A San Francisco couple who were caught with 5,900 marijuana plant are now awaiting trial and have lost custody of their three children. The reason for losing the kids was not the ridiculous number of pot plants nor was it enlisting the children’s help in the harvest. No, it was the illegal and potentially dangerous wiring required to power the operation without notice by the electric company.

From SFWeekly:

Because, you see, the Rahois did what most illicit pot growers do: they jumped their home’s utility box in order to both hide the egregious amount of energy a pot grow requires and to steal some extra juice from the power lines outside. All that extra voltage on wires not designed to handle it creates a fire hazard, and having kids in a fire hazard is, well, against the law.

“If someone is letting their children reside in an unsafe home, whether or not marijuana is involved, that’s a crime,” police spokesman Officer Boaz Marales told SF Weekly. Had the box not been jumped, the endangerment charge wouldn’t have been included, and if the Rahois had recommendations, “no arrests would have been made,” he added.

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