Hikers Beware!!!
The Top States For
Meth Labs and What To Watch For
By
Dorraine Fisher (TCC Team Member)
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| Meth Lab set up in the woods |
There
are always a lot of things to be concerned about when you’re hiking the
wilderness areas. Water, food,
communication, insects, snakes, injuries, seeing Bigfoot (if you’re lucky), and
predatory animals are all things to consider before you start walking. Often
the last thing you’ll think about is the humans out there hiding in the remote
areas forging illegal activities like cooking up meth on private and public
lands. And the real danger is, they’ll do anything to protect their investment,
including killing you and dumping your body somewhere it will never be found.
So it pays to ad this to your list of precautions before you go hiking
anywhere.
Meth
labs seizures are on the rise since new reports last year. Many operators have
moved into urban and suburban areas. But disturbing numbers of clan labs have
still have been discovered in rural areas. Public lands, that hikers often
occupy, are used for this activity since there is no confiscation of the land
if arrests are made. And here are the top 10 states to be concerned about:
1.
Missouri
2.
Tennessee
3.
Indiana
4.
Kentucky
5.
Oklahoma
6.
Illinois
7.
Iowa
8.
Michigan
9.
North Carolina
10.
South Carolina
But
how do you know what to look out for?
Some warning signs include:
•
Noticing unusual chemical odors in isolated
areas
•
People seen stepping outside their building to
smoke
•
Plastic
bottles with hoses attached
•
Red stained coffee filters
•
Large numbers of matchbooks lying around with
the strikers removed.
•
Any objects that look like science lab equipment
•
Large numbers of stripped lithium batteries
lying around
•
Heet, STP, or Red Devil Lye containers
•
Sulfuric
acid, hydrogen peroxide, iodine, or hydrochloric acid
•
Discarded boxes and blister packs of ephedrine
and pseudo-ephedrine
•
Red phosphorous road flares
•
Any abandoned buildings that have been fortified
in some way
•
Propane tanks with fittings that have a blue
tinge
Always
be careful about approaching any unknown, run down structures, cabins, or RV’s,
in the remote areas that seem abandoned but have a lot of debris lying thrown
around including the objects mentioned above. You may possibly come across
evidence of chemicals and containers that have been dumped in nearby streams,
on hillsides, and in ravines.
Keep
in mind that just because your state isn’t mentioned here, that you’re
completely safe. These are only the top ten. Any state with remote areas is
subject to danger.
Be
aware and be safe out there. ************
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Thank you for posting this pertinent information. I would have never even thought about any potential dangers from drugged up people protecting their meth labs in the forest where innocent people could be hiking. Yikes Twice! You may have saved some people their lives by posting this blog. Again, Thank you very much.
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