Whenever I see the name Gruber, it reminds me of Gruber on McHale’s Navyor Higgins Boys and Gruber, one of the funniest comedy teams ever.
/ Yes, I am very old

/facepalm

I’ve been part of some stupid schemes but we really outdid ourselves on that one.

Htown–yeah. Because we, in our youth and enthusiasm, were utter and complete fools. My roommate, the plants-pulling one (who’d moved out by the time the DEA showed up) had ordered the growing lights from an ad out of the back of, you guessed it, High Times.

/facepalm

He’d used his real name, even though no one knew him by it, and that was the name the DEA came equipped with.

Spence, that was the closest I have come to urinating on myself as an adult. My other roommate had literally woken me up with the news that the DEA was at our front door.

i can’t even begin to understand what that was like.

They toured the place, cheerfully informed me that they knew someone (me) had been growing, but since nothing was happening now, adios

shit dude.

but damn did you get lucky brother. ive heard through the grapevine of two grow ops that i was getting from vicariously (one in cbus the other in cleve) were busted in the past 18 mos. i can imagine the legal process isn’t exactly fun…

/TBL’d

Sorry, I’m easily entertained.

/tips hat

id love to but it’s too risky and is a lot harder than just watering some plants.

(looks around for boss)

I had a homegrowing operation years ago. Sodium halide, tapped the water line in our basement crawl space, thing was going strong…until one day my roommate had a paranoid freakout and pulled the plants. I nearly killed him.

Except a few months later, coincidentally around the time we would have harvested, the DEA showed up at my front door. Three dudes that all looked like they played college football driving an SUV with fully tinted windows. They didn’t have a warrant, but said, and I’m paraphrasing because this was almost 20 years ago, go ahead and make us get one. You won’t like the result.

They toured the place, cheerfully informed me that they knew someone (me) had been growing, but since nothing was happening now, adios.

I had a High Times centerfold on the wall. When they left, one of the dudes pointed at it and laughed.

legend.

What I hate is that they edited it down to take out the part where all the cops are looking at the guy’s gun collection. One of them picks up a huge .357 with a laser site on it and, with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, asks “Can I have this?”

There are people here who can open the Craig James thread without it crashing their computers?

Anyone using Firefox and Chrome, I believe.