Police Chief Robert Clarke shared a vivid account of some on-the-job gardening he did in West Marlborough on Sept. 30.
"Clarkie" told me he got a call from Jamie Hicks, who was cutting corn on the west side of Newark Road across from Archie's restaurant and was surprised to find some marijuana plants in the middle of the field.
Clarkie arrived at the scene and uprooted the healthy green pot plants, the tallest of which was six and a half feet. He bundled them into garbage bags, took them back to the East Marlborough Township building and asked township roadmaster Dennis Mellinger to destroy them with a Kubota lawn mower. Dennis was glad to oblige, running over them repeatedly while Clarkie recorded the scene on his phone.
"Here's what I don't get," Clarkie mused. "They knew the corn was gonna be cut down. Why didn't they just get out there and harvest their stuff?"
(One friend of mine predicted that avid potheads would be scouring the East Marlborough Township property with their Dustbusters to scavenge the ground-up dope.)
They obviously wanted it to grow higher. Too much to expect!
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