Ah, journalism

I found the first and last sentences of this news item hilarious:

CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) - Iron County authorities seized a marijuana crop field so large they say it took them a long time to walk through it.

Officials say it was a large-scale growing operation on public land with thousands of plants, some more than six feet tall with thick stalks, at 7,500 feet in elevation in an area south of Cedar City.

Hunters alerted authorities to the find.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says the field was well concealed under a canopy of other plants that would have made it difficult to spot from the air.

Authorities cut down the plants and planned to burn them.
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Man, it must have been a humongous field if it took them a long time to walk through it. (Just how long is long? Can we be a little more specific here?).

And what a perk to being in charge! They get to "burn" the pot plants (wink wink).

On a side note, who knew that pot could grow to six feet tall.