Meth, blowtorch, gunpowder -- a bad mix

[Liberal_in_LA]

Meth, blowtorch, gunpowder -- a bad mix

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San Mateo County sheriff

John Blanchard
Some might say that smoking meth with a blowtorch near a container of gunpowder is ill-advised. Some will try anyway.

John Blanchard, 65, is among them, San Mateo County sheriff's deputies say.

Deputies called to a fire Friday afternoon in a storage yard in the unincorporated community of Princeton near the Half Moon Bay Airport found Blanchard standing outside a camper that he had parked there illegally, sheriff's Lt. Ray Lunny said.

Investigators determined that the fire on the 200 block of Yale Avenue had been started by a defective propane blowtorch that Blanchard had been using to smoke methamphetamine, Lunny said.

Blanchard left the blowtorch on a dryer, causing a nearby container of gunpowder to explode, said Steve Wagstaffe, chief deputy district attorney.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/crime/detail?entry_id=73845#ixzz120c6XnfO

[brewens]

1. Then the explosion blew the lid off the dryer, the lid landed on

shelf where he had a paint can stored, knocked it off the shelf and it landed on his head. He ran outside with the paint can stuck on his head and passed out from the fumes. Paramedics were able to cut the paint can off and revive him. At this time they are not able to say if he was already brain damaged or the paint fumes caused it.

[Historic NY]

2. A Darwin candidate.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. he's sixtyfive. Probably already has kids, grandkids

[Historic NY]

4. generational entertainment....to come.