Comments on: Suspected meth lab revealed to be maple syrup homebrew hobby

By: Ryan Lenethen

Ryan Lenethen — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:48:00 +0000

Why do you think Canada has a Maple leaf on its flag? Meth trees my friend, meth trees…

By: SHeadius

SHeadius — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:06:00 +0000

Why aren’t people who “snitch” on grandma held accountable?

Why isn’t law enforcement held accountable when they shoot first and ask questions later?

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:44:00 +0000

Our neighbours actually did this to us when I was a kid – dropped the dime on us for gro-bags full of tomatoes.

By: cellocgw

cellocgw — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:03:00 +0000

Yeah, well, see this is why homeowners need lots of guns. So your ma could have wiped out those jackbooted thugs in one great barrage.

By: James Penrose

James Penrose — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:10:00 +0000

Lots of small police departments have tons of nifty “SWAT” gear and high-end emergency stuff courtesy of DHS handing out your money to all and sundry in the name of “anti-terrorisim”.

You buy the toys, you want to play with the toys sooner or later.

Hysteria and over-reaction is the name of the game these days.

NO rational person seeing trees being tapped would assume methamphetamines were being produced, these were simply very stupid people fed a diet of constant fear and misinformation.

By: bshock

bshock — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:41:00 +0000

My girlfriend an I use beakers, Erlenmeyer flasks, and test tubes for kitchenware. I’m always nervous that someday a neighbor will look in my kitchen window, see me brewing up a batch of Earl Grey tea in a big flask, and report me for have a meth lab.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:34:00 +0000

Are people not reading the Laura Ingals Wilder books anymore??

By: Heevee Lister

Heevee Lister — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:26:00 +0000

“If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.”

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:00:00 +0000

Even in northern Illinois, believe it or not. All it takes is the right kind of maple tree.

By: Mordicai

Mordicai — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:56:00 +0000

If you see something, say something! We can’t prove their innocence if we don’t assume they’re guilty!

By: antifud

antifud — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:26:00 +0000

only because they couldn’t find any on their drive to the house

By: Joshua Bardwell

Joshua Bardwell — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 06:58:00 +0000

This is why, before I start cooking up a batch of meth, I go around to all my neighbors and casually mention my maple-syrup operation.

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 06:37:00 +0000

Have you considered modifying the concept to use a viral vector?

Viruses excel at splicing genes into other organisms, and nothing says ‘slapstick stoner comedy’ quite like a viral release into the ventilation system that produces an entire headquarters full of THC-producing DEA agents…

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:50:00 +0000

I am the Lorax and I’m tweaking out.

By: spacedmonkey

spacedmonkey — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:50:00 +0000

I remember my next door neighbors (about 300 yards away) getting treed by the K9 dogs in my back yard when I was about twelve, and my parents having to explain to me that they’d been running a meth lab, and everyone in the neighborhood know about it (though it was one of their customers who actually turned them in). I still don’t think there’s even remotely an excuse for the attitudes of the fucking busybodies in this country who think anything that’s not normal must be illegal, and have made it so you can’t even get materials to do perfectly legitimate science projects at home anymore. In other words, I think that applying your reasoning to the case is completely fucked up.

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:30:00 +0000

Well this explains why Canada has that “Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve” that was stolen and why they were all hopped up to get it back….

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:30:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:28:00 +0000

I dunno looks pretty simple in the instructions…

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:15:00 +0000

You want to confuse the heck out of a preschooler, tell them milk comes from cows. They’re like “WHAT?!?”

Also explain what poo is. You’d think they’d instinctively know it’s what they ate yesterday.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:44:00 +0000

Well if it were south asia there might be a different reason to be concerned

http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/ecstasy-mdma-threatens-rare-cambodian-tree.html

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:40:00 +0000

Could you uh, teach me how to Dougie, eh?

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:39:00 +0000

I had an idea to splice the THC producing gene into dandelions, let a few years (and some mass pollination) pass by, then reveal this information so the cops would have to weed everybody’s lawn or just give up. The problem I found out was that 1] dandelions self pollinate so much they’re basically clones 2] the seeds take five years to germinate hence why you can never get rid of them 3] gene-splicing is huurrrddd.

By: Shane Simmons

Shane Simmons — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:26:00 +0000

Hey, there’s trees in this part of Illinois; Anna is in the Shawnee National Forest, after all. :-> Having said that, despite living somewhat close, I was shocked, too!

By: Sean Breakey

Sean Breakey — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:21:00 +0000

This is worse then the lightbrite fiasco. Tubes coming out of maple trees, and people automatically think meth? Meth?

By: bkad

bkad — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:02:00 +0000

Your children may be sharper than you realize. My sister, a school teacher, routinely teaches children who do not know apples come from trees, or that beef comes from cows, which seem to be much more fundamental misunderstandings. But the cops are adults, they should know better. Even if this apparatus doesn’t look like what my grandfather used on his farm, it shouldn’t be that hard to figure out.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:01:00 +0000

Bob’s your uncle.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:29:00 +0000

“You want the Switchboard again?”

By: Shane Simmons

Shane Simmons — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:13:00 +0000

Just once, I’d like to see my home region hit the Internets for a non-stupid reason. I’m going to suggest that Fark have a “Southern Illinois” tag.

The photo attribution is slightly incorrect, BTW. While the news item took place in Illinois, the station providing the photo is in Missouri, which makes it KFVS. Source: I watch the news on KFVS, like, all the time.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:10:00 +0000

“Pancakes are fucking gay.”

http://youtu.be/S1ypW60oOBo

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:07:00 +0000

“……Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.”
-WSB