paranoia
You'd think between the reactionary
CenterPoint Energy subcontractor who
smelled vinegar and got worried, the police officer who asked for a search warrant, and the new-to-the-bench judge who signed the warrant, someone would have stopped to say, "Wait, what exactly did you smell? Something vinegary, huh? Yeah, that's not a meth lab." (After all, we were able to find
two decent descriptions of what a
meth lab smells like in less than a minute.) Instead, a 54-year-old former nurse and her 49-year-old husband were handcuffed and told to sit in their living room and not speak to each other while the warrant was executed.
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bad consumer
37-year-old Mesa, Arizona resident Scott Martin didn't understand why a shop owner wouldn't sell him a watch in exchange for two $100 bills
bearing Abraham Lincoln's watermark. The shop owner gently explained that President Lincoln appears on the penny and the $5 bill. This was enough to start a fight that ended with the shop owner tasering Martin.
When fire rescue personnel arrived, they cut off Martin's shirt to treat him, and three more counterfeit $100 bills fell out, the document said.
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bad consumer
Here's a little free advice from your friends at The Consumerist: Don't deposit bags of meth at the ATM. You don't get any interest and they're probably going to figure out who are after they see your name and account number.
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sudafed
Not to malign the good name of Sudafed, but it seems there is some debate out there as to whether or not pregnant women should take the reformulated "Sudafed PE." Obviously, we are in no way doctors, nor do we know the first damn thing about pregnant woman, but we do know that several medicines have reformulated in order to stay on the shelves and we wanted to make sure people knew about it. Because Sudafed contains an ingredient used to make
meth, some states now require it to be stored behind the pharmacist's counter. Reasonable enough. The confusion comes in when people don't realize that the new "on-the-shelf" Sudafed contains different ingredients than the old Sudafed.
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home depot
We like that show Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel, and in their honor we'd like to invite all of our readers to bust or confirm a myth that just arrived in our tip box:
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burger king
If you need another reason not to eat fast food, here it is: A manager of a
California Burger King was caught using the drive-thru to sell methamphetamine. The customer would place their food order (and their drug order) through the drive-thru ordering system and manager Michelle Filby would fill it.
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