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A sad new spring tradition seems to have appeared in the area: The discovery of meth lab remains by residents getting out into the warmer weather.
The remnants of seven discarded meth labs were found around the area just on Saturday alone, according to the Noble County Sheriff's Department. Most were discarded along county roads after someone finished making the illegal drug -- they wanted to get rid of the tell-tale remains that could get them arrested, or injured by the chemicals involved. One of the labs was discovered near a parking lot in Chain O' Lakes State Park.
Although people clearing ditches or taking walks often uncovered the lab trash, in one case the discovery was made when a Kendallville area resident's dog dragged a bottle with a white substance in it onto the porch.
Everyone is asked to use extreme caution if they encounter the materials, which often consist of plastic bottles with a white substance inside. There may also be small plastic bags, straws, or tubes, in addition to other material. The chemicals involved sometimes aren't completely mixed and can come into contact when the containers are moved, causing toxic gasses to be released. In late March the remains of a lab ignited alongside a roadway near Albion, causing a small grass fire.
Anyone finding suspected meth trash is asked to call the police and report the location, but not touch the substance.
The remnants of seven discarded meth labs were found around the area just on Saturday alone, according to the Noble County Sheriff's Department. Most were discarded along county roads after someone finished making the illegal drug -- they wanted to get rid of the tell-tale remains that could get them arrested, or injured by the chemicals involved. One of the labs was discovered near a parking lot in Chain O' Lakes State Park.
Although people clearing ditches or taking walks often uncovered the lab trash, in one case the discovery was made when a Kendallville area resident's dog dragged a bottle with a white substance in it onto the porch.
Everyone is asked to use extreme caution if they encounter the materials, which often consist of plastic bottles with a white substance inside. There may also be small plastic bags, straws, or tubes, in addition to other material. The chemicals involved sometimes aren't completely mixed and can come into contact when the containers are moved, causing toxic gasses to be released. In late March the remains of a lab ignited alongside a roadway near Albion, causing a small grass fire.
Anyone finding suspected meth trash is asked to call the police and report the location, but not touch the substance.
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I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains (i.e., that part of the California Coastal Range that stretches between San Francisco to Big Sur). Meth labs? We got your meth labs right here, baby. And the meth trash. Along with all the twitchy, scab-covered, teeth-rotted, can't-complete-a-sentence tweakers that come along with it. And they are all to STAY AWAY FROM.
We've also got, along with our beautiful mountain watershed hiking trails. pot patches that are surprisingly easy to stumble across and that are Big Business as they are tied into Mexico. They are to REALLY, REALLY TO STAY AWAY FROM because there are people in places you can't see that have those red laser things trained on you and are waiting to see what you will do. And if you wander into this kind of field because you strayed from the the marked path, please say in a loud voice: "I have no idea what these plants are and I neither want them nor will I tell anyone, ANYONE, else about them," then back slowly out of of the patch. Safest for everyone --- especially you.
You're reading ozma914's journal. We already know you are are smart. Be safe, too. Get out of there and call the police,
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We have pot patches uncovered around here from time to time, but the growers aren't generally that dangerous, as the home grown product isn't usually so much of a cash crop. Our big shipments of pot come from -- wait for it -- Mexico, and Southwest America.
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One of those really fast-moving, slobbering zombies from the remake of Dawn of the Dead with Ving Rhames.
Our homegrowers (and a large number of them actually do mostly grow and use for medicinal purposes and probably want to risk interaction with the pros out in the woods even less than they want to get caught by the police) tend to grow their plants in backyard sheds under lights, close to home. Hydroponic stores do a thriving business around here, regardless of the condition of the overall economy.
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