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Police: Driver passes out, meth lab in back seat

Sat Jan 2, 2010 2:45 PM EST
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MURFREESBORO — Police say a driver passed out in his car at a Tennessee gas station while a batch of methamphetamine was cooking in the back seat.

An employee at the gas station in Murfreesboro, about 30 miles southeast of Nashville, called police because the car was sitting at the pump for about an hour on New Year's Day.

Police say a chemical process to make the drug was in progress. Some meth-making ingredients can be explosive.

Murfreesboro Assistant Fire Chief Allen Swader told The Daily News Journal that gas pumps were shut off as a precaution.

Thirty-one-year-old Nathan E. Beasley is being held on a $15,000 bond on charges of driving under the influence, driving on a suspended license, reckless endangerment and manufacturing meth. No attorney was listed in police records.

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BelindaJoy

What? Okay this has got to be a gag news post.

  • 3 votes
Reply#1 - Sat Jan 2, 2010 3:13 PM EST
Slinger-958418

I thought meth was supposed to wake you up, not put you to sleep. LOL>

  • 3 votes
Reply#2 - Sat Jan 2, 2010 3:53 PM EST
LV Mom

He was probably coming down off meth and didn't get a new batch cooked in time. LOL!!!

  • 2 votes
#2.1 - Sun Jan 3, 2010 12:50 AM EST
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Anrkist

You stay classy, Murfreesboro.

  • 3 votes
Reply#3 - Sat Jan 2, 2010 4:36 PM EST
Onipupsac

I think drones should fly in the US sometimes.

  • 3 votes
Reply#4 - Sat Jan 2, 2010 5:19 PM EST
Kareem in my Coffee

As a resident of Florida, may I say I'm relieved this happened elsewhere - for a change.

  • 4 votes
Reply#5 - Sat Jan 2, 2010 5:51 PM EST
ruthlessmoose

I second that lol

  • 1 vote
#5.1 - Mon Jan 4, 2010 12:38 PM EST
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LindaMarie2

In stead of people getting smarter... there getting dumber by the minute !!

  • 3 votes
Reply#6 - Sat Jan 2, 2010 5:56 PM EST
AmeirckunsRstoupid

i nominate this for most ironic post of 2010. I know its early, but this one is a gem.

  • 5 votes
#6.1 - Sat Jan 2, 2010 9:59 PM EST
LindaMarie2

it could be worse...you could be driving next to him on the highway..!!

  • 3 votes
#6.2 - Sat Jan 2, 2010 11:49 PM EST
AmeirckunsRstoupid

i didnt know something ironic could get more ironic.lol

  • 2 votes
#6.3 - Sun Jan 3, 2010 2:04 AM EST
Javabean88

I second it, lol.

  • 2 votes
#6.4 - Sun Jan 3, 2010 8:12 AM EST
ruthlessmoose

Then it's settled! Congratulations linda... we all new you could do it!! lol

  • 1 vote
#6.5 - Mon Jan 4, 2010 12:39 PM EST
LindaMarie2

Say WHAT...?

  • 1 vote
#6.6 - Mon Jan 4, 2010 4:19 PM EST
LindaMarie2

NOW...what did I do..? ( or didn't do..? )

I'm afraid to ask... alright...let's hear it ?

  • 1 vote
#6.7 - Mon Jan 4, 2010 4:22 PM EST
ruthlessmoose

Linda... your original comment:

In stead of people getting smarter... there getting dumber by the minute !!

the joke... was that at the same time as you were stating people are getting dumber.. you used the wrong spelling "there" instead of "they're" (they are) .... a simple and yet humrous grammatical error. I assume you see the irony?.... All in good fun! :D

  • 1 vote
#6.8 - Tue Jan 5, 2010 2:54 PM EST
LindaMarie2

I should of known... !!! My spelling gets me in trouble AGAIN ! That's what I get for fooling around in spelling class, when I was such a young thing !

oh well... no harm done. I'll survive. Ok you two... you had your laugh !

  • 1 vote
#6.9 - Tue Jan 5, 2010 7:54 PM EST
ruthlessmoose

no worries.... I always mispell words that start with "ha" .... I'm constantly typing ahve and ahs... I don't even correct it anymore lol

  • 1 vote
#6.10 - Wed Jan 6, 2010 9:08 AM EST
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Tony in Arizona

"Any time you have this type of chemical in location of a gas pump, an explosion can be tremendous," said Assistant Fire Chief Allen Swader.

Just unbelievable....

  • 2 votes
Reply#7 - Sat Jan 2, 2010 6:10 PM EST
shel2233

Hey, that 's why they make the big bucks....to point out the obvious.

  • 2 votes
#7.1 - Sun Jan 3, 2010 2:32 AM EST
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Jeff Jefferson-912478

Lucky the lab didn't blow, that would have been a wild way to bring in the New Year.

  • 4 votes
Reply#8 - Sat Jan 2, 2010 6:53 PM EST
River-239955

Thirty-one-year-old Nathan E. Beasley is being held on a $15,000 bond on charges of driving under the influence, driving on a suspended license, reckless endangerment and manufacturing meth. No attorney was listed in police records.

Dummy...... Hopefully he's off the roads this time.

  • 3 votes
Reply#9 - Sat Jan 2, 2010 7:59 PM EST
bonos_rama

Darn, don't you hate when that happens to you?

  • 2 votes
Reply#10 - Sat Jan 2, 2010 9:03 PM EST
G. H.

Another Darwin Awards hopeful! :-(

  • 2 votes
Reply#11 - Sun Jan 3, 2010 12:03 AM EST
shel2233

...and living proof that sometimes evolution does have a little hiccup

    #11.1 - Sun Jan 3, 2010 2:33 AM EST
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    Karmart

    Times are getting tough, even for Meth dealers, having to cook his drugs in the back seat of his car. Poor loser probably had his home foreclosed on.

    • 2 votes
    Reply#12 - Sun Jan 3, 2010 2:00 AM EST
    AmeirckunsRstoupid

    lolz

      #12.1 - Sun Jan 3, 2010 2:05 AM EST
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      Javabean88

      Bet this guy wishes his batch was finished earlier. I am just glad that some family on the way back from their holiday trip stopping for gas didn't get blown up. But hey--for once it isn't indiana this is happening in!

      • 1 vote
      Reply#13 - Sun Jan 3, 2010 8:11 AM EST
      harrykid

      Ihope they shot him, it would be the right thing to do.

        Reply#14 - Sun Jan 3, 2010 9:54 PM EST
        Erocka-1378144

        isn't meth supposed to make you all hyper and jittery? unless he was "comin down", but why not reach in the back and "re-up"? lol...

          Reply#15 - Mon Jan 4, 2010 6:26 PM EST
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