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Suspected Meth Lab Explodes In U.S. Government Building
Popular Science. ^ | July 23, 2015

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: crystalmeth; drugs; explosion; isolatedincidents; meth; methlab; nist; wod
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To: Tax-chick

Oh yeah, that was yet another worthwhile expenditure by our government..
*groan*
Next they will study the average length of a pinniped penis.


21 posted on 07/24/2015 1:32:54 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Wolfie

You’d think that in the National Institute of Standards and Technology, they’d have precise enough equipment to avoid an explosive mixture....


22 posted on 07/24/2015 1:33:42 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: Wolfie
It happened in a room that had been emptied of equipment, as one experiment had recently ended and another was slated to begin.

Apparently it was not a success...................

23 posted on 07/24/2015 1:34:22 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Wolfie

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...


24 posted on 07/24/2015 1:35:02 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: apocalypto

They can’t run a whorehouse, either-remember back when in Nevada the IRS confiscated one and tried to run it?


25 posted on 07/24/2015 1:38:07 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Fido969

That jackpot may instead be a prison sentence if it turns out he was the operator of the meth lab.


26 posted on 07/24/2015 1:42:50 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: ConservingFreedom

I figure all my Federal tax contributions go to pay my daughter’s salary.


27 posted on 07/24/2015 1:43:00 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Darksheare; Tax-chick

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.


28 posted on 07/24/2015 1:48:39 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Nobel prize??? B9ig deal...Clown Prince nobama, the Destroyer of All That is Good, got one too.


29 posted on 07/24/2015 1:52:53 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Texan5

lol


30 posted on 07/24/2015 1:55:24 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Covenantor

LOL!


31 posted on 07/24/2015 2:05:22 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Wolfie

bf reference


32 posted on 07/24/2015 2:07:05 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Wolfie

Better call Saul.


33 posted on 07/24/2015 2:07:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: hal ogen

Hard science.


34 posted on 07/24/2015 2:08:25 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: dfwgator
When's that show back on thee air? By the end of the first season I was hooked - and I hadn't been a Breaking Bad watcher.
35 posted on 07/24/2015 2:08:53 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: Wolfie

36 posted on 07/24/2015 2:27:11 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Paladin2

except there is electricity, water. sewer and A/C


37 posted on 07/24/2015 2:30:31 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Covenantor; Tax-chick

Interrogate the pets.
One of them knows something!


38 posted on 07/24/2015 2:34:20 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: 867V309

Gotta make sure the fatcats and the muckety-mucks have quality sh*t.


39 posted on 07/24/2015 2:36:55 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Darksheare

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.


40 posted on 07/24/2015 2:45:06 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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