# The infamous weed cave just got sold.
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**Created:** [December 9, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-infamous-weed-cave-just-got-sold/235215 "2007-12-09T22:48:17Z")
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### Author:  [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-infamous-weed-cave-just-got-sold/235215/1 "2007-12-09T22:48:17Z")
If you don’t remember.
[http://www.onmarijuana.com/2007/04/03/the-great-tennessee-marijuana-cave/](http://www.onmarijuana.com/2007/04/03/the-great-tennessee-marijuana-cave/)
Sold for \*cheap
[http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071209/NEWS01/712090417](http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071209/NEWS01/712090417)
> Roth Käse USA Ltd., a Wisconsin-based maker of European-style cheeses, offered the highest bid Saturday at a court-ordered auction. The company bid $285,000 for seven hilly acres and the improved cave below, which for several years was home to a clandestine marijuana farm.
> The company’s representative at the auction, Chuck Olson, offered little comment on the purchase after the auctioneer named him the winner.
> “They’ll make an announcement shortly,” said Olson, who smiled widely after a half-hour bidding volley between him and another would-be buyer. Asked what the company intends to do with the property, he replied coyly, “Make money.”
> Unlike the previous owner’s business, Olson said, the cave’s new enterprise will be entirely legal “in a tasty way.”
> The auction was held in what had been one of the underground growing rooms in a previous marijuana operation. About 170 people, the majority of them spectators, came to watch the court-ordered sale unfold about 90 feet below ground.
> “It’s very unusual to be selling a cave like this. This thing is built just like it’s supposed to be. This man was a perfectionist, everything had to be right,” said auctioneer Pete Scruggs of J.T. Shrum Auction and Realty. He was referring to Fred Strunk, the now-jailed entrepreneur who, according to authorities, was the mastermind of transforming the cave into a subterranean pot farm.
> “They say he spent $750,000. Everything was just perfect. Look at the craftsmanship. A man this smart, who could do all this, he could have made an honest living, but I guess it must have been the thrill, I don’t know,” Scruggs philosophized to the audience before launching into his auctioneer’s banter. Strunk’s pot-growing operation was estimated to have brought in millions of dollars.
> Opening bid confuses
> Scruggs asked for a half-million-dollar bid to start, but instead, a bidder near the back offered “four fifty.” That raised a number of eyebrows, including Olson sitting near the front.
> After unsuccessfully trying to cajole a counteroffer from the crowd, Scruggs was in his “going once, going twice” mode when another member of the auction team told him the bidder thought he was asking for $450.
> “We got us a whole lot different ball game,” Scruggs replied.
> When bidding restarted, three groups started out at $100,000. After the price moved over the $200,000 mark, one group dropped out, leaving only Olson and a trio of men in the back of the cave. After a lengthy discussion the trio bowed out at $285,000.
> Proceeds from the sale of the cave will go to the 15th Judicial District Drug Task Force, which confiscated the property after Strunk’s illegal enterprise was shut down.
> “We’ll use the money to fund our undercover work,” said Mike “Sarge” Thompson of the drug- fighting unit.
> Thompson said the auction sales price was not disappointing.
> “It’s right in the middle of what we thought it might sell for. I think we did pretty good.”
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### Author:  [@GranMassaX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GranMassaX)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 6:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-infamous-weed-cave-just-got-sold/235215/2 "2007-12-10T06:28:28Z")
I would have bought it for way more than that… if I had the money that is.
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### Author:  [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-infamous-weed-cave-just-got-sold/235215/3 "2007-12-10T09:33:35Z")
> [@GranMassaX](#):
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> I would have bought it for way more than that… if I had the money that is.
Credit is a wonderful thing :nod
I wonder if a house like that with all the extras goes for that low on the bidding, how much would a regular sized house in Tennessee (Sp?) go for?
Property in deep south is damn cheap.
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### Author:  [@GranMassaX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GranMassaX)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 9:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-infamous-weed-cave-just-got-sold/235215/4 "2007-12-10T09:44:59Z")
I guarantee it’s worth twice as much as it sold for. Looks to be a good size house and the basement work alone is probably worth over $100K
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### Author:  [@timmay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/timmay)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-infamous-weed-cave-just-got-sold/235215/5 "2007-12-10T10:10:01Z")
Just think of the sick herb garden one could have in that place! :crackup
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### Author:  [@GranMassaX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GranMassaX)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-infamous-weed-cave-just-got-sold/235215/6 "2007-12-10T10:13:11Z")
oregano is my fav!
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### Author:  [@duesmandella](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/duesmandella)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-infamous-weed-cave-just-got-sold/235215/7 "2007-12-11T04:29:44Z")
wow that is crazy. Im suprised he didnt have a drive in bat cave