Doing it all wrong...

It's so sad to hear the stories of these people wasting their lives this way. Kids overdosing, people dying way too young or spending years in prison. I've watched shows like Breaking Bad and others and I tell my wife that it looks a lot easier just to earn your money doing an honest day's work.
It just seems like a certain percentage of the population are going to do drugs and go through this struggle. I don't have the answer.

 

Sometimes I have to wonder if your just telling a tall tale by the way you talk. I mean, you live next to methheads with all sorts of things going on which pose a potential threat to you and yours as well as your property, yet you are unwilling to protect your family or your land? Fire and theft of personal property is a definite possibility yet you won't do a thing to protect it? Do you really think some druggie is going to pass up your property leaving your family alone? Do you really think any one of them wouldn't take a member of your family's life if they got in the way? Do you really think your wife and daughters aren't in danger of being raped by some methhead?

You really need to do a reality check if what your saying is really true. And if your just spreading something about your neighbor because you don't care for them, read
1 Timothy 5:13 - And with they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to hou...
8 Types of gossip and what the bible says about gossiping

No, I am not religious! Why? Having been raped by a man of the cloth is reason enough for me!

 

You sir, need to arm yourself. What is the average police response time there? Have you considered that yet? Even your BFF Sheriff isn't always 30 seconds away. Even if so, 30 seconds may be 29 too many.

BTW, Us gun loving Americans are not living in fortresses like you say. We just don't put trust in tweakers or the law saving you from tweakers as you seem to do. We want the ability to stop a threat when needed, not dial the po po and wait for 20 minutes.
And if you think a camera system + a gun= fortress, you don't want to meet my friend who has literally walled off his property.

 

No reason to wonder Star Gazer, I speak the truth without gossip, I think its just that you may be applying where you live to where I live. Most likely it is vastly different.

"Next door" here; where the population is 750 in a town with 25 square miles, might be half a mile to a mile away. In this case the meth Lab is about half a mile away; close, but not that close; still they are my next door neighbors. And while the teenager that overdosed was about a 1/4 mile away, he too is my next closest neighbor.

The other thing you probably were not aware of is just how much land I own. I typically don't even talk acreage because there really is no point in it, but while they only have 4 acres, and it is true that I surround them on every side, I have hundreds of acres. I mention this because I really have no reason to provoke them. Yes I keep an eye on the property line every time I hear them cutting wood, but until I need to use that land on that side of the road for something, I'll just stay away. There may come a day when I finally get around to clear cutting the wood and turning that side of the road into a field, but for now I got a separate 30 acre piece that is pretty much occupying my time. If they encroach on me until then, well that is what the Maine Forest Service and Surveyor's are for.

I know what you are saying though and certainly don't fault you for that. I have never lived any where but here so I can only assume the Meth Labs they show on Top Cops really exists, but they are not like that here. But we also have the lowest crime rate in this country too. In 42 years of life I have never even locked my house door! I don't even think I could find the key that fits it. But when you live in an area where you are more likely to die in a snowmobile accident then from murder, you live differently then the rest of the nation.

Maine
Violent crimes per 100,000: 121.6
Population: 1,328,302
Total 2013 murders: 24 (8th lowest)
Poverty rate: 14.0% (20th lowest)
% of adults with high school diploma: 91.8% (5th highest)


There were just 69 incidents per 100,000 residents of aggravated assault reported last year in Maine, the lowest rate reviewed. This was despite incidents increasing 12.9% in 2013 from 2012, the largest increase in the nation. In fact, incidents of aggravated assaults declined across the nation. Mainers, who are perhaps more dependent on their vehicles because they live in one of the nation’s most rural areas, are also fortunate to have one of the country’s lowest motor vehicle theft rates. There were fewer than 69 motor vehicle thefts per 100,000 residents reported last year, second only to Vermont.

 

Not at all Scotty, I think the whole point of the conversation was missed however.

I would not have even mentioned they were MethHeads at all, but did not want any one that drank beer to think that I was being condescending towards them and their way of thinking. Telling exactly what they were, painted a better picture then just a couple of rednecks drinking that is for sure. "They got a meth lab brewing"...yep that kind of says it all regarding their character.

I still cannot figure out why anyone with 3 acres of woods however would cut the wood off, burn it all SUMMER in a fire pit for ambiance, then burn pallets all winter to try and stay warm? Maybe down south where they don't get that cold, but in Maine where it hits -20 degrees; or as we say her "twenty below and blowing twenty", that just doesn't make sense.

 

Oh, I think we got the goofiness of their use of firewood, but we can't get past the fact that you have a "breaking bad" situation right next door.
Nothing good comes from that......ever.
The meth lab would be of MUCH more concern to me than how they use their trees.

 

LodgedTree I really don't think there is much difference in rural living from state to state. BTW, the town I live about 5 miles outside of has a hefty population of about 430 and the town is actually considered rural than urban. But here is an interesting factoid. Females outnumber the menfolk at better than 2 to 1! Around here, I lock my doors but only because of the intrusion into my home that occurred while I was in the bathroom. My truck doors on the other hand are never locked.

Methheads are just plain scary, so most definitely keep an ever vigilant eye on them. One reason I mentioned clearing the area near their place is to protect your wooded area, not from them doing any cutting, but from fire. Of course that would open up the area around their place which they don't want. If they are having all these fires during the summer months I wouldn't put it past them to not keep them under control. My part time neighbor was doing the burn barrel thing last year, and he left it unattended (went to take a nap). The fire managed to get out of control and started the grass on fire which spread to his woodshed. He lost several cord of firewood in not monitoring even a fire contained in a burn barrel.

Then with their playing with chemicals to make their meth, it wouldn't take much for a fire to start and easily get out of control. If it did, think of all of your acreage that would burn. So it's basically a precautionary measure. Once a fire gets going, often times it's too late to set up a fire break.

With their burning habit's I would wonder if they are too stoned to know the difference between winter and summer. That makes them even more scary!

Personally, I wouldn't want MethHeads, Druggies, or drug dealers living anywhere near me. They are too unpredictable which includes damage or theft of property, and what they are capable of if someone stands in their way. Thus the need to be able to protect yourself. And certainly don't ignore the problem!

I like the area where you live but for one thing! I hate the cold!

 

Prolly get plenty of free (state) heating oil along with all the other handout's. The lib's in Augusta just makes it too easy to not work.

 

Fixed it for you

While Frost was first published in England, he was an American.

Fortunately, I don't recall any Robert Frost stories about cooking meth on a snowy evening.



That said, I'd be careful about your neighbors LodgedTree .

 

So, you don't lock your doors? Even with meth heads next door?

I know Maine, it sounds like I lived very close to where you live based on previous posts.

Being remote only hurts you if you are not prepared for the batsh!t crazy that druggies do.

It's good that you are friends with the law, but unless they live on your property it's too far away to help if problem arose.

Also, of the authorities know it's a meth house and haven't done anything, that's gross negligence. Especially since someone died. did person die at the house?? Also, after they pulled a gun on a "trespasser" there should have been cops all over the place. At that point any illicit activities should have been found out.

And I solved the riddle of them burning wood in the summer in a fire pit. Those meth labs must make a lot of heat. Who needs wood heat when you've got several meth kits going at once?

I wonder if certain types of meth have more btu's than other types of meth.

 

There is a pretty large meth problem where i live too. I dont think there is anywhere that drugs are not a problem. The dopeheads where i live seem to not go out stealing and pillaging near as much now that lots of people have security/surveilance systems and have learned how to use them. I have a farmer friend who had all 3 pumps and all his aluminum irragation pipe stolen about 10 years ago, while he was out of town. He now has a killer security system which has already paid for itself when some idiots came at 2 am to try to steal his polaris razor.

 

The place I live has had its share of problems but I am with LodgedTree in one respect. I can't remember the last time my house was actually locked up. Now and then I will lock the front door if I am going to be gone over night but the sliding glass door onto the back deck is never locked. I can say it comes in handy now and then. When I find I just can't get home for some reason I can call my daughter and ask her to drop by and let the dog out, knowing that sliding glass door is never locked. It doesn't happen often but it has happened when my wife and I were out of town for the day and something came up to prevent us getting home. For an absence of only a few hours even the front door doesn't get locked.

 

Sometimes my doors are unlocked, but here's my security, as Rottiman used to say 125# of no nonsense!