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To: sarcasm
and one of the drug's main ingredients — anhydrous ammonia — is an agricultural fertilizer that lies about in abundant supply in bags on isolated farm fields,

Actually, Anhydrous Ammonia is a low grade refrigerant and is applied in a semi-liquid/gaseous form from a pressure tank, not from bags as a solid. There is a BIG problem with the meth "chemist" trying to collect some by stealing it from the tank wagons. The lucky ones don't get frostbit hands.

Just before Christmas, I worked at a anhydrous ammonia compressing terminus in central Iowa. The maintenance guy related how the product shipped in a pipeline from the Gulf to Iowa and their station was the end of the line. The pressure on the pipeline is about 200 psi. Some meth geniuses decided to put a spigot on the pipeline down the road a ways. He said they found four bodies, a hammer and a punch at the line puncture site when they responded to leak in the morning.

10 posted on 01/03/2004 3:45:36 PM PST by woofer
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To: woofer
What a chilling revelation!
12 posted on 01/03/2004 3:58:35 PM PST by B4Ranch (Wave your flag, don't waive your rights!)
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To: woofer
Some meth geniuses decided to put a spigot on the pipeline down the road a ways.

If only the geniuses writing for the New York Times were rewarded so quickly for their mistake of assuming that since it is fertilizer, it must be in a bag.

13 posted on 01/03/2004 4:07:47 PM PST by TroutStalker (Whip me, strip me, tie me, fly me -- catch & release)
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To: woofer
Meth heads have got to be the stupidest people I have ever come across. I mean stupid! They seem to think just the oppisite, your story is a great example.
19 posted on 01/04/2004 3:58:31 AM PST by oceanperch ( Confession IS Good for the Soul)
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