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Mild-Blowing Scale
Tennessean | Submitted by: cheesegrits
[Perhaps the last word about the pot cave as the owner gets 18 years for "manufacturing marijuana."]
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From: melvin69
[John Bong]
Date: 11-May-2006 14:56
On Monday, Strunk, 63, acknowledged that he was the mastermind behind the "pot cave." I read this and the theme song to the old batman series popped into my head. Call this guy Potman. 
From: rocco
[I'm the funny man!]
Date: 11-May-2006 15:14
Apparently, in this small town, the guy was blowing out power transformers left and right in an effort to steal electricity. This is what alerted the authorities that something was afoot. You'd think that, with all of their revenue, they would have invested in some kind of generator system; it's not like they couldn't have afforded it!
From: diamonion [poop]
Date: 11-May-2006 15:27
all the noise and smoke might give something away. who wants post that tastes like exhaust anyway? free this man! he can come live with me!
From: jjsurly [j.]
Date: 11-May-2006 15:44
This arrest and confiscation IS TRULY rotten.
From: squrm [FuckinBlaine!]
Date: 11-May-2006 15:53
Meanwhile just think about all the tweekers and child molesters (and maybe even murderers, hell) that will get in later and out sooner than this poor bastard. All over a fuckin weed, god damn. Fuck the prosecutor that feels good about handing out this sentence...I hope his daughter gets to be a coke/tweeker whore. But if he was really blowing transformers left & right...he's a dumbass. Props on the top shelf system though...
From: eauclaireliberal [eauclaireliberal]
Date: 11-May-2006 16:03
The 15th Judicial District Drug Task Force has seized the house and property Standard operating procedure for the oinkers and their coporate masters. And they do it so well. They get a lot of practice.
From: iguanac64 [Itchy Carter]
Date: 11-May-2006 16:18
1. He got away with it for 9 years...not too fuckin shabby! 2. Seems like a smart guy...no matter how much they confiscated, I'll bet he has a shitload tucked away somewhere. I hope so. 3. You notice this man did not have a criminal record before this? It's not the drugs making drug users criminals...it's the hanging around criminals to get drugs that raises your chance of either being a criminal or being around something criminal. 4. We can call the man an idiot all we want, but there is no foolproof way to get the power necessary to raise crops underground like that...every method has its problems that will get you busted. Solar? Prolly not enough power without a HUGE solar array...not exactly inconspicuous. Wind? Same as solar. Generator? Buying large amounts and transporting fuel...exhaust...heat (get busted with the IR scans). Legitimate service with the electric company? They bust people using too much power all the time...I think this would qualify. Sunlight? Visibility of your crops from the sky. Ad nauseum. He got away with it for 9 years...apparently it wasn't TOO obvious. 5. I'm curious how he got busted, too...was it just blowing transformers? They didn't seem to mind for 9 years. Maybe he just got unlucky.
From: melvin69
[John Bong]
Date: 11-May-2006 16:59
If I remember correctly and if it's the same story (might be confusing it with another story) he got busted bringing the stuff out of the cave. The power company was investigating where the power was going. They found where he spliced into the line at and the police busted him as he was bring the stuff out of the cave. Even if you can hide the op and the power supply (though hydro could've helped if there was running water on the property), you still have to transport the stuff. That would be the weakest link in the op. Personally, I think a little of everything would've been a better power supply. Some solar panels, a wind generator, a hydro generator, and a bit of stolen power. I think the first 3 though wouldn't really produce alot, but hopefully enough not to alert the power company. Using wind and water as a power source sounds nice, but the size of the blades needed to produce decent electricity would be suspicious, same with the solar panels probably. A quick search on the net resulting in me not really caring how much power he was using. Someone mentioned using the sun for light rather than artificial lighting and someone said they could see it from the outside. I think it might've work at least partially if they used cloudy glass rather than clear. Some mirrors could help as well. I once caught a show about cave houses that went for over a million bucks. One of them had a quartz crystal formation that was used for lighting. The top of the quartz stuck out of the top of the mountain and filtered the light down into the back of the dwelling. Not sure how to make something like this, but I think it could be possible.
From: conpassage [petit con]
Date: 11-May-2006 17:20
6-7 years for growing 600 lbs of pot a year? Sounds fucked up. Think of all the ethanol he could have made from the unused portions of the plants had growing them been legal.
From: robojesus
[Cyber Sacrilege]
Date: 11-May-2006 19:06
Strunk also received 12 years each on the money-laundering and theft charges. All of his prison terms will be served together. He also was fined $4,000 and must make restitution in the amount of $60,001 to Tri-County Electric in Lafayette for stolen electricity. Sixty-thousand and ONE? WTF kind of fine is that? It's not like they could have calculated exactly how much he was stealing (ballpark, yes, but not down to the dollar). One extra dollar.
From: melvin69
[John Bong]
Date: 11-May-2006 21:05
I would guess $60,000 is a limit to something. I think felony theft is over $500 or $500 or over. Not sure, but anything less is a misdemeanor. So if they want more serious charges, they add a couple of bucks. If they're going lenient, they take a few away.
From: cracker666 [honkey Infidel]
Date: 12-May-2006 01:46
Canabis grows like sandspurs,If it was legal There would be no way It would cost more than $5.00 a pound. Thats about .45 kilograms for those of you that buy metric lids. I can't remember why I quit smoking the stuff.
From: seeteufel [ciccio]
Date: 12-May-2006 05:27
Damn it all, this is American enterprise at its finest. Efficiency, mass production, large scale marketing is what this country is all about. Borrowing a little electricity is no worse than borrowing a little Iraqi oil. This man should get a medal from the green party for his major contribution to the aesthetics of the landscape. Just think how wonderful the countryside would look if major industries were tucked out of sight underground.
From: gargoyle1
Date: 12-May-2006 06:18
Even though I don't smoke it, it should be legal. Why not worry about the bad shit, like heroin and meth? Fucktard cops.
From: g20fun
[chrisinfinity]
Date: 12-May-2006 07:51
Welcome to the Caribbean. Of course if you score off the local street dealer and insist on skunk (strunk) it is more but I buy by the ounce.
From: jnefarious [jnefarious]
Date: 12-May-2006 09:34
sounds like strunk forgot to pay off the county mounty....
From: ghostman79 [Ghostman]
Date: 12-May-2006 09:52
It says his two accomplices were going to testify against him... who knows if they turned him in or if the man just got to them first. Sad, so very sad.
From: mrsstipic [Mrs. Stipic]
Date: 12-May-2006 11:24
The article said he had a possession charge in Florida. Perhaps he was delivering a load there and got popped. Then, they got to talking with the pigs back home (who had him on their radar for a good while), who then got a search warrant and raided the property. Whoever buys that spread might have the good fortune of stumbling over half a million dollars while doing some remodeling someday.
From: larsvargas [Lars]
Date: 12-May-2006 12:35
I thought that picture looked familiar, here's more pics: http://www.wimp.com/grow/
Updated: 17-May-2006 14:24
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