# 7 year old kid turns in mom for cooking meth. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-year-old-kid-turns-in-mom-for-cooking-meth/696038 "2014-08-20T21:08:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-year-old-kid-turns-in-mom-for-cooking-meth/696038/1 "2014-08-20T21:08:01Z")
It’s rather sad that a 7 year old recognized this stuff and what was going on. It’s a good thing his “uncle” Peter wasn’t in on the drug making too. Aren’t these chemicals explosive? I’ve seen people in haz mat suits in news reports about drug labs. That can’t be a good sign. 😛 > **[Edgewater boy, 7, turns in mom for cooking meth](https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2014/8/18/meth_mom_volusia)** > > Edgewater police say a brave 7-year-old boy turned in his mother for 'really bad stuff' in her car — bad stuff that turned out to be a meth lab. > **[Florida boy, 7, turns in mother for cooking meth: ‘There’s really bad stuff...](https://www.nydailynews.com/2014/08/20/florida-boy-7-turns-in-mother-for-cooking-meth-theres-really-bad-stuff-in-moms-car/)** > > Sometimes kids parent their moms. A 7-year-old Florida boy turned in his mother for cooking and using methamphetamine, authorities said. Briana Buchanan, of Volusia County, was arrested on drug-rel… > [@](#): > > According to Edgewater police, the boy told his uncle — as well as investigators — that “There’s really bad stuff in my mom’s car.” > > Briana Buchanan and her son had been living with her boyfriend’s brother, Peter — who considers the 7-year-old his nephew — for some time at his Edgewater home. For several days, the boy had told Peter that his mom was cooking “something bad.” Then, on Friday, Peter said the boy built up enough courage to show him just how bad it was. > > “He came up to me, and he said, ‘There’s really bad stuff in mom’s car that I want to show you,’” said Peter, who asked that his last name not be published. > > The 7-year-old brought his uncle to his mother’s car and opened up the trunk, himself. Inside was drug paraphernalia, sitting right next to some of the boy’s toys. Shocked, Peter closed the trunk, took the boy inside and called 911. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-year-old-kid-turns-in-mom-for-cooking-meth/696038/2 "2014-08-20T22:56:14Z")
Well I hope he doesn’t meet the same end as [Pavlik Morozov](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov). ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-year-old-kid-turns-in-mom-for-cooking-meth/696038/3 "2014-08-20T23:03:54Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > Well I hope he doesn’t meet the same end as [Pavlik Morozov](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov). You mean, become a Stalinist hero? Kind of an absurd comparison, don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-year-old-kid-turns-in-mom-for-cooking-meth/696038/4 "2014-08-20T23:13:04Z")
Snitches get stitches. StG ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-year-old-kid-turns-in-mom-for-cooking-meth/696038/5 "2014-08-20T23:21:17Z")
Why, that little shit! ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-year-old-kid-turns-in-mom-for-cooking-meth/696038/6 "2014-08-20T23:30:35Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You mean, become a Stalinist hero? > > Kind of an absurd comparison, don’t you think? Or be murdered by the rest of the family. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-year-old-kid-turns-in-mom-for-cooking-meth/696038/7 "2014-08-21T00:13:40Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > Or be murdered by the rest of the family. As the Wiki link says, the story was almost entirely fabricated. > [@](#): > > Kelly believes there is no evidence that the family was involved in the murder of the boy, and that it was probably a work of other teenagers with whom Pavlik had a squabble over a gun.