Is there a meth lab in your neighborhood?

[Renew Deal]

Or are you living in one? The feds keep a list of buildings used as meth labs. http://www.justice.gov/dea/seizures/index.html

I think they keep the list to prevent horror stories where people are poisoned like this: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/29/couple.buys.meth.house/index.html">Couple's first home is a meth house

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Priced at $190,000, the house was within their budget and the independent home inspection gave the all-clear.

The couple also received a certificate of approval from the borough inspector stating that a general inspection revealed "no imminent hazards" and the home was "in compliance" with borough codes.

The couple thought they had done everything right. But there was one thing missing from the to-do list for the first-time homebuyers: a test for methamphetamine.

<snip>

The couple complained of having headaches, sore throats and difficulty breathing after moving in -- all symptoms of possible methamphetamine exposure.

It was listed on the DEA's registry after items were found in the house in March 2004.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/29/couple.buys.meth.house/index.html

[spinbaby]

1. Woefully inadequate list

I pulled down the list for Pennsylvania and it shows no meth labs at all in Fayette County, which is arguably the meth capital of the world.

[Renew Deal]

10. I think the list only has known former labs.

I don't think they've listed ones not discovered yet.

[taterguy]

2. All the meth labs in my county are in pricey suburbs

The places where people live to get away from the "wrong element."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Renew Deal]

11. LA County is in the "suburbs?"

What about the Bronx?

[jberryhill]

31. Where ARE the "suburbs of LA"?

LA is pretty much one giant suburb, except for a couple of blocks, no?

[Robb]

46. San Diego, I think.

:D

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

52. Indeed it is,

and we fucking love it that way,

[no_hypocrisy]

3. One more thing to worry about when investing in a home.

The last "big thing" was radon.

Wonder if the Purchasers can sue the Sellers for nondisclosure and for inherent damages to the property.

[Renew Deal]

12. In this case no

But different states and counties might be different.

[w8liftinglady]

4. Most of the meth labs In Ellis and Henderson counties are rural or trailor park based

...but,there are a lot of them.

[Ian David]

5. There are only six listed in all of Massachusetts.

But boy, there sure are a LOT of them in Wasilla, Alaska!

How does the tiny town of Wasilla, Alaska have more meth labs than the entire state of Massachusetts?

[Renew Deal]

14. You're right!

Wasilla has 19. More than any other locality in Alaska. They are the meth capital of Alaska. :wtf:

[jmowreader]

48. The Palins live there

I don't know about y'all, but if I lived within 20 miles of her I'd have to be amped up on SOMETHING!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

55. Hmmm.....somebody prominent used to be Mayor of that town

I just can't remember who? :shrug: :eyes:

[RegieRocker]

6. No I live downwind from 100's of industrial plants

producing who knows what. Yea meth labs are the issue.

[Renew Deal]

15. Do you consider your location dangerous?

[RegieRocker]

18. More dangerous than living in a meth lab house

[Renew Deal]

21. So you're living with medical problems worse than "headaches, sore throats & difficulty breathing?"

[RegieRocker]

24. Isn't those enough? And don't you think industrial pollution

is a bigger problem?

[Renew Deal]

42. Yes, it's a bigger problem.

But I'm not sure why we need to compare. Also, if your personal situation is so dangerous, shouldn't you move?

[Uben]

7. I know we have a few in our small town....

My best friend's daughter got in with the wrong crowd and he was searching for her. When he found her and brought her home, he suspected the house where she was staying was a meth lab, so he called a friend that was a cop. They used that info to arrest and break-up a big meth ring. I would call the cops on anyone I suspected of making that shit. It's poison.

[madmom]

8. OMG Summit county in Ohio has 3 pages of their own, most of them in Akron!

[riverwalker]

9. mostare in Bachman's district

in Minnesota. Explains alot.

[Cleita]

13. According to your registry there was one down the road

from me as recently as August of last year.

[Renew Deal]

16. Did you notice a lot of cops there at any point?

:shrug:

[Cleita]

17. No. We have sheriffs and they never come around unless

there is a problem, but I didn't notice anything at all back then.

[Alexander]

19. Only 3 listed in CT, and none near me. Where I used to live in AZ though - holy shit.

There were 3 pages of meth labs listed in Arizona, and several in Tempe that I could've walked to from where I lived.

This is consistent with my personal experience. I haven't ever known anyone in Connecticut who has ever used meth before, yet in Arizona, I had a boss at work who was a meth head.

