Intent.
You purchased the stuff to cook meth, not to blow something up.
More importantly, you’d have to convince a jury that the intent was there.
I think OPs post could bridge most of the gap… Lol.
What is this breaking bad? Stuff doesn’t blow up when you make drugs unless something went very, very wrong and then you lose all your investment.
The dangers associated with Meth production have been exaggerated by ignorant media and lying cops.
A person with a serious meth addiction is dangerous and likely to cause accidental harm even if they aren’t playing around with volatile chemicals. But these chemicals all have legitimate uses and are safe to use by sober adults. Stuff like Coleman fuel, ether, and acetone. You can create runaway exothermic reactions while venting flammable gas with some weaponized incompetence, but it’s still a “low” explosive, with small amounts of chemicals, and unlikely to harm anyone not in the same room, much less the neighbor.
90% of meth lab “explosions” are small events that only harm people in the immediate vicinity and most of the structural damage will come from the resulting fire. Compare that to a simple natural gas leak that can turn a 3 story McMansion into confetti in under a second.
Would you be nervous if your neighbor installed a gas fireplace?
Would you be nervous if your neighbor installed a gas fireplace?
Well now I would be…
This is a reason I never understood modern homes in the US being built with natural gas furnaces and appliances. My house had a gas furnace even though most other homes around have electric. You have a flammable gas under pressure going through miles of pipe to get to each home. A leak anywhere could be really dangerous along those many miles. Yet, exceedingly rare to see fires from this (maybe I’m wrong in that I just don’t hear of many). Meanwhile, electric appliances use the electricity that has to come into a house anyways.
Electricity arcing over something flammable can also cause a fire that burns down your house and kills you.
It isn’t just your imagination. Houses burning down / exploding really is a rare occurance. This is not by accident. There are layers of dumbass-proofing in every part of the system, from the way wire and pipe are manufactured, to the availability of easy-to-use tools and materials that make doing the job the right way also the easy way, to detection systems like fire alarms, to building codes that set standards for how things should be constructed.
I think my curiosity is more around the “why” of the gas lines. I put in another comment above but it’s a good amount of effort to run and maintain these lines when we already have and need electric. We’re adding an additional source of risk to these environments for what additional benefit? I’m not talking trash about gas I’m just wondering what the selling point is. Like I said, I have a gas furnace and it’s fine…no complaints. Is it much more efficient than electric? Hotter? There has to be some compelling reason to put in the effort.
Gas is much, much cheaper. Like, insanely cheaper. Many homes were built long before it was normal to have 200 amp service.
It’s only in relatively recent years where heat pumps are becoming more common. And resistive heat uses a lot of electricity.
Gas has had decades and decades to be made safe. We have odorants so people can smell it, meters and sensors to monitor for abnormal usage and leaks, and it needs to be contained to cause an explosion.
Leaks outside suck, but aren’t really that dangerous because they can dissipate and be blown away by wind.
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Seems like you answered your own question.
We had a week long power outage after a winter ice storm a few years ago and would have been screwed without our gas water heater and fireplace, so I’m a big fan of having both gas and electric.
Murder is a charge that means it’s an intentional killing, manslaughter is an accidental killing.
Because it does not fit the definition.
It would probably fit reckless endangerment, but murder requires the intent to cause death specifically.
There are all sorts of additional charges that might be piled on, like reckless endangerment or child endangerment if there are any children in the immediate vicinity.
I thought it was more noxious fumes from meth production that were the main hazard, rather than explosivity.
