  We elaborate on the decay of branes inside throat geometries that are
supported by flux carrying charges opposite to the brane. Our main point is
that such backgrounds necessarily have a local, possibly diverging, pile up of
brane-charges dissolved in flux around the anti-brane due to the (fatal)
attraction of the flux towards the brane. We explain that this causes enhanced
brane-flux annihilation and is in tension with the idea that anti-branes can be
used to construct meta-stable vacua. We argue that stable configurations -- if
they at all exist -- are not obtainable within SUGR. The problem we point out
is already present when the back-reaction is confined in the IR and the
associated uplift energy small. Our results are valid in the regime that is
complementary to a recent analysis of Bena et. al.
