They are for medicine. They are for medicine. Expired tablets someone opened to play with Wow... yeah oh check me out i'm at the top of the list what do you mean 'blister packs'? aren't blisters little skin irritations? how will taking tons of pills solve that? maybe antihistamines? i do not know but still, rob, i think you should elaborate it is also interesting to note that i have been on the cockeyed calendar for three years in a row (joey jakubowski, november 18) but still have not purchased one. i have no excuse for this behavior. Yes they did swallow them all, but first they put them in a condom to smuggle them across the border. . Somebody is going to cook up some meth. They could be used by junkies, or perhaps by a drug lab. Sudafed is used often to make illegal drugs. yes Purchaser tore open all the packets to refill a pill bottle - so the pills would be readily available rather than having to wrestle with the blisters packs when the pills are needed most. meth lab Allergy meds? Someone was getting high or getting meth ingredia. they were used to produce meth. clearly they are setting up a mobile meth lab in the parking lot. Since weight and space are two very important considerations when building a mobile meth lab, it's best to liberate your ingredients from their bulky packaging. Obviously they were too excited about making meth to bother finding a trash can for their excess packaging. I think someone has an allergy and took an allergy pill, then realised they were allergic to allergy pills so took another pill thus creating an infinite logic loop that either ended when they ran out of allergy pills or they're dead. Meth cooker. Those are allergy pills. "complete allergy" is the keyword for this one. They were all popped out for methamphetamine production purposes, I'm guessing. -Helena 1. Blister packs are hard to open, and annoying to mess with if you are taking the medication daily. They may have emptied the pills from the blister packs into another container for easier access. 2. It appears that this may be an allergy medication, and if it has a decongestant, it may be pseudoephedrine, which is used in the manufacture of meth. So they could have been trying to get rid of any identifying information that would be accompanying the pills in case they got caught with them on the way to their meth lab. Sudafed can be used in Meth production. Someone was gathering supplies... If the pills contained pseudoephedrine, then they had been stolen from the store and put in a large container more convenient than blister packs so they could be used to make meth later. If they didn't contain Sudafed, they were probably just put in a bottle to make for easier use later. Someone emptied the pills into a pill bottle so they will be easier to get at when the person needs them. My wife does this, but she doesn't litter the blister packs on the ground like this person did. Space aliens trying to alleviate the symptoms of Earth Hayfever? What was the pollen count on the day in question? No, they probably hate blister packs as much as the rest of us and dumped all the pills into their old pill bottle or some nice pill bottle they keep in their purse or on their person. Or they just dumped them all in their pocket so they wouldn't look so suspicious on their way to the meth lab :-) taking the sudafed to make meth. Probably someone needing supplies to make meth. Looks like someone was preparing to make a batch of meth Someone getting materials for Meth production These meds can be used in the production of meth-amphetamines. These were either "free trial packs" or shoplifted, and someone just wanted the pills themselves. my innocent mind says perhaps someone was stocking a purse pack with their allergy pills. the more suspicious part of me thinks - crystal meth supplies? As far as I know (which isn't too much) allergy medicine doesn't contain ephedrine for methanphetamine production but it may. More likely is someone with an OCD like urge to carry the pills in a bottle rather than in the blister packs. KJ Meth smurfs Cold and allergy pills are used in making meth. This many blister packs suggest this might be litter from a drug maker, or his trash was torn open. Perhaps they opened and disposed of all the blister packs here, so that it wouldn't be in thier home trash, and possible arose suspicion if it was found near the meth lab. The pills were harvested to make crystal meth. Druggie really bad at theft of products necessary to manufacture meth. Pills from allergy medicine removed from blister pack for easier ingestion later. stolen sudafed for making crystal meth First the pill bottles now blister packs, I think you might have a problem. Have yo looked into therapy or a clinc. Just kidding if someone did take all these pills you will probly find them there already, if not in a Hospital in a coma. Someone was having an allergic reaction and overdosed on benadryl Meth. Blister tabs are from Rite-Aid Complete Allergy Medicine, containing Diphenhydramine HCl, 25 mg. This is used not to make Meth, as other posters have stated, but for an over-the-counter high. Someone removed the pills from the blister packs so they could take them all at the same time. You should try to find out what kind of medication was in the blister packs. If it is Sudafed or the like, someone was making drugs. Speed or meth I think. -Josh They took the pills out and put them in another container. Meth. They were making meth. Meth production making meth Given our current strict laws on cold medicine, I think it's best to assume they're making meth. A little something for the road. These are probably from headache or allergy medication that somebody regularly took in their car. They took them two at a time (hence the pairing), and the emptied them out of their car all at once. Stolen allergy meds, popped the pills out to carry easier. Probably Sudafed = meth supplies. Are these pseudoephedrine packages? It is used to make crystal meth and for this purpose must be obtained in large quantities. probably expired pills that were bought as an accessory for filming a movie\ shooting a picture, probably a school project. somebody bought the pills and tore them open to put them into baggies to sell them as 'fake' drugs! Some cold medications are known to have chemicals used to make mind altering substances. Odds are that someone was planning to use the pills to make a more powerful sedative. This is why many over the counter cold medicines are actually kept behind the counter, to eliminate people getting thirty packs at the same store-Frazier Looks like someone was makin' some METH! They took the pills to make meth. Sad really A Target employee with a bad allergy problem bought a box of allergy medication. As soon as he buys the pills he breaks them out of the packaging all at once and puts them into a new container that can be easily accessed. His bag with the empty blister packs did not make it to the garbage can due to a windy day. meth