“Shake-and-bake” meth making has a dangerous side

[TexasTowelie]

It is called “shake and bake,” a mobile method for making methamphetamine that is sweeping across the South and Midwest.

A more appropriate name might be “ticking time bomb” because of its explosive nature.

“It’s a really insane method of doing it,” said Jeff Moore, executive director of the sheriffs’ association in South Carolina, a hotbed for the portable meth labs. “Either you cook it and you get meth or it blows up and you get burned.”

Local law and drug enforcement authorities say evidence suggests that the latter is what happened last month when a flash fire in a car seriously burned five people in Lake Worth.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/09/08/5144315/shake-and-bake-meth-making-has.html#storylink=cpy

[Warpy]

1. I'd heard about this one some time ago

This state tightened up on precursor chemicals about 6 years ago, so we haven't had people going boom as much as we once did. Now they're going boom in Mexico where they can get chemicals by the carload from India. We just get some of the violence that's starting to spill northward. Meth is a bad drug. You can tell where the big labs are, that's where it's the most violent.