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MadHatter
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Mistaken Identity
Dawt, your neighbor must be a complete moron. Pepper plants look nothing like
weed. Sounds like weed growing is outlawed in your locale. Where I live it's
perfectly legal with some restrictions. The whole neighborhood smells like a skunk
during the growing season around here. I had a similar experience with an asshole
room mate some years ago. He tried to get the cops to bust me for my lab
chemicals out of revenge. The cops weren't even interested although I offered to
show them my lab. Even they knew, from repeated calls, that the idiot was a
trouble making drunk.
[Edited on 2022/1/15 by MadHatter]
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AngelEyes
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I can vouch for the lab notebook being the key thing here between an actual chemist and a ne'er-do-well. I had a visit from the police in Oct
2020 and I'm pretty sure it was my notebook that persuaded them I was not doing anything terrorist related.
You can read the full story here, about half way down:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=154800...
And like the OP, I was grassed on by my neighbours who saw something they didn't understand and jumped straight to the "he must be making b*mbs!!"
conclusion.
Cheers
Angel.
\'Silk and satin, leather and lace...black panties with an Angel\'s face\'
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BlackPowderBoy
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This is why I'm very hesitant about doing chemistry in the ole backyard without any coverings. I've still avoided making things like nitric acid or
things meant to do in open air just because I know people are nosy.
[Edited on 13-11-2022 by BlackPowderBoy]
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XeonTheMGPony
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Quote: Originally posted by BlackPowderBoy  | This is why I'm very hesitant about doing chemistry in the ole backyard without any coverings. I've still avoided making things like nitric acid or
things meant to do in open air just because I know people are nosy.
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ManyInterests
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This is why I cover my balcony with some kind of covering to prevent people from seeing it. My current setup needs work since I cut the cloth (I use
cheap shower curtains) too short and it flaps around like crazy when it is windy, I need to fasten it down.
I can get away with doing that without drawing suspicious since I know many neighbors that also do the same. If asked I can just point to them and say
'they did it, why not me?'.
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arkoma
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My current notebook was started seven years ago. It is a bound book of the type you can tell if a page has been torn out, and written in ink with
times and dates. It's far from perfect, but not only can I check yields etc from each variation of how i've synthed isopropyl nitrite, it is the best
declaration of my intentions with this hobby/avocation.
Keep records folks, I might think even MORE so for the EM hobbyists. Far cry from a pyrotechnic enthusiast to a terr, but how can you establish prior
intentions? Records.
My ten cents.
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status, nationality, citizenship, etc" z-lib
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BlackPowderBoy
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Yeah I've been thinking recently about getting some tarps and making a little work station in the corner of my yard.
Also yes Arkoma and Xeon, Preach!
I've got a journal but it is seldom written in. Bad practice, I gotta get on that. 
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Fantasma4500
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well- theyre desperate to find some action, many ended up working as police because they wanted to do the right thing. some of them arent very smart
and they end up deluded and brainwashed. some of the truly heroic ones that knows right from wrong end up bitter and sadistic from stress. and
naturally some of them injecting confiscated steroids and "verifying" substances on a daily basis live in a yet worse sadistic egotrip state
and then add into that quotas- thats a huge part of the problem, forcibly criminalizing society because they HAVE to find suspects
the ones with robotic facial expressions are the ones most likely to be humble, but also most likely to be abusive. people messing with EM's really
just have the same desire for action as the ones coming to stir trouble- maybe with a typically more intellectual drive. i have known multiple people
ending up behind bars where they would prior to being thrown in get warnings- and i told them to take it as warnings. they kept pushing their luck and
the trap snapped. its always a bad idea to openly share with sorrounding public what you do with your free time if youre anything but average- people
fear what they cannot understand. people can end up jealous realizing you can do something they can never wrap their heads around- yet in less
developed countries, even in the west, you may come across a police chief that thinks blowing up dynamite in your backyard to send water far up in the
air is really cool
but surely, the times are getting tighter- but on the bright side society is shifting a lot lately, every workplace is screaming for more workers,
this means less police to enforce legislation
when going out to buy just barely suspicious stuff, youre in luck if you have a job that requires safety clothing, this somehow makes you seem more
average and less intelligent and voila it nullifies suspicion
you can really just have bad luck, i have gotten a visit after a drugged up neighbour wanted to lend a fuse since he blew his fuses by cranking up his
speakers too high. drug/steroid induced schizophrenic psychosis had him convince himself he smelled all sorts of weird things at my doorway, pridened
himself with having a military background he made a call and later that night they proved to have taken a crackaddict seriously. i ended up paying
3000 euros in court but got a bit of joy back when i noticed they had confiscated my solution of sodium fluoride- mouth wash, and had put it on a list
of "toxic chemicals" found in my possession which was not properly stored- rendering it illegal.
if they havent visited you yet, take my advice and dont test your luck. the system will never forget you again. if you feel like they have come a bit
too close, thats your warning. roll back a bit and take extra precautions
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