Jan 29 2009Swiss Pot Farmers Busted Via Google Earth
Swiss police happened upon a 'marijuana plantation' while viewing parts of the countryside via Google Earth. 16 people have been arrested, and 1.2 tons of marijuana and $780,000 in cash and valuables confiscated.
The plantation, measuring almost two acres, was hidden inside a field of corn. But officers using Google Earth to locate the address of two farmers suspected of involvement in the drug operation quickly spotted the illegal crop.
The gang is alleged to have sold up to7.7 US tons of hashish and marijuana between 2004 and 2008, with an annual turnover of 3-10 million francs a year, officials said.
Damnit Switzerland, whatever happened to being neutral? I mean, it was just a little chronic. Okay, probably schwag. Whichever the case, I'm still boycotting your knives.
Police Google farmers, find marijuana field [msnbc]
Thanks to chad, the man, not the country.
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Reader Comments
1. EofR - January 29, 2009 2:58 PM
Woooooohooo!
2. what? - January 29, 2009 2:58 PM
First
3. que? - January 29, 2009 2:59 PM
DAMNIT
4. EofR - January 29, 2009 3:02 PM
Dude has some style..... nice cuffs
5. Spam Artist - January 29, 2009 3:04 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene from the movie Tender Dracula where Dracula's wife sets up spy satellites so she can invade private property without a warrant.
She later has her throat slit for being a pinko.
6. geek hunter - January 29, 2009 3:09 PM
first ?
shame on them
7. therush - January 29, 2009 3:14 PM
I thought Nazis were German. (snap)
8. LSDiesel - January 29, 2009 3:14 PM
OH MY GOD.OH MY GOD.OH MY GOD.
I'm using google earth to score next time.
OH MY GOD. OH MY GAWD!
9. Pew³ - January 29, 2009 3:17 PM
Get some sour cream and onion chips with some dip, man, some beef jerky, some peanut butter. Get some Häagen-Dazs ice cream bars, a whole lot, make sure chocolate, gotta have chocolate, man. Some popcorn, red popcorn, graham crackers, graham crackers with marshmallows, the little marshmallows and little chocolate bars and we can make s'mores, man. Also, celery, grape jelly, Cap'n Crunch with the little Crunch berries, pizzas. We need two big pizzas, man, everything on 'em, with water, whole lotta water, and Funyons.
10. Moose Knuckle - January 29, 2009 3:17 PM
Tards, is it really too difficult to put camflaging tarp up like the one covering my crop of pod humans that will hatch and take over the world?
Umm, forget that last part
11. Pew³ - January 29, 2009 3:23 PM
You ever see the back of a twenty dollar bill... on weed? Oh, there's some crazy shit, man. There's a dude in the bushes. Has he got a gun? I dunno! RED TEAM GO, RED TEAM GO.
12. Morty - January 29, 2009 3:24 PM
Hey all.
I remember seeing a video of a dork jumping around on some excercise ball and I'm certain it was on Geekologie but I can't find it now.
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
13. Pew³ - January 29, 2009 3:27 PM
@12. I know exactly what youre talking about..
here it is! Its really funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edaJP3Lp0Gg
14. Morty - January 29, 2009 3:33 PM
Gee, whodathunkit - Rickrolled in 2009...
15. Ekaf - January 29, 2009 3:35 PM
Just a matter of time before google set up its own police force.
16. Daisy - January 29, 2009 3:36 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max had to pick up his roommates cousin at a hotel, and then they found out that the cousin didn't pay his bill and they had to sneak in to get his luggage. PeeWee Herman was there and called the cops on them and ended up getting arrested himself, and the cousin eventually took Max to see his plants and they got abducted by aliens, anf got the anal probe treatment if they were lucky.
17. gizmoduck - January 29, 2009 3:39 PM
@9
i feel so gross after reading that
18. Cameron - January 29, 2009 3:39 PM
Marijuana coats your brains cells...
... with a coat of AWESOME.
19. LSDiesel - January 29, 2009 3:47 PM
@9, I love that Movie. Someone needed to quote it.
www.norml.org
EVERYONE DONATE!!! ;)
20. Breno - January 29, 2009 3:48 PM
@9
from Half Baked hahaha.
does anyone know where this is? i've been searching swiss countryside but am unable to loacte it.
21. Pew mobile - January 29, 2009 3:56 PM
This post made me so hungry, the Moose Knuckle and I had to go to lunch.
@17 sorry. Forgiveness?
22. Pew mobile - January 29, 2009 4:04 PM
@19 I would donate, but I know you'll just blow it on weed.
23. Pew mobile - January 29, 2009 4:12 PM
@19 I would donate, but I know you'll just blow it on weed.
24. dar - January 29, 2009 4:35 PM
niiiiiiiiiiice
25. gizmoduck - January 29, 2009 4:38 PM
@19
i'll allow it
go team venture!
