PicklesRus
Well-Known Member
Just wanted to share this story.
I was barely 20, stayed at a backpackers lodge in Johannesburg - during the day an employee took us for a "tour", super sketchy dude telling me how to rob cigarettes out of the vending machine and sell them at the airport.
Anyway on our walk we were passing a shopping complex, a large grocery store with a big parking lot in front, fully fenced with security guards at an entrance and exit gate to the lot. By the front fence which was about 5 feet high there was nicely landscaped fresh beds of soil, looked like they were going to plant bushes or something in there, but low and behold by the guard station a 4+foot MJ plant! It was beautiful, in full sunlight, like a little Christmas tree!
My first reaction was "whoa cool! Isn't that illegal?" The guy with us said "yeah, that's VERY illegal"... Mind blown it was so cool to see it in a busy shopping are out in broad daylight like that.
Sooo fast forward to later that night, mr sketchy said he'd take us out to get drunk at a local bar, so we agreed but instead of going out the gate of our lodge property like a normal person he "wanted to show us how to jump an electric fence without getting electrocuted".... I'm pretty sure he wanted to sneak out, and didn't want us on the entrance security cameras. After we were up and over we went for a walk, got loaded and on our way back somehow ended up by that plant again (or rather that guy had every intention of going back there). In my drunken haze I saw him look both ways, jump over the fence and rip it out from the base and throw it over the fence handed it to me told us to run.
We ran across the street and I handed it back to him and said "I don't want anything to do this shit" and about then an armed medic response unit (it's like an EMT with supplies driving a car they were everywhere) pulled around the corner with his head lights off in the middle of the night which was weird to me. The guy stuffed the entire plant in through the guys rolled down window and said "hey look what we got"... Dunno what else they talked about but he came back and the car drove off. He told me "the security guard is pissed that we ripped out his plant". We were still across the street from this place, I was like "we gotta get the f outta here now" so we ran all the way back to our lodge, jumped back over the fence (with the plant).
So, there was no bud on the plant, mr sketch I don't think knew anything about mj plants (neither did I) and looking back that's a real bummer for the security guy. I think mr sketch either did it for me, or both of us as we were both so excited to find it.
I thought it would be worth a try to smoke some of the leaves (please don't make fun of me I had no idea), I took some leaves and put them in a film container and stuffed them in my pocket for later. Two days later we were leaving and in the airport going through security and the security guard was patting me down and touched the film container in my cargo pant pocket and I instantly realized my fuckup, standing there with my mother and sister and he looked up and me and said "what's that?" I said "film", he kinda looked at me for a second more and said "ok" and we were on our merry way.
It's only now that I realize I could have probably been supremely fucked if I got caught. But on the other hand, I would have played so ignorant they might have just dropped it. I really had no idea now much trouble I would have been in at the time.
I was barely 20, stayed at a backpackers lodge in Johannesburg - during the day an employee took us for a "tour", super sketchy dude telling me how to rob cigarettes out of the vending machine and sell them at the airport.
Anyway on our walk we were passing a shopping complex, a large grocery store with a big parking lot in front, fully fenced with security guards at an entrance and exit gate to the lot. By the front fence which was about 5 feet high there was nicely landscaped fresh beds of soil, looked like they were going to plant bushes or something in there, but low and behold by the guard station a 4+foot MJ plant! It was beautiful, in full sunlight, like a little Christmas tree!
My first reaction was "whoa cool! Isn't that illegal?" The guy with us said "yeah, that's VERY illegal"... Mind blown it was so cool to see it in a busy shopping are out in broad daylight like that.
Sooo fast forward to later that night, mr sketchy said he'd take us out to get drunk at a local bar, so we agreed but instead of going out the gate of our lodge property like a normal person he "wanted to show us how to jump an electric fence without getting electrocuted".... I'm pretty sure he wanted to sneak out, and didn't want us on the entrance security cameras. After we were up and over we went for a walk, got loaded and on our way back somehow ended up by that plant again (or rather that guy had every intention of going back there). In my drunken haze I saw him look both ways, jump over the fence and rip it out from the base and throw it over the fence handed it to me told us to run.
We ran across the street and I handed it back to him and said "I don't want anything to do this shit" and about then an armed medic response unit (it's like an EMT with supplies driving a car they were everywhere) pulled around the corner with his head lights off in the middle of the night which was weird to me. The guy stuffed the entire plant in through the guys rolled down window and said "hey look what we got"... Dunno what else they talked about but he came back and the car drove off. He told me "the security guard is pissed that we ripped out his plant". We were still across the street from this place, I was like "we gotta get the f outta here now" so we ran all the way back to our lodge, jumped back over the fence (with the plant).
So, there was no bud on the plant, mr sketch I don't think knew anything about mj plants (neither did I) and looking back that's a real bummer for the security guy. I think mr sketch either did it for me, or both of us as we were both so excited to find it.
I thought it would be worth a try to smoke some of the leaves (please don't make fun of me I had no idea), I took some leaves and put them in a film container and stuffed them in my pocket for later. Two days later we were leaving and in the airport going through security and the security guard was patting me down and touched the film container in my cargo pant pocket and I instantly realized my fuckup, standing there with my mother and sister and he looked up and me and said "what's that?" I said "film", he kinda looked at me for a second more and said "ok" and we were on our merry way.
It's only now that I realize I could have probably been supremely fucked if I got caught. But on the other hand, I would have played so ignorant they might have just dropped it. I really had no idea now much trouble I would have been in at the time.
