Further Proof America Is Going to Hell
 

Calif. Home Power Bill Prompts Pot Probe
Sun Mar 28, 9:39 AM ET



CARLSBAD, Calif. - When police noticed Dina Dagy's family was spending $250 to $300 a month on electricity, they suspected a marijuana farm was flourishing under high-intensity lights inside their suburban home.



What they found when they showed up with a drug-sniffing dog and a search warrant was a wife and mother who does several loads of laundry a day, keeps a dishwashing machine going, has three electricity-guzzling computers and three kids who can't remember to turn the lights out when they leave a room.


"It's hard to believe a high utility bill would be enough to issue a state warrant," said Dagy, who is demanding the Police Department issue a written apology.


Authorities say they have already apologized verbally several times and were only following proper procedures. Tracking down marijuana growers by reviewing electricity bills, they say, is a common practice.


"I understand they feel something isn't appropriate here, but it is very much consistent with how search warrants are prepared," said police Lt. Bill Rowland.


When authorities noticed how high the bill for the Dagy home was, they sent a police dog to the neighborhood, and it reacted as though it had smelled drugs.


They also noticed the family had put its trash out that morning, something police say drug growers often do to hide the evidence. In the Dagys' case, however, it was trash day.


When officers returned on March 19 with a search warrant, Dagy was volunteering at her son's second-grade class. She was heading back to her car when police arrived at the school, and she returned home and let them into the house.


They found nothing illegal, and she says she feels fortunate she wasn't in her son's classroom when they arrived.


"I would have been so embarrassed," she said, "and my son would have died: `They're taking your mommy away!'"

Can you post a link to that article please?

While I like money my sole purpose of making more money than necessary is to use the surplus to sue the government at every possible moment. Who polices the police?

Sure. Sorry.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ricity_probe_1

sad

giorgio im in Ncali too....

great story.

why cant people just turn off the fucking lights?


where i work, it costs about $70 an hour for the lights alone!

Yeah... that's the first time anything like that has ever happened here and is surely a sign the whole country to going to hell.


:1orglaugh

Who's going to police the idiots roaming around the internet today crying that it's the end of the world everytime they run across new media headlines? One mistake by the police department and you cry that America is going to hell? How about thinking beyond the headlines and ponder for a moment, if it's possible for you to, on how many lives that were saved or the countless number of murders, rapes, and robberies that were PREVENTED as a result of that police department being CREATED.

The police make alot of mistakes. Here in Sacramento county, the Sheriff Department has a dozen cases of beatings, jail malnutrition, murder, 4 counts of violating the ruling of a Federal judge, etc. It happens too much. What do you expect from a group of high school educated power hungry dweebs? Sacramento County Sheriff are a for-profit group that rents its services to unincorporating areas. The sheriff even encourages deputies to run for city and county political offices to ensure large policing contracts.

Cops don't save lives.

Cops enforce the legalize use of force by the government and the self-perpetuation of their own clique.

So you rather have a society with NO law enforcement officers? Yes or No?

Yeah that was a total fuck up, happened right down the street from our offices.

FURTHER PROOF THAT< MOST COPS ARE SHEEP. :2 cents:

Thanks. I appreciate it.

Dude, anybody rockin a pro-bush sig is automatically put on ignore.

Probable cause
Area with high number of ganja lab
Electrical profiling :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I would rather have a sociey were law enforcement is a true profession with the same eductional process and screening as lawyers, doctors, dentists, etc. These people must be held to a higher standard since they have the right to kill in the name of State.

that's retarded.

well perhaps this family learned their lesson of what may happen when you leave your lights turned on and go to work ;)

So you're for certain that certifying them through a LENGTHY process such as that of a Doctor or Lawyer would ELIMINATE errors as the story that you linked above? We're talking about a massive amount of money to put police officers through 4 years of college AND specialized training afterwardss just to avoid errors such as the bad search above. Medical doctors never make mistakes do they?

Lights left on = more energy consumed = more oil imports from "rogue states" = more funding for terrorists.

This family are lucky they didn't end up as collateral damage :winkwink:

The world is full of Kings and Queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
It's Heaven and Hell,
oh well

And they'll tell you black is really white
The moon is just the sun at night
And when you walk in golden halls
You get to keep the gold that falls
It's Heaven and Hell,
oh no!
Fool, fool!

Yes. I am saying exactly that. There is no greater crime than to violate someone basic Constitutional rights in the name of the State. Extensive training will reduce the mistakes and weed out the morally weak.

CD,

Life's fantasy
to be locked away
and still to think you're free.




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What the hell is going on in this country... High Electric Bills get you house searched ! Sounds like Nazi Germany...

Dam I better watch out my Electric bill was $497 last month. :1orglaugh