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Feb
17Mobile Meth Lab Explodes Inside Vehicle
Meth is a powerful addictive stimulant and some people can get hooked on the drug relatively fast. More and more meth users and dealers are cutting out the middle man and manufacturing the drug themselves using the shake and bake process (one-pot method) or assembling small 'mom and pop' labs.
Methamphetamine is destructive in every way because the illicit stimulant destroys lives when it's used and the cooking process is downright dangerous too.
Meth lab explosions are common occurrences because the volatile chemicals used to produce the drug can ignite very easily during the cooking process. It doesn't matter if the illicit meth lab involves a one pot method or if it's a larger scale production, they're unpredictable and can catch on fire and explode at any given time.
Smaller scale meth labs like the 'shake and bake' process are tremendously dangerous and because they're portable, authorities commonly discover them inside vehicles when they pull drivers over for unrelated traffic stops.
That's not how authorities in Osage Beach discovered there was a shake and bake lab inside a vehicle recently though. The Osage Beach Police were responding to calls they received about a vehicle on fire that was being driven erratically krmsradio.com reports and the automobile fire was the result of a shake and bake process that exploded while it was held by the driver.
