Helicopter last night (Lounged)

[Jamma]

Anyone know why there was a helicopter hovering back and forward over the upper east side (ie near the library) around 1am last night?

[Siduhe]

Was around Underhill Road at around 1:30 and very noisy too. 2 possibilities as I understand it, looking for an individual or vehicle or (more likely) looking for a cannabis farm using heat detectors (as they have to be heated up at night they rather stand out).

[Sue]

Blimey, I always thought that helicopter-looking-for-cannabis thing was an urban myth :))

[dulwichmum]

I must admit that the helicopter was trying to find somewhere to land to pick me up. I hate to travel by taxi (they are so damn unreliable) and I had been to visit a friend on Underhill Road. I am terribly upmarket you know...

[HonaloochieB]

dulwichmum Wrote:

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> I must admit that the helicopter was trying to

> find somewhere to land to pick me up. I hate to

> travel by taxi (they are so damn unreliable) and I

> had been to visit a friend on Underhill Road. I

> am terribly upmarket you know...

A friend?? On Underhill Road??

Please tell us you were taking a food parcel and some old clothes to the mother of your gardener.

[????]

Twitch them curtains surburbanites, twitch them curtains...

[KalamityKate]

Oh come one, Dulwich Mum, surely you're not telling us you actually have friends, or are they just subjects for you to write/complain about in your awardwinning blogspot.

[Incitatus]

chris Wrote:

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> I heard they were returning a stash of overdue

> books !

What a novel idea!

[Administrator]

Lounged - for going off topic

[Jamma]

-- moved topic --

[KalamityKel]

::o a "KalamityKate"??? no points for originality eh? :-|

[dulwichmum]

I know Kalam, I was stunned into silence!

[KalamityKel]

nice to see I inspire others tho ;-)

[char1ie]

Siduhe Wrote:

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> Was around Underhill Road at around 1:30 and very

> noisy too. 2 possibilities as I understand it,

> looking for an individual or vehicle or (more

> likely) looking for a cannabis farm using heat

> detectors (as they have to be heated up at night

> they rather stand out).

Cannabis farms don't get heated at night. The light/dark timing to fool the plants into a state where they produce flowers constantly is not related to the 24 hour clock. So at any time of the day they can be on or off. And if the police decided to use helicopters to search for cannabis farms using heat detection they would have a challenge on their hands. If you hover over London looking at houses that produce heat out of their lofts you will see thousands of houses. The idea that the police could (or even should) get a warrant to break down the front door of a house just because it has a warm roof is just ridiculous. And what about the problem of cannabis farms that happen to be in the basement? The police would have to rethink their whole strategy.

Charlie

[KalamityKel]

Charlie... forgive me for pointing out the obvious... u seem to know an awful lot about these type of "farms" :-S

[SteveT]

Do you use the farmers market Charlie;-)

[snorky]

Most farms are run by teh Viets nowadays and they work on a 5:1 basis a, budgeting for one bust for every 5 operations - they lose a grands or twos worth of HP equipment and some illegal imigrant lackey gets arrested/ jailed / deported , but it a very lucrative business and very hard to stop

Oddly, most of the busts are on information received from other "farmers", looking to trim their competitors harvest - its not often the Polis helicopter detects them.

snorky knows

[KalamityKel]

And it explains many things about u snorks ;-)