You see an empty two-liter bottle on the side of the road. Could be your everyday litter. Could be the urine-filled vessel of a trucker concerned with efficiency. Or it could be the remnant of a mobile meth lab. Fun. As if syringes, garbage, loose concrete, and the usual motley assemblage of disgusting trash on the berm wasn’t dangerous enough.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, while no means an epidemic, parts used by amateur drug chemists to make “one-pot” meth in their mobile labs are ending up on the sides of Ohio’s roads. The debris causes burns and an array of other fun side-effects.
This article appears in May 4-10, 2011.
