The Midwest is an interesting place. The mask of politeness hides the cancerous tumor that is eating at society there. Meth. It’s what’s for dinner. And apparently being cooked up at a local Tulsa, OK, Wal-Mart.
I grew up where they shot the Oscar-nominated film Winter’s Bone, and the writer of the story lives in the small Missouri town where I was born. Within every conversation about the film, people on the coasts ask an inevitable question: Is it really like that there? Well, sure. Why wouldn’t it be? It’s like people there asking if you see celebrities, high speed chases and gang violence living in L.A. It’s the way of the world…
But–and this is a huge but–this Oklahoma woman takes the cake. Rummaging around the store for over 6 hours, it seemed that she was doing a little more than Christmas shopping. Six. Hours.
The woman, whose identity hasn’t been revealed, was taking the necessary chemicals to create her concoction in a different area of the store–add a dash of this, a pinch of that and you’ve got your Wal-Mart variety of meth.
You just have to love that this woman was roaming around the Wal-Mart store for six hours. And nobody noticed anything? I’m aching for details. Did she go from the pharmacy area, to the household cleaner aisles, to the automotive department for a quality gas can? Then back, over and over again? What the heck was the Loss Prevention team doing in the back? They were clearly aware that the woman had been in the store for six hours, because they offered such information to police.
No explosions, but one police officer did burn his hand on her meth mix.
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