Who has time for original material with all the fodder these goombahs are furnishing!
To wit:
darkwinglh Post subject: Myth vs MethPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:22 am
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Location: Skilleyville, Oklahoma The other day, while going through my huge catalog of pictures, I found one of the Kansas State University boys that were doing the documentary, and one of them had a shirt on that said Myth or Meth, Bigfoot something something.
Well I didn't think much about it, until last night's research and the events that transpired.
I gathered some of the Stilwell MABRC members together and decided to go down to the bait stations and try DO's hanging popcorn trick out. Well we couldn't get down all the way to the bait stations due to the road being washed out (We took the mini-van instead of the Blazer) from last weeks rain.
Well we took the popcorn out and hung it up, and put a glow bracelet inside the sack, that way if something ripped it open, from our vantage point, we would see the glow stick fall out. The sack is actually thick enough to keep the glow in, out of sight. Hint, Hint DO.
Well, we moved back to where we were going to watch it from and settled in, when about ten minutes later, we hear a four wheeler coming down the trail. About 50 feet from where we are sitting, he takes a hard right and disappears into the woods on a side trail. Okay, that is suspicious to say the least, but then a SUV comes right in behind them and follows down the trail.
Now, we are sitting there thinking, what the hell are they doing down this way at 11 PM at night, during a holiday when most folks are in Tahlequah for the Cherokee National Holiday. That's when the smell hit us, and it was obvious what they were doing. Since most of the law enforcement folks were 30 miles away providing security to the National Holiday, they were out there in the woods running a meth lab. They had went down to an old abandoned cabin in the area and were cooking away.
So here we are, out trying to find Bigfoot and instead, overlooking a bunch of Meth Cookers out in the woods. I decided it wasn't worth taking a chance being in the same area and equally not worth taking a chance to retrieve the popcorn, which would have made us spottable by the Meth cookers and probably get shot at.
We gathered the equipment up, and loaded up and vacated the area quickly and went down around on the other side of the mountain and just set up a listening post, our plans for the night pretty much shot.
The moral of this story? Safety first. There is no need to risk your life in a situation like that just to do research. When there is many areas to check out, don't risk yourself and the people you are responsible for by trying to set up in a dangerous area like that.
1. They observed suspected criminal activity and did nothing as far as reporting it to LE.
2. Instead, they drove around the hill and continued as if nothing had happened.
3. In many jurisdictions that would likely make them accomplices to the activity.
4. Real solid citizens that bunch.
