Being an old cop, I might be inclined to wonder just WHY three heavily-armed banditos would want to crash this guy's house in the middle of the night. Not a common occurence, even in the tougher neighborhoods. Maybe he's a dealer, and they wanted his dope/dope money? Certainly a possibility, given the circumstances. And if I see dope scattered around the place, am I supposed to write him a hall pass because he was to busy shooting the invaders to clean up his mess?
I just moved into my first house (I'm renting). It is in the middle of nowhere, just off of the Blue Ridge Parkway (which is a major drug route).
After moving in, it became obvious that the previous tenants were running some kind of pot-farm. I had hundreds of pounds of fertilizer laying around, dozens of planters, timers, grow lights, etc. When I took my drier out of the washroom to fix it, I found a small plant that had apparently fallen or been discarded behind the drier (I think the washroom was their main growing room, since it had a seperate internal deadbolt lock on it, even though there was no outside exit). I haven't known a hippie yet who wasn't forgetfull, so I think the chances are good that one day I will find a bag of six-month old weed where the previous tenent hid it and forgot about it.
To make matters worse, I have a bunch of suspicious burlap sacks in my backyard that have no apparent reason for being there. When I look at where they are located, it appears that they (and whatever was growing out of them) would be completely hidden from view by weeds.
Also, I bought a sofa from the thrift store, and I am still cleaning out the marijuana seeds from it (I live in a town with a lot of hippies).
Partly because I am the sort of person who would post to this board, but also because of the sketchy history of the house I have taken extra measures to make sure that I will be able to defend the house and my girlfriend should we have trouble.
Now, if I shot a couple of armed home invaders with my 'assault mini-14' or 'street sweeper shotgun' (it's actually a stock mossberg 500 with a full stock and some shellholders) and in the aftermath the police found all that growing equipment, a large number of seeds, the plant behind the drier, etc. what would they think? I would probably be arrested on some drug related charge or another. Even if though I (and my girlfriend) would have no problems passing any drug tests (since we don't do them) things would still look pretty bad.
On the upside, I am mixing the miracle grow and fertilizer into the beds where I am planning on having a vegetable garden, and all those planters are fantastic for starting my (legal) herbs early.
