The best meth video that I have ever seen

Want to know why meth is such a big deal? You’ve got to watch this video that I found on the Internet tonight. It is extremely well done. It’s close to 40 minutes long, but it is well worth your time.

Note: If you’re having difficulties viewing the video here, visit the Vimeo website to watch it on their site. The video is called Meth: A Social Plague.

Bay County Fl Sheriff Mckeithen is furious over baby burned in explosion

Bay County, FLA Sheriff Frank Mckeithen is furious over a meth lab explosion, earlier this week, that resulted in life threatening burns to a Johna Osborn, a one-year-old baby girl, whose playpen caught fire during a meth lab explosion. At a press conference soon after the explosion, Mckeithen let his anger and his words fly, stressing that he is tired of being politically correct when it comes to saving someone’s life.

*Sheriff McKeithen did this news conference shortly before John Osborn, the baby’s 34 year-old father was arrested and taken in to custody.

Bay County Florida: Baby in critical condition after meth lab explodes

New Mexico: Cibola National Forest hiking family finds meth lab

New Mexico: Family returns from hike in the Cibola National Forest to find mobile meth labs in their pickup truck. Anyone with information is asked to call the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department at 505-798-7000.

AL: Kids find meth lab cooler in the woods and bring it home

7/23/09 Two boys in Marshall County, Alabama were riding their four wheelers in the woods near their home this week, when they found a cooler containing a portable meth lab.

The mother of one of the boys says her son came home with the cooler and said “mom, I think I found some meth”. Inside the cooler, she says she found lithium batteries and a container that was about the size of a 20 ounce bottle with a crystallized substance in it.

She then told the boys to wash their hands, take a shower, and change their clothes. She then called Read more

Video: Indiana police warn residents about meth lab trash

Indiana police warn residents about meth lab trash.

Alabama: Two meth labs explode in Bayou La Batre

Bayou La Batre, Alabama was in the news for the second time this month, because of meth lab explosions. When the first meth lab exploded, just about two weeks ago in room 110 of the Bayou La Batre Inn and Suites motel, Bayou Police Corporal Jason Edwards said it was a first for the city. It didn’t take long for that to change. A second meth lab, located in a trailer home on Satsuma Street, blew up with so much force that it broke every window in the house as well as the door. No one was inside the trailer when the explosion occurred.

Video coverage by Fox 10 TV covered the story of a second meth lab explosion that blew the windows and walls out of a trailer home that had been occupied by the son of Frank Collier, Sr. Franks says his son had been staying with him for the last 5 or 6 days, because he had double pneumonia, but he had gone to the trailer home earlier that night to get some clothes. Police have not named his son as a suspect.

Other interesting news about Bayou Le Batre:

On July 13, 2009, Bayou La Batre received national attention when President Barack Obama nominated Dr. Regina Benjamin, a Bayou La Batre physician,  as the nation’s surgeon general.  Read more about her nomination and watch video coverage of her speech on WKRG Channel 5 News.

NPR talks about life in Bayou La Batre in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Video: Used cars contaminated by meth are sold to unsuspecting buyers in Oak Harbor, Washington

Video: Used cars contaminated by meth are sold to unsuspecting buyers in Oak Harbor, Washington.

Alabama meth lab explosion at Bayou La Batre Inn and Suites

Video of an Alabama meth lab explosion, shows the outside wall of room 110 in the Bayou La Batre Inn and Suites motel, blasting the wall nearly 25 feet into the motel parking lot. Carlton Palmer was burned on 35% of his body, as a result of the explosion that startled room renters who were outside when the explosion happened.

Palmer’s wife and his friend, Dereck Robinson, were also involved, according to investigators. All three of the suspects are being charged with Read more

Methland The Death and Life of an American Small Town

How is meth affecting the American small town? Nick Reding, author of Methland, takes a look at the meth addiction and meth manufacturing problem that is affecting small towns. For his book, he spent four years studying Olewein, Iowa, a rural community, populated by just over 6,000 residents who are struggling to combat low-paying jobs, rising unemployment rates, and the meth epidemic that is preying on rural communities. Included in the book is information from meth users, like Roland Jarvis, whose addiction to meth began when he used meth to help him stay alert during his double shifts at a local meat-processing plant. But, Jarvis wasn’t the only Read more

MSNBC Video: Meth Orphans, Rural America, and Tennessee

MSNBC broadcast this video in 2004. Unfortunately, meth orphans and the meth lab problem in rural America, like those in Cumberland County Tennessee, still remain 5 years later.

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