manufacturers were here. slate of masterslate.org Okay, this sounds far-fetched, but truth is stranger than fiction: someone needed to make a prop bottle of colorful pills, either for a costume/movie/play or to defraud someone. So they pop the allergy meds out of the packs and put them in a pill bottle. The cynic says this was a drug dealer looking to scam buyers by selling them allergy meds as Ecstasy; the ingenue says this was for a Halloween costume. Probably purchased to make meth. Someone has a blister on their foot which they want to lance; however, to prevent infection they want to do the procedure correctly the first time. These blister packs were used by this person to practice their blister-lancing technique. the tablets in these packs were used to make meth meth lab supplies looks like they wanted to keep the pills in an easier to take bottle, so they took the time to empty all of the blisters at once...but why they did this outside...perhaps they like the cold? Perhaps, someone had a bottle of the same medicine, and opened up all the blister packs, and put them inside the empty medicine bottle... Opened up the packs and put them into a bottle. someone's looking for a golden ticket. Making meth... they put all the pills in another container to sell to someone I hope they expired and the store flushed them and somehow lost control of the trash. If not, someone won't be sneezing for quite awhile. they're making meth. one word. meth They took them out of those to put them into a bottle that's easier to carry in a purse. meth lab Let's get high on cold pills!!! Looks like someone was trying to make meth - Buji Someone had a reeealy bad allergy. Or maybe the remains of a low budget meth lab. they probably bought the pills in packets, but put them into a bottle so someone, say, and elderly person with arthritis, could more easily access them. why they dumped them on the ground is beyond me. I saw it on a Frontline documentary on PBS. It's called "Smurfing", where meth addicts are given money, to purchase Pseudoephedrince(sp?). It's a legal cold medication which is used to manufacture methaphetamine. Since you can't go into a store and purchase 100 boxes of cold medication, you send out 20 "Smurfs" to each buy 5 packets. The packets are typically harvested from their foil packets in the praking lot I understand. -Bret, San Diego Did anyone say meth yet? oh oh, looks like someone's going to cook up some meth! I don't know... Ask Veronica Mars! YAY! The fun of creating meth! Woo! What a classy lifestyle! someone's cookin some meth! Since it's allergy medication, it probably contains pseudo-ephedrine, which can be used to cook methamphetamines. Someone either bought or stole the meds, and paranoically thought it would be less conspicuous to carry around a mess of loose pills than the regular packs. someone's making meth!! A habitual user of the medicine dumped the empty blister packs that had accumulated inside their car. if the packs contain pseudoephedrine (like sudafed) then they were probably stolen. pseudoephedrine is an ingredient in methamphetamine. Meth lab No, stolen medicle likely tranfered to a more travel friendly zip log baggie. somebody's making meth. Halloween Candy? Drug dealer looking to bilk potential customers? I'm not sure why they're torn into twin pairs, specifically, but the blister packs were almost certainly full of cough medicine psuedo-ephedrine, and were purchased (or much more likely, stolen) by someone who will use the pills to make methamphetamine. My guess is that there is a meth lab hidden somewhere in that Target. It involves meth, I bet. meth head #1: Teenager looking to get high / commit suicide. #2: A very allergic person cleaning out their glovebox. someone needs to make some meth =) Someone is harvesting ephedrine tablets to use in the making of methamphetamine. Perhaps they were using a mobile lab and started their cook right in the vehicle after purchasing their tablets. Jeff in Louisville nuts Preparation for a phrmaceutical drugs scam? these could be generic allergy pills that someone unpackaged and sold as something else. This is rather grim, but crazy that you found it. When methamphetamines (meth) is made, they use cold medicine to start from. Cold medicine comes in blister packs. Blister packs arent a part of the recipie for meth. I believe they are a dump from the beginining of a meth cook. meth meth lab to continue on what i and many others guessed... the packs are in groups of 2 to look less suspicious, sadly someone forgot to tell them that you kinda have to dispose of them...well... NOT BUNCHED TOGETHER IN A PARKING LOT. jeeze o pete!! Meth lab ingredients Meth lab ingredients meth lab Some enterprising chemists taking the first steps toward manufacturing illicit drugs. meth Its those damn teenagers taken a bunch of cough medicine and walkin around target all zonked out of their minds. Getting ingredients together for a big ol' batch of Meth? Used to make illicet drugs. Removing from packaging keeps from getting tracked back to store and purchase. for making meth, duh Is someone making meth from the pseudophedrine? Sold to Iran in packs of 100 You asked..."What happened? Did someone ingest all the pills? " No, silly, this is Target's garden where they grow their allergy pills. You just came across a patch that had not ripened yet. The tablets were popped out by someone with a drug lab. They are probably used for making meth or ecstasy or something. Somebody is making meth. I'm from Iowa so we know this stuff. drug dealers took them out so they could put them in 1 big bag to transport and sell easier. You were just a little late. I young boy named Jack had just traded his family cow for these 'magic beans', and he planted them all right there in the Target parking lot. They grew to an enourmouse beanstalk, and he was able to climb up. Once there he found a Goose that laid Golden eggs. (Jack was unaware at this point that eggs were capable of having sex). He thought he might try to snag a Golden egg or two, but then he realized that his toes were missing. A voice jkept telling him to move to the left, but he could never identify the source and he did not know who Toothy Left was - and this made him very angry. Meanwhile, the Target Manager showed up for work and was rather peeved that a large beanstalk was growing in the parking lot, so he went to the home and garden section and got some industrial weed killer and used it on the beanstalk. The beanstalk was killed and taken away, and Jack remained above to be laid by the Golden Goose, who welcomed the change. Manager and clean up crew just missed cleaning up the packs that the magic beans came in. ......It was either that, or Jack and the manager were using the medication for a meth lab..... Someone stole a few boxes of the medicine popped out all of the pills and ditched the blisterpacks. (They ditched the blisterpacks because they don't want them showing up in the trash, the pills are