posted on November 6, 2001 04:46:22 AM new
I read in my local paper last week that 2 nursing tanks of anhydrous ammonia had been stolen from a farm services storage facility about 3 miles from my home. This past Sunday, I read that an unknown quantity of anhydrous ammonia had been stolen from another storage facility about a mile away from the first one.
Didn't the Oklahoma City bombers use anhydrous ammonia? I'm not sure how big a nursing tank is, but if they're the size of the ones I see spraying the fields around my house, that's a heck of a lot of ammonia unaccounted for.
Why would anyone steal this much unless they were making a bomb? Can it be used for anything else?
I was a little nervous when I read about the first incident. I'm pretty sure it happened on Oct 30. The second happened on November 3 and I'm getting a bit more worried.
posted on November 6, 2001 05:58:17 AM new
A new type of methamphetamine production that uses anhydrous ammonia as one of its main ingredients. Methamphetamine producers are taking containers to CO-OPs to have them filled or they steal it from tanks on privately-owned fields. It's more valuable used for drugs than for bombs.
posted on November 6, 2001 07:50:17 AM new
Not as explosive maybe, but more tweak for the masses isn't exactly good news either. Methamphetamine is an incredibly destructive drug.
posted on November 6, 2001 09:43:56 AM new
Talk about the lesser of two evils! I can't believe I'm actually hoping the thieves are using it to make drugs.
I'm not the type of person who flies into a panic at every newscast or every 'warning' spit out by our government, but this did have me worried.
So, I suppose the terrorists have already won.
[ edited by monkeysuit on Nov 6, 2001 09:45 AM ]
posted on November 6, 2001 02:29:53 PM new
Haven't there been numerous reports of drug makers blowing themselves up? If they live next door it could be like a bomb!
