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Man chokes to death trying to hide bag of pot in mouth
Associated Press ^
| November 19, 2003
Posted on 11/19/2003 7:03:09 PM PST by Dog Gone
FORT WORTH -- A man changing a flat tire choked to death on a bag of marijuana he stuffed down his throat in an apparent attempt to hide it from police who stopped to help him early today.
Cpl. Frank Lott of the Corinth Police Department said officers had no idea Nickolas Sandoval, 24, of Ponder, had drugs when they spotted him on Interstate 35E in Corinth, about 45 miles northeast of Fort Worth.
"Officers went from 'Oh, hey, here is someone with a flat tire' to 'Hey, this guy is choking,'" Lott told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for its online edition today.
Officers noticed a plastic bag lodged in the man's throat, but it was too far down for them to extract. They kept trying to dislodge it until an ambulance arrived, and medical personnel were able to remove it, Lott said.
Sandoval was pronounced dead at Denton Regional Medical Center about 3:30 a.m., said Linda Anderson, a spokeswoman for the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office. The cause of death has been ruled as "asphyxiation due to aspiration of plastic bag," she said.
Sandoval had been convicted in Denton County of multiple counts of marijuana possession, a Class B misdemeanor, between September 1999 and December 2001, court records show. He pleaded guilty to the charge in September 1999 and received a deferred adjudication sentence after 12 months of probation.
In August 2000, he pleaded no contest to another marijuana possession charge and was sentenced to 40 days in jail. In December 2001, he was convicted of possession of marijuana and sentenced to 95 days in jail. Also in December 2001, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving and was sentenced to another 95 days in jail.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: oops; wodlist
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posted on
11/19/2003 7:03:10 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
Darwin award.....
2
posted on
11/19/2003 7:04:16 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
("Today's music ain't got the same soul. I like that old time Rock N Roll" - Bob Seger)
To: Dog Gone
Darwin award.....
3
posted on
11/19/2003 7:04:22 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
("Today's music ain't got the same soul. I like that old time Rock N Roll" - Bob Seger)
To: Dog Gone
Darwin award.....
4
posted on
11/19/2003 7:04:25 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
("Today's music ain't got the same soul. I like that old time Rock N Roll" - Bob Seger)
To: mhking
...
5
posted on
11/19/2003 7:05:55 PM PST
by
dighton
("Saddam the dirty, the son of the dirty, in which septic tank are you hiding now?")
To: Dog Gone
Man, that must have been some killer weed.
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posted on
11/19/2003 7:07:01 PM PST
by
muggs
To: Dog Gone
Another marijuana related death!
7
posted on
11/19/2003 7:07:52 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: muggs
Daves not here.
8
posted on
11/19/2003 7:08:24 PM PST
by
since1868
To: Dan from Michigan
I shouldn't laugh, but it is kinda funny.
Reminds me of this true story - white man buys heroin in black neighborhood late at night. white man is walking down street to bus stop when cops pull up and tell him it's a dangerious neighborhood for a white guy and offer him a ride to a safer place to catch the bus. man, so as not to arouse suspicion by running away from cops, gets ride in cruiser to a better bus stop, heroin in pocket.
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posted on
11/19/2003 7:09:15 PM PST
by
radiohead
To: Dog Gone
Drugs kill!
10
posted on
11/19/2003 7:13:09 PM PST
by
BrooklynGOP
(www.logicandsanity.com)
To