probably going to be crushed and extracted in the preparation for meth). A woman carrying her things home forgot to double bag. A hole appears at the bottom just big enough for the packs to fall through. After weeks of weathering, the outer cardboard box dissolves away. The glossy shine of the pills catch a bird's eye, and the bird thinks to itself, "Hmm. I think the children will like these." The bird then pecked the plastic away and carried them all back to the nest. From Jake in FL Super duper dare done by super stupid guy Looks like someone making meth. Cranksters, dude. Those were ephedrine laced allergy pills. chuck norris had a headache chuck norris had a headache Looks like someone is making meth. The main ingredient in most allergy medications is pseudoephedrine, which is a main component of crystal meth. Well, I don't think anyone else will consider this, but it was probably to make meth. - Einstein 1. Replace contents of Nerds® bought at Target with allergy meds. 2. Sue Target for faulty Nerds® 3. Profit! Cold/Allergy medicine contains a meth ingredient; this was probably tossed by a mobile cooker. I would be predisposed to beleive meth users litter, unlike doctors. Many states are controlling the sale of over the counter medicine of this nature. Ephedrine -> Meth? An elephant with a runny nose. Probably someone gathering ingredients for a meth lab. No. But someone did get their hands on a hell of a lot of raw ingredients for meth. Perhaps someone couldn't wait to get the pills home to the meth lab. -Sean meth lab Ninja attack My guess is kids, (or burnout adults) taking the pills to get high. My friends used to do it a few years ago with Corticidin. Now people younger than me call it Triple C (Corticidin Cold and Cough) or Skittling. Umm... looks like someone was getting the ingrediants for making methamphetamines. Probably after shop lifting them from the Target. Alergy pills can be used to make meth. They didn't want to throw away all the wrappers in their trash at home because it would look suspicious to the garbage-man. Crystal Meth lab, they used the pills to make drugs. Meth Probably using it to get high, or to make metamphetamine Methinks you found evidence of illegal drug making. I can't quite tell from your photos, but if the blisters once contained Sudafed or some other pill with pseudoephedrine in it, then it is probable that some amatuer chemist used all the pills to manufacture crystal meth. No, I'm not at drug user, I know that from articles such as this one: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092500926.html Somebody is going to make some drugs out of that pseudoephedrine containing substance. Supplies for the meth lab? Is that Allergy medicine? If so, I think it was a collection for a meth lab. they were samples from the target. Free sample blister packs? How could I resist? makings of the meth. <<>> Someone had a prescription for 90 of the allergy medication. But it was an older person, or someone who'd have trouble opening the blister packs. So someone (in the pharmacy or outside) opened them all up for him and put them in a bottle. Why they dumped the blister packs in a little pile, I dunno. -M (pharmacy tech.) "Complete Allergy Medication" is Diphenhydramine, not pseudoephedrine. No meth lab here. Most likely opened for convenience sake. http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=75241&catid=12203&aid=333840&aparam=TRqUAxYk8bo-lI9g85Rk3.dyxyYxRmvnNg -M Hard to tell what it is, but it says "Complete Allergy Complex" on the back. I suspect it's an OTC drug; prescription blister-packed drugs are usually pretty plain. Unless, hey, in CA do you guys have to have a prescription for pseudoephedrine? We do in OR now. I think either someone bought a box of allergy meds and popped them all out for use in making meth (why did they do it there? maybe they were waiting for their ride.) or the pharmacy, possibly due to their $4 generics program, had to pop them out of the pill packs and put them into one of the standard bottles and someone just missed the trash can. A less sinister version is that an allergy sufferer bought the pills and, while waiting for something/smoking/talking on the phone outside popped all the pills out and put them in a pill organizer or carrying case that he/she usually uses to keep his/her pills on hand. Assuming that the medicine contains Ephedra, it's possible that they were using the pills in the manufacture of illegal drugs. let's make meth! A group of schoolchildren were all on a field trip when suddenly, every one of them sneezed. The quick-thinking teacher took them to Target and passed out the medicine...but I guess she didn't learn not to litter. Suicide :( looks like some one is making meth. Severe allergic reaction to Sea Monkeys METH LAB!!! They unpacked for easy concealment. since it is allergy medication, I would guess that it was someone who stole it to make meth Kenya in Quebec, Canada Ephedrine.... someone is making meth Someone did drugs. A LOT of drugs. Drive-thru Meth lab, restocking on supplies. Some types of allergy medicine contain chemicals that are useful in illegal methamphetamine production. I'm not sure why someone would open all the pills and discard the wrapping in a public place, but meth isn't exactly renowned for sharpening anyone's mental faculties. Either that, or it was a "Litterers Anonymous" meeting, having a moment of regression as they dose themselves against allergies before going to clean up a park. meth Though I can't read the name of the medicine in the last image, I saw that it was a "complete allergy medicine". Allergy medicines often have pseudoephedrine (OTC nasal decongestant) or ephedrine (OTC bronchial dilator). Either one of these chemicals can be easily converted to methamphetamine with a handful of common household items. Instructions can be found across the Internet. I suspect they were running around to all the local stores buying up packages of this medicine and condensing the pills in another container. It arouses suspicions if you buy 20 boxes of cold medicine at the same store. P.S. I am a chemist of the legitimate variety, not a meth cook. Obviously we missed the hayfever convention/seminar! (yes we did have the olympics in SLC - they do exist) -- LV in SLC Well...