26. Milkman - January 29, 2009 4:42 PM
Faremers shouldn't smoke their own crops or they end up this dumb.
27. jason - January 29, 2009 4:56 PM
omg, the police will make a big party!!!
28. finfan - January 29, 2009 5:05 PM
DAMNIT!!! NOW WHERE WILL I GET MY f***ING DRUGS?!?!?!?!
29. gizmoduck - January 29, 2009 5:55 PM
KNUCKLES ARE YOU READY?
30. Moose Knuckle - January 29, 2009 6:04 PM
Bring it
31. gizmoduck - January 29, 2009 6:11 PM
I'm your great white hunter for this trip, though I happen to be black.
32. Pew³ - January 29, 2009 6:14 PM
Quite frankly, the twentieth century sucks. Maybe the twenty-first will be better.
33. gizmoduck - January 29, 2009 6:20 PM
@32
agreed. lets go party
34. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - January 29, 2009 6:20 PM
Even Cheech & Chong knew to put up a big blue tarp so their crop looked like a swimming pool from above!
35. gizmoduck - January 29, 2009 6:25 PM
pew3/knuckles
can't keep up?
36. Moose Knuckle - January 29, 2009 6:30 PM
Sorry, had a customer,
The ghost tribe has several levels of "dead." Someone's not dead until they're completely "dead."
Just how long does Bruce Campbell last in this movie anyways?
37. Pew³ - January 29, 2009 6:30 PM
Actually, I dont even know what I'm talking about. I posted because MK with with a customer. I cheated.
38. gizmoduck - January 29, 2009 6:34 PM
ahah who cares tim curry is the man.
technical support huh?
39. Pew³ - January 29, 2009 6:36 PM
I should have known Congo with the "Zinj" reference, I'm just too slow.
Tech support, no. Guess#1
40. Moose Knuckle - January 29, 2009 6:38 PM
Service Advisors
Tim Currey does kick ass, he played Darkness AND Frankefurter!
41. gizmoduck - January 29, 2009 6:39 PM
city of zinj.
hmm no technical support?
i give up/to lazy to think of anything else.
42. Moose Knuckle - January 29, 2009 6:40 PM
Pew, TELL ME the next time your gonna tease some info, geesh
43. Pew³ - January 29, 2009 6:42 PM
We work for Belkin.
44. gizmoduck - January 29, 2009 6:50 PM
ahahahahhah
stfu
45. gizmoduck - January 29, 2009 6:57 PM
we must duel now
46. Moose Knuckle - January 29, 2009 7:03 PM
oooh, duuueeelll
47. gizmoduck - January 29, 2009 7:05 PM
well my job is over with now. cause my company is better than yours.
so
you besta stop making shita products.
48. Pew³ - January 29, 2009 7:08 PM
JK, we work for Kensington.
Damn, who do we work for, I forgot!
Were still here cause were on the West Coast
49. Jamerz - January 29, 2009 7:14 PM
aw what a waste!!
50. Pat - January 29, 2009 8:10 PM
Holy shit, Big Brother really is watching.
51. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - January 29, 2009 8:40 PM
@ pew/moose/giz: I'm so confused right now...
52. Caspian - January 29, 2009 9:13 PM
The only one of you that's ever smoked pot is MooseKnuckle. The rest of you stfu.
53. gizmoduck - January 29, 2009 11:31 PM
damnit... i thought it was belkin....
i wanted to duel with swords on fire
sigh
54. Pew mobile - January 30, 2009 1:20 AM
@53. I was trying to be funny. I remember an obscure link I once saw that later made sense but since forgot the details.
55. Pew mobile - January 30, 2009 1:21 AM
@53. I was trying to be funny. I remember an obscure link I once saw that later made sense but since forgot the details.
56. Wolfmanrocker - January 30, 2009 8:27 AM
I'm just gonna call fake, as no-one uses francs anymore, its all euros
57. BK - January 30, 2009 9:25 AM
@31
"They dyed me this color!"
@40
I got baked the other day and watched Legend Director's Cut. It was awesome.
58. krys - January 30, 2009 10:39 AM
56- I hope you are joking. If not, you are pretty much an idiot.
59. softlicious - January 30, 2009 10:47 AM
Wow! oi! This reminds me, does anyone living in the proximity of Houston, tx have clean urine? It's for my parole officer. Also, is it possible to send some of that pot to Bellaire? Btw, my parole officer has a weird fixation with urine, and he says he wants it clean. Does he drink it?
60. Thumperchica - January 30, 2009 12:07 PM
What? No tiny chzburgers?!?!? No Cheetah?!?!?!? huh...
61. Stoopeedo - January 30, 2009 2:02 PM
Why is Google playing Big Brother? That's not nice...
62. SlowMonkey - January 31, 2009 2:30 PM
Apparently it is Sweden that is neutral.