Friday

G’day, GN!

I didn’t know that a peanut could entertain a cat so effectively.

I somehow missed this story from last week -- Heavily armed drug cops raid retiree’s garden, seize okra plants:

Georgia police raided a retired Atlanta man’s garden last Wednesday after a helicopter crew with the Governor’s Task Force for Drug Suppression spotted suspicious-looking plants on the man’s property. A heavily-armed K9 unit arrived and discovered that the plants were, in fact, okra bushes.

The officers eventually apologized and left, but they took some of the suspicious okra leaves with them for analysis. Georgia state patrol told WSB-TV in Atlanta that “we’ve not been able to identify it as of yet. But it did have quite a number of characteristics that were similar to a cannabis plant.”

Indeed! Like cannabis, okra is green and it has leaves.

“Gumbo Squad!! Let’s see those hands, Pops..NOW!!”

From another article:

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — A Cartersville man is upset after he said investigators mistook a garden full of okra for marijuana plants.

The man growing the popular Southern food said a helicopter woke him up Wednesday and then he had deputies show up at his door.

“I was scared actually, at first, because I didn’t know what was happening,” said homeowner Dwayne Perry.

All he noticed was that there was a chopper sitting unusually low over his house, then Bartow County deputies and a K-9 unit appeared at his doorstep in minutes.

“They were strapped to the gills,” Perry said.

Of course they were…officer safety is paramount. Certainly trumps fucking common sense.

Perry said his plants had five leaves, not seven like on the cannabis plant. He said a mistake like this shouldn’t happen.

“Here I am, at home and retired and you know I do the right thing,” Perry said. “Then they come to my house strapped with weapons for no reason. It ain’t right.”

The authorities apologized on the scene and again when Willis called.

“If we disturbed them in any manner, that’s not our intent. Our intent is to go out and do our job and do it to the best of our ability,” Stokes said.

Hahahahahahaha…FAIL! Drugs sho’ ’nuff make some people crazy.

Hai Sven!

At least they didnt kill his dog or him.

There’s that. Nor did they use a flash-bang to blow two holes into an infant like happened to Bounkham Phonesevanh a couple of counties over.

Hai, Paddy!

I have been unable to ascertain whether those filthy, gung-ho drug goons had a warrant.

Presuming not, one can only hope Mr. Perry finds a bulldog civil rights attorney and files a federal lawsuit.