"Using Your Degree" is not always a good thing

I was greatly entertained by this article that appeared in today's Evening News. This guy is a chemist, and he got arrested for using his degree. What's so bad about that you ask? Well, he was using it to make a key meth ingredient. Oops.

Here are my two favorite quotes from the article:

Brown’s attorney, Drew Adams, said his client testified during trial that he had sold red phosphorous but for the purpose of making fireworks. It was only later that he began to suspect it was being used to make meth, Adams said.

This guy is either incredibly stupid or the worst liar in history. His response under oath should have been "On the advice of counsel, I am taking the 5th".

Brown, who according to prosecutors had a chemistry degree from the University of Wisconsin and worked 20 years at a precision screw machine and plastic injection molding facility in Jeffersonville, told detectives that he had been fired and needed a way to earn money. He later admitted he was fired because he was caught using meth.

Employers sure are funny about things like that.

There's a reason you have to "swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth". It is true he had been fired. The whole truth is he'd been fired because the was using meth. The whole story is much more illuminating.


My coworkers and I got many laughs from this article. I hope you did too.

P.S. I talked to our chemist at work, and she says she has no plans to follow in this guy's footsteps.