Now we know what happens to all those confiscated growlights — exported! In the ABC News story about the policeman’s preferred online auction site, Humboldt Sheriff’s property technician Bruce Slocum says, “We had some stuff here that is the result of dope-growing operations and we did not want to resell it locally.”
This article appears in Parting the Redwood Curtain.
Fed Ex Ground dropped two heavy boxes at my door step a couple of weeks ago. They were from Propertyroom.com, addressed to the previous resident who had been evicted over a grow. I had no idea how to contact the previous resident and after Fed Ex failed to pick up the boxes after three phone calls, I decided to open the boxes and donate the contents to a thrift store. The boxes contained a pair of grow light ballasts, which I gave to the Youth Service Bureau’s thrift store on Henderson and F streets.
In light of the prop. tech’s statement, the irony is almost too heavy to laugh . . . but I managed;>
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