I swear this story isn't about me, but, I'll tell it in first person perspective anyway.
I had a small cramped apartment while attending college a few years back, and had a large-scale shroom grow operation going on (along with a few plants). Wouldn't have been a problem except that I, for some unknown reason, decided to throw a large drinking party (all of my friends and I being underage). People I didn't even know started showing up, etc, you know the how it that goes. Guys were pissing off of the balcony, the music was blaring, and so on and so forth...
You guessed it, the cops showed up, issued everyone tickets, and right before they left, decided to search the place to see if "anyone was hiding" in the back rooms. I freaked and snuck to the back bedroom to try and cover anything up I could. 15 seconds later one of the cops walked in.
"What'cha doing in that closet, there?"
"Uh, well... uh, moving some stuff around..."
And I knew, at that very moment, that I had fucked myself, and my life, and that I was certainly going to jail, no way around it. I kept thinking to myself, over and over, "a few handfulls of shrooms is not worth this, why, oh, why?"
And then, by some kind of miracle, there was a noise in the second closet.
With a raised eyebrow, the cop asked, "Now just what the hell was that?" He focussed his attention on the non-drugged out closet and asks me to open it. I happily oblige, and, I shit you not, one of my retarded-ass drunk friends was hiding underneath a pile of dirty clothes, scared shitless! After a funny exchange of words, we all three start walking out of the bedroom, but at the last minute, the cop looks me square in the eyes and asks that I open the other closet door for him. "Fuck!" I thought, "I was this close..."
I slink over to the drug-infested closet, and, by the light of his flashlight, whip it open and closed very suspiciously. He saw the plants, looked at me for at least 20 seconds. Terrifying silence. I could see in his eyes that he knew, and that he could see in my eyes that I knew that he knew. I was speechless. Then, miracle number two: "Alright, there's nothing else in here, let's go."
They left, and I nearly passed out. Why he didn't search the rest of the place, I don't know. Why he didn't even so much as ask me about the flowering, smelly plants, I don't know. What I do know is that I suspected that they'd come busting back in any minute (for the next few weeks, actually), looking like heroes for the local newspaper. Needless to say, my place was kept rediculously clean until I moved out.
Make what you will of this story, but throwing a big party in a small, cramped aparment building (with a vast majority of elderly tennants) whilst a heap of different drugs were growing was the dumbest decision I've made. Hopefully it'll stay that way!