You work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and you're sitting on two pounds of seized methamphetamines that you need to get rid of. So what do you do? Burn it all in a pet shelter smack-dab in the middle of town, of course.

It sounds beyond parody, but these are the events that played out in Billings, Montana, last Wednesday. And it did not go according to plan.

As the Associated Press reports, the toxic smoke cloud from the incinerated meth — a dangerous and addictive stimulant — didn't waft harmlessly into the atmosphere, but instead began to fill the building.

In the aftermath, over a dozen employees of the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter were evacuated and sent to the hospital. It was "not a party," shelter director Triniti Halverson told the AP. Halverson suffered from an

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