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Raw Story
Oops! Cops raid Georgia mans home after mistaking okra for weed
Travis Gettys
03 Oct 2014
A Georgia man was awoken Wednesday morning to find a police helicopter hovering overhead and sheriffs deputies at the door to search his property for drugs.
They were strapped to the gills, said Dwayne Perry, describing the heavily armed officers.
Agents from the Governors Task Force for drug suppression flying overhead spotted what they believed to be marijuana growing in the yard of Perrys home in Cartersville, reported WSB-TV.
But the plants were, in fact, okra....
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In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)But I do know okra leaves look NOTHING like marijuana.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)The leaves do not look the same. I've grown okra.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)I'm sure all the money they spent on the raid wasn't needed anywhere else.
BTW, I've tried okra just about any way you can cook it and it's one of the few veggies I've no taste for.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I like fried okra the best. I was born in Georgia. Maybe it's an acquired taste.
I won't think any less of you because you (like many other folks) dislike okra. It has a bit of a slime texture. Like eating raw oysters.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Random pic fromweb
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I'm impressed.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,147 posts)I found out later that you can cut the main stalk and pick off of the side shoots. I hope they got okra itchies all over their faces and arms. Stupid is a stupid does.
Edit to add-just like that pic!
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)I have no other word, pathetic.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Okra
The outstanding similarities to cannabis are pretty obvious. Both -are- green!
Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)Everyone involved is demoted to traffic guard duty. Morons.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)and school bus children for illegal immigrants.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)2banon
(7,321 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)If he were black, he'd be dead now.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Check out these stats that I posted this morning...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1083588
valerief
(53,235 posts)it's not.
exboyfil
(17,853 posts)was killed in a night raid in Georgia recently.
http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/local/dublin/2014/10/01/warrant-meth-raid-led-to-fatal-laurens-shooting/16538903/
If the news article made no mention of the shooting victims race, then it isn't newz.
packman
(16,296 posts)or had okra brownies. The Souths best kept secret- damn it, now everyone knows.
TexasProgresive
(12,147 posts)I though it was the beer.
chrisa
(4,524 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)onethatcares
(16,119 posts)turned him in.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)The only okra I am familiar with is in the frozen food section of the supermarket.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Agony
(2,605 posts)Oh, right
he's white.
life in post-racist america.
that last sentence is sarcasm
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)Never could stand the stuff.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)You willl have to wrest my Creole cooking from my cold, dead hands.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)This stuff needs to stop.
dballance
(5,756 posts)Otherwise he'd probably be dead now.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)are both palmately compound.
Some horticultural retraining is definitely in order.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Yikes! What's the world coming to?
TeamPooka
(24,123 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Mr. Perry had a small bag of weed in his house.
Wella
(1,827 posts)The FDA is now armed and they are running raids on organic farms and some people growing their own food.
http://www.naturalnews.com/033280_fda_raids_timeline.html