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To: Joe Hadenuf
In my own area it is indeed low income rural people who seem to use it the most.I'm guessing that stems from a combination of poor schools and drug education and lack of economic opportunitys.When they find out they can make fast money cooking the stuff in their backyard shed or barn they figure it's better than starving.About a year ago I stopped in a rural store outside of my hometown and the girl working the gas pumps asked my friend and I if we could see the license plate of a small truck that had just left the parking lot.We looked and it was just out of sight,and she told us the guy had been driving a different vehicle in every week or so and buying every single carton of book matches they had.She said she had instructions from the store owner to record his license number as the local cops had told them meth cooks cut all the heads off the matches in order to use them in the process of making the stuff.The cops have store owners looking out for strange purchases like this one all over our state,which happens to be one of the top states for meth production.
35 posted on 12/07/2002 5:16:38 PM PST by Drippy
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To: Drippy
She said she had instructions from the store owner to record his license number as the local cops had told them meth cooks cut all the heads off the matches in order to use them in the process of making the stuff.

Cops told 'em wrong. The striking surface on a match book is made of red phosphorus, which you can no longer obtain in this country.

39 posted on 12/07/2002 5:27:48 PM PST by txhurl
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