Thread: Scarey camping

These are dangerous & STUPID people.

Let me tell you some precautionary tales we were told by the drug squad, when we did our paramedic training.

Story 1. A guy drives up and down the Hume HWY towing a covered trailer. In the trailer is a gas cooker, cooking his drugs. One day there's a mishap and a gas fire, in which he gets severely burned. Some months later he is out of the Alfred Hospitals burns units, still wearing his burns suit, and is caught by Police driving up & down the Hume HWY towing a trailer, but this time, with electric cookers.

Story 2. The S.O.G. raid a house in a leafy Melbourne suburb, the Drug Squad are in tow. Normally the S.O.G. secure the scene and the scientists on the Drug squad go in & shut down the operation. On this particular occasion they rush in, grab the crook and keep bolting out the back door. Perplexed as to their sudden exit, the Drug squad get on the radio and ask why. The guy had a hydrogen cylinder with tubing running to various flasks and sealed with wads of rags. He also had an open fire in the same room. The strret was evacuated, and when the fire died down, they went and shut down the process.

Story 3. The Police are surveilling a green house in the bush. There's a lab at the end of the green house. While they film, theres a disturbance at the front door. The crook (whose in the lab) gets up suddenly and knocks stuff over. The whole whing goes up like the Hindenburg. Police are glad it went up during surveillence and not a raid, as the interior had mesh and formed a cage, so there was only one entry / exit point.

Story 4. A couple of mates have an argument, so one decides to dob in his mate to the cops. The Police arrive and aren't able to find anything. As they're about to leave, the gleefully excited crook asks, "do you want me to show you where it is?" They take him up on his generous offer. He goes and removes a grille from the brick wall, behind it is a string, he pulls the string and hydraulic rams lift a concrete slab in the yard, with a brick BBQ on it!!! Under the slab are twin wells, one to a hyrdoponic room and another to a lab. He hadn't started production, but if he had, the fluro igniters from the hydroponics would have ignited the vapours of chemicals he was using and he could have taken out some of his street.

Story 5. A lot of these guys use petrol as a solvent for reducing their drugs, not knowing that they can buy industrial quantities of alcohol.

The stories sound unbelievable, but there was a slide show to corroborate them.

And as already stated, be wary of booby traps around bush plots.

Originally Posted by Savanahkelpy

Speaking of difficulties of access, i woke up this morning with a smile on my dial because i must have been thinking about over night, while asleep, and with my wicked sence of humour, i couldn,t help but laugh,
When i bugged out, yesterday, and by the time i got back on to the main road, i was starting to think, "Why should i cut my camping trip short because of this idiot and his actions, so when i crossed the bridge, i turned into the area most used by people for camping and having a break from driving, and there was parked a vehicle.. By this time, my personal radar was on high alert, and for some reason, this vehicle raised suspisions, so i took down its details and gave them to plod, as well
If this was the vehicle ,(and i say IF), driven by a certain individual, then he had walked about 2 1/2 klms down stream to his site, to do his thing, and i had driven the same distance,on the other side of the creek, merely walking across the river bed. I can,t help but laugh, what a dork!

Th dork bit is probably that he didn't park his car far enough away.

From the stories I've heard, the idea is that you put the plantation on the neighbours property, and never drive in. Everything is walked in, including all of those batteries, and take a different route every time so that there isn't a worn path in.

Lucky thing is he probably wouldn't have been carrying a gun if he was already loaded down with batteries.

Reminds me of the account I read some time ago (possibly an urban legend). The man telling the story was at a police auction, and the bloke standing next to him bought a whole stack of flourescent lights seized from an urban hydroponic setup. He asked the bloke what he wanted all the lights for? The reply, "They took my lights, and getting them back this way is a lot cheaper than buying new ones!"

John

A dairy farming friend tells me that finding small crops in the middle of their corn fields (grown for silage) is a common occurrence. Once they decided to bring forward the date of harvesting unannounced - the cows were very happy!

I will say, that all said and done, i,m safe, i get to fish and camp another day, maybe/ most probably at other places, but its unwanted hazard of being a bushy and the search for good fishing holes. I figure i,ve done all i could and whether you trust the police or not, its now in their hands. I gave all needed information in my posession, and its now up to them to make connections and take any action.
Laurie.
Looks like i,ll have to search upstream, now,,, for fishing spots, that is,,,,had enough of anything else!!

Reminds me of a story from some Townsville blokes about 20 years ago on the western side of the Cape.

About 8 at night, 3 blokes walk into their camp with guns, gave 1 guy a hiding to show they meant business, burnt their swags, told them to **** off, not come back and they had their rego numbers so no coppers!

They could only surmise they were somewhere near a crop or a transfer point.

These guys were all burly but they reckon these hoods were fair dinkum and frightened the crap out of them!

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Reminds me of the account I read some time ago (possibly an urban legend). The man telling the story was at a police auction, and the bloke standing next to him bought a whole stack of flourescent lights seized from an urban hydroponic setup. He asked the bloke what he wanted all the lights for? The reply, "They took my lights, and getting them back this way is a lot cheaper than buying new ones!"

John

One often sees hydroponic farming gear at the Public Trustee "Police Seized Goods" auctions. The auctioneers tell me that after the sale the police get the names and addresses from the auctioneers buyer register (POI is necessary to get a bidders number) and a few months later pay the buyer a call and sometimes the gear goes back through the auction house.

spent a couple of hours watching a low hovering police helicopter hovering over our neighbors place, when they dropped a streamer, and all these police toyota 4WD's heasded down. He had 6 mature plants growing under the lantana. Next day the chopper was back and photographed us on the otherside of our place carrying matocks, etc. along our fence line to remove groundsill, a declared noxious weed. Then we moved a bit further along our fence line and found dope growing in our scrub, just one plant. So we went back to the house and called the cops, and a local constable came out and removed it. We could have been done for it if we had left it growing there.