Beautiful skies and weather polluted with Methamphetime fumes (Redding, Chico: apartment, rental)

[Ann Byfield]

I am visiting Chico. For the first few weeks I stayed lived with family. I felt like I was living in paradise (not the town the state of being). All of a sudden the beautiful skies, my living environment and my being was constantly being inundated with the acrid, obnoxious odor of Meth. At first I thought there was something wrong with my senses.

How can that many people be using something so outrageously stupid, toxic and dangerous (I've been struck by the odor in public restrooms, Costco, public parking lots, and more importantly I decided to rent an apartment-what a mistake!).

Convinced that it had to be an odd convergence of events, I went back to the stomping grounds of my family and the smell was gone. I spent a few days recuperating and then went back to my apartment. I was dismayed to find that the stench within my apartment is now enough to "gag a maggot".

I have reported the problem to the landlord, apartment manager, police and Better Business Bureau but everyone's take on the situation is that I am the problem (don't kill the messenger!)

Is the use of meth so common in Chico that it no longer warrants any reaction by inhabitants or police alike? Do the inhabitants of this pretty place assume that if those chronically exposed and get sick or die don't warrant notice or intervention because "everyone does meth"?

Or is the complacency of this community based upon a profit motivation. After all, the city's economy is based larger on college students. If you pull from the vast number of students in the United States looking for university where studying runs a far second to drug use; the resulting influx of money into the community surrounding the college must be support an awful lot of community leaders, organizations and legitimate and illigetimate organizations.

I was hoping to move here and I was going to look for a more permanent residence in the next few months. Now I'm worried that I will suffer from chronic toxic exposure and the criminal and bizarre behaviors chronic drug use inspires in those who use.

Could some longer term residents please explain the prevalent tolerance of toxi drug use to me? I'm sure there may be areas that are not so tolerant in Chico. I'd like to find out where they are. If I can understand it, perhaps I will be able to live with it. I hate to give up living near my family and enjoying the beautiful weatherand scenery of this lovely place.

I've lived other places in the midwest and western United States and I've never experienced drug use and tolerance to this degree anywhere else.

Ann

[BacktoBlue]

lmao

[Fontucky]

What does meth smell like?

[Brenda-by-the-sea]

Don't give up, your rights are being violated. If you can smell it, your brain, too, could be affected. Notify the apartment manager (and OWNER) in writing. Make sure your letters are dated. If nothing else, it should be justifiable cause for you to break your rental agreement.

Call the Redding office of the Burea of Narcotics Enforcement if you have concrete evidence of chronic use. (530) 224-4750.

[Roaddog]

Originally Posted by fontucky

what does meth smell like?

+1

[UB50]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

What does meth smell like?

Ha! That was my question too.

I understand meth has some sort of weird smell when you cook it but I have no idea what it smells like.

[Fontucky]

A meth lab definitely has a diSTINKtive odor. If that's what the OP is referring to, I'd be more worried about being blown to bits/burned to death than having a smelly odor in my local air. Cranked-out meth cooks aren't exactly known for their careful habits with volatile chemicals.

[Twinkle Toes]

We lived in a rental home while we were having our home built, and one night there was this loud BOOM and I got out of bed (this was like 2:30 in the morning) and ran to the window and all I could see was smoke! Minutes later the fire department showed up, then the cops. This was in a very nice area, but as it turns out, somebody was "cooking" and their lab blew up. Pretty scary stuff when it's directly across the street from you! I don't recall ever smelling anything though.

[UB50]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

A meth lab definitely has a diSTINKtive odor. If that's what the OP is referring to, I'd be more worried about being blown to bits/burned to death than having a smelly odor in my local air. Cranked-out meth cooks aren't exactly known for their careful habits with volatile chemicals.

So what does it smell like?

[Fontucky]

A combination of ether, tolulene, acetone, acid, sulphur and matches.