*someone*'s allergic to shellfish, obviously. Someone was up to the nefarious activity of cooking meth. meth I've heard that some over the counter medications can be used in manufacturing meth. Perhaps whatever was contained in the blister packs was one of those medications. depends on what it is. some over the counter drugs, like sudafed, can be made into drugs. pill poppers making crystal meth. the packets are torn into pairs to make it easier to remove the pills. Someone stole them and is probably making meth with them. Probably took lithium batteries, too. Shoulda reported it to store security and the cops. Harvesting pills containing pseudoephedrine for the manufacturing of methamphetamines. Meth lab probably the blister packs are for a medication that contains psuedofed, which is used in the production of meth (stolen) meth packets from psudophedrene presumably... used to manufature meth along w/ brake fluid and all other good stuff, disgusting It's to make meth. They were some sort of allergy pill with pseudoephedrine- crackheads crush 'em and make them into meth - carrie holden =) Looks like someone was using the pills to manufacture some sort of drug for recreational use and just dumped the packages Allergy medicine?? They're prepping to cook for a Meth Lab! someone is making Meth, the king of all drugs Obviously someone was trying to find out "how much is inside," a tonne of empty blister packs. People who make crystal meth often do that. They remove the pills from the boxes to get past security, and then they ditch the blister packs because the size of the blisters is far larger than the individual pills, and the pills have to come out anyway. We often found similar things in the grocery store I used to work in. Someone's cooking up drugs. If the medicine contained pseudoephedrine, looks like someone's cooking up a little meth. Someone probably stole the pills and moved them to a more easily concealed container. Although difficult, it looks like the back label states they were for allergy medication (containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine) - a key ingredient in the production of methamphetamine. If this is the case, the pills were most likely taken from the packaging and placed in a less conspicuous recepitcal for easier/stealthier transport. A very bored, crazed child elected to rip open all the packs. It's fun. then s/he buried all the pills in the dirt. genius! Allergy meds? Pseudoephedrine can be used to create methamphetamine. I think you stumbled upon a crime scene. Somebody's making crystal meth! Must be pseudoephedrine. For making teh drugs. Two words - Meth Manufacturer If they contained psuedoephedrine, they were used in making meth. Prolly had different people buying packs of it and bring it to them in the parking lot. What happened is Rob changed the name from Detective Challenge (awesome) to Detective School (lame) someone's using over-the-counter decongestants to make meth... so if you see news of an explosion nearby, don't be too surprised :\ someone is making crystal meth This person is allergic to Christmas trees and had to go pick one out for the family, this is preventative maintenance They were having one of those contests where there is a jar of pills and people try to guess how many pills there are in the jar, and the closest guess wins them all. The blister packs were torn into twin pairs and left in multiple "swarms" like that (I assume there are more in other places since it does not look like just those blister packs would have yielded enough pills to make the contest fun) so entrants in the contest would not be able to cheat by counting the empty blister packs. hmmm decongestants....someone cooking Meth Behind target? No idea Hovercraft Looks like someone has stolen cold pills to make methamphetamine. meth! meth lab getting supplies an addict stole them and then ingested them all before the police could catch him and in the process scattered them everywhere...yeah... They were out of date so they were discarded. purchase psuedomorphne pills and discard casings on premesis before takign the pills home to make meth. They stole the medication and then removed the pills so they could cook meth. meth It's allergy medicine, which is a main ingredient for meth. someone stole this, popped the pills out and dropped the cumbersome packaging. DXM? A drug taken from the ingesting of multiple cold medications? They bought a bunch of antihistamines to make crack! (or something like that) meth heads Someone stole alot of allergy medicine, because of their ephedrine content to be used in making meth. What sort of pills were they? Perhaps they were using the ingredients in the pills to make other substances, e.g., meth. meth.......they were cold pills....and somebody's making meth allergy pills'll knock or trip ya out... desperate druggie? Supplies for your friendly neighborhood meth lab. melissa in reno meth It's a new form of Reese's Cups, Reese's Blisters! Some 11 year olds went nuts on them in the parking lot. can you say precursor to meth You can get a good, cheap high on alcohol and antihistamines. Take the word of one who's been there. suicide? meth? High School kids before a dance. Happens all the time. pill-heads! From splatman: Someone had a horrible hay fever and, took a lotta pills and still coffed up sum really yucky gunk drug addict using cold pills to make meth stole it from Target and only needed the pills and tossed the rest. Somebody who hates those blister pack containers went through and broke all the pills out and put them into a traditional pill bottle. Better yet, the person paid someone else to do this for them so as to avoid having to touch those wretched things. The aliens hatched. It's methamphetamine time! San Francisco voters decided they did not want to pay for a Pro team. The first step in getting some meth out on the street. Two words: meth lab Looks like allergy meds that someone is planning to turn into Crystal Meth methlab someone opened them all up and put them in a bottle to make cops less suspicios of their meth lab Time to make the meth. The packs were past their expiration date. Tossed outside, the pills burst from their packs and engaged in a mating frenzy. Now they have burrowed beneath the earth for their long gestation. New pills will emerge and be harvested in the spring. filling a prescription the hard way meth lab Someone wanted the allergy pills for the Pseudoephedrine inside so they could make Crystal Meth in their bathtub meth lab at home. Complete allergy medicine, I'm guessing with a dcongestant; so someone's cooking meth. Otherwise someone just ikes to keep the pills on hand without the bulky packaging, like a old 'scrip bottle. Someone probably did ingest all the pills. Maybe a druggie. somebody's been making crank!! Since they're allergy meds, I betcha they had pseudoephedrine in them. . . It's the meth maker. I would be willing to be that someone popped all the pills out of the packs, put them in some other form of storage (blank pill bottle, baggie, etc) and tried to pass them off as ecstasy. Its for making meth. Immediately downsizing the packaging before taking the raw ingredients to the meth lab. someone's making crystal meth Someone refilled a pill bottle. Looks like it was generic benadryl or loratidine, which rules out meth cookery. Can you say "Meth Lab?" Sure, I knew you could. Transformers need relief from allergies. Due to their large size they must consume many times the suggested dosage. It looks like they may have also had a bottle of pop, ingested via the red straw. Meth lab. Buyer bought as much cold medecine containing pseudoephedrine as possible, then opened all