Had a bit of excitement today !
I went out for one last mushroom hunt, since there was a bit of rain a couple days ago, i thought i might get one last batch before it all came to an end. So, I caught the train out to a suburb in Northern Melbourne and headed to a park I know is good for shrooms. I had to walk up a long suburban street to get there.
Once I got to the park, I walked around a sporting ground, through a childrens playground, then I arrived at my lovely garden bed which was very fruitful last time.
So after about an hour of diong circles of the garden bed, I had found enough mushrooms for maybe 5 or 6 good trips. Which was about all I had hoped for. They were pretty dried out, and i had to throw a couple that ha maggots in them lol. But, for the most part, they looked edible, although I would say today was prob the last day they would have remained pickable, for most of them.
Now, to the exciting bit. So i had just finished picking and im walking out of the garden bed and I see 2 cops coming towards me, I think to myself "yep, Im boned". So sure enough, they come up to me and ask me what I'm doing because they had reports of somebody matching my description acting suspicous. Assuming they were talking about walking around in circles in a public garden for an hour I tell them I had jogged through and dropped a couple bucks and I was trying to find it. They weren't to impressed with that answer. Then they asked me if I had anything I shouldn't have in my pocket. I answer "no".
It was about this time that I spotted that the male cop was putting some latex gloves on and i though "damn". So, he asks me again about my pockets so I tell him "yep, both these pockets are full of mushrooms" . So he empties my shrooms out onto the ground and asks if theres anything else in my pockets. I had brought my digi camera along with me as well, which is a pretty expensive 5mp model worth around $800. So i say 'Yeah, I have my camera with me as well". And BAM! they went nuts over the camera, had it behind my back, asking what brand it was, what photos were on it, where/when i bought it, etc. Apparently they were pretty convinced that I stole it.
At was at this point that they informed me that the call they got about me acting suspicous was from somebody saying that they seen me looking into car windows and such on the street that i walked up to get to the park. WHen they said that, I actually started laughing, to which they informed me that "THis is not a laughing matter" to which i answered "it is, cause that pretty funny cause i wasn't looking in cars mate, Im only interested in victimless crimes, like picking these magic mushrooms". So they questioned me more about the camera. THey also gave me a partial strip search (yay ! lol) :/
inally they decided to call it a day and let me go. But told me if anything dodgy was reported around this area I'd be the top suspect
Heres some interesting facts about the incident though:
When they took they mushrooms out of my pocket they said "What were you going to do with these?". While i should have answered that i was about to give them to the children in the nearby playground( don't worry i would never do that !!!), I instead told them that i intended on eating them. To which they replied "well, they might not be to good for you. But we'll just put them on the ground and you can pick them up again and take them with you once we're done". i was quite amazed by this, they honestly did not give 2 shits about the mushies, they could not care less. They said i could keep them. THey were far more interested in my camera.
So to those paranoid when picking shrooms in the city, whilst obviously it could go differently, the cops that questioned me certainly we're not interested in them. THey asked me if i did drugs, I said just the shrooms i had, and they were like " ah yeh, the Magic Mushrooms ey??" like a complete dik.
So all in all, I got no arrest, no fine, no warning, nothing at all !!!
I was even allowed to keep my shrooms !
Although they def didn;t believe me about the camera and looking in cars, although, thinking about it later, I remembered that as i was walking up the street, i was poking around small garden beds next to cars , so maybe somoene saw me do that..
Also, what was interesting, was even after they had seen all my mushrooms and i told them that was why i was at the park. THey kept asking me what i was doing there (it was a few susburbs from wher I live) Every time i answered that i came to pick mushrooms. But i swear they thought i was just bullshitting them with the mushrooms and that really i was breaking into cars. Like, they acted like that loking for magic mushrooms was the most ridiculous excuse they'd ever heard of to get out of trouble lol. THat there was no way I came all that way just to walk around the garden and pick mushrooms..
