Timmy found a meth lab today

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So, a few of us organized a county wide road RoW clean up this weekend. Had a pretty good turnout this morning at the city park where groups singed up and were given trash bags.

I got home after the kick-off, ate an early lunch, and then Chris an I headed out onto our road to clean up trash.

We didn't make it 100 yards down the road from the driveway when I ran across a 1/2 gallon bottle of muratic acid that was about 1/2 full. Laying next to it was a black trash bag. I opened it up and inside was a jug of Coleman fuel, a can of draino and two 1 liter sprite bottles filled with liquid.

Now I don't run in these circles (even though I may have back in the '70's and early '80's), and I wasn't intimately familiar with meth ingredients, but it sure looked like a shake and bake gone bad and tossed out the window to me.

So we called the sheriff, told them what we had, and they're out within 15 minutes cleaning it up.

Welcome to redneck white trash southern Missouri. (Of course, I'm being overly harsh, meth is rather ubiquitous these days).

Always an interesting day.
 
We had a HUGE hotel that specialized in housing homeless families, that burned down near us, not long ago, do to a bathtub meth lab. What a **** ing shame.
 
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Yeah. Years ago I found a case of empty pseudoephedrine pill bottles beside the road about 2 blocks from my house. Not so easy these days..
 
It's amazing what people do to forget reality- just looking at the ingredients in a shake and bake ought to warn everybody off putting that in their body.
 
warthog1984 said:
It's amazing what people do to forget reality- just looking at the ingredients in a shake and bake ought to warn everybody off putting that in their body.
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I don't know about that.

Maybe if I ingested enough Draino I wouldn't have needed a colonoscopy last week! :goofy:
 
Ten kids in my family (I'm the youngest) and none of us are perfect ****oles! :)

Also had an endoscopy. I certainly hope they did that first!
 
timwinters said:
Also had an endoscopy. I certainly hope they did that first!
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Surprisingly, not necessarily so. I had a combo colonoscopy/endoscopy done last time, and the nurse was careful to say they would do the colon first, take me out of the room and re-sterilize everything (and break out a new scope), then take me back in and do the endo. I meant to ask my doc later why his preference for that sequence but it slipped my mind ... along with most of the rest of that morning. :dunno:
 
timwinters said:
We didn't make it 100 yards down the road from the driveway when I ran across a 1/2 gallon bottle of muratic acid that was about 1/2 full. Laying next to it was a black trash bag. I opened it up and inside was a jug of Coleman fuel, a can of draino and two 1 liter sprite bottles filled with liquid.
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Dude, a plastic bag ain't no meth lab...let me know when you find a subterranean single wide meth lab!

Then there was the nice house that suddenly blew up in the middle of the day...with all of those gas lines, he should have been cooking a lot more. A lot more.
 
steingar said:
I thought all the controls on pseudoephedrine pushed the meth labs south of the border?
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Welll it should have, since we all have seen the triumph of gevernment law making, when ALL GUN VIOLENCE ended in DC, and Chicago as soon as those new guns laws were passed.....
 
pilot_dude said:
Yes, and cocaine is illegal and no longer available in the US either.
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It isn't that, its just that the meth labs were fueled by all the pseudafed they could buy at pharmacies. Now its way harder to buy the stuff. In the mean time, the Mexicans can get just about all they want from China, and I thought they'd be manufacturing the stuff and muling it up here, undercutting everyone. I'm genuinely surprised folks are making that up here.
 
Every now and then we in Michigan see a news report of a busted meth lab or discovery of one after a fire.
 
steingar said:
It isn't that, its just that the meth labs were fueled by all the pseudafed they could buy at pharmacies. Now its way harder to buy the stuff. In the mean time, the Mexicans can get just about all they want from China, and I thought they'd be manufacturing the stuff and muling it up here, undercutting everyone. I'm genuinely surprised folks are making that up here.
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Easy - just get an inside source (ever seen the average Walgreens employee?), get a bunch of meth-heads who have to bring packs of Sudafed every time they buy more or get a discount for bringing some. There are so many ways around a law like that, and I'm not even trying. Too easy to make here for the drug cartels to bother with.
 
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