the pills and dumped the blister packs. The pills are then combined to be later crushed and processed in the production of meth. Meth lab creation Meth lab alert! Someone just had a bunch of empties in their backpack, or purse, and wanted to get rid of them in a civilly irresponsible fashion. -Bdogg Meth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone was making crystal meth in the area someone stole a bunch of sudafed to cook into meth. easier to carry just the pills rather than carrying the boxes. Dude, when you've got bad allergies, you'll do anything. they belong to the skool dispensary somebody bought these pills to sell as fake drugs to ravers. they took them out of the packaging so that ravers won't suspect they were being duped! if the pills come in packs of two, then it could be just a single person (or more). if not, then there were probably two or three people and the pills were split into pairs for faster unpackaging. -ton (from alltooflat.com) Big Foot has an allergy. Brien Someone is making drugs. No, they made Meth in a mobile lab. meth Local meth lab? Yes. Someone hates blister packs with a vile passion and thus opened them all to stick in their pill bottle as soon as they left the store. Used em to make crack. These were no doubt allergy pills with pseudoephedrine -- a key ingredient in crystal meth production. You can pretty much figure it out from there. DRUG ABUSE Somebody makin' meth. popin pills = meth Ooooh, somebody has a meth lab! Possibly one of the new-fangled ones that fit in the trunk of a car. Allergy medicine packets... were probably removed from blister packs to small bags for easier transport and used to make meth. The pills were stolen and used for a meth lab. Meth lab! Meth lab! meth. Meth heads strike again... Pharming party Ever heard of Skittling? Looks like someone opened up the packs to get the pills out to make meth. hmm....some allergy medicines can be used as an ingredient for methamphetamine...but on a lighter note they probably just had a really, really runny nose... theft and run hmm....some allergy medicines can be used as an ingredient for methamphetamine...but on a lighter note they probably just had a really, really runny nose... meth baking? Scores of empty allergy meds = meth production. Since it's allergy medication, and they're all gone, I'd assume some sort of meth production. Not sure why I'd de-blisterize them next to the store. Maybe an employee is stealing pills and dumping the empty packets outside the store. That or goblins. One of the two. The pills are being used to make Meth. I believe that the blister packs were emptied to make crystal meth. Somebody is making meth from allergy pills containing psuedoeffidrine. Supplies for a Meth lab i kept pooping out my suppository Meth lab no doubt about it! Pills were popped out in preparation to cook them into crystal meth. maybe someone was making maracas outside target and all they had to use for the little shakey bits were the pills If it is psuedophedrine, or something like it, it might have been used to make meth. gotta be someone making meth! Did the pills contain ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or any of the other amphetamine related precursors? IF so, this is evidence of crime, related to the manufactur of Speed or Ice! Go Sacremento! Looks like someone making crystal meth to me, using the allergy meds as the precursor drug. Some over-the-counter allergy medications contain components that can be used in the manufacture of illegal street drugs, such as methamphetamine. Possibly someone purchased the pills and removed them from their packaging to make them easier (and less conspicuous) to carry. Somone was harvesting Pills to make meth Meth The pills were likely shoplifted from the store, then removed from the packaging. Since the pills were an allergy medication, which probably contains ephedra, it's very likely that they were used to make meth. Shoplifting large quantities of pills from multiple stores is sometimes referred to as "smurfing." The pills were purchased for their ephedrine content and will (or have been) cooked up into methamphetamines. Looks like somebody with the sniffles cleaned out their car... meth Someone was making meth in their basement meeeeeeeeeeeeth If one of the ingredients was pseudoephedrine, I would suspect someone tryig their hand at meth production, especially if they were tablets. Someone intends to cook up methamphetamine starting from the ephedrine or pseudoephedrine in the allergy medication. He or she has cleverly disposed of the excessive packaging by leaving it on the ground. Obviously smurfs for a meth lab. meth lab looks to me that someone is using all of the PSE to make some meth, man I doubt it was just one person. I think it was two kids eating them all for a dirty DXM high. Kids do things like that since they can't buy beer. One time when I was walking with a friend in the woods we found a ton of empty Coridan Cough and Cold packets along with at least a dozen open (and pressumably used) condoms laying about. Now that's just dirty... no... someone just cleaned out their car. ever wonder where your best friend got all that money? now you know. Meth man...meth! Meth chef Looks like someone is making a batch of crank. Someone stole a bunch of pills to make drugs Someone's making meth! Your typical meth user isn't very patient. This one couldn't even wait to get back to his lab before extracting the pseudoephredine from its packaging. Someone bought the allergy medicine, and was too anxious to wait until they got home to start working on their next batch of meth. These pills are the basis for making amphetamines. You have a meth lab in your neighborhood. Someone was harvesting methberries, and left the inedible sheaths behind in a pile. Not very tidy. Easy, if the allergy pills contain an ingredient which can be extracted and used in the production of drugs, most likely meth from pseudoephedine Someone probably wanted to put all those pills in one large container. meth manufacturer allergy meds = meth lab materials? It looks like allergy meds- crystal meth ingredients maybe? Someone was out of medication. While their family member went into Target to buy them a new supply, they took the empty blister packs and systematically tore them into twin pairs while they sat in the car. It was a mess, so they dumped it on the ground afterwards. If they were cough pills with pseudoephedrine, they have now become crystal meth. Used in drug cocktail. Since they are allergy pills, they may have pseudophedrine as one of their ingredients. As you may or may not know, pseudophedrine is used in creating homemade crystal meth. So they took all the pills out and dumped the trash. Someone bought a bunch of Sudafed to make Crystal Meth, perhaps. The obvious guess is that someone was getting ready to cook some meth. But I'm not buying it. What mystifies me is that they bothered to break the blisters into pairs of two. So my best