METH MADNESS

A bait-car video released Monday is indeed chilling. It shows a truck thief
speeding down residential streets in Langley and Abbotsford - going as fast
as 140 km/h, smashing into three vehicles and narrowly missing a head-on
collision with a police car.

During the rampage, the man pulls out a handgun and tries 14 times to fire
it out the passenger-side window. Fortunately, it doesn't go off.

Cpl. Tim Shields, spokesperson for the Integrated Municipal Provincial Auto
Crime Task Force, said the footage is "the most chilling bait-car video
that auto theft investigators from around the world have ever seen." He
also said the thief is a meth addict.

Friday, North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said at a conference
- - designed to get western provinces and territories talking about solutions
to the crystal meth problem - that his state is overrun with meth users.

He said B.C. faces a flood of criminals looking for products used to make
the drug, unless it clamps down on the sale of ingredients like some U.S.
states are doing.

North Dakota has doubled its prison budget during the past seven years, and
a shocking 60 per cent of male inmates there are meth addicts.

Both the video and warning are signs that it's time for B.C. to take swift
action. We've got enough problems with grow ops. We don't need more meth
madness.