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  • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]English
    62•2 months ago

    Officers allegedly raided the diagnostic center, located in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, thinking it was a front for an illegal cannabis cultivation facility, pointing to higher-than-usual energy use

    Man, it’s almost like they were running some kind of large piece of medical equipment in there that uses a lot of electricity.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]English
      32•2 months ago

      You’d think they would just like…send a guy down there in plainclothes to look around or something before conducting a massive raid.

      • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]English
        33•2 months ago

        Or just like… have a squad car drive past it?

        “Hey uh Chief, I checked out that location that got pinged cuz of their energy bill.”

        “WE HAVE THE SWAT TEAM READY!!!”

        “No, Chief, it’s a radiology clinic, they got like, X-Rays and shit.”

        “WE’RE GONNNA ROLL OUT!”

        “Chief, I’m pretty sure there isn’t a gro…”

        “LOCK AND LOAD!!!”

      • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]English
        22•2 months ago

        I think your municipal electricity bill is a matter of public record.

        High electricity bills are a potential sign someone is running a growhouse (that and they can to thermal readings of the house). Idk how exactly it works but if a building has usually high energy usage for it’s zoned purpose it can potentially lead to police investigation.

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]English
            1•2 months ago

            Don’t they use less power, too? I’m wondering if some leds and a solar panel could totally erase the heat and energy signatures of a small indoor grow

            • anonochronomus [comrade/them, she/her]English
              6•2 months ago

              I would have to do some math over it, new top of the line solar modules can have an output of like 600ish watts. The real PITA would be battery storage and maintaining power during extended periods of low insolation. Regardless, a home grow for personal consumption is already pretty much undetectable even without the solar panels. A good LED grow light will be like in the low hundreds of watts, so it’s like having a few extra incandescent bulbs turned on. Negligible power draw.

              • Hexboare [they/them]English
                3•2 months ago

                The other thing is that the 500 watt LED light will eventually end up as heat, so if you’re growing indoors it’ll just look like heating usage.

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]English
            5•2 months ago

            “Why no, I had no idea that the fenced-in vacant lot next door had become a Pandora of kush plants. I wonder what clever and handsome individual put them there.”

    • Hexamerous [none/use name]English
      23•2 months ago

      “See that guy in the MRI machine, drug dealer.”

      “That elderly lady crying while looking at her scans, drug kingpin.”

      “The doctor over there, hit man.”

      “That dog over there, head of the growing operation.”

  • Awoo [she/her]English
    40•2 months ago

    An officer then allegedly pulled a sealed emergency release button that shut the MRI machine down, deactivating it, evaporating thousands of liters of helium gas and damaging the machine in the process. The officer then grabbed his rifle and left the room, leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor, according to the lawsuit.

    Lmao cop left the room so fast with his piggy tail between his legs in shame that he didn’t even notice.

  • fox [comrade/them]English
    34•2 months ago

    Weed is legal in California so this was the hogs sending SWAT after, what, a possible grow operation with improper paperwork?

  • AndJusticeForAll [none/use name]English
    32•2 months ago

    An officer then allegedly pulled a sealed emergency release button that shut the MRI machine down, deactivating it, evaporating thousands of liters of helium gas and damaging the machine in the process. The officer then grabbed his rifle and left the room, leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor, according to the lawsuit.

    Had no idea they even contained that much, although I’m guessing it’s compressed. Also, what dipshit, too embarrassed and stubborn to ask someone there to get it off properly.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]English
    30•2 months ago

    I don’t know what weapons lapd raid iii will be fought with, but lapd raid iv will be fought with non-ferromagnetic sticks and stones.

  • OgdenTO [he/him]English
    26•2 months ago

    From what I understand, due to the war in Ukraine we are actually currently in a medical helium shortage, it’s like 4-5x the cost that it was a few years ago. I think that one release would probably cost the facility something like $50000 to replace

  • Redcuban1959 [any]English
    24•2 months ago

    I remember one time when a Latino chud went with his mother for an MRI scan. He took his pistol into the examination room and, when the machine started working, the gun went off and killed him.

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]English
      15•2 months ago

      very sad that the rifle didn’t go off when it was sucked into the MRI, killing the officer, and triggering an overreaction from the other officers resulting in a shootout leaving most of them dead or permanently injured beyond the capacity to do their jobs anymore

      • NuraShiny [any]English
        5•2 months ago

        ohgod imagine the scene:

        Pig #1 storms the MRI room and his gun goes off, killing him. The other pigs hear the noise and they storm the same room and it repeats. I want this!

    • VILenin [he/him]English
      10•2 months ago

      An officer was involved in a magnetic incident at a suspected drug warehouse