one time i rember going into lowes looking for HID bulbs, and i had a few basic questions that i wanted to ask. The first employee that i talked to, without missing a beat he firmly asked me "what are you using those for?" I didn't think up a response to use in that situation but without hardly thinking about it i orchestrated and elaborate story about a science experiment i was doing for my botany class and needing a light powerful enough that i could have a control group that would be in the same environment for the entire year while the other plants weathered the seasons. It was beautiful, i must have been in some completely different mindstate because generally i would have stuttered and probably just walked away, haha.

someone that i work with approached me about it one night and said that the person who i talked to initially was a cop or something like that. I don't know how accurate my memory is of what she told me, though. It still wigged me out a little bit.

Are you implying that cops are now posing as Lowes employees ..... hanging out in the lighting department at Lowes waiting for customers to come in and purchase PERFECTLY LEGAL light bulbs on the assumption that they are to be used for growing marijuana? Do they have a guy working the soil department too?

I seriously doubt there is ANY truth to that.... sounds like a stoner tale that gets taller with every telling.

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I'm so fucking old (and bald) it don't ever cross their minds, ever. I tell the cashier "I'm growin dope" and they just laugh at me!!

If you think about though, that girl that called you out, she probably had a garden of her own. Maybe she wanted to trade technology?

Yea I'm gonna have to agree. If they were busting every dude buying a legal 400 watt system, then they'd also be on this forum busting every closet grower through their IP, which clearly isn't happening. They don't have the resources to bother with shit like that (thankfully).

Next time they ask , just reply '' I'm growing cocks, big fat cocks"

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no but i did get called out at work for taking the 5 gallon buckets we have and washing them out on the clock to take home haha "what do you need those for?"

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The only important question in this situation is was she hot? Because that changes the answer and the tone completely.

I am guessing she wasn't since you took such a harsh view of her though.

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Well, this i the tall tale that every one is watching US(as in the community of growers)[my quote button does not work ] constantly. paranoid people give them self away. when some one calls me out for what i am buying a laugh at the joke and respond back, why you want some if i am. no but for the record no undercover cop is going to be watch inside of any store for particular material being bought. for one that is illegal,and 2 cops ,even though this might sound completely untrue, have better things they rather do, like writing tickets or something. so relax and roll with the punches

no but be careful when leaving certain hydro shops, I have seen police sitting down the street profiling people as they leave. If it wasnt for the fact that I do not grow anymore, I wouldn't drive my personal car to the shop, or any car registered to the house I was growing in.

If you walk into the hydro shop and spending 2k without batting an eye, driving a escalade on 22"s, and they have been watching the shop, theyre def. gonna check you out when u leave. I have also heard about hydro shops being pressured.