You Are Just NOT Going To Believe This!!!
By Darkwing
@Darkwing (21583)
April 4, 2008 9:18pm CST
Each week, we have a free, local paper delivered to us. Well, mine came today, so I picked it up off the door mat, to read on the front page that a canibis factory had been discovered after a fire.
Wow! I thought. I wonder where that was that it should be in the local paper... so I read on. There had been a fire in a caravan, in the next village to us. A tiny place, with a few houses, a pub, a sports and social club, a garage and a small, family brewery. Apparently, this caravan was parked on a farm, and whilst there, the firemen discovered a freight container full of canibis plants! Not only that, they discovered that beneath this container, there were four more, hidden underground, each filled with pots of the plant, and with an intricate heating and watering system. WOW.. that's a mile and a half away from here.
Police are still investigating but they think it's the brainchild of a sophisticated network of drug traffickers. I couldn't believe what I was reading... a sleepy little village in the Sussex countryside? They reckon it has been there for over twenty years and only just been discovered. Amazing!!!
Has anything happened close to you that was as earth shattering as this? I'd like to hear your stories. I'm gobsmacked!!! 
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@ThePaintGuru (541)
• United States
5 Apr 08
I live near Philadelphia, so this is probably buried beneath City Hall. I'm really surprised though that it's a "factory". Just shows you that England went through the industrial revolution before we did, they're still called basements here :).
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@Darkwing (21583)
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5 Apr 08
Sorry... I have just reread the article and I made a mistake. There were EIGHT containers underground, thus classing it as a "factory" I'm going to try and scan the picture, so I can show you. There were eight shipping containers underground where more than 300 mature plants were growing. That's one heck of a lot of cannabis, and in a tiny village in the English countryside. Unbelievable almost.
A pity... I managed to save the pics to my documents but they won't upload into this site. Never mind... suffice to say, this is a very well thought-out and neatly arranged "nursery", which has been going for over twenty years, now.
Brightest Blessings, and thank you for your input.
@ThePaintGuru (541)
• United States
5 Apr 08
Wow, that's crazy. You have to wonder how they managed to bury eight shipping containers without the police noticing...it's not exactly a common construction project.
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
6 Apr 08
well not sure what canibis are . but to be there all those years and no one found it before? WOW .
Nope we were the headlines lol We had our own still had to keep moving it so the feds couldnt find it. BUt my father in law went to sleep by it one night and got caught napping (pun)
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
6 Apr 08
Isn't it amazing what goes on around us especially things like this, that we have no clue of? I am also amazed at that story you shared with us. Nothing like this has happened to us (yet) LOL
@Darkwing (21583)
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6 Apr 08
Who knows what's lurking in the shadows, my friend? I'm more surprised that it's probably been there for over twenty years, and nobody suspected a thing! If it hadn't been for the caravan fire, and the firemen's worries about the affect of hosewater on the electrical supply, it might still have lain uncovered.
All things happen for a reason. Brightest Blessings and thank you for your contribution, my dear friend. x
@mummymo (23706)
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6 Apr 08
How amazing that they could keep something like this quiet in a small village - it must have been someone local or they would have been noticed surely? Weird though as well that they hadn't been flagged by the electricity supplier as they usually notice any unexplained high users to the police and a system of this size must surely have used a lot of power. I don't think I have had anything like that happen near me - if it has I really can't remember it and I don't think even I would forget something like that! xxx
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@Darkwing (21583)
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7 Apr 08
They were living on a farm, so I suppose the high use of electricity wouldn't be questioned, as if you were running a working farm, a larger supply would be required.
I guess that's why nobody thought any more about the excavation work before they submerged the containers, too. All too often, we are oblivious as to what's going on around us, don't you think?
Brightest Blessings my dear friend. xxxxx
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@Dasari100 (3791)
• Anantapur, India
6 Apr 08
that is good to read those news papers weekly once and i have been reading those articles in my home town.
@Darkwing (21583)
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5 Apr 08
Wow... but yes, I can well believe that. They're discovering bomb and weapon factories here all the time. They're normally in or around airport areas and often in a normal house. Scary, isn't it? I think we should try to be a little more alert to what is going on, on our own doorsteps.
Brightest Blessings and thank you for your contribution.
@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
5 Apr 08
I think you police did a very thorough, that should open their eyes to comb all the bushes!
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@Darkwing (21583)
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5 Apr 08
No doubt something will come out of their investigations. This is too big an operation for everybody not to have noticed something. The area is wide open to the busy main road that passes the end of the drive, so I daresay something will come out of the investigation.
Brightest Blessings.
@Darkwing (21583)
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5 Apr 08
I will be as careful as I can Gabs. I'm not one for rushing headlong into things.. I stop and weigh them up first together with the consequences of my actions. I also know how to give myself a protective circle of light, so maybe that wouldn't be a bad idea right now, regarding one thing and the other. Sheeesh, it seems never-ending this year, but hopefully, it will become better and less burdensome soon.
Brightest Blessings, love and hugs. xxxxx
@deeeky (3667)
• Edinburgh, Scotland
5 Apr 08
It's not that the world is getting smaller but that the activities of some has spread further and further afield (no pun intended).
Also you are not going to get caught as quick if your activites are as remote as possible with a front of some kind to distract others from prying inti those other activities.
@Darkwing (21583)
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5 Apr 08
Yes, very, but I suppose being on a farm, people would take less notice. It would have had to have been a heck of a size hole, and deep, toboot. I think they would have had to have hired some plant to do the digging. Not only that, the farm is visible from a busy road, so something doesn't quite add up, as they've got away with this for over twenty years.
I think somebody is keeping quiet on something here; perhaps even getting a backhander for their silence. Brightest Blessings and thank you for your contribution.
@techfreak194 (87)
• United States
5 Apr 08
Wow i would not have expected for that to happen in such a quiet town. If something like that were to happen near me in New York i wouldnt be amazed though. It shows how the area where a person lives can change them.
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@Darkwing (21583)
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5 Apr 08
The problem is that although in the countryside, we're quite close to the main, London to Brighton road, so we do get this sort of thing locally. However, this "factory" is on rather a large scale, and has survived for over twenty years. It beats me how they got away with it for that long.
Brightest Blessings and thank you for your contribution.
@Esoteric1 (863)
• Canada
5 Apr 08
cool story sounds like they had a good operation going lol too bad for them the luck ran out. here in the city (montreal) most of those operations are just inside apartments and such gotta be a few around here somewhere XD shetto life ... woods .. now theres something i havent seen in ages :(
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@Darkwing (21583)
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5 Apr 08
Yes, they got away with it for over twenty years by all accounts and there were over three hundred mature plants discovered. They were all arranged neatly in rows, and had to be the work of a highly organised gang. No arrests have been made yet, but I think the police will soon be hot on their trail.
I know somebody, not in Montreal, but another part of Canada, which I will not mention, who has a farm, growing these "plants". I believe it's a serious crime in Canada, to farm the stuff, isn't it?
Brightest Blessings and thank you for your contribution.
