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A plant, appearing to be marijuana and standing nearly 7 feet tall, was found growing openly in a parkway near Pratt & Newgard in Rogers Park Thursday evening. The plant was discovered and identified as a "female cannabis plant" by a man who identified himself as off-duty Sheriff's Deputy. Two Chicago Police officers responded and would not initially confirm the plant's type, but noted they had called their Sergeant to the scene. The plant had been removed by the next morning
Towering Marijuana Plant Allegedly Found Along Street in East Rogers Park
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Just for humor's sake, the photo of the police cruiser in front of the plant currently has 420 views today on Flickr. :-)
Gapers Block's on the case!
http://gapersblock.com/merge/archives/2009/09/16/green-monster/
Athens on the Net? 25 posts on a lonely marijuana plant! Check out a similar result when the Obama Administration asks for public input on the subject of health care reform.
Question raised by the New York Times is does our collective passion over the lonely marijuana plant merit such attention?
Maybe it lasted so long because everyone in RP is already so high, they like totally missed it.
I think it's more than just a story about marijuana. it's a story about something cool and overlooked being just around the corner from the guy who found it....which makes the reader think "hmm, maybe there's something like that on my street."
Also, this is totally the kind of thing you send to your friends: "Dude, 7-foot marijuana plant found in Rogers Park!"
I know I sent it to mine.
Dang, none on my street! (out of breath) Anyway, cool take on this thing.
It's an easy issue to dismiss and trivialize if the job that provides you and your family a livelihood doesn't piss test randomly. And (without getting too personal) booze is not an option for you.
And don't get me started on the prison-industrial complex that feeds off tax dollars like a parasite for locking up otherwise promising minority youth for simple possession of such a plant.
For some of us, all this collective passion and more is well warranted.
I wonder if there are fingerprints visible on the hand holding the leaf. That's possession you know. The law must be respected!
It's a funny thing, and there are some serious elements to it if you care to look.
Behold! My axe! Now watch me grind it.
But seriously, twestgard is right. There's some food for thought here.
Is there a "Best of" Windy Citizen?
If so, I nominate this post. A seven-foot tall marijuana plant? Incredible. Great post!
Love the "Best of" idea, and this would most certainly be in the top five.
Yes, "Best Of!"
This, friends is what the Citizen was made for. _smile_
CORRECTION: The event took place on THURSDAY evening (9/10/09) not Friday. The plant had been removed by the next morning, Friday 9/11/09. Near Pratt & NEWGARD, not Greenwood. Sorry for the mistake.
This was about three blocks from my apartment. How I never noticed a 7ft tall marijuana plant, I will never know.
I'm surprised the plant was able to grow to 7 feet before someone noticed it-
Perhaps it had a protector, or two.
The whole parkway is seriously overgrown, as you can see in one of the photos. I live less than a block away, and this is along the street I typically have to park on. I couldn't believe it when the guy pointed it out to me, but sure enough, there it was. He was from the neighborhood too, and we'd all walked past it for however long it'd taken that thing to grow.
If you were not looking for a marijuana plant I suspect it may just look like an odd plant. I know when I walk down the street I don't question the illegality of the product of a weed.
People toss the seeds and stems while rolling a marijuana cigarette of the smokable product, I've heard tell. Seed hits dirt. Add water from rain or what have you. Seed grows. Not an uncommon scenario, actually.
Some people sow the seeds for just this kind of hilarity. I knew a guy that sowed a bunch of seeds outside the campus police office where I went to school.
What is this "marijuana"? It's an herbal remedy of some kind?
Yeh, it's um, oh... like... sigh. What was the question?
Shoot, they found one of them.
My brother-in-law in Columbus was just telling us this past weekend that he had a similarly sized bush next to his porch. It was plainly visible from the street, and his neighborhood isn't the best so police patrol regularly. Nobody ever inquired, and he and his housemate eventually cut it down.
Years back when I lived near Cubs Park I used to marvel at the smallish plant someone had growing in the window overlooking Addison & Sheffield, above the bar on the corner.
Here's a link to the corner referenced in the photos:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.005311,-87.667645&num=1&sll=42.005466,-...
I tried surfing around in Street View but couldn't find a location that matched the spot in the third photo. Didn't see any buildings with bubble windows.
TEFennell4, where exactly was this?
Looking back at the map, this is on Newgard, not Greenview. The shots were geotagged properly on Flickr but I managed to misread the map when I posted the news. Here's the corner:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.005311,-87.667645&num=1&sll=42.005466,-...
Any way to correct the original listing? I've got two errors up there...
Fixed.
Many thanks.
Why did 2 Chicago Police officers respond? Was someone shot or robbed?
Two officers to a car. I believe it's standard operating procedure for CPD patrols.
Cops need to respond to a marijuana plant?
Why, is it illegal?
Whole thing was legit, from what I've heard. They read her her rights and everything: "We are here to arrest you from growing. You are hereby ordered to cease and desist existing by the power vested in us under city, state and federal law. Please stop your unlawful act of being a marijuana plant or we will have to use lethal force!"
I guess I might not have understood the initial question. The off-duty Deputy called it in.
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