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This reminded me of a random story from about 5 or 6 years ago. At burning man I started talking to this guy who claimed to be an undercover FBI agent. He told
by reidjs 4y ago
This reminded me of a random story from about 5 or 6 years ago.
At burning man I started talking to this guy who claimed to be an undercover FBI agent. He told me they used mass spec to look for big time meth dealers. They would scrape up some dirt around suspected camps and run it through a mass spec to check for higher than average levels of the drug. Maybe he was just screwing with me, but he seemed sincere.
- rnk 4y agoI'd think any homeless type camp would have all kinds of drugs around it in the dirt. This is as useful as when the cops used to take people's cash by doing checks for cocaine. Guess what, they pretty much always test positive for cocaine (90% in 2009, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/cocaine-on-money-drug-found-on-90-of-us-bills https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/cocaine-o...). Also true for drug tests on people in some cases (https://johnhelms.attorney/police-still-using-inaccurate-drug-field-tests/ https://johnhelms.attorney/police-still-using-inaccurate-dru...). I'd believe that some law enforcement wants to have tests that almost always test positive, just like drug dog checking just does what the handler wants, because it is convenient to get people arrested when they want to.
- Projectiboga 4y agoHe was talking about burning man specifically, I believe.
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- hungryforcodes 4y agoNo, read again.
- hungryforcodes 4y agoNot sure why the down vote. The OP was talking about a supposed undercover FBI agent he MET at Burning Man. The subject after was not about Burning Man.