Interesting Phone Call

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Permalink Reply by Reviled on March 3, 2011 at 11:10am

LOL, that is gold!! Wonder what they thought you might be up to ;o) lol

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Permalink Reply by Mark on March 3, 2011 at 11:21am

We talked for a while and she said they monitor LW for P dealers (obviously!), who have been using the site quite a bit. Apparently LW are very cooperative with the police. The call came as quite a surprise!

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Permalink Reply by Richard Jack on March 3, 2011 at 11:12am

Haha classic. That's quite a quick turnaround from order to call!

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Permalink Reply by Stu McKinlay on March 3, 2011 at 12:43pm

hmmm... this is where the civil rights folk start beating their chests.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Baker on March 3, 2011 at 1:31pm

Its a war on glassware!

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Permalink Reply by Tilt on March 3, 2011 at 1:41pm

Echoes of Swiched on Gardener - "preventive policing" at its best

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Permalink Reply by denimglen on March 3, 2011 at 3:03pm

This has been going on longer than the SOG deal.  

 

Cops called my house over a year ago for the same reason after ordering from LW.

 

I think it's a bit shit really.

 

For one - what do they expect to get as an answer - 'oh yeah bro, just cooking up some P, come round and arrest me'.

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Permalink Reply by Reviled on March 3, 2011 at 3:30pm

"'oh yeah bro, just cooking up some P, come round and arrest me'."

 

Bahahaha, bro, you would probably be surprised mate ;o) P dealers aint always the smartest cookies in the jar

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Permalink Reply by denimglen on March 3, 2011 at 4:49pm

Yeah, but if you're up on a bender for a week straight surely you've got time to think of a decent excuse to be buying lab equipment.

 

Anyway, as soon as the cooks get wind of it, and they will have already, they'll start knowing to have an excuse ready.  I mean really, the only way they will catch people with this method is if they answer the phone and can only come up with some very unlikely sketchy excuse, or they trace a lot of related chems or something going to the same address.

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Permalink Reply by Mark on March 3, 2011 at 2:53pm

It's funny, after a while I started thinking I don't really want the police probing into what I buy. In this case I'm happy to help, P dealers are scum who need to be weeded out one way or the other (my dad's a pharmacist, and the endless shit he has had to put up with from buyers etc makes me supportive of moves against them). Police monitoring wasn't exactly advertised on the LW warehouse website though.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Baker on March 3, 2011 at 3:45pm

If the alternative was having to be a "licensed" lab to buy glassware I think I would be OK with having the odd surreal phonecall.

 

Your point on disclosure by LW is interesting though.  I found this on their privacy page

Some items we sell are subject to restrictions imposed on us by legal authorities. Therefore on occasion we may be required to share order information with NZ Police.

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Permalink Reply by Mark on March 3, 2011 at 4:23pm

There you go. I guess it's no different to asking for ID when buying cold & flu drugs etc, and I'm impressed at how efficient the police were at hunting me down.

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