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Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:29 am  |
So there I am in my kitchen, minding my own business, trying to whip up a homemade version of my beloved Jurlique Rose Silk Dust when there is a knock on my front door on Friday evening. Imagine my surprise to find myself confronted by a couple of local county sheriff's we ask if they can come in and have a look around because they'd gotten an "anonymous tip" that I have been making "illegal substances" in my kitchen and they want to make sure I'm not running an illegal meth lab or some such nonsense! 
Apparently, in a latest volley of tit-for-tat, my next door neighbors reported me to the police in retaliation for my mom's "disturbing the peace" complaint against them after a post-Labor Day party went on until the wee-hours the weekend before.
The cops said I had been overseen standing in my kitchen window wearing a dust mask and gloves, fooling around with "suspicious-looking white powders" and funnels and beakers and measuring spoons and apparently it looked for all the world like I was preparing to cook up a dose of heroin or crack cocaine!
In actuality, I was sifting together a batch of silk powder, corn starch and silica and then trying to blend in the "wet" essential oils in an attempt to blend up my first batch of homemade Silk Dust. I explained to the officers that I am an avid skincare and beauty DIYer and showed them my extensive collection of raw ingredients, as well as I my collection of "recipes."
After tasting my Silk Dust powder mixture to ensure its authenticity (note: apparently -- judging by the expression on the policeman's face after tasting it -- Silk Dust is neither very edible nor tasty!), the officers apologized profusely for their mistake and departed, but first warned me that in the future I may want to draw the curtains over my kitchen sink to prevent any more of these sorts of misunderstandings caused by noisy/vindictive neighbors.
Just to show that there were no hard feelings, I gathered a goody-bag of my homemade skincare samples for the deputies to take home to their wives to try out. I was even more surprised when my phone rang just now and discovered it was one of the officers who just wanted to tell me that his girlfriend LOVED the homemade Silk Dust, Lip Scrub and Super Sonic mask and she wanted him to find out if I would be willing to sell her some full-sized products!
The moral of this story: if you've got noisy and/or suspicious neighbors, you might want to be careful when you're mixing your homemade powders and potions lest you, too, receive an unexpected knock at your door.... |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:57 am |
LMAO! 
Oh my God, that truely is priceless. My monitor is sprayed with green tea.
(I´d send the neighbors some loose silk dust in an envelope, if I were you.) |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:58 am |
 Too Funny.... |
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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. ~ Voltaire www.Candessence.com |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:14 am |
just too sweet! nosy nast neighbor tries to nip you in the bud and ends up launching your career.... 
i do hope you offered those officers some goodies for themselves -- for their mouth. from experience(trying my first make-up application with the bum arm and ended up with brush in mouth), Silk Dust really does taste nasty! |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:19 am |
| It sounds like you have the same neighbors my son has! Whatever happened to minding your own business? You keep on mixing up your concotions, carekate. Next they will report you for witchcraft. |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:28 am |
LOL! OMG, that is too funny!
At least the cops apologized. Knowing the ones we have in my area, they'd still haul you downtown just for good measure!  |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:38 am |
OMG I can't stop laughing!!
At least you now have the cops on side as customers  |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:58 am |
This is just too funny!
Carekate the silk powder bomder. |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:42 am |
| OMG, I hope you don't end up the terrorist list, then you'd really be in be trouble and we would not be able to benedfit from your DIY genius!! LOL |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:52 am |
Hmm. Well it is quite an intersting way to get clients. LOL I say keep those curtains opened. You never know who else may have a wife/gf/sister etc who would love to purchase more of your goodies. LOL  |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:07 am |
What a great story! I love it that the cops ended up as customers!
Mary |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:31 am |
| Your story has given me a MUCH needed laugh... |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:47 am |
thanks for the laugh! |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:53 am |
oh my god!
that is too funny! |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:47 pm |
| lol cute! thanks for sharing that gave me a smile~ |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:13 pm |
| That is priceless. |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:28 pm |
| Carekate that's the best story i've heard! having a great laugh here!!! |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:29 pm |
| carekate wrote: |
So there I am in my kitchen, minding my own business, trying to whip up a homemade version of my beloved Jurlique Rose Silk Dust when there is a knock on my front door on Friday evening. Imagine my surprise to find myself confronted by a couple of local county sheriff's we ask if they can come in and have a look around because they'd gotten an "anonymous tip" that I have been making "illegal substances" in my kitchen and they want to make sure I'm not running an illegal meth lab or some such nonsense!
Apparently, in a latest volley of tit-for-tat, my next door neighbors reported me to the police in retaliation for my mom's "disturbing the peace" complaint against them after a post-Labor Day party went on until the wee-hours the weekend before.
The cops said I had been overseen standing in my kitchen window wearing a dust mask and gloves, fooling around with "suspicious-looking white powders" and funnels and beakers and measuring spoons and apparently it looked for all the world like I was preparing to cook up a dose of heroin or crack cocaine!
In actuality, I was sifting together a batch of silk powder, corn starch and silica and then trying to blend in the "wet" essential oils in an attempt to blend up my first batch of homemade Silk Dust. I explained to the officers that I am an avid skincare and beauty DIYer and showed them my extensive collection of raw ingredients, as well as I my collection of "recipes."
After tasting my Silk Dust powder mixture to ensure its authenticity (note: apparently -- judging by the expression on the policeman's face after tasting it -- Silk Dust is neither very edible nor tasty!), the officers apologized profusely for their mistake and departed, but first warned me that in the future I may want to draw the curtains over my kitchen sink to prevent any more of these sorts of misunderstandings caused by noisy/vindictive neighbors.
Just to show that there were no hard feelings, I gathered a goody-bag of my homemade skincare samples for the deputies to take home to their wives to try out. I was even more surprised when my phone rang just now and discovered it was one of the officers who just wanted to tell me that his girlfriend LOVED the homemade Silk Dust, Lip Scrub and Super Sonic mask and she wanted him to find out if I would be willing to sell her some full-sized products!
The moral of this story: if you've got noisy and/or suspicious neighbors, you might want to be careful when you're mixing your homemade powders and potions lest you, too, receive an unexpected knock at your door.... |
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Someone reported us to the police for supposedly having a grow op. We had put some frosty glass covering for privacy in the back 2 bedrooms and the airconditioner vents out the one window.
How did we find out about the tip to the police? I think you can guess what my husband does for a living. We're still laughing over our supposed grow op |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:04 pm |
| I'd be so tee'd off with those vindictive neighbours Carekate ! But what a funny story |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:12 pm |
| Maybe you should give some of your white powder placed in a ziploc bag to your neighbours and let them know that the policeman's girlfriend wanted to buy some off of you. That might really freak them out |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:02 pm |
too funny, but maybe you should mix in front of different windows so you can get more customers, laughing so hard, little do your neighbors know they just made you money and gained you new customers  !! |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:43 pm |
| Carekate, that's a riot!! |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:58 pm |
| That is just hilarious! |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:24 pm |
| Too funny, Carekate. I hope you find a way to let your vindictive neighbor know how her scheme backfired! |
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:49 pm |
| That is hysterical, Carrie! Thanks for the great laugh. |
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