ALl in all an interesting day, Im just crossing my fingers that no-one breaks into any cars round there today lol. Knowing my luck they'll stop by tomorrow night after someone reports something and I'll be tripping lol
I went out for one last mushroom hunt, since there was a bit of rain a couple days ago, i thought i might get one last batch before it all came to an end. So, I caught the train out to a suburb in Northern Melbourne and headed to a park I know is good for shrooms. I had to walk up a long suburban street to get there.
Once I got to the park, I walked around a sporting ground, through a childrens playground, then I arrived at my lovely garden bed which was very fruitful last time.
So after about an hour of diong circles of the garden bed, I had found enough mushrooms for maybe 5 or 6 good trips. Which was about all I had hoped for. They were pretty dried out, and i had to throw a couple that ha maggots in them lol. But, for the most part, they looked edible, although I would say today was prob the last day they would have remained pickable, for most of them.
Now, to the exciting bit. So i had just finished picking and im walking out of the garden bed and I see 2 cops coming towards me, I think to myself "yep, Im boned". So sure enough, they come up to me and ask me what I'm doing because they had reports of somebody matching my description acting suspicous. Assuming they were talking about walking around in circles in a public garden for an hour I tell them I had jogged through and dropped a couple bucks and I was trying to find it. They weren't to impressed with that answer. Then they asked me if I had anything I shouldn't have in my pocket. I answer "no".
It was about this time that I spotted that the male cop was putting some latex gloves on and i though "damn". So, he asks me again about my pockets so I tell him "yep, both these pockets are full of mushrooms" . So he empties my shrooms out onto the ground and asks if theres anything else in my pockets. I had brought my digi camera along with me as well, which is a pretty expensive 5mp model worth around $800. So i say 'Yeah, I have my camera with me as well". And BAM! they went nuts over the camera, had it behind my back, asking what brand it was, what photos were on it, where/when i bought it, etc. Apparently they were pretty convinced that I stole it.
At was at this point that they informed me that the call they got about me acting suspicous was from somebody saying that they seen me looking into car windows and such on the street that i walked up to get to the park. WHen they said that, I actually started laughing, to which they informed me that "THis is not a laughing matter" to which i answered "it is, cause that pretty funny cause i wasn't looking in cars mate, Im only interested in victimless crimes, like picking these magic mushrooms". So they questioned me more about the camera. THey also gave me a partial strip search (yay ! lol) :/
inally they decided to call it a day and let me go. But told me if anything dodgy was reported around this area I'd be the top suspect
Heres some interesting facts about the incident though:
When they took they mushrooms out of my pocket they said "What were you going to do with these?". While i should have answered that i was about to give them to the children in the nearby playground( don't worry i would never do that !!!), I instead told them that i intended on eating them. To which they replied "well, they might not be to good for you. But we'll just put them on the ground and you can pick them up again and take them with you once we're done". i was quite amazed by this, they honestly did not give 2 shits about the mushies, they could not care less. They said i could keep them. THey were far more interested in my camera.
So to those paranoid when picking shrooms in the city, whilst obviously it could go differently, the cops that questioned me certainly we're not interested in them. THey asked me if i did drugs, I said just the shrooms i had, and they were like " ah yeh, the Magic Mushrooms ey??" like a complete dik.
So all in all, I got no arrest, no fine, no warning, nothing at all !!!
I was even allowed to keep my shrooms !
Although they def didn;t believe me about the camera and looking in cars, although, thinking about it later, I remembered that as i was walking up the street, i was poking around small garden beds next to cars , so maybe somoene saw me do that..
Also, what was interesting, was even after they had seen all my mushrooms and i told them that was why i was at the park. THey kept asking me what i was doing there (it was a few susburbs from wher I live) Every time i answered that i came to pick mushrooms. But i swear they thought i was just bullshitting them with the mushrooms and that really i was breaking into cars. Like, they acted like that loking for magic mushrooms was the most ridiculous excuse they'd ever heard of to get out of trouble lol. THat there was no way I came all that way just to walk around the garden and pick mushrooms..
ALl in all an interesting day, Im just crossing my fingers that no-one breaks into any cars round there today lol. Knowing my luck they'll stop by tomorrow night after someone reports something and I'll be tripping lol
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