Breaking Bad... Southern Style

So if you've seen the show Breaking Bad you know that RVs can seem like a good place to cook meth.  Thanks a lot Hollywood as if my neighbors needed any help thinking up ways to do things illegally.  In theory an RV meth lab does sound pretty legit.  You know you can drive it off into the middle of nowhere and run everything off of a generator.  Once you've finished you just clean it out and park it in storage or your suburban driveway.  Okay sure, I understand how a screen writer can think this is a genius idea.  Let me just say that if something is on television there will always be someone who tries to make life imitate art, they will inevitably fail miserably.  

One morning after working an overnight shift I pulled into the RV park ready to let the dogs out and go to bed.  I was not expecting to see a plethora of cop cars and news vans haphazardly parked across from the park office and I was certainly not expecting to see cops wondering around in hazmat suits.  I knew what it all meant as soon as I saw them.  Someone had been watching way too much Breaking Bad, but apparently they had not been paying attention.  

Renting a stationary RV in an RV park right across from the office is not the same genius idea as buying a motor home and driving out into the middle of nowhere to cook meth.  Accidentally falling asleep and letting it all catch on fire isn't either.  Oh, and having your kids with you, yeah nice one genius.  If you happen to do all of these things and the police show up don't try and start a stand off with a small calibur handgun.  Just surrender, unless you really want that Darwin Award.  Let's face it, you certainly deserve it.  

I will say right now that no one was seriously injured or killed in the above incident and the news coverage was mercifully discreet about the whole thing.  Our genius went to jail and I assume his kids went to social services or to a relative.  By the time I woke up that afternoon, the trailer had been towed off by the police and there were no signs of what had gone on that morning.  Life went back to normal and so far this hasn't happened again.