Illinois maple producer raided

[morningstarfarm]

Anyone see this on the news? It seems an Illinois maple producer was raided when the police mistook his sugar shack for a meth lab...was on chan 9 news the other day..must be a nice guy...he sent the police home with syrup...:o

[MapleMounder]

Guess since I'm in Illinois too it is good thing several of the officers and deputies like to stop by the sugar house kill some time on their days off. Never been acussed of a meth lab, maybe a still though:D


Here is the link http://www.kfvs12.com/story/21192844/suspected-meth-lab-turns-out-to-be-sweet-maple-syrup

[Flat47]

Wow - they got some really bad intel. Who's their informant? Fire that guy and learn to do some homework (aka police work)!

[Bucket Head]

Yeah, "wow" is right. Meanwhile, probably not too far from the suspected meth lab location, a real crime was taking place. Another fine example of, "taxpayer dollars at work".

Steve

[5 Oaks]

LOL, I worry about this. My "shack" is an old ripped up ez-up and blue tarps. My red neck feed supply is a valve screwed into a blue 5 gallon bucket, setting on top of a plastic 55 gal drum. When my kids have friends over all of the parents a very hesitant to let their kids out of the car. I walk over, introduce myself and give them a half pint. They seem to relax then. :cool:

This could be very bad intel, or a drive by caller. I am on the local fire department, we get a bunch of "driver slumped of the wheel" calls. Only to wake up a truck driver when we get on scene.

[DonMcJr]

I'm waiting for someone to call and say the building is on fire when they see all the steam coming out when I open the door... I always stand in front of the door and smoke a cigarette and look relaxed just to deter it...LOL