Have you heard tale of feral cannabis plants growing in the Midwest?
A bicyclist (let's just call him Señor Buzzkill) rolled up on a patch of 40 to 50 5-foot-tall marijuana plants off Brea Canyon Road between Tonner Canyon and Canyon Country roads Wednesday morning.
Instead of beholding the beautiful bounty or wondering if this, too, was a magical feral patch, he called the cops. Thus the nickname.
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Brea Police say their detectives later found what was thought to be a pipe bomb next to the patch, so the sheriff's bomb squad was alerted and part of Brea Canyon Road was closed . . . for hours and hours.
Turns out the device was not a bomb.
Police say they have yet to pin the patch, whose plants would reportedly fetch $20,000 on the street, on anyone yet.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.