Two Arkansas chemistry professors arrested for allegedly making meth

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Two Arkansas chemistry professors have been arrested and accused of making methamphetamine, according to the Clark County Sheriff's Department. And no, neither of them is named Walter White.

Terry David Bateman, 45, and Bradley Allen Rowland, 40, both associate professors of chemistry at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, were taken into custody Friday afternoon, the sheriff's department said in a news release. They face charges of manufacturing methamphetamine and using drug paraphernalia.

A university science center was closed October 8 after someone reported a chemical odor, Tina Hall, the university's associate vice president of marketing and communications, said in a statement.

Walter White was the lead character in AMC's "Breaking Bad," which aired from 2008 to 2013. The show told the story of White, a high school chemistry professor portrayed by Bryan Cranston, who turned to manufacturing crystal meth to secure his family's financial future after he was diagnosed with lung cancer.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/16/us/arkansas-professors-arrested-meth/index.html

[lunatica]

1. Breaking Bad.

I looked and it isn’t The Onion.

[WheelWalker]

2. Reveals a clear poverty of ambition.

[exboyfil]

3. I loved the scene when Hank was going

through the glassware in the Chemistry lab noting those items best used for meth were missing.

"Meth heads love to brew in this baby."

What a great show.

[TexasTowelie]

4. OMG!

They closed the science center because somebody smelled a chemical odor?

[2naSalit]

6. chemicals are toxic.

When people cook it in apartments/houses, they have to be decontaminated.

[TexasTowelie]

8. I know about the toxic nature of making meth.

I was poking fun at the fact that they closed down a science center because of chemical odors. I never would have received my degree if they closed down the science center where I went to college any time one of the students got a strong whiff of something.

[2naSalit]

9. Oh.

I think might have read that an a weird way and obviously didn't get it.

[TexasTowelie]

10. I would probably be alerting the authorities if I didn't smell a chemical odor.

Where I went to school the physics department was on the first floor so that was okay. The biology department was on the second floor (nothing like the smell of formaldehyde in the morning), then the chemistry department was on the third floor--with nearly 100,000 chemicals in the stockroom there was definitely a chemical odor around. The chemistry department was also on the fourth floor, but that is where we had equipment for physical chemistry, the nmr machine, and water distillation units were located so the odor wasn't as noticeable. The toxic waste barrels were located underneath the auditorium on the first floor.

[Initech]

5. Amateurs. Where's Walter White when you need him?

[Ilsa]

7. I was so hoping to read that it was Ouachita Baptist University.

That's Sarah Huckster Sanders' alma mater.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Ditto.