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Hank Sniadoch
August 9th 03, 03:57 PM
This is pure baloney.
"L.B. Sleuth" > wrote in message
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> [Foreword: Apparently hotel management would rather keep their
> ignorant guests in the dark by just "sweeping" this dirty little drug
> lab secret under the rug. After all, today's drug labs produce
> virtually no odors; most guests will not complain about dreadful air
> quality; and most guests are only overnighters anyway, so, if they get
> sick, they will just bounce back a few hours after check-out and be
> none the wiser. And surely hotel management wants to avoid
> unpleasantries like D.E.A. agents kicking in the doors of their guests
> in the middle of the night or like [gasp, heavens, no!] their
> building's acquiring a reputation of being a "sick building."]
>
> HOTELS ARE DRUG LAB INFESTED!!
>
> In recent months, I have had three back-to-back hotel stays at three
> different hotels, and all three bedeviled me with toxic fumes from
> illicit drug lab activity. Do not think for one minute that upscale
> hotels are exempt from this problem!
>
> BE ADVISED: illicit drug lab chemists are using chemical ingredients
> and methods that produce virtually no smells and very little chemical
> taste. In fact, some people can't even taste the chemistry in the air.
> I can! In any case, drug lab toxins can make you very, very sick.
>
> You may be wondering how I know about such things. Well, I lived for
> almost three and one-half years in an apartment as a neighbor to, not
> one, but two illicit drug labs in the building, and, for that time
> period, I didn't have a clue as to what was going on around me even
> though I was suffering a whole host of physical maladies that were not
> characteristic of me. Then, pretty much by quirk of fate (and sloppy
> behavior on the part of the perpetrators), I caught on quick. I
> eventually moved out and ended up in yet another apartment which was
> plagued by intolerable drug lab fumes. The government was worthless in
> addressing these crimes.
>
> My advice to airline crews on layovers (and to all travelers, for that
> matter) is, "STAY OUT OF HOTELS," for you make wake up dead one day -
> NO KIDDING!
>
> I was in one hotel long enough to suspect that there were a minimum of
> SIX drug lab chemists operating there, and, let me tell you, there
> were some really funny things going on there, particularly at night. I
> do believe that the dead bodies of guests who had succumbed to toxic
> fumes were spirited away from that building.
>
> STAY OUT OF HOTELS! Things may be fine at first, but you never know
> who checks into the next room after you have gone to sleep. Worse yet,
> an illicit drug chemist may be in the room right above you, and he may
> be so stoned that he spills his nasty, nasty chemicals on the floor.
> From there the chemicals may leak through your ceiling and rain down
> on your face in your sleep. Just such a thing came close to happening
> to me in my apartment and in the first of the three hotel rooms where
> I stayed!
>
> _USA Today_ recently (cover story of 7/30/2003) made mention of the
> problem in hotel rooms in a bigger article on methamphetamine labs.
> They said that children have crawled on the carpets of hotel rooms
> which have previously hosted drug labs, and those children have gotten
> chemical burns! The report goes on to say that toxic fumes from
> illicit drug labs cause learning disabilities in children as well as
> fatal burns to lungs and damage to livers and spleens.
>
> One troubling aspect of the _USA Today_ report was the low numbers of
> drug lab busts in eastern U.S. jurisdictions. Don't be fooled by these
> low numbers. There is an infestation of illicit drug labs in eastern
> jurisdictions. Years ago, it was reported that at any one time there
> are over 1,000 drug labs in New York City alone (there must be several
> thousand now), yet, for the whole state of New York, there were only
> 14 drug lab busts in year 2002!
>
> My first night at the second hotel was OK, but the second night was
> very different. In bed, I had neurological sensations like electrical
> shocks all over my body. I had muscle spasms all over, too, and every
> time I tried to fall asleep, an arm would jerk, or a leg would jerk,
> or a hand would jerk. These are symptoms of pesticide poisoning.
> Illicit drug lab chemists use pesticides in their dirty work.
> Moreover, during that second night, my cat vomited three times, and
> then a fourth time right after I arose. Shortly thereafter, he rapidly
> developed a nasty skin lesion on the border of his nose, and he then
> became deathly ill. Just before my last night there, I myself became
> deathly ill, and I didn't think that I was going to make it out of
> there.
>
> Illicit drug labs create the risk of explosion and fire. Do you want
> the room above, below or right next to you to explode when you least
> expect it? And hotel fires can be really, really nasty things as
> evidenced by televised accounts of such events. You don't want you,
> yourself, and your children to be caught in a fire especially in an
> older, taller hotel.
>
> By all accounts in the news, the methamphetamine problem is growing by
> leaps and bounds, and the U.S. is very rapidly becoming like Thailand
> where everything everywhere is being touched by the contamination of
> Thailand's monumental methamphetamine addiction problem.
>
> Two area public libraries where I now reside have been contaminated by
> drug lab activity and/or the dumping of toxic waste from drug labs.
>
> BTW, the toxic waste of drug labs corrodes drain pipes leaving behind
> leaks large and small. Then, water starts to leak out creating an
> environment of moisture in which mold and mildew will thrive. The
> toxins from mold and mildew can be as bad, if not worse than drug lab
> toxins. Keep this in mind when buying your next house for it may have
> to be torn apart to correct aforementioned problems.
>
> So, don't buy a house; don't live in a multiple dwelling; and, for
> God's sake, don't bring your kids to a hotel!