Crystal Meth + Dynamite= Crazy Delicious!
Via JYB reader Old Shootin' Buddy comes a lovely tale of evil-crazy meth cooks' newest fascination: dynamite! It's apparently all the rage among certain circles: they're stocking up on explosives for reasons not entirely clear to the sane non-tweaker community. Law enforcement types suspect it boils down to "paranoia".
Remember: the best way to get the DEA SWAT team to drop their guns and leave you in peace is to light up a stick of TNT and wave it around!
I suspect we will have a bumper crop of Darwin awards coming out of Colorado--where this report is based, although the trend is nationwide-- in the near future:
What particularly concerns police about explosives, compared to other weapons, is those devices are falling into the hands of people who likely don’t know how to use them. They say meth dealers likely aren’t familiar with the chemistry of dynamite and aren’t trained to know how factors such as the age, condition and storage of explosives can come into play, making even more dangerous a device that can create more harm than a pistol or shotgun.Given the propensity of meth labs to self-detonate, and meth cooks to set themselves on fire, I think this trend has the potential to curtail domestic meth production quite drastically.