Posted on 07/24/2015 12:44:12 PM PDT by Wolfie
Suspected Meth Lab Explodes In U.S. Government Building
Yesterday, Congress requested more information about a July 18 explosion in one of the buildings operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology outside Washington, D.C. There’s reason for Congress to raise an eyebrow; based on evidence collected at the scene, investigators suspect that the room was being used to develop illegal methamphetamines.
The explosion occurred in NIST Building 236, far from the majority of the labs, so it didn’t damage any research endeavors. It happened in a room that had been emptied of equipment, as one experiment had recently ended and another was slated to begin. The blast occurred on a Saturday, so luckily few employees were around, but it did injure a security guard who was on duty. (He quit his job the day after the incident.)
So the question on everyone’s mind is: how was there a meth lab in a government building, and who was operating it? Paul Starks, a spokesman for the local Montgomery County police, would not comment on whether any chemicals or equipment used to make the drugs were found on the property. But NBC Washington reports that the security guard was found with burns on his arms and hands, igniting suspicion that he might have been involved in making the meth.
But Congress is worried. “The fact that this explosion took place at a taxpayer-funded NIST facility, potentially endangering NIST employees, is of great concern,” says Lamar S. Smith, a congressmen from Texas and chairman of the Science, Space & Technology Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives told Chemical and Engineering News. “I am troubled by the allegations that such dangerous and illicit activity went undetected at a federal research facility.”
The local Montgomery County Police Department is investigating the incident, along with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. So far there have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.
Oh yeah, that was yet another worthwhile expenditure by our government..
*groan*
Next they will study the average length of a pinniped penis.
You’d think that in the National Institute of Standards and Technology, they’d have precise enough equipment to avoid an explosive mixture....
Apparently it was not a success...................
WTF-out here in the boonies, felons cook meth in the woods in derelict barns and travel trailers-the labs usually get busted instead of exploding-apparently government can’t even manufacture illegal drugs as well as criminal rednecks can...
They can’t run a whorehouse, either-remember back when in Nevada the IRS confiscated one and tried to run it?
That jackpot may instead be a prison sentence if it turns out he was the operator of the meth lab.
I figure all my Federal tax contributions go to pay my daughter’s salary.
This NIST campus starts about two hundred yards from my front door.
They have won two Nobel Prizes from this campus.
Wasn’t home that day.
Don’t know nuffin, didn’t do nuffin.
Nobel prize??? B9ig deal...Clown Prince nobama, the Destroyer of All That is Good, got one too.
lol
LOL!
bf reference
Better call Saul.
Hard science.
except there is electricity, water. sewer and A/C
Interrogate the pets.
One of them knows something!
Gotta make sure the fatcats and the muckety-mucks have quality sh*t.
Dog says it was an inside job. NIST campus has three or four herds of scraggly deer. Look like junkies, scruffy, thin, lay about most of the time, giving the stink eye when one walks past along the fence.
Yeah, I could see it being one of those gangs.
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