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Edited on Sun Jan-15-06 12:01 PM by lazarus
The most common physical evidence is an lingering ozone-like smell of something rotten mixed with ether and the house in question having what seems to be a lot of trash taken out. The fumes of distilling meth are very strong; can be smelled from up to a good 50 feet away. (The two meth cookers in my experience were foolish enough to be doing it in apartment complexes; the smell went through the central venting whenever they "cooked" and could affect every apartment in that block of the complex - and in one case, a neighbor's birds all got sick and died soon after the meth lab started up in one apartment - birds are very susceptible to the fumes. If grass and any plants in just one particular area of the house are yellowing unusually and that area seems to be "dead" - no birds or other wildlife hanging about that area, that can be an indication there's a lab in that area.
Other indications (not so certain)- there will also often be an area of the house that seems completely blocked off from normal household traffic - if, of course, they aren't using a spare bathroom or storeroom to cook in. I suspect that if they are cooking meth in a bathroom or some sort of utility/store room, the sound of the air compressor you've been hearing is probably some sort of venting system to mitigate the possibility of fires or explosions during the process and allow them to enter the area safely while in the process of cooking their product. Or it could be the bathroom vent going bad - that also has a nasty air compressor sound.
Your "friendly" neighbor might be smart enough not to sell out of the house (one of the other warning indications is increased traffic in and out of the house of the meth lab), but if he and/or his girlfriend seem to be making a lot of "deliveries", that could also be an indication there is some sort of home business going on.
Anyway, it does sound as if the police think there's something "interesting" going on. Just keep your head down, and don't be surprised at whatever happens.
Haele (Edited because I didn't notice that my husband had logged me off last night and not logged off himself before he came to bed...damn, I thought I was still on my account!)
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