[Sca-cooks] HomeBrew [Was: [Fw: Hard Liquor ingredients]]

[Martin G. Diehl]

Daniel Phelps wrote:
> 
> Was written:

[snip]

> > Ok for the record I agree that private vice should be 
> > legal as long as one only hurts oneself.  

... wait until enabling legislation has become effective.  

> > But some of the processes involved in the creation of 
> > the drugs described above are DANGEROUS!  

> > They are FLAMMABLE and EXPLOSIVE, and they produce 
> > TOXIC BYPRODUCTS.   

> > I've talked to hazmat people who have had to go into 
> > places where some of those witches brews were being 
> > simmered and what they face is not for the faint of 
> > heart.  

> > Speed labs in residential neighborhoods that, if they 
> > cooked off, would take out the house and part of the 
> > neighbor's as well ... plus contaminate the whole block.
> > 
> > Daniel

In about 1990, I read a local newspaper article about a 
House Rental Gone Bad (TM).  

The owners were going to be overseas for more than 1 year 
-- a local Real Estate Agency found a 'qualified' renter.  

The renter prepaid the rent for the full 12 months.  

When the owners returned to the USA, they gradually noted 
these (and other) changes to their house and property: 

	(1) living room had a lot of cheap shelving and 
	    about 20 new power outlets 

	(2) after a toilet flush, the gentle sound of 
	    moving water was heard coming from the basement 

	(3) all of the PVC drain lines in the house had 
	    been eaten away -- dissolved 

	(4) the septic tank, leeching fields, and 
	    nearby soil was contaminated by toxic waste 

	(5) the pollution plume extended beyond their 
	    property line toward one neighbor's well 

	(6) they now owned a $5 million (IIRC) superfund 
	    site (toxic waste) 

	(7) the state supplied water by the tanker load

	(8) all of the neighbors were suing them for loss 
	    of property value

	(9) they were suing the Real Estate Agency 
	    for 'Failure to Supervise' the renter.  

Sorry, I don't know the final resolution to relate here.  

Vincenzo

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Martin G. Diehl

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