Folk, We're Losing the War on Gumbo

[kpete]

While some states are saving and making money by regulating marijuana sales, Georgia is sending helicopters around their state to seize people's okra plants at gunpoint.

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2014/10/7/45934/9655

Okra in garden mistaken for marijuana, leads to police raid in Georgia

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Dwayne Perry of Cartersville tells WSB-TV that he was awakened by a helicopter flying low over his house Wednesday and then some heavily-armed deputies and a K-9 unit showed up at his door. They were from the Governor's Task Force for drug suppression and they were out looking for marijuana plants.

What they had seen, apparently, were Perry's okra plants and a shrub at the end of his house.

Perry says the officers ended up apologizing to him.

Patrol Capt. Kermit Stokes says the plants did have characteristics similar to marijuana.

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/10/okra_mistaken_marijuana_raid.html

[el_bryanto]

1. Now see if it were a war on Okra, I'd support it whole heartedly.

I hate Okra - mostly from eating breaded fried Okra at a chain restaurant I worked at that I won't name (and as far as I know no longer exists).

Gumbo is pretty good though. And I suppose Okra is tied to Gumbo.

Damn those moral conundrums.

Bryant

[rogerashton]

3. Okra is used to thicken gumbo.

But it is better with file powder. As the cajunesque country song says, "Jambalaya, crawfish pie, and file gumbo!"

[msanthrope]

4. Thank the gods he wasn't growing sassafras...it could have been a full

scale DEA raid.

[GummyBearz]

6. screw okra

My grandparents were from oklahoma and fried okra was a must at every meal. It tastes like petrified t-rex shit

[MohRokTah]

2. Any Georgia cop who could not immediately identify okra should be ashamed of themselves. eom

[TlalocW]

5. Reminds me of the Grits defense in, "My Cousin Vinny"

Where Vinny got a witness to recant how long something took based on how long it takes a Southern man to cook grits.

TlalocW

[tkmorris]

9. Love that bit

"Q. So, Mr. Tipton, how could it take you five minutes to cook your grits, when it takes the entire grit-eating world twenty minutes?

A. I don't know. I'm a fast cook I guess.

Q. I'm sorry, I was all the way over here, I couldn't here you. Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than in anyplace on the face of the earth?

A. I don't know.

Q. Perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove? Were these magic grits? Did you buy from the same guy who sold Jack his beanstalk beans?

Prosecution: Objection, your Honor."

[whereisjustice]

7. tax payers get the bill for 10s of thousands of dollars of excessive use of force...

little redneck boys playing GI Joe, saving America one pot plant at a time.

[dilby]

8. I grow Okra and I don't see how you can possibly mix the plants up.

Sounds like bad police work to me, seriously maybe since these plants were out in the open they should have sent an officer over and just look at them before doing a full scale raid.

[LondonReign2]

10. Raid me, raid me!

About 25 okra plants growing in the garden right now. Yields enough for a meal every two days. Screw battered and fried-- sauteed with olive oil, a little salt, and a little bit of dill. Mmmmmm.

Never tried drying the leaves and smoking them however.

[2naSalit]

11. mistaken for pot plants...

Right...

Okra






Marijuana

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-50 pts for the "know-it-all cops.

[malthaussen]

12. Well, they're both green.

Whaddaya want?

-- Mal