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Florida man drinks a cup of bleach after jury finds him guilty of armed robbery
The New York Post ^ | November 23, 2022 | Landon Mion, FOX News

Posted on 11/23/2022 2:41:18 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A Florida man downed a cup of bleach in a courtroom moments after hearing the jury read his verdict in which he was found guilty of armed robbery.

Jermaine Bell, 38, has spent more than three years in custody for the December 2018 robbery for which he was convicted. He pulled a gun on employees at the Millennium Engine Plating while he was disguised as a courier.

Bell was seen drinking the bleach from a white disposable cup before an officer approached him with a trash can and attempted to have the inmate spit up the liquid. But Bell continued to drink from the cup until he eventually sat down. 

He immediately became very sick after drinking the bleach and was transported out of the courtroom in Miami on a stretcher. He was then taken to the hospital for medical treatment.

Bell is in stable condition at the hospital after ingesting the bleach, but it remains unclear how he was able to obtain it in the courtroom. Questions are also being raised by his family about why nobody intervened as he was drinking the product.

“I see him drinking something that’s not right,” Reverend Jerome Starling, a distant relative of Bell, told Local 10. “His attorneys are letting him drink it. Corrections letting him drink it. All of a sudden I see him collapse. And I said how could this happen.”

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KEYWORDS: armedrobbery; bleach; florida; floridaman; hospitalization; miamidade; verdict
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Did he wash down some Tide pods?


21 posted on 11/23/2022 3:11:50 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

That’s one dumb M’fer.


22 posted on 11/23/2022 3:16:27 PM PST by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Speaking of drinking bleach, I spent some of my formative years on a rural farm in Georgia.   We lived in a primitive way for a couple of years but the first thing Dad did was get a well drilled.   Our house was near a bluff a few hundred yards from the Etowah River and the well drillers had to go very deep to get clear water.   Apparently the water was tested and found to be tainted, so the solution was to pour gallon after gallon of Clorox down the well.   For many months after that, every pitcher of Kool-Aid no matter the flavor was bleached to an odd light chartreuse green color.

Along the line of tainted drinks, my little brother was just a baby when we moved there to the farm and to this day he will not drink milk because our milk cow, Daisy, got into a patch of wild onions in the pasture and my brother never trusted milk after that.

23 posted on 11/23/2022 3:18:45 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

When I think of committing armed robbery the first thought that comes into my head is “hey I should rob an engine plating shop, there’s bound to be lots of cash there” Uh huh, yep, that’s what I think. Not that most industrial customers pay via purchase order and bank transfer, just “yeah there’s lots of cash there”.


24 posted on 11/23/2022 3:21:14 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Another psycho.


25 posted on 11/23/2022 3:21:27 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

When I was a tyke, I thought everything in a cup or bottle was a drink.
Mom was doing laundry and a cup of bleach was nearby, so I drank it.

Promptly threw up and ruined her new rug. Boy, was she mad.

What broke me was a bottle of apple vinegar which I grabbed and guzzled.
It took my breathe away but my mother just belly laughed at the gagging and the soured look on my face. She knew the vinegar wasn’t going to hurt me.
She loved telling that story to her granddaughters.


26 posted on 11/23/2022 3:29:01 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: higgmeister

Our grannies house had iron pipes.
Yep, you guessed it. The water tasted like crap and every sink, tub and toilet had an streaking, reddish brown rust stain. Got so bad we stated filling old gallon milk jugs for her to drink, cook with.

And I’ve heard of onion tainted milk cows.


27 posted on 11/23/2022 3:35:21 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: A strike

Baking soda.


28 posted on 11/23/2022 3:36:05 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Is it common to have glasses full of bleach randomly placed in the courtroom so some distraught defendant can pick one up and chug it?


29 posted on 11/23/2022 3:40:10 PM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Not a good idea, but not necessarily fatal.

30 posted on 11/23/2022 3:41:47 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Was he really that bored..


31 posted on 11/23/2022 3:44:08 PM PST by jughandle
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Just tryin to be white on the inside.


32 posted on 11/23/2022 3:56:01 PM PST by jimbug
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I see him drinking something that’s not right,” Reverend Jerome Starling, a distant relative of Bell, told Local 10. “His attorneys are letting him drink it. Corrections letting him drink it.

Translation: I watched him drink it and immediately thought, why didn't somebody else help him?

33 posted on 11/23/2022 3:59:13 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: A strike

Something like Peppermint Schnapps
or Ouzo, with a louder “Bark” than Clorox.


34 posted on 11/23/2022 4:15:27 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Shoulda chugged some Draino.


35 posted on 11/23/2022 4:18:34 PM PST by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: Delta 21

You’re the first to ask that question.
What was the bleach doing there to begin with?


36 posted on 11/23/2022 4:19:05 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

SPJNK.


37 posted on 11/23/2022 4:19:58 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: lee martell

Like the Cheech & Chong skit “Framed”. Cheech needs a drink and sees the judge has a pitcher and glass. He moved on it and downs it for relief and its straight vodka.


38 posted on 11/23/2022 4:23:42 PM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: RedMonqey

Onion milk needed lots of Nestle QUIK added.

It’s a real problem for pasture grazing dairy cows.

Probably doesn’t happen with the current industrial dairy operations.


39 posted on 11/23/2022 4:33:15 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: Delta 21

Lol! That sounds like a good one.


40 posted on 11/23/2022 4:36:04 PM PST by lee martell
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