guess is that someone takes allergy medication very regularly, takes two capsules at a time, and is lazy about where they empty their car garbage. Someone got very, very high or a bum decided they wanted to die. someone's making Meth. There's a very good chance that those allergy pills contained pseudoephedrine, which is a prime ingredient in making methamphetamine. Meth Lab! Making Meth I believe someone wanted pills in a bottle, but Target only had the packets... so they popped each one out and put them into some other container... perhaps their old pill bottle. Another possibility is that they ate them all. Were there any dead bodies in the area? Meth lab, salvaging usable chemicals from prescription drugs. I can't read what is on the back of the packages, but if it was a "cough and cold" or "DM" type OTC medicine, (like sucrets DM) then it could contain DXM (Dextromethorphan) which can be used as a recreational dissociative drug at high doses. Even if it was a simple allergy medication, like generic benadryl-which contains diphenhydramine hydrochloride-it has been known to be abused recreationally. It is cold medicine containing ephedrine which is used in the manufacture of methamphetamines. Some meth freak stole them and then opened them up to sell them to a meth producer I speculate that someone was looking for a speed fix: perhaps from the pseudoephedrine in some older allergy meds. Or maybe they were poisoning tiny little rats one by one... "Harvesting" pills to be used for making meth. my balls hurt They are making meth, clearly.... okay, maybe I only think that since I'm from Iowa and everyone here makes meth. Definitely someone making speed from a Sudafed like drug! meth, it was meth I bet they're Sudafed tablets, and someone is looking to make meth with the contents. Allergy pills? I vote Meth. Crystal meth. Someone is cooking meth It was MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Crystal meth, step one? What better place to leave a bunch of trash? Someone was making meth. Somebody filled up a gumball machine with pills to trick children! allergy meds = crank ingredients Someone took the pills to extract ingredients to make meth. Purchased package of psuedoephedrine pills for methamphetamine manufacture WOW! That is alot of phenerdrine, or whatever they put in most allergy medicine. Yeah, I think some physcho meth head went crazy on the allergy meds, maybe it was a Target manager trying to keep up with the holiday madness.. harvesting psuedophedrine for meth making! pills were stolen and probably used to make crystal meth Meth. Delicious, delicious meth. Drug dealer making meth needed the sudaphedrine containing pills from the blister pack. It is easier to transport them sans packaging. -Llama Someone stole a bunch of psuedoephedrine to make meth, popped the pills into another container and left the trash. "Ingredia" is not a word. someone needed phony drugs to peddle, and ran out of ecstasy meth lab supplies That my dear man is what is left over when someone steals allergy medicine in a quest to accuire all the neccesary ingredients for making METH. They need the psuedo-efedrine or plain ephedrine out of them, and its easier to hide a bottle of pills or a bag of pills then it is to hide 20 boxes of pills. looks like they are definatly not anti-diahreha pills as they are srayed with what appears to be fecal matter in one picture...lol Someone is cooking crystal meth, stole some of the appropriate medication, and didn't want to carry the blister packs out of the parking lot. crank maker , crank maker, make me some crank!!! looks like someone was getting ready to cook up a fine batch of meth Meth lab. someone found them in the dirt and was bored and tore them into pairs some OCD person saw the complete pack sitting there and had to tear it into pairs the purchaser of the allergy pills tore them into pairs to put into those little SMTWTFS weekly pill case things, to take two daily, and then when s/he had used them all up, dumped the entire remains of the blister packs onto the ground one day. stolen ... some allergy medicine can be made into other drugs... No Rob, someone is going to make crystal meth using those allergy pills. Some meth manufacturing person dropped them... They're using them to make meth. Can't see what the drug is. Most likely an addict opened all of the pills to take at once, when they cou;dn't get e.g. heroin. Alternatively, it may be the contents of a "sharps" bin which someone has stolen, and has busted open to try and retrieve needles, to either use (eugh) sell, or exchange fo shiny new needles. However that seems unlikely, as there would bin parts lying about as well. Willie Robo trippin someone's making meth pills. It was me, it was me! I did that for 50 cents! Thanks for finding my... things. I missed them dearly. The pills were transferred to a very large bottle or daily/weekly/monthly pill case. But sheesh, pick up your garbage. The blister packs were removed from the Target dumpster by diving-scavengers. pseudoephedrine can be used to manufacture meth I can't quite make out the shape of the pills, so I don't know exactly what sweets they will be but... Someone emptied out a packet of revels or m&ms or something and replaced them with the pills. Practical jokers are hilarious. Terry these are for an allergy rx, and commonly used to make crystal meth. the producers buy as many as allowed(since most stores have quantity limits) at each store while someone sits in the car opening the packs as they go. saves time! They popped out all the pills, then ground them into a powder and sold them at Jamba Juice as an "Allergy Boost!!!". people desperate to get ingredients for crystal meth d made meth an entire pile of empty allergy pills looks suspiciosly like amphetamine production to me... or a good old fashioned teenage pseudephedrine party! teenage junkies They're using the effedrine for meth production. looks to me like there is a meth lab in the neighborhood. Someone emptied all these pills into a large bag (probably one filled with other allergy medicine from other stores) in order to make meth or sell them to someone who would use them to make meth. Don't you watch 60 minutes? If it's the type of allergy medication with pseudoephedrine in it, my guess is that these were brought back to a meth lab somewhere. Target customer was getting supplies for his meth lab. meth ingredients Someone's trying to turn cheap tricks by buying over-the-counter cold medicine and passing it off as ecstacy. You can make a considerable profit doing this. You can also have a considerable number of your fingers broken. Absolutely Meth. From all your pictures, it looks like Sacramento has a lot of sloppy druggies. someone broke into target and stole the pills then put then into the empty pill containers from the gas station I bet it was like in that movie "Go", where the girl has to flush all the ecstasy she just bought, cuz the guys buying from HER were undercover cops. Then