here's a fact brick top, you have posts numbering in the 1000's, and yet I see no journals.
That is correct. And it is something I have explained MANY, MANY times, but still someone always goes back to it as if it is irrefutable evidence of something.
Over the years on various boards I posted pictures, had grow threads, did things just like a lot of you do. Then in less than one year there were three busts, two from a site I was modding at the time, and the other a local bust. All three were the direct result of the people posting pictures of plants.
The first one was pictures of a basement setup and plants. The guy took really great high resolution pictures and his setup and plants had everyone raving over them. That's right, he made himself look cool in front of all the puppies and Beavis and Buttheads.
But what he missed before posting the pictures is in one picture he caught the corner of his furnace. You could see a small tag or something on the furnace and if you enlarged the pictures you found that it was a sticker with the name, address and telephone number of the local heat - A/C business that installed and serviced his furnace. Someone of the pork variety spotted it, the heat - A/C business was visited, the various employees were asked if any of them recognized the furnace and basement. Between customer records and what the employees said, the guy was busted. Why? He made an extremely easy mistake to make and then posted pictures on a grow site.
The second was a backyard grow bust. The person had a number of different plots or gardens with different strains all over his backyard. He took pictures of each of them and some in groups. If he had stopped there he likely would have been OK. But he took one picture from up high. Maybe taken from a second story window or deck or from the roof of the house, or maybe from the roof of a garage, I don't know, but it caught his entire back yard PLUS what was behind it, which was what most people would consider to be nothing to worry about. You could see the Atlantic shoreline (you knew it was the Atlantic because in his thread he mentioned living in Georgia) and you could see a single two lane road and a set of high voltage power lines running along the road by the coast.
Evidently someone thought .. hummmm .. Georgia ... if I trace two lane roads along the coast that also have high voltage towers and power lines I might be able to figure out where this person lives.
It was figured out and he was busted. All because of one picture he posted that has just enough identifying landmarks for someone determined to use to track him down.
The third involved a local guy and a local cop who by chance scanned a grow site. The person had a plant they were very proud of and wanted a really good picture of, one with it alone and not in a cluttered grow room or closet or store room or attic or garage or whatever, so he brought it into his living room, or maybe it was a den/family room, I really never heard what room it was called.
On the wall behind the plant were pictures. The cop recognized a little girl, a little girl that was a friend of his daughters and who played at his house. That instantly told him whose plant it was. The guy was busted. To make it even worse, he had gone through a bitter divorce and fought like made for custody of his daughter, and won. After his bust the custody of his daughter was turned over to his ex-wife, pouring salt in an open wound.
That is when I stopped posting pictures.
As egotistical as I might seem to some I have no need to try to impress anyone with what I grow. I do not need, or even want, people going WOW, NICE, SWEET, THOSE LOOK FANTASTIC over my plants.
I have grown since 1972. This is not new to me. I have not considered it to be cool and impressive and something that makes me unique or something of a rebel or anything like that for decades so I feel no need or desire to try to impress a bunch of Beavis and Buttheads around the world, people I do not know and who I will never know.
I am getting within hours of turning 57 years old. I have never been busted and I damn sure am not going to risk making a simple easy to make, but major, error and risk getting myself busted just so I can prove to everyone that I not only grow, but that I am rather skilled and extremely experienced at it.
If someone does not want to believe me, I don't give a rat's ass. Regardless of what anyone wants to believe, and if it is negative and that I do not grow it always stems from them disliking me and desperately searching for some way to discredit me, their incorrect opinion or inaccurate belief or totally bogus accusation or claim will not in any way hurt my plants, reduce the quality of my plants, lower my yields or diminish my enjoyment of what I grow and toke.
Hell, I will not even say if I have something under lights at any particular time. You can call me paranoid, though to me I consider it caution, but just in case someone has an eye on me I am not going to tell them that I am just about to harvest something so they then know that now is the best time to kick in my door in the middle of the night.
I will tell about something that happened during a grow several crops back or last year or several years back. That might be the truth. And it might be something that just happened, something that is currently happening, but I will not say that. I would rather have someone who might be curious about me think that if they came they would find the cookie jar empty rather than full.
But I have said I might possibly in the future, if certain things change, once again post pictures. If my State goes med use or if I move to a med State, like I have been considering, then I might go back to posting pictures. I realize that I would still only be three-quarters legal, as in Kool and the Gang with local police, County Sheriff's Deputies and State Police, but still illegal on the Federal level, which means there would still be degree of risk.
But since I have never grown for profit, since I have never sold so much as a single joint or bud, and never will, and since I would fully comply with the laws of whatever med State I would be in I would feel comfortable that if any Fed caught wind of me I would be seen as such small potatoes that I would not make a viable target, that what I could be busted for would not justify the time and expense of busting me when there are large commercial grows and people trafficking large quantities of cannabis from State to State and across international borders.
So, for about the fiftieth time now on this site, that is why I do not and will not post pictures of what I grow.
I wish that could be made a sticky so people would finally stop asking me the same question and stop making the same incorrect accusations and could instead just read why and be done with it.
Some who read the above will say to themselves, oh yeah, I did read that before. Some will say, nope, I never read that before, but it does make sense and if that is what he needs to do to feel safe and secure, that's totally up to him and not for me or anyone else to question it. Others will scream BULLSHIT! I CALL BULLSHIT! IT'S A MAKE BELIEVE STORY TO TRY TO COVER UP THAT HE DOES NOT AND HAS NEVER GROWN!
Regardless of which reaction anyone here has, what I said is 100% factual, the God's honest truth and it is something I will adhere to, that is with the possibility of going back to posting if and when in a med State and a legal med user under that States laws.
One small but highly ironic bit that rather fits with why I will not post pictures involves someone here who was recently busted, fdd. Within the last few months he posted a message saying that people who are not in med States and not legal in those med States are taking a risk by posting evidence. It is highly ironic since he posted pictures like mad and even made videos that are on YouTube and bragged about getting $2,800.00 per pound of his product, and he ended up getting busted. I am not claiming that his pictures and videos are what first drew attention to him. They may have in no way factored into his bust. But there was a guy who posted pictures and videos like mad, but even he warned those who are not in med States or in med States but not legal that by posting pictures they were taking a risk, that they were increasing their risk factor.
There you go, there is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. If anyone does not want to believe me, I could not care less even if I tried my very hardest.
But then if someone wants verification of what I have said, and if they are a member of Riddlem3, if I remember correctly it was in a thread started about be after I left the site, where most members saw it as a tragic loss, one or two people said what I am responding to now, that I don't post pictures so that is proof that I do not grow, that I have never grown and that I am full of shit. If I remember right it was Illumination who posted a message stating that he can remember seeing pictures of plants of mine a number of times in the past and that they were impressive.
So, there isn't a single one of you little puppies out there who have ever seem my handiwork, but there are some old dogs out there who have and who still clearly remember what they saw.
