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Skriven 2013-01-03 14:09:16 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.42)
  Kommentar till text 32203 av DAVE DRUM (1:261/1381)
Ärende: Potpourri - was Honey Boo
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 ml> crystal methamphetamine is all chemicals... it gets the "crystal"
 ml> portion of its name because it is cooked down and left to cool such
 ml> that the chemicals grow into crystals just like salt and sugar grow
 ml> crystals... it also goes thru the same type of stepping on to reduce

 DD> When I was working part-time in a gas station/convenience store I
 DD> busted a guy who came in and bought all our pseudo-ephedrine. I
 DD> knew it was an ingredient used in cooking meth 

yep... what is/was known as "kitchen magician meth" or "bathtub rush"...
surprisingly, like taking the cut out or cocaine, it only takes a few items...
two of those are heat and water... the other one is/was readily available,
too... a liquid that you don't want to get on unprotected skin or materials...
i'll leave it at that ;)

 DD> - so, I called a deputy sheriff I knew and gave him all I could 
 DD> remember of the guy's description, make, model and licence tag of 
 DD> his wheels and direction of travel as he left. The store manager 
 DD> moved the product behind the counter and posted a sign limiting 
 DD> purchase to 2 containers. And the sheriff's detectives got a nice 
 DD> "Atta Boy" for taking down a mid-sized meth lab. Illinois also got 
 DD> a new law adding products containing pseudo-ephedrine to the list 
 DD> that could be sold only to people over 18 with proof of identity - 
 DD> and required them to sign a register.

yup... thanks to those "magicians" looking for their high, all the good meds
are behind the counters and needing signatures for their purchase... the OTC
stuff that only works for four hours really sucks...

 ml> bulking things up by adding "cut" is pretty common all over the
 ml> world... look at the liquid soaps that we wash with... those
 ml> "concentrated" ones simply have less water in them than the cheaper
 ml> bottles... there was a time when what we buy today as "concentrate" was
 ml> the normal stuff without that word on the label... then someone decided
 ml> they could add more water and sell it for the same price while taking
 ml> the original formula and charging more for it...

 DD> Merchants have been doing that for years. And their supplies have
 DD> been cutting the weight of the contents in the package - which
 DD> remains the original size. Coffee was where I first noticed it. An
 DD> honest 3# (48 oz) tin of Old Judge coffee became a 38 oz tin - in
 DD> the same sized can at the same price. Some brands get down to 33 or
 DD> 34 oz (barely over 2#) in the old 3# sized can. Cranberry sauce is
 DD> the same - the former Ocean Spray 16 oz cranberry sauce is now 14
 DD> oz per can. 

yup... highway robbery, i say! ;)

 DD> We have a law requiring merchants to post price per unit on the
 DD> shelf where the item is stocked. But, there are so many loopholes
 DD> and gotchas that most don't bother to read the cost per
 DD> oz/serving/unit. I do - but, I am both careful with my money and in
 DD> a tiny minority.

i try to always look at those stickers to get the most quantity for the least
$$$ spent... sometimes you find some really good deals that way if you can
afford the whole package at that price...
  
 ml> then you have our food products... things like chicken, pork and beef
 ml> that all have water added to it sometimes with color enhancers... this,
 ml> too, bulks the product up making it weigh more than what you are really
 ml> getting in the end... since most all food is bought on price per
 ml> quantity of weight, you end up paying a lot for mere water in many
 ml> cases... water which you throw away...

 DD> Which is why I buy my meat from a reliable meat cutter or
 DD> stupormarkup with a service meat counter and do not shop with the
 DD> Walmartians.

yeah, dad's only been doing that a few times since he was already there and
only needed to get a couple of things... some stuff is ok and cheaper than
other stores but i try to get him to go to our normal stores for the meats...
especially when you can get "aged" beef marked down a couple of times and save
$6US - $10US or more on good steaks like porterhouse, T-bone, and ribeyes...
"aged" as in older than then other stuff they are selling and no where near as
expensive as that specifically marked and sold as "aged"... we always age it
some more, anyway ;)

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