[w8liftinglady]

26. um.14 pages in Texas.. We RULE!

http://www.justice.gov/dea/seizures/tx.pdf

along with poverty and uninsured citizens....

[Alexander]

28. Notice how the red states tend to have the most.

Hmm....

[Renew Deal]

39. Did you notice that Wasilla is the meth capital of Alaska?

http://www.justice.gov/dea/seizures/ak.pdf

I'm not sure if Sarah was that good of a mayor.

[Alexander]

44. 19 meth labs in such a small place. I wonder if any other place has more meth labs per capita.

[Texasgal]

34. Weird, there was only ONE

in Travis county. That is not right, couldn't be.

[timo]

35. should be more

I know there are a bunch that have been busted in the 956 and are not listed!!

[w8liftinglady]

36. here,too...these are the ones the DEA has busted,if I'm not mistaken

[timo]

45. still a fraction

of what the dea has busted.....either that or the lies of how many labs really exist is HUGE...meh with our government the way it is could go either way!!

[rucky]

38. 10 Pages for Ohio - 4 of them are Summit County (Akron)

[RayOfHope]

47. Gotcha beat. Missouri has 52 pages. Then again, we're the #1 meth producing state n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Couple problems

I looked up my friend's address. She sold her property to a couple busted for meth about 5 or 6 years ago. There was a big article on the front page of her small town paper. That address is not listed.

A couple of the addresses listed in my city are businesses and at least one is an abandoned building that has been abandoned for at least 15 years. I worked a half a block away and drove by it every day for years. There may have been a couple of homeless people squatting in the building but there was never a meth lab there.

So I don't trust this list.

[Renew Deal]

22. How do you know there's wasn't one there?

:shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. The bust alone would have meant cops, increased traffic, etc

I work in a school. Another school in our area had a meth lab a block away and they were notified by the cops and the DEA came and took samples on the school grounds and in the building.

[HopeHoops]

25. There's a black lab next door.

[reggie the dog]

27. i am pretty sure there are

were it legal the labs would all be in industrial zones...

[Reader Rabbit]

29. The one right around the corner from me was not listed.

But that was busted just a year or two ago, and this list seems to be older than that. I wonder when they will come out with an updated list?

[reggie the dog]

30. NOT A SINGLE ONE IN ALL OF COOK COUNTY

with over 5 million residents and all of the city of chicago there is not a single former meth lab in all of cook county, officially.... but i knew of at least one in the suburbs of chicago in cook county... hell there were only 7 or 8 in the whole chicago metro area which has over 9 million residents.... i guess it is a countryside thing, lots of rural couties had a shitload of labs.... i guess the fact that there is good cocaine in chicago has something to do with it.... we grow a lot of weed in and around chicago though

[Renew Deal]

40. Meth is still mostly a regional issue.

But it has spread all over. I am in NY and many counties don't have any, including only 7 in NYC and LI combined. 1 in Brooklyn. 1 in Queens. 2 in Manhattan. 3 in Suffolk. None in Nassau.

[Hannah Bell]

50. nah, they're not all on that registry. there was a lab busted 3 blocks from me last year, not there

both of the biggest cities in my state had labs.

not a "rural" thing exclusively.

[mdmc]

32. HELL NO

I live in Newburgh, NY - East cost home of the rock.. Crack (and H.) rule here - gangs profit from keepin meth out..

[bahrbearian]

33. Here is how you can Identify a Meth Lab

[reggie the dog]

37. broo rooo

[Renew Deal]

41. lol

:rofl:

[Dappleganger]

56. Love it!

The first one looks like our 9 yr. old Emma.

[bluedigger]

43. Only two in my little town in Colorado.

Six pages, though,for the whole state, and the runaway winner is Colorado Springs. God, guns, and meth. There's a potent brew.

[Warren DeMontague]

49. This was an episode of "Breaking Bad", I think

Great show.

[Initech]

54. Better call Saul!

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

51. Groan... when I worked on personal bankruptcies...

House flippers who bought themselves a nice little 909 meth lab were always steady source of business. They over-extended themselves to buy the shitholes and then in addition to all the renovations were facing a $15,000 to $25,000 bill to clean up the meth lab.

And DAMN! "The Happiest Place on Earth" sure has a lot of meth labs in the vicinity.

[Renew Deal]

53. House flipping is such a ridiculous business

And many of them have gone under because it's so unpredictable.

[Recursion]

57. None in DC?

I thought they took down one in Northeast last year.

[closeupready]

58. A ton in Phoenix.

Sad.