Breaking Bad: These things actually happen

Breaking Bad is a made-for-cable TV series on AMC. It's about a mild mannered high school chemistry teacher. He is diagnosed with terminal cancer. To provide for his family after he's gone, he begins producing methamphetamine.

Well, these things do happen, as in the case below.

This is a case of them using meth themselves. If they wanted stimulants, they should have done what other teachers do---break into the nurse's office and swipe the kids' Ritalin.

From The Weekly Vice:

Charleston, West Virginia - A West Virginia public school has been shut down and two teachers have been arrested after authorities discovered trace amounts of meth distributed throughout the school building - even in the ducts, principal's office, hallways and bathrooms.

Jack Turley, a teacher, and Keith Phipps, a principal, were charged with contaminating the building with enough meth to shut it down until further notice.

According to West Virginia state police, Turley and Phipps were under investigation this spring when officers found traces of meth in the ducts, the principal's office, the hallways, and the bathrooms at the Boone County Career and Technical Center. The drug traces were discovered through testing by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources.

Investigators say Turley admitted that he had smoked methamphetamine with Phipps in the principal's office. The school is closed until a decontamination process can be completed. Officers do not believe the drug was manufactured at the school. Both suspects were suspended from their positions pending the final outcome of the investigation.

Turley was booked into jail and charged with manufacturing methamphetamine and procuring Sudafed for producing methamphetamine.

Phipps was booked into charged with purchasing over the legal limit of Sudafed.