Safety Issues + COPS + Helicopters in the UK!

[blizma]

Im pretty scared to make my next grow using way more lights than on my last grow.

Recently here in the south of UK, a gang of 15 growers where growing in a house they bought. They had a flowering room, veg room, cloning room, and they were growing outside in between tomatoe plants. They all were help in cuusterdy for several days till courte came, where they were put in prison in plymouth for 12 years. (article was in the newspapper called ' The Sun ')

Since then the past weeks helicopters circle the area I live in with big equipment dangling off the bottom of the helicopter. I hear this might be infrared vission or something. They come around my areaat least 2 times a day. Once in the morning, once just after midnight.

My worries are that they will pick up my next grow.
And my question is :

Will that infrared equipment see my comming up grow in the loft? I am going to use simple CFL's coolwhite + warmwhite. The loft has polystyrene and fibre glass for insulation.

Any replies I would be very greatfull!

blizma Reviewed by blizma on 08-10-2006. Safety Issues + COPS + Helicopters in the UK! Im pretty scared to make my next grow using way more lights than on my last grow. Recently here in the south of UK, a gang of 15 growers where growing in a house they bought. They had a flowering room, veg room, cloning room, and they were growing outside in between tomatoe plants. They all were help in cuusterdy for several days till courte came, where they were put in prison in plymouth for 12 years. (article was in the newspapper called ' The Sun ') Since then the past weeks Rating: 5

[rood32]

easy answer aquaculture.co.uk sheffield

[blizma]

LoL were the heck am i ment to get that in the uk? :P

Alot of stuff in this stupid country is illegal, which is why i am half german :P and i have not the faintest idea why i wanted to move here in the first place.(my gf's fault, she dragged me here :P )

Anyway.

I found a solution.
Placing a water foundation in the same room would bring in coolness and maybe a bit of humidity, as i would probably lack in humidity any way because i will use cfl's. The infared scanner would pick-up the coolness of the water aswell?

[rood32]

a quick an easy way to not get detected by the copper chopper // anti detection foil £3 per meter designed by the u.s militery.good luck.:thumbsup:

[babystarbud]

this is a good post , some very good points made, especially that most busts are made by word of mouth.

I agree that the heat thing has been blown out of proportion somwhat, but i think its a very important point, and certainly has a good discussion potential, one can never be to carefull

[HARDDON]

ANd, as long as you grow, you will remain worried.

And you should.

Just remember that for every one person other than yourself who knows, is one more potential leak.

[blizma]

[quote=Racerx]I think your blowing this way out of proportion. government looks for operations that are significent enough to be cost effective to get rid of. It costs a crapload of money to run a helicopter, get a warrant, and storm a house... I mean a LOT of money.QUOTE]

The South-West where I live, the most crime accurs, aspecially near the seafront (where I live, like 5mins walk away from beach). They always run ahelicopter around this area, probably just to catch illegal street races, run away crimes, hit and runs etc.

Im still worried :S

[I mean, the government in my area has alot of money, they spent £18k on a fireworks display yesterday just because it was " official UK hotdog day " LOL!]

Oops a bit of subject

[BLaQLiGhT]

I can see a bird in the piC. Look at the middle of the bottom portion of the picture...

[babystarbud]

im on a mission no lol...

just looked up some pic on google, notice the pic below, some vans and some people wandering around...

you can see the heat from the engine and under the vans ( exhaust pipes ), and also from the peoples heads.....all of which are un-insulated., but also notice, the body panels of the vans are reletivley cold...just goes to show a small ammount of inulation, combined with some thoughtfull heat difusing can fool IR cameras

[HARDDON]

The only way to 'fool' an infra-red device is to line your grow area with LEAD DRYWALL...like the offices are where your doctor takes xrays.

That is the ONLY way to conceal the heat from lights.

And your simple possession and use of 1,000WATT HID bulb is not by itself illegal. ..nor is it "probable cause".

At least not in the states.

And as stated by RacerX, the CFL's aren't going to even show up on an IRD.