she went to the grocery store and stole a crap ton of baby aspirin and went selling them...she was walking through the parking lot tossing the blister packs...:) tweakers use allergy medicine to make meth I think someone took the pills while they were driving over a long period of time, like a year, and then dumped them all out of their car at once. someone was attacked by bees and took an assload of benadryl to stop from swelling up. somebodys got a bad allergy Either someon's making crystal meth, or they transferred all the pills to a plastic bottle to make them easier to get at. someone had quite a good time. someone might have emptied them out of their car? maybe a druggie or something took the pills out. Someone ate all the pills FO SHO FO SHO PUFF PUFF PASS THE SHIT Maybe theres a cult that consumes allergy pills in thought that they will give them more power... Yeah I have nothing... Haha.. A monster with a severe alergy needed some relief so he killed a few customers who exited the store looking for alergy medication. After killing enough poor souls he scampered off to a corner and ingested them all. Meth manufacturers using these OTC drugs (w/ psudoephedrine) in their drug labs. Methamphetamine cooks use large amounts of allergy pills to make speed. The pills are allergy pills, so they may have pseudoephedrine in them. A major ingredient in crystal meth, so some tweaker probably bought as much as he/she could and disposed of the packaging for easier, and less obvious transport. Meth. Diarea. meth lab waste meth heads were using them to make some drugs...this is why most allergy medicine is behind the counter now... Meth heads. Someone was making meth. It's allergy medication, which may contain a narcotic (or at the very least, the consumer assumed it contained one). The pills were probably bought/stolen, and taken all at once to try and get high. It probably didn't work. these pills were harvested for the psuedonephrine which will be used to make meth-anphedimines Someone obtained the allergy pills from Target, removed them from the package, then went to work either creating crystal meth or sold it to someone who wanted to make crystal meth. They popped out the pills (possibly some preparation of pseudoephedrine?) and used them to make methamphetamine. The pills probably contained psuedoephedrine, and were most likely stolen and used to make crystal meth. The governmment recently imposed qutoas on the amount of these drugs you can buy because of the meth problem. As an Iowan, I can infer that someone was making Methamphetamines. In Iowa, we have to go to the pharmacy and give our name to purchase our over-the-counter psuedophedrine because of our states Meth problem. Perhaps in this state, or this Target, the allergy medicine was freely availible, and someone either purchased it or stole it, and then removed all of the pills from their blister packs. As the blister packs are not part of the recipie for Meth, they were discarded. Easy one...they're going to use the medication in the pills to make methamphetamines. Depending on what kind of pills they were...they could have been used to make drugs. Convenience stores in NJ are no longer allowed to sell more than a specified amount of boxes of cold medicine at a time because of that reason. The registers will not ring up more than (I think it is 5) packs of cold medicine at one time. Also, why a lot are stored behind the Pharmacy now. People buy them in bulk and...don't ask me how...use them to make some kind of drug from them. I know it is not exactly a comical or witty answer....welcome to NJ Methamphetamine cookers buy large quanties of allergy medicines as a source of ingriedients (psudoepedrine). Somebody was just dumping the empty blisters. Inky Meth .... The drug is called Triple-C, commonly taken by both young and old alike in order to gain a sense of euphoria from the active ingredient, Epinephrine. Subsequently, action has been taken in the form of legislation banning multiple purchases of products containing epinephrine per day. This new law has one weakness: shopping at more than one store. Druggie! Perhaps they were emptying them all into a bottle? Rob, I think you should be looking for a nearby meth lab! -HeatherJ. M to the Eth! Pills contained sudephrin, were stolen and removed from its packaging to be sold to a meth lab. It has to be someone into crystal meth. The perpetrator was performing a "How Much Is Inside" experiment to determine how many blisters a box of blister packs can treat. A very painful experiment. meth people were there, consolidating their sudafeds right after they bought them. kids were boosting the pseudo-fed for the buzz Somebody purchased (or stole) these pills for the chemical contents used to manufacture methamphetamine. nye@comcast.net A meth manufacturer bought a whole bunch of ephedrine containing meds, then opened them all in the parking lot, being impatient from the meth fumes. Someone is a meth cooker. smurfing stole the pills obviously someone making crystal meth junkies man, junkies Meth cooking time! meth production... or explosive diarrhea man has struck again! employees of the target pharmacy were either looking to make meth or looking to sell to a meth lab. Someone's making meth i think there might be pseudophedrine in those COMPLETE pills-some meth lab chemist must've took them and make some drugs Since they seem to be allergy medications, containing antihistamines or pseudophedrine, such a large quantity of medications like that are probably going to make crystal meth..people do this...buy lots of allergy medications/cold medications and use them as one of the principal ingredients of crystal meth. =( Sad but probably true. Yes Allergy medicine......hmn.....I will ssume that someone indeed ingested all of those pills at one time to feel a little speedy because they probably contain ephedrine or pseudoephedrine. I have an ex best fried who was a huge druggie and did that all the time. Possibly taken to provide ingredient in meth They waited, biding their time. Once out of the store, the pills busted out of their packaging, and made a break for it. The disgusted consumer, who had just wasted his money on rogue pills, threw down their packaging. Taken for making other drugs. Why not opened elsewhere, I don't know. someone is making meth they just took the pills with them the blister packs journeyed far over land and sea, akin to spawning salmon, to meet for a frenzy of popping before, again like the salmon, dying in a shiny reflective huddle. and the contents may have been pink, like smoked salmon. h'mm.. the whole salmon analogy sounded really good in my head until I started writing it down.. Maybe pseudoephedrine is an ingredient in those allergy pills and they were purchased for use in a smaller methlab? Meth makers are litterbugs. probably someone buying the decongestant to get the pseudo-effedrine for making meth Some shoplifted them and are going to use them make meth. Pills