Off recent discussions but still political... A neighbor had his shed broken into yesterday and we actually saw the car with a young brown haired woman in it. Thought it was a family member until we saw the door busted out of the frame.
We called the owner and asked him to please call the sheriff. I met a deputy to explain what we saw and was trying to encourage increased patrols as we've never had any issues. This is at our Minnesota place. Nothing apparent was stolen, probably because we and a contractor doing road maintenance interrupted them...
But the big take away to me was I asked the deputy if maybe they were scoping this shed out to cook meth... He replied that doesn't happen anymore.... He went on to explain that there is so much meth and other drugs coming across the border now that it has gotten so cheap that locals don't cook it anymore as the ingredients are more expensive than they can buy the product for! And the consequences of being caught cooking are much more severe that buying/using so nobody does that anymore.
I guess Capitalism is at work in the illegal drug trade. Disgusting how porous the border is and that the cartels are running drugs all the way up to Northern Minnesota. Of course the main reaction by the POS Democrap governor here was to legalize Marijuana....