  It has been recently realized that within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard
Model, for certain patterns of superpartner masses, consistent with all the
present experimental constraints, the scalar potential may develop at some
scale $Q_0$ unbounded color/charge breaking directions involving the sfermion
fields, and that these patterns are then excluded unless some new physics is
invoked at or below the scale $Q_0$. We reanalyze this observation and point
out that such patterns of superpartner masses at the weak scale are {\it not}
ruled out when taking into account the probability of decay for the metastable
color conserving minimum along these color breaking unbounded directions. It
turns out that the color conserving minimum, although metastable, has a
lifetime longer than the present age of the Universe and can survive both
quantum tunneling and the effects of high temperatures in the early Universe,
causing the color/charge breaking effects to be in practice not dangerous.