were used for meth-lab purposes. Look harder & you'll probably find stolen packs of razors close by. Love ya Rob! Someone stole them, then took them out of the packaging to sell? I dunno, are antihistamines the new drug of choice? Someone is making meth...mmmm, tasty. used it to cook meth somebody used the pills to make meth sorry to tell you but someone was cookin meth Life became too much. Allergy Pill Liberation Front strikes again OR making rainwater collectors for Runaway Ralph. they made meth Someone working at a neighborhood pharmacy took the contents from the bulky box. They then popped all the pills from the blister pack and placed them into their pocket for fear the store metal detector would ring. They dumped all the blister packs outside the side door of the store where you happened to see them when you parked. was there a campfire and cans of denatured alcohol nearby? Cookin' up meth for sure It's allergy medicine. You use it to make Methamphetamine. Then your trailer explodes. And you stop sneezing. And start seeing dancing porcupines. someone was putting alien tracking devices *into* the blister pax when you scared him/er off I betcha they emptied the packets and put them in a pill box or something. I do the same, although I don't leave the trash all over. -Charlie I think someone probably takes one of those twin packs to work every morning, or at least in there car. And at some point parked there and emptied their pile of empties. Some cheapskate took all the doctor's free samples he was given and consolidated it into a full bottle for convenience. Someone may have used the pills to make methamphetamines. Psuedoephedrine is the required amphetamine ingredient, and it is common in allergy medicine... METH INGREDIENTS someone is making crystal meth cookin meth, no mystery, sorry its in yer neighborhood Someone purchased two boxes of allergy medicine from the Target, then went outside and took all the tablets for a "pill pull." Those pills will be used in the manufacture of methamphetamine, unless, of course, the lab explodes. An aspiring meth producer emptied the blister packs in anticipation of cooking up a batch. wierdos someone was cooking meth. Hmm....since it looks like this are from allergy tablets, I'm going to guess that someone was more interested in the ingredients of the tablets than in the medical applications....so I'm guessing that these were used to make meth. The "purchaser" just ripped them open and dumped all the tablets into one handy container. Meth lab in the makings The blister packs were from meth heads harvesting the pills for future meth processing. econobiker@gmail.com A bunch of kids robo-tripping. Seeing that they're allergy pills I'll bet they were used for the distillation of crystal meth... Hey Rob, I do this all the time. Sometimes when you buy diphenhydramine (active ingredient in Benadryl), you can only get it in blister packs. So, you pop them all out an put them into an old medicine bottle because it's so much handier to bring with you when you travel. Of course, I don't throw the empties on the ground! somebody's making methamphetamine! Apparently you can extract the chemicals to make a well know party drug. In australia you have to show ID and sign to get them somebody was taking these pills throughout a long period of time, two pills at once, or maybe twice a day (while they weren't at home - so they put it in their bag). after they took the pills, they didn't bother to throw away the blister packs. When they finished with their medication period, or maybe when they were sick of carrying so much junk in their bag, they emptied it out on the floor next to that store, because they happened to shop there earlier. -Hila from Israel, and it was also me on that other detective school about the truck and the windshield when I said my brother flew to the u.s and punched it. A group of hikers met here and decided to take insane amounts of allergy meds before their trip???? Someone was allergic to carbon based lifeforms The people that I hate at my local pharmacy (I've got SINUS ISSUES!!! I'm not a criminal) tell me that people buy tons of allergy medicine and turn it into meth. So, I'm guessing that is what happened here. someone used the pills to make illegal drugs are they sudophedrine? probably a meth head. If it's pseudoephedrine/decongestant (ie: sudafed), it was probably bought and used all at once to make meth. These losers are the reason why the rest of us (depending on where you live) can't buy decongestants over-the-counter, we have to bring a little tag to the pharmacy and fill out personal information. I heard that Sacto was hosting the world championship playoffs for the Settlers of Catan federation. The award ceremony was held in the Target store. The local organizers provided a hermetically sealed breezeway from the next door Chuck E. Cheese - site for the event. Just as the teams were walking from one building to the next the cheap K-Mart seals burst (perhaps a bit of sabotage?) and all the players were exposed to unfiltered outside air. Well, of course their allergies kicked in. While they began the wheeze fest of the century, a couple of biker's happened to stroll by with a ten year supply of pseudophedrine. The kind gentlemen quickly opened a hundred doses and saved the teams. Imagine what might have happened if the entire SoC elite had been wiped out in one sad accident? Oh the horror! gathering pills for making meth um.... no idea Allergy medicine usually contains pseudephinedrine (Sudafed) which is used to make meth. Probably stolen / bought for that purpose. [mp] someone is trying to sell this as Illegal drugs to make extra cash SAMPLE PACKS? MORANS! Sudafed tablets, stolen to make meth. allergy pills probably containing DXM. Kids pop em' like candy to get a high similiar to a really uncomfortable trip. A long time ago my friends and I used to pop Corecedians like candys and forget the last word we just said. Oh those were the days... Damn kids never learn. Makin Meth my 'migo they are running a meth lab Those are the remnants of a meth addict buying them, and I guess deciding to save space. What's funny is that they probably bought a non-pseudophedrine brand,since they are allergy, and not cold medicine. http://www.erowid.org/pharms/diphenhydramine/diphenhydramine_effects.shtml silly kids trying to dream while awake... Meth. Looks like someone was planning on making methamphetamine Meth, duh. meth cookers debris meth v yup. Methheads stole them. making meth Meth lab or someone's trying to rip someone off by selling them allergy pills as something else. Stolen for use in a meth lab. No, they're making meth silly! As an Oregonian I'm way up to snuff on Tweaker Tactics. This is called "smurfing the pseudo", since they can't buy it in large quantities, they parade around town (like the smurfs, I guess) and buy little bursts of meth making materials, then unpackage them and leave the blister packs. Love your site, by the way!