Brickbat: Big Meth-take

Two years ago, Paul Valin found
a backpack while kayaking the Des Moines River. He threw it in the
back of his truck, intending to try to find its owner. But when he
got home and opened it, he found what he thought was a kit
for making meth.
 He called the Des Moines police department, who sent an
officer to pick it up, and that was the last Valin thought of it.
Then in January of this year, a reporter knocked on Valin’s door
and asked him if he knew his house was on a federal list of sited
where meth labs had been found. He did not, and his repeated calls
to local police to get his house off that list went answered. Only
after IowaWatchdog.org got involved did the feds agree to remove
Valin’s home from the list.