Here are some more facts about Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at Zapville, North Idaho(remember Ruby Ridge?), USA
Wonderful sleep Tuesday night. A nice visit with Dave and Amanda regarding a possible future for Aromazap Sunday/Monday. Home Monday night with a big farm harvest/delivery Tuesday along with a post on FC about what is happening with us. Back to Zapville finishing a couple orders and picking blocks for my last dozen or so Zaps to be made will start Wednesday. That is soon enough.
6AM Wednesday with us still sleeping soundly, incredible screaming from downstairs. Screaming from many different men. "Get down here! NOW! NOW! DOWNSTAIRS! HANDS UP! NOW! NOW! NOW! Dudes, I am crying as I write this. Pat was first down, I followed. At least a half dozen big black dressed, armed SWAT team members in our dining area. More behind them outside in a line, waiting to invade if needed. The door knocker down was not needed as we had only the screen door closed. Later, "thanks for having the door open, we did not need to knock it down". Me in cuffs, Pat no cuffs thank God. At the same time exactly at Mikes house the same thing only he got the real tough squad. After all, he is young(37), has guns and is very tough so we will need to deal with that. Mike and his love were in cuffs for over 4 hours. They said they knew we were OK as they could hear us outside talking with all the officers, even with some laughing. Like when one officer came out and pulled me from the 'crowd' for a private conversation about a jar they found hidden away in Pats Cedar chest with a date of "2005" on the top. I laughed and explained how Pat stashes stuff and forgets where she put it sometimes. I re-assured him that had we known it was there, it would have been gone in 2005!
The squad designated for Mikes place was tough, very tough. They marched up his short driveway all in unison, stomp, stomp of 16 boots. They went through every inch, every millimeter of his house. They checked every weapon with their constant chatter on the 'special' radios carried. The chiefs had their radios and the workers had theirs. They did not take any weapons from any of us. No one was arrested.
I am going to do this a little here and there. More of the story. I can do it a little better now because a month has passed and my chest does not start thumping when I think about what happened. I'm also glad Jeppy said what he did as it pulled a little trigger in me that has been locked for a month. This was a big time bust with lots of resources wasted. That is the interesting part of the story, how was it directed and why? At this time it really did not happen as the warrant is still secret. The warrant and how it was obtained does not exist until it is turned back, with the evidence list, to the court that issued the warrant. We are still there. They still have all our stuff.
BTW, Jeppy, I too am a Gemini. I've got a moon that keeps me to the real stuff. Besides, tell me? Who can make up a story like this?????? If I wanted to shit can my customers, I could do that very easily and much nicer than the PD folks endured.
This was and is real. Hell, we could not even have a favorite dish using Mushroom soup til yesterday. They were nice in that they put everything back after searching. No way could they put it all back the way Pat had it. She finally checked the other end of the pantry and found the soup. This happens every day. ......"oh, that was not there before"
Thanks FC community. I need to get some of this big rats nest of a day out of me and I will do it more often. Also, no need to push Jeppy on whatever. That is over.
Aromazap is in Limbo, not dead. Same with Zapville and Rick and Pat. R&P and family are more alive than ever................
really sorry to hear of your troubles Rick, I hope everything works out for the better for you and fam in the end.
My answer was,,,,how could anyone act so well at being distraught??? Cmon,,,,the only person I ever met that was that damn good at BS'n was my Gemini ex-wife! 
