Rippers In My Garden

Yesterday I noticed the upper part of a developing branch had been snipped off one of my 2 dozen outdoor plants.
The garden is several hundred feet from my house, and there are 2 ways to get to it.
I know the thieve's didn't take one way in; that goes right by my house. They had to get in the other way, up the side of a hill.

I'm 99% sure who did it. The garden is very stealth, but I needed some help in the spring and hired 2 guys to dig holes in the rocky clay-y soil. The guy who recommended them to me said they were cool. It looks like he was wrong.

When the guy who recommended them returns tomorrow, I'm gonna ask him to have a talk with them. That should do it.

I'm against booby traps, but this is private property. Anyone who sets foot on my land is trespassing. The ranger has a few low-key but highly effective deterrents up his sleeve.

What also pisses me off was that they had to have a light in my garden. If they interrupted the dark cycle enough to fuck my plants, there will be consequences.

And tomorrow I'm putting in motion-detector lights, and I'll be leaving my dog outside until harvest.

 

dogs are the best deterent,

 

Well I deterred whoever it was.
2 days ago I strung thin steel wire between tree's, about 12" off the ground, on the hillside approach to the garden.
This a.m. I went out and saw a kink in the wire and scuffed dirt indicating that something had fallen down and slid several feet. I examined closer and saw boot prints, so I know it was a person and not a deer.
I think they gave up, because my 2nd line of defense had not been broached.

 

good idea, but i woudl wait ina tree for those fucker sor sumthin and then beat the hell out of them....lol

 

Yeah that's all I need--live in a tree until someone comes by and then get in a physical confrontation.
And if there are 2 of them , and they're big and have weapons, then what would you do, mr.tough guy?
I'd rather keep them out my way.
Do you think violence is the answer to everything?

I have steel wire strung around the perimeter, motion dector lights and buzzers, and closed-circut t.v.

 

calm the fuck down buddy i was fucking kidding........you dont have to be a fucking asshole for no reason.......i gave you no reason to be a dick towards me....why do you have to be a dick?????

 

If you had had something constructive to say my response would have been different.

I get tired of seeing posts where a bunch of yahoo's not yet old enough to shave advocate violence, even though the last time they were in a fight was the 2nd grade.

I used no profanity on my response, nor called you any names.

 

I know you dont like booby traps but you can get NON LEATHAL ones (noise makers) a shotgun shell with the shot re-moved, set off in a chain they (might) work
NOISE/FLASH deterant.

 

dude, your an asshole straight up....you just think that your the shit because you can grow buds........well good for fucking you........i was just fucking kidding around just tryin to have a laugh with ya, but nay who your an asshole.......and i used profanity....pardon my language.....

 

You got a lot of growing up to do.

 

just load a shotgun with rocksalt. painful, but doesn't put them in hospital.

 

Rocksalt is just as deadly as shot at close range. Firearm anyehere near mj, is an addditional felony.

 

Not with a med-mj garden g.o.d.

Anyway I have trip wires, closed-circut t.v., motion detector lights and motion detectors that sound buzzers in the house.

 

Most Brits dont know much about Projectile Weapons
unless they were in the forces if your garden is legal why dont you show the law your cctv footage

 

That's exactly what I plan to do if the rippers come back.

But that's after the fact. Chances are I'd never get my pot back. The go in, steal it and run off I'm still screwed, even if I have 'em on tape.
Because I live so remotely and because only 5 people know about the garden's location, I wasn't worried about getting ripped off--until it happened.
All the security measures were put in after I found buds missing.
If they make it around the trip wires, I'm hoping that the lights will scare them off, if not then me yelling that I'm coming out there with my 12 gauge will.
The c.c.t.v. is just another brick in the wall.

But I don't think I'd show the tape to the cops. Showing it to other local growers will probably bring the rippers the kind of justice I'd like to see 'em get.

Or maybe I'll run off a copy and show it to the cops AND the locals.

 

Just thought of a cracker= could you rig a device with a speaker that would trip off & play the recorded sounds of RATTLE SNAKES cos that would make me run like FUCK.

 

i meant that if you see them in your garden, you fire a few shells 'at them' meaning you miss them on purpose. they get so scared that they don't want to risk their life stealing your crop in future.

i've seen waaaaay too many films .

but non violent methods are always preferable.

 

haha, ahhh thats perfect . you can buy these 'anti cat' machines that work by a cat walking through an invisible beam, this triggers a very high pitch noise that they hate so they go away. but if you could somehow record a group of pissed off rattlesnakes and put it in instead of the high pitch noise...

haha i may have to market this

 

A friend rigged up something very similar.

A motion detector hooked up to a tape recorder/speaker that had just 1 sound--the sound of a shotgun being cocked.
It worked.

 

what's up man? really like your gallery!!