Quote Originally Posted by jamstigator
BTW, for U.S. people, the federales cannot use thermal imaging on you unless they already have a warrant for other reasons. The Supreme Court has already ruled that thermal imaging constitutes a search, and you can't search someone's home without a warrant. So they CAN thermally image you, but they need a reason to get a warrant first.
I can tell you that a guy I played softball with worked for the state troopers and you guessed it, he flew a chopper.

He tried to sell me arial pictures of my house, said it was his side business, all the people he knows, he flys over their house takes a picture and then tries to sell it to them.

Well I asked him what else he does in his free time if hes got so much of it, he tells me he flys around looking for people who grow pot. Says outside its a different color than the rest of the trees and plants, and indoors they have Thermal and can see everything. Told me that what you see on TV for thermal is 100x worse than what he sees in his chopper.

I say isnt it against the law to thermally search someones house? He says yes, but what he does then is jot down the adress and pass it on the someone in narcatics, and that they will send someone out to the house or whatever to check things out.

Said they come to your door asking to use the phone at 3 am, and then look for your bong, or if they smell anything. Or anything else they can get you on while they are there, they wont bust you on the spot tho, you let them in, they then take back any info they can get a warrant with and come back when they have a warrant.

Its a process thats for sure, and more than likley they will have to put tons of effort into it, more than its worth for a guy with one light.