Father Did The Right Thing, Gets One Year Probation

[Gary]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2284897/Tebbs-Headshop-New-York-man-smashes-head-shop-using-baseball-bat-store-sold-son-bath-salts.html

Any jury that would sentence someone over this, must have been a customer of the head shop.

We have head shops in Lincoln.  Why for goodness sakes?  Run them all out of town with baseball bats!

[GreyGeek]

We have head shops in Lincoln.  Why for goodness sakes? 

Because some people's (and corporations) greed knows no bounds, regardless of the  pain and suffering their merchandise causes.

[NENick]

Because some people's (and corporations) greed knows no bounds, regardless of the  pain and suffering their merchandise causes.

How about we hold the idiot kid responsible for voluntarily ingesting the stuff?

[NENick]

... I just read the story. The kid isn't even a kid. He's 24! The same argument can be made about our guns. Some people use them for good, some for bad. Some people snort bath salts....some take warm soothing baths. It's not the product that's evil, it's the use.

The guy has no right to smash up a store because he doesn't like what his adult son did with one of their products.

I'm not trying to beat you guys up. I just want to get all the ideas on the table.

[NENick]

Okay, maybe I'm wrong about what bath salts actually are... hehe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_salts_%28drug%29

[A-FIXER]

Well, abeit that it could be said on a legal firearm- bullet- mouth- ingestion? I am without understanding of this item but the same can be said of legal bar- stool- highballs- car? The man is 24 yrs old and talk about helocopter parents... it would have been Wiser to the parent to contact Police and undercover and put a hurt on this headshop owner.... Again I am wrong all the time but I must present my lic's to purchase canned air '' to blow out my firearm actions'' although some huff it dumb its just dumb but what if vendetta is the word for the month we just can not take the law into our own hands the father should have been dealt a stiffer hand.

[GreyGeek]

How about we hold the idiot kid responsible for voluntarily ingesting the stuff?

True, but that wasn't the question.   In today's permissive society it is not about responsibility, it is about blame.   What ever happens it is always someone else's fault, and perhaps there is "financial compensation" involved as well!

[unfy]

The guy that over dosed was 24.... not exactly a kid ... as has been pointed out.

Selling what they sell, such an occurrence should be expected eventually.

Does the Dad have a right be pissed ? Yup.  Did he have a right to bust the place up ? No.  Was he awesome in calling 911 himself and other stuff ? Yup.

Now..... my main problem with the story.... is....

He admitted to possessing a controlled substance analog - a drug that is chemically similar to a controlled substance - with the intent to sell. Tebbetts faces up to 16 years in prison.

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Excuse me ?  It's not a controlled substance but is similar and thus illegal but not or is it or ?  Is this like outlawing toy because because they're similar ?  Or how about that bill in NE legislature to ban the sale of novelty lighters ?

Bull feces.

[CitizenClark]

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[GreyGeek]

prohibition funnels loads of money to violent criminals and actually exacerbates the social harms attendant to addiction.

We paid dearly for that lesson in the prohibition, and now we are paying for it again with pot.    But, it is prisons run by corporations that are pushing for higher arrests for pot possession because they benefit.

[NB]

volenti non fit injuria (trans: "to a willing person, no injury is done").

Wow.  Those Latinos were pretty deep thinkers.  They summed all of the bad decisions in my life up in one little sentence.