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Originally Posted by carolyn137
one of the DEC helicopters checking you out to be sure you weren't growing weed. They also flew at night and had some kind of infrared,or whatever,that would make the plants glow.
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It's FLIR, which stands for forward looking infrared radar. There was actually a supreme court case over it, and the cops lost. They are not supposed to use it any more without probable cause. I've read the case, and it was a brilliant piece of lawyering. The police are definitely not allowed to look inside your house without a warrant, and the lawyers convinced the court that if someone had poorly insulated walls and was leaning against one, then their image might be visible to the FLIR from outside their home, even though they had a reasonable expectation of privacy. It's a long shot that such a thing would actually happen, but the court bought the argument.