Man Burns Himself While Trying To Extract Methamphetamine From His Urine

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There was a scientific method to Daniel Zeiszler's madness when he tried to extract methamphetamine from his own urine, after smoking the illegal street drug last September in his South San Francisco hotel room.

But Zeiszler's experiment went dangerously awry when he spilled some solvent on himself, then lit a cigarette while he contemplated his next move, starting a fire that burned his right hand and arm.

The hotel was evacuated. Firefighters were summoned. So were hazardous materials experts.

Zeiszler, a 22-year-old employee of a San Francisco recycling depot, landed in jail.

Zeiszler, who pleaded no contest to a charge of manufacturing methamphetamine in November, was sentenced Friday to five months in prison -- with credit for time served -- and three years' probation by San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Robert Foiles.

"Did you know you can get methamphetamine from urine?" asked an incredulous Steve Wagstaffe, San Mateo County chief deputy district attorney, in an interview after the sentencing. "The methodology this guy used would work, but it would take bottles and bottles of urine -- not one void of a bladder."

Make that gallons of urine, said William Johnston, Zeiszler's attorney, who described his client's attempt to reclaim excreted methamphetamine from his urine as a "really, really silly" move.


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Horrible yet hilarious...:rofl:

:crazy:

This guy will probably avoid the crowd by going to play Pebble Beach during the next thunder storm.

You made me laugh out loud......VERY funny, and so very right on the money.....

Thank Darwin for survival of the fittest!


:rofl:

stuff but this one takes the cake

:eyes:

"Watch this!"

:-)