When my Dad bought a new house several years ago, we were driving there to check it out right after finishing the paperwork.
We pull up, and notice right on the corner of the house.... this Mexican guy full of gardening gear looks up and see us pull up. He completely panics, hastily grabs some gardening tools and runs to a car and drives off. He left several various tools behind, some shears... a utility belt... etc... random stuff.
A few weeks later I'm walking down the street in that spot and smell.... fucking pot? (this is in an illegal state in the US)
I look closer... on the corner of the street - on my dad's property - is a FULL GROWN HEMP BUSH (it was more like a tree). This is exactly where this strange Mexican guy fled from weeks earlier...
To put this in perspective this was in a dense suburb of a huge city!
To this day I will never know what that mysterious hemp gardener was doing.... A full grown hemp bush... near downtown in a major city.... must have been growing for at least a year!
It eventually got chopped down, not because it was hemp, but because it was against HOA regulations and blocking a street view....
but that guy will never ever elude my memory... what was he doing? Did he think it was weed? Was he harvesting a tiny hemp farm?
I will never know...