You have to have respect for the entrepreneurial spirit...

Where he failed, and what tipped the cops off, was that he was stealing power. The local utility had several transformers blow up because of the theft. None of their paying customers were using that much juice, and they finally traced it to this property. Old article said that at the time they were busted they were growing over $1.2mil worth of weed a month. With cash flow like that you buy a generator and a diesel tanker.

http://images.wildammo.com/2010/08/06/m ... operation/