Vents: Random Acts of Venting!

[Cookie Parker]

People who make rude comments to others just doing their jobs according to corporate regulations....

[Bratalie]

Corporate regulations that do not empower employees to make sensible decisions on a case by case basis.


(Sorry, I've worked corporate too long, by gosh, sometimes the rules SHOULD and NEED to bend and more people (employees) should grow some balls and make a wave or two to benefit a customer; when it is clearly justified)

[kerrybeth]

Radio Shack bugs the Hell out of me. Maybe if they get enough complaints and negative responses they will quit asking for everything but your blood type when you buy a freakin' Barbie watch battery.

[Palehorse]

Radio Shack bugs the Hell out of me. Maybe if they get enough complaints and negative responses they will quit asking for everything but your blood type when you buy a freakin' Barbie watch battery.

You can blame your local meth-lab operators for this little piece of crapola. . . Those batteries are used in their illegal process. . .

[Gryphon]

really??

[Palehorse]

Yes. . . really!

It is why you usually cannot go into "Walmart" etc., and just grab a case of them off the shelf. It is an item watch closely by the DEA, along with acetone, cold medicines, etc. All the stuff used by these "cookers" to make meth.

[followsthewolf]

Yep.

Just arrested an out-of-state couple for buying quantities of those babies. Actually was made possible by shared purchasing info from a neighboring state.

[Palehorse]

No kidding. They even arrest them out here in Indiana; on the freeways, in the parks, in the alley, in the backwoods where it's dark.
These jokers have blown up more homes, garages, and motor vehicles, frying more brain cells than Adolph ever dreamed of!

[Gryphon]

I never even made the connection...I knew about the cough medicine, etc. (In fact, Im probably on a list somewhere because when my fiscal year ended for my medical savings account, Im emptied it out by stocking up on OTC stuff that I use)
Explains why I couldnt find batteries at Target...

[Palehorse]

I never even made the connection...I knew about the cough medicine, etc. (In fact, Im probably on a list somewhere because when my fiscal year ended for my medical savings account, Im emptied it out by stocking up on OTC stuff that I use)
Explains why I couldnt find batteries at Target...

Yup, that is exactly why.

We use them by the case-load at work for our medical devices, and we have to reconcile and account for every last one of those babies!
We scrap them by the gross too, but they are sent to the on campus recycle center, reconciled and the scrap bin is even located under a security camera.

Lovely how the criminals are dictating our private and professional lives isn't it? 

[~Daisy~]

Aren't lightbulbs on that list, too? 

[pariann]

I'm confused as hell, lightbulbs and batteries? what are they doing, making flashlights? or meth.

[~Daisy~]

I don't get it either.

[Palehorse]

Crystal meth can be easy to produce in small, clandestine labs, sometimes in a kitchen or bathroom, by mixing a cocktail of about 15 substances, mostly pseudoephedrine (a cold remedy), red phosphorous and iodine, but also including ammonia, paint thinner, ether, Drano and the lithium from batteries.

An investment of about $150 can yield up to $10,000 worth of the drug. Crystal meth has become the most widespread and popular form of the drug, largely because it is so easy to make that anyone can set up a lab (instructions are widespread on the World Wide Web), but also because motorcycle gangs, which are becoming dominant in organized drug trafficking, usually sell the drug.

[~Daisy~]

Okay so does anyone know the actual process to make it? I'm curious.