Creative meth makers set up underground in Buffalo NY suburbs, http://live.buffalonews.com/2016/08/09/see-inside-the-subterranean-entrance-to-the-amherst-meth-lab/
It had to be one of the oddest crime scenes in recent memory: a subterranean drug lab, 12 feet underneath a Walmart parking lot at Sheridan Drive and Bailey Avenue in Amherst, that was being used to cook methamphetamine.
As cars whizzed by on Sheridan, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the region, and shoppers pulled in and out of the sprawling lot to stock up on groceries and other necessities of daily life, police say someone had set up a rather elaborate meth lab.
The photos show the sewer entrance with stagnant water at the end of a concrete tunnel, perhaps 10 feet wide, 4 feet high. Another shot inside shows the ceiling about 6 feet (1.8m) high. Pallets were dragged into the sewer to keep the "lab" above the small amount of water on the floor. With record-setting drought in the Buffalo area, there hasn't been any chance of a storm surge.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @01:29AM
Call for desperate measures
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Thursday August 11 2016, @02:19AM
What did we expect when illegal chemistry is more profitable than legal chemistry?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @02:47AM
Hopefully they had an eyewash station and proper ventilation hoods so that Mr. White won't need to give them a lecture.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @07:42PM
What did we expect when illegal chemistry is more profitable than legal chemistry?
You sure about that? I'd think that a pharma corporation is a more profitable venture than a meth lab, or even a drug cartel. More legal, too (more ethical, not so much).
Of course, illegal chemistry scales down much easier, so it's more profitable for an individual :)
"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." -- Howard Scott
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Thursday August 11 2016, @07:43PM
Hardly. While a meth lab can make you some good money, it is a pittance compared to what the big pharma companies are making. Millions vs hundreds of billions.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Snotnose on Thursday August 11 2016, @02:21AM
Put a meth lab where bad smells are expected.
When I was a kid (60s), we made homemade fireworks. We found a drainage tunnel that ran about 1/4 to 1/2 mile and was maybe 4 ft high, perfect for 13 year olds. We'd make fireworks, head into the tunnel until we couldn't see any light at either end, and set them off (these were all volcano and firecracker type things, nothing like a bottle rocket). Did this twice before a guy we brought with us who was too chicken to enter the tunnel told us how much smoke came out of his end of the tunnel. Maybe 100 ft from the fire station. We believed him because we were running like hell to the other end to avoid the smoke.
San Diego Soylentils, our entrance was right by the Dallas St Fire station (google maps Fletcher Pkwy and Dallas), tunnel went under what was then nothing, then became bicentennial park, under the miniature golf course, and came out on the other side of Fletcher Parkway. I'm sure the tunnel is long gone, everything above is it either 125 of the on/off ramps to it. The current fire station is pretty much where the old one was, I think it might have move 100 yds towards Fletcher Parkway.
On a semi related note, something happened yesterday that has never happened before. Couple next to me moved out over the weekend week and a half ago. Guy knocks on my door, warns me of bad smells coming my way. He's asian with a thick accent, I don't really understand what he's saying but thank him and go back to looking for Pokemon's in my living room. About 10 minutes later there is this huge chemical odor. Closed my bedroom window, went over to see what he was doing. He's got all kinds of stuff set up, says he's cleaning the bathtub. I can see he's clearly doing something in the bathroom. I said cool, went home.
I've never had smells like that not only in the 7 years I've lived here, but in my early days the years I lived in apartments. Wouldn't that be a perfect Breaking Bad moment? You get hired to clean something nasty, you're gonna have bad smells, so why not cook some meth while you're at it?
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday August 11 2016, @02:46AM
Going to have to mod this +1 Rambling Nonsense, but Interesting Nonetheless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @02:55AM
Good idea for a standard mod category on this site. You could use it better than once a day.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @03:12AM
Yeah, the new mod is right in there with the editor's tag line,
> from the undampened-enthusiasm dept.
Which I think is near-genius.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @04:22AM
Risk of methane combustion?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @12:49PM
You know those blue pallets aren't cheap. They are like $500-1000 apiece! Is meth that much money?
I'm not sure what the exact arrangement for using them is that places like Sam's Club have - its something like they lease X number a year, and ship out damaged/extra ones to get replaced by fresh ones periodically to keep them near their target number.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday August 11 2016, @02:28PM
Because I'm sure the methheads bought them, sure...
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @05:04PM
They learned from Breaking Bad that you need to buy the plastic one or bad things happen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @04:56PM
Some smelled like battery acid, some like gasoline, some like shit and was brown instead of white.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 11 2016, @08:23PM
This lab was found in a storm sewer (surface run off water, might contain some dirt).
Not to be confused with a sanitary sewer (the shitty kind).