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look much better coloured in. As he brushed past me I saw he had a full back pack, the club colours inked in life- sized across his back. But his tattoos weren’t what had caught my eye about him. Instead it was his gaping maw. Scampi had a bad case of m eth mouth and from that and the chemical stink surrounding us it was obvious where we were . It wa s only a frigging meth lab. And this was Scroat’s idea of a safe house?
The big guy bear hugged and backslapped Scroat just inside the door , gave Bung a forearm to forearm handclasp , and then introduced himself to me as he shut and bolted the steel reinforced door behind us with a slightly slurred, but quite unforgettable, ‘Hi, I’m Scampi, I make meth and kill people.’
Meth amphetamine is dangerous stuff . And not just if you stick it up your nose.
There’s a number of recipes that people have come up with over the years. F or small quantities you can use the shake and bake or the Nazi process which seemed popular with amateurs . But for bulk , commercial production the red, white and blue me thod, either the cooked or cold- cooked versions , were the ones you went for .
As he led us along the hallway into the house it was clear that Scampi was cooking on an industrial scale. The place had been turned into a factory with a different stage of the process in each room.
Meth is seriously addictive gear , it’s one of the reasons dealers like it because once you’ve got your customers on the hook , they can’t help themselves but they will just have to keep coming back for more and more . But it has its downsides , to put it mildly, and meth mouth, a tendency to have your teeth simply fall out was just the start of it. As a rule, speed freaks were notorious for becoming paranoid, and at worst it often led on to full blown amphetamine psychosis.
But Scampi was different, at least for now. I think he must have just had a hit before we arrived, and a pretty big one at that since he was clearly on his up phase and still o n a bit of a rush.
It was what you took it for after all, those feelings of euphoria, increased libido, a lertness, concentration, enhanc ed energy, inflated self-esteem, self-confidence, sociability. And then off the scale into mania, the delusions of grandeur , hallucinatio ns, excessive feelings of power and invincibility , and full blown megalomania . All entertain ing enough, but then when you mixed them up with having to run a terrifyingly dangerous chemical process was when it got really interesting. It was no wonder that they reckoned the reason for most meth labs being discovered in the States was when the fire brigade got called to an explosion.
But that was before the down as it wore off, the irritability, the aggressiveness, the anxiety, the fatigue, the tremors, the depression, the headaches, the delusions, the repetitive and obsessive behaviours, and of course, the, paranoia, the fear, the figures you caught just out of the corner of your eye.
And that was when you became really dangerous, both to yourself and to those around you.
Worse, Scampi had become a tweake r , someone who used their cook ’ s perks to take the product to stay awake and keep on doing the job. The trouble was that inevitably it then got to you. As cook after cook around the world all eventually found to their cost, but no one ever learnt, once you started off down that road, given how addictive the shit was, you were never coming back.
Whatever the reason, and frankly I wished he would stop since the less I knew about what he was up to the better I felt about the situation, Scampi just wouldn’t shut up and insisted on giving us the tour as we walked through the house and towards the stairs.
Sandwiched between Bung up front and Scroat behind I couldn’t see either of their faces. But if I was a betting man I wouldn’t have had any money on either of them being impressed. If there was one thing above all else that the club was looking for and expected
The big guy bear hugged and backslapped Scroat just inside the door , gave Bung a forearm to forearm handclasp , and then introduced himself to me as he shut and bolted the steel reinforced door behind us with a slightly slurred, but quite unforgettable, ‘Hi, I’m Scampi, I make meth and kill people.’
Meth amphetamine is dangerous stuff . And not just if you stick it up your nose.
There’s a number of recipes that people have come up with over the years. F or small quantities you can use the shake and bake or the Nazi process which seemed popular with amateurs . But for bulk , commercial production the red, white and blue me thod, either the cooked or cold- cooked versions , were the ones you went for .
As he led us along the hallway into the house it was clear that Scampi was cooking on an industrial scale. The place had been turned into a factory with a different stage of the process in each room.
Meth is seriously addictive gear , it’s one of the reasons dealers like it because once you’ve got your customers on the hook , they can’t help themselves but they will just have to keep coming back for more and more . But it has its downsides , to put it mildly, and meth mouth, a tendency to have your teeth simply fall out was just the start of it. As a rule, speed freaks were notorious for becoming paranoid, and at worst it often led on to full blown amphetamine psychosis.
But Scampi was different, at least for now. I think he must have just had a hit before we arrived, and a pretty big one at that since he was clearly on his up phase and still o n a bit of a rush.
It was what you took it for after all, those feelings of euphoria, increased libido, a lertness, concentration, enhanc ed energy, inflated self-esteem, self-confidence, sociability. And then off the scale into mania, the delusions of grandeur , hallucinatio ns, excessive feelings of power and invincibility , and full blown megalomania . All entertain ing enough, but then when you mixed them up with having to run a terrifyingly dangerous chemical process was when it got really interesting. It was no wonder that they reckoned the reason for most meth labs being discovered in the States was when the fire brigade got called to an explosion.
But that was before the down as it wore off, the irritability, the aggressiveness, the anxiety, the fatigue, the tremors, the depression, the headaches, the delusions, the repetitive and obsessive behaviours, and of course, the, paranoia, the fear, the figures you caught just out of the corner of your eye.
And that was when you became really dangerous, both to yourself and to those around you.
Worse, Scampi had become a tweake r , someone who used their cook ’ s perks to take the product to stay awake and keep on doing the job. The trouble was that inevitably it then got to you. As cook after cook around the world all eventually found to their cost, but no one ever learnt, once you started off down that road, given how addictive the shit was, you were never coming back.
Whatever the reason, and frankly I wished he would stop since the less I knew about what he was up to the better I felt about the situation, Scampi just wouldn’t shut up and insisted on giving us the tour as we walked through the house and towards the stairs.
Sandwiched between Bung up front and Scroat behind I couldn’t see either of their faces. But if I was a betting man I wouldn’t have had any money on either of them being impressed. If there was one thing above all else that the club was looking for and expected
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