers became farmers for a day as they began to chop down about 1,500 marijuana plants that police said could have earned the growers as much as $10 million.
No arrests had been made as of Wednesday, and police were still trying to determine who owns the property that housed the grow site on the city's far South Side. But police said they were hopeful that because of the size of the operation, informants or others might provide tips about those involved, including a man seen running from the area as the helicopter swooped low.
http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-police-1-500-pot-plants-city-075850659.html
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Chicago police find about 1,500 pot plants in city (Original Post)
AsahinaKimi
Oct 2012
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Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)1. Wow, that's a wild story.
1500 plants!!!
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)3. Its amazing they found it at all...
Considering how well hidden it was.. they just happened to find an open "window" from an angle looking down from a Helicopter. Amazing.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)2. Yo, I got that many in my basement kid, what?
I mean, yo, never mind, yo.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)4. $10 mill, my ass
Looks more like ditchweed than quality.