Breaking bad neighbors

[Actor]

The people who lived next door to us for several years are gone. The house was unkept, lawn not mowed, etc. A few weeks ago a sign appeared on the door. It was from the city and said that the property appeared to be abandoned and was subject to seizure. Then a crew appeared and started cleaning the place up. They said the house was now owned by a bank and they were getting the property up to code for possible sale.

Now we hear from another neighbor that the people are in jail. They were cooking meth. Now I know why they took so many trips in their RV.

[Marshall Bennett]

Meth labs normally produce a powerful odor that's almost impossible to contain entirely. I'm surprised neighbors weren't suspicious. Most labs are out in the country miles from anyone, unless it was a small bathtub lab.
Glad they're locked up. Meth is ruining young lives at a torrid pace in this country.

[JustRalph]

You're lucky it didn't explode

Like this one

http://m.wesh.com/news/clermont-coup...p/-/index.html

Or this one

http://wnep.com/2013/05/20/explosion...e-to-meth-lab/

[Zydeco]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

You're lucky it didn't explode

Like this one

http://m.wesh.com/news/clermont-coup...p/-/index.html

Or this one

http://wnep.com/2013/05/20/explosion...e-to-meth-lab/

Agreed....glad it didn't explode.

[elysiantraveller]

Yeah I'm kinda surprised you didn't know they were cooking.

That house is probably stripped of a lot of stuff needed to produce meth. I dated a girl, many moons ago, that lived next to a lab and it was awful... The night we planned on calling it in we had a ton of squad cars and the bomb squad show up in our driveway at 9PM to raid the house.

[Actor]

Originally Posted by Marshall Bennett

Meth labs normally produce a powerful odor that's almost impossible to contain entirely. I'm surprised neighbors weren't suspicious. Most labs are out in the country miles from anyone, unless it was a small bathtub lab.
Glad they're locked up. Meth is ruining young lives at a torrid pace in this country.

Isn't the meth lab in the TV show Breaking Bad in an RV for just that reason? Doesn't he do all his cooking in some remote location? (I'm not a fan of the show and have only seen a few episodes from the first season.)

Anyway, I've talked to another neighbor since my OP and he says the story is BS. He claims the people lost their house simply because the husband lost his job and they could not keep up the payments.

[Overlay]

In 2008, when I was still living in McAlester, Oklahoma, a drug lab (apparently a very small one) was operating undetected in a house across the street from city hall and the police and fire departments, until one night in the wee hours of the morning when there was an explosion and fire that gutted the place. (I used to pass by it practically every day making the mile walk from my residence to the library, which the house that burned was also just one block from.)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5u...xplostion_news

[PhantomOnTour]

A good friend of mine lives about halfway out of town - not quite metro area and not quite country - I hesitate to call it a suburb because this lil city is too small for burbs.

Anyway, he has "neighbors" about a 1/4 mile down Bourque Road (yep, we live in cajunland) who were busted for making meth.
In hindsight the place was typical - junked cars, mean & loud chained up dogs on the yard, shit all over their property, never saw the people but once or twice in years, etc...
They actually had two labs - one in the house and one in their outdoor kitchen (which is a local term for the poolhouse, which around here is often a little garage style apartment...with a full kitchen)

[offtrack]

The meth labs around here that are busted by the authorities, get the site tested for residues. Most are cleaned and the dirt scraped down a foot or so, before they can be used again. Most buildings are torn down on these properties as they are contaminated. Be careful if you live next to one...