What I'm amused by in this thread are the ads that showed up in the right column. Temperature centers, coffee machines, coffee machine cleaners ... and global warming myths.

I doubt the stain comes from matches... unless they're actually dumping a bunch of matches in it (I don't know how the process works) there shouldn't be enough phosphorous in there to stain it red.

Meth users are so paranoid they will go anywhere, do anything. The red may be from the red phosphorous from the matches, although I am notso sure. I never cooked off a batch. But I know plenty who have. They move around; alot.

>>Do you guys actually think
>>meth users would
>>pay for a hotel room?

Actually, they do. A hotel room offers a simple, relatively cheap, relatively private, and sometime anonymous place to work. You'd make enough to easily recoup the cost of the room, and if there is ever an accidental fire... you can run away without worrying about blowing up your *own* place.

As a general rule, I don't think I would use a coffee pot with a dark reddish-orange stain.

I don't claim to understand what meth does to people, but it must be pretty good if they will continue using it until they look like deranged mental patients.

The idea of being dependent on a substance is loathsome beyond words. I'm not condemning these people because it's probably something in their genetic make-up, it's certainly not my favorite pass-time. And actually, I'd rather not come into contact with the products of these people's cravings.
Drugs, yeesh!

Well Billy, there would be some advantage to doing it in a hotel room, I think. There's a saying that I find apropos here: "Never poop where you eat". In other words, doing it at a hotel where you can do your dirt and leave means you're less likely to get busted by family members and neighbors who would be suspicious if they started seeing a bunch of meth addicts coming over to your house all of the time. A lot of people use hotel rooms as their place to shoot up/smoke/huff because it feels a lot more secure than doing it out on the streets or with strangers. Given how many addicts make use of budget hotels and motels, it isn't surprising that meth is being cooked up there as well.

Billy: Absolutely. We had a meth-lab explode in a local motel two years ago. It's more common than you might think especially in lower-cost, proprietor-owned outfits.

So would a cup of coffee from such a device be dangerous or just give an extra morning kick?

Sorry, I don't use drugs and am clueless about effects of meth.

I would guess they are evaporating lighter fluid off with it. One would think that someone in the motel would notice the smell. The chemicals used would melt plastic. The color would likely be from the coatings of pills that a small set up like this would be using as its pseudo-ephedrine raw material. I imagine if you looked in the garbage of the Motel there are a lot of decongestant boxes. You could probably visit the nearest pharmacy and they would know who was smurfing it. Marshall County is probably not the fastest responders to problems that should be obvious.

i want to see numbers. that just doesn't make sense. So some meth cooker brings supplies to a hotel...and makes meth there? Do you guys actually think meth users would pay for a hotel room?