Another Reason to Carry

[SuperiorDG]

Well here's the story. I usually walk my labs along Clear Creek in the open space area between Kipling and Wads. Since they are labs they have to run. I let them off leash pretty much the whole walk. We walk along the creek as much as possible and I throw a toy to keep them in check. I usually see homeless people camping along the creek every morning. I carry every time. About a month and a half ago I come up on this guy in the brush. He stands up and say hi and nice dogs. To keep my space, we walk around where this guy is. Today, with the vegetation died down, I walk through the same spot and find a half dozen flower pots in the same area. They have stems cut off and you can tell it's an old pot grow. So when I saw this guy last time I now know he was sitting on his pot grow to protect them. This is about 100 yards west of Wadsworth on the creek. I never would have guessed someone would have an illegal grow going right in the city of Wheat Ridge. I guess you never know. Things could have gone differently if I would have chosen to keep along the creek back then. Good thing I didn't have to protect myself, but I would have been ready.

[Tinelement]

But people who use open spaces are the outdoorsie dog loving folk!

This would never happen!

I'll be passing this story onto some friends....

[Great-Kazoo]

Well here's the story. I usually walk my labs along Clear Creek in the open space area between Kipling and Wads. Since they are labs they have to run. I let them off leash pretty much the whole walk. We walk along the creek as much as possible and I throw a toy to keep them in check. I usually see homeless people camping along the creek every morning. I carry every time. About a month and a half ago I come up on this guy in the brush. He stands up and say hi and nice dogs. To keep my space, we walk around where this guy is. Today, with the vegetation died down, I walk through the same spot and find a half dozen flower pots in the same area. They have stems cut off and you can tell it's an old pot grow. So when I saw this guy last time I now know he was sitting on his pot grow to protect them. This is about 100 yards west of Wadsworth on the creek. I never would have guessed someone would have an illegal grow going right in the city of Wheat Ridge. I guess you never know. Things could have gone differently if I would have chosen to keep along the creek back then. Good thing I didn't have to protect myself, but I would have been ready.

You would be surprised how many grow places there are, anywhere! Out in a high traffic public area is not too surprising.
It's the neighborhood meth lab you need to be concerned with.

[Ronin13]

You would be surprised how many grow places there are, anywhere! Out in a high traffic public area is not too surprising.
It's the neighborhood meth lab you need to be concerned with.

I was just thinking about this... we've had a few up here in Evergreen, and there are tons of grow operations going on in basements and backwoods. Guess the mountains offer some seclusion. Not surprising to see the brazen folks doing that crap right in town...

[Musashi]

Hmmmm that is not good as I cruise through there all the time on my bike and walking. Ever since they removed the playground in that park right off Wadsworth on the trail the area has declined.
Hell people appear out of the bushes all the time, probably a couple more people "growing" in there.

[Lex_Luthor]

Thank God I moved to Westminster. In my old hood, I'd found needles on a few occasions and even a baggy of crack on the corner across the street from the elementary school my wife works at.




















Of course, now we have to worry about murderers/child predators in our neighborhood.

[Clint45]

Those flowerpots were probably just dumped there, and if they weren't there's a lot worse things to worry about than some smelly hippie smoking the reefer.

[adamking84]

Those flowerpots were probably just dumped there, and if they weren't there's a lot worse things to worry about than some smelly hippie smoking the reefer.

Yeah I was gonna say - you better stay sharp, he may have offered to split a pizza with you. Oh the horror...

[spqrzilla]

We've seen violence from pot growers "defending" their grow operations in public land in many states.

[SuperiorDG]

Now that I have been thinking about it he may have only been tending to the plants. I can't imagine him sitting there day after day for a few plants. That being said, he would be at most risk when tending to them and it could have still gone sideways.