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Huh. Methamphetamine. Color me less sanguine about my take on that particular theory, then. (I thought meth was improbable.)

by Vivtek 15y ago

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klenwell 15y ago
I was skeptical of that theory, too. For a few reasons: 1. If it was motivated by some kind of short-term meth-lab operation, why trash the place? The minimal amount of planning it would have seemed to require to rent the place seems inconsistent with the orgy of destruction that ensued. 2. Having never used Airbnb, I'm assuming that Airbnb's booking procedures are strict enough to discourage the casual teenage tweaker. Is this not true? Why would a 19 year-old drug addict go to all the trouble to rent out a place on Airbnb when I'm sure there's plenty of suitable venues in the Bay Area with lower barriers to entry? Or does Airbnb really make the barrier that low? 3. If it was a meth lab operation, I'd expect this wasn't an isolated case. Any other cases of this happening with Airbnb? What I'd really like to know is what would the economics be behind a meth lab operation on this scale? Does it make economic sense? Was this planned as a short-term meth production enterprise that went out of control? Or was it something else? Still doesn't add up for me.
rdl 15y ago
Meth lab is IMO implausible (the neighbors would have complained to the police earlier; the place would have probably burned down too). Meth users having some kind of tweakfest is highly likely; you're fortunate to not live in the kind of place where this is common. In the trendy parts of SF, there are enough tweakers that this is an obvious possibility.
- Vivtek 15y ago
  A-haha, no, I live in the place where people are too poor even to do meth. (This is hyperbole: I know specifically that there are people here doing pot (which grows fine here), cocaine (which doesn't), and pills of diverse nature. Also, last year, witnessed some adroit customer service across the street involving oxycontin, an overdose of some sort, and assurances that the oxycontin was legit. Ah, capitalism in action.) We probably make your meth, which you tweak as you fly over us.

Huh. Methamphetamine. Color me less sanguine about my take on that particular theory, then. (I thought meth was improbable.)

by Vivtek 15y ago

Huh. Methamphetamine. Color me less sanguine about my take on that particular theory, then. (I thought meth was improbable.)

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klenwell 15y ago

I was skeptical of that theory, too. For a few reasons: 1. If it was motivated by some kind of short-term meth-lab operation, why trash the place? The minimal amount of planning it would have seemed to require to rent the place seems inconsistent with the orgy of destruction that ensued. 2. Having never used Airbnb, I'm assuming that Airbnb's booking procedures are strict enough to discourage the casual teenage tweaker. Is this not true? Why would a 19 year-old drug addict go to all the trouble to rent out a place on Airbnb when I'm sure there's plenty of suitable venues in the Bay Area with lower barriers to entry? Or does Airbnb really make the barrier that low? 3. If it was a meth lab operation, I'd expect this wasn't an isolated case. Any other cases of this happening with Airbnb? What I'd really like to know is what would the economics be behind a meth lab operation on this scale? Does it make economic sense? Was this planned as a short-term meth production enterprise that went out of control? Or was it something else? Still doesn't add up for me.

rdl 15y ago

Meth lab is IMO implausible (the neighbors would have complained to the police earlier; the place would have probably burned down too). Meth users having some kind of tweakfest is highly likely; you're fortunate to not live in the kind of place where this is common. In the trendy parts of SF, there are enough tweakers that this is an obvious possibility.

Vivtek 15y ago
A-haha, no, I live in the place where people are too poor even to do meth. (This is hyperbole: I know specifically that there are people here doing pot (which grows fine here), cocaine (which doesn't), and pills of diverse nature. Also, last year, witnessed some adroit customer service across the street involving oxycontin, an overdose of some sort, and assurances that the oxycontin was legit. Ah, capitalism in action.) We probably make your meth, which you tweak as you fly over us.