And from the local paper.....
Park Rangers arrested four people for cooking meth today. Our criminal master minds decide that cooking the stuff in the middle of a national forest would avoid most of the problems associated with the act, to wit, the rather unique stench.
Just a few problems...
Its been a dry winter down here and the Forestery Service has a total ban on outdoor fires...their grill was putting out quite a streamer of smoke.
Two fire towers happened to spot the smoke and got a excellent grid.
The area where they were cooking was located three miles from the district ranger office, and there was a complete fire crew as well as rangers, over twenty people, bored out of their grouds.
There was only the trail they were on and a logging road....everything else was protected forest with HEAVY undergrowth.
As soon as the meth cookers spotted the Forestry Service trucks roaring up the trail, they opened fire, disabling one truck. They then ducked into the undergrowth and tried to get away on foot.
By this time the Park Rangers and Highway Patrol had roadblocks set up....and were broadcasting loudspeaker appeals that if the crooks would give themselves up right away, they would be treated for Poison Ivy and Poison Oak, since they had run through patches of both while getting away...
Shortest manhunt in Mississippi history....the last one gave up within thirty minutes.
Moral of the story...it never hurts to open the old Boy Scout handbook once in a while!
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