Hiding in Plain Sight

Matt Welch | November 11, 2004

From the Albuquerque Journal:

Looking for a place to grow marijuana and live, rent-free, in a cave with all the creature comforts of home? Why not a canyon, tucked away within the 40 square miles of the nation's top-secret nuclear weapons research facility in Los Alamos?

That's where Roy Michael Moore, 56, was recently discovered living in a cave equipped with a glass front door, a wood stove, a bed, electricity-generating solar panels with batteries to store the power, and lights.

Link via the Project on Government Oversight's weblog.

Comments

|11.11.04 @ 3:00PM|#

"Roy Michael Moore"

Now there's a name with two different levels of hell assigned to it.

Jeff|11.11.04 @ 3:14PM|#

I think this is how all Bond villians start out.

|11.11.04 @ 3:21PM|#

What boggles my mind is that apparently the guy's only being charged with misdemeanors.

fyodor|11.11.04 @ 3:52PM|#

Pretty typical New Mexico stuff.

Jim Henley|11.11.04 @ 4:52PM|#

You just KNOW he had a blog. What's it called?

|11.11.04 @ 5:34PM|#

"He was a very cordial gentleman" and dressed neatly and in such a way that an observer would not think to consider him homeless, Tucker said.


But he wasn't homeless. Well, he is now!

Warren|11.11.04 @ 7:34PM|#

I want to live in an America that venerates such men.

drf|11.11.04 @ 7:42PM|#

probably he was busted on improper fire exits or some sort of housing code violation. and farming without outrageous subsidity.... and...

|11.11.04 @ 8:03PM|#

I can't believe nobody's picked up on the easy joke in the name of the organization - Project On Government Oversight. As in "failing to notice the marijuana-growing caveman next door to its secret facility was quite an oversight"...