Meth Lab

[chad22]

When I was thirteen, (24 now) we got called to the gym for an assembly. You know what I saw when I arrived at the school gym? Three police officers, setting up a demonstration of a meth lab. :shocked::thumbdown: :ashamed:

Really. No lie. These officers were demonstrating to the students at the school and basically giving instructions on how to cook meth. So much for the sign that states their a drug free school zone.

They even asked for volunteers to help them cook it. OMG. I declined and got the he double hockey sticks out of there.

I wish I would have had a camera with me.

That was crazy. I was laughing inside, and was trying to hold my laughter back.

I was about to ask the police what they were thinking.

Great your just letting us know how to make meth?

I think that's the wrong way of going about it.

Chad

 

[newbury]

What I really hate about the meth labs is that I can no longer buy Sudafed in bulk.

With 6 people running around sniffling sometimes during cold season we would go thru a dozen or so of the little red pill Sudafeds a day. One time our doctor gave us a jar of 500 or 1,000 and it lasted for years. Now we would probably get busted for having that much.

 

[300UGUY]

Yup. Ask any judge that handles criminal cases and I bet they all will agree, at least here in the Bible Belt, that meth is a much greater threat to the American family than gays, abortion, or any of the other "easy" targets of the far right.

I had a judge from Southeastern Oklahoma tell me that. He said in the old days, the substance abusers would get drunk on Friday night, get in a fight, get thrown in jail, but come Monday morning his wife would bail him out and he would be back on the job providing for his family. Now the judge says, after just a few months the meth users are mentally gone, and won't/can't hold a steady job to provide for the family.

Not to diminish the bad aspects of alcoholism, but meth addition is faster and more lethal due to the effects on the brain. The abuser loses the ability to reason like most people. Until society starts treating it as a disease, the problem is not going to get any better.

Employer's will terminate substance abusers a lot quicker these days. Liability costs and the fact that there are a lot of folks looking for a job. I worked with a couple of guys who lost everything to crack. The company had a replacement there the day they left.

 

[Taylortractornut]

Just a dab of anyone of the ingredients can kill you by itself. i have a friend that got burnt in an asphault tanker accident during transfer. We went to the burn unit to take him a few things and they were being gentle as possible scrubbing the burns. THey had several kids from a family in there that a labe burnt. They were being real good with them. The man and woman that had been making the meth in the house ssounded like they were scrubbing them with wire brushes.

I saw one of Russells kin folk and they were trying to blame the economy and everything else for his bad choice. Our local tractor dealer's son was arrested for making meth. He spent a year in a low security joint. I think he wasa mule Thats how he was caught but he was also seen atthe lab. Theres a ton of folks you wouldnt suspect doing it either. I saw a girl I knew in college and her and her husband were caught about 3 weeks ago stealling ANhydrous.

 

[Scooby074]

Old school meth labs were one thing... now with the "Shake and Bake" labs they can set up anywhere...

Just read about police finding leftovers in a Walmart bathroom. The toxic leftovers are a real threat to kids and others.

 

[DABSGT]

Yup. Ask any judge that handles criminal cases and I bet they all will agree, at least here in the Bible Belt, that meth is a much greater threat to the American family than gays, abortion, or any of the other "easy" targets of the far right.

I had a judge from Southeastern Oklahoma tell me that. He said in the old days, the substance abusers would get drunk on Friday night, get in a fight, get thrown in jail, but come Monday morning his wife would bail him out and he would be back on the job providing for his family. Now the judge says, after just a few months the meth users are mentally gone, and won't/can't hold a steady job to provide for the family.

Not to diminish the bad aspects of alcoholism, but meth addition is faster and more lethal due to the effects on the brain. The abuser loses the ability to reason like most people. Until society starts treating it as a disease, the problem is not going to get any better.

Drugg abuse is treated as a disease now. The abuser is more ofTen sent for tReatment not arrested. If one is arrested when they go to court they ars sent to rehab not jail more often than not.

Ever wonder why health care is so high or what has happened to social security?

My wife has MS lost complete vision in one eye has difficulty walking because of the disease and has other difficulties. She was turned down by social security after working for 25 years as a nurse and social told her that she could still work folding napkins in a restaurant. But if she was a drug abuser or alcoholic "bingo" she could have collected.

 

[turnkey4099]

Meth can and does get one 'hooked' with the first dose. That information is well known, well publicised but thekids still 'try it'.

There should be an instant death penalty for anyone caught selling it to a minor.

Harry K

 

[GGB]

Meth must be the most insidious drug ever invented. As someone said, it makes heroin look tame. What psycology would make otherwise intelligent people "try" something that they have to know will hook them the first time? It's beyond me.....

I used to think they we should seriously consider legalizing drugs, as it seemed to me that we were simply criminalizing a lot of otherwise productive citizens, who would probably quit dabbling in drugs as they matured. And our law enforcement efforts appear to be woefully inadequate to control the problem. I felt that the money we spend to try to enforce current drug laws would be better spent in dealing with addiction problems. But meth seems to be a whole different animal. I think we'd be shocked if we really knew how much theft is a direct result of meth addiction.

All I know is I'd rather deal with a pothead than a methead. The potheads are a lot less likely to steal to get their next "fix"......

I just don't know what the answers are today.

GGB

 

[Taylortractornut]

Looking athte local scrap yards Id say about 95 percent is meth related. A friend of mines neighbor was caught stealing the wires off his 18 wheeler rock trailer for his next fix. THe first tiem i ever really realized what meth was or remebered hearing about it I was 21. A lab was found near a site i was working on and the sheriffs dept. asked if we could cut aroad in to them for the hazmat clean up. The lab had caught fire and partially burned. I loaded out the contaminated soil and debris in a suit.

 

[NHmitch]

As a police officer, I trained with the DEA STAR program, Meth Lab interdiction. I responded to meth labs, and my first year, we had an officers baby die at home from bringing home a rock on the bottom of his boot from a raid, and the baby eat it. It was horrible. This was when they first stated to become serious about how volatile and explosive these labs are. I have been on raids, where their is a baby sitting on the counter where they cook the meth. Evil, pure evil. The first time you try it you are hooked, if you survive. If a meth lab was set up in a house, they have to destroy the house they dump the chemicals in the drains, so the house is condemned. I moved back East from Idaho, and Washington State, and found that the Meth problem does not exist here, because there is too big of a market for heroine, and cocaine. I am so tired of burnt out junkies. The only advise I have, is if you suspect that someone is cooking meth, or selling it, do everything you can safely do to expose them, and constantly report them. Even if they do not get arrested, drug dealers, and manufactures tend to act like water. They take they path of least resistance, and they will move. You do not, do not, need anyone near you house doing this. Not only are the labs, and mobile labs ticking time bombs, but the people it attracts will do anything to get their high. Be careful, it is a crazy world we live in. They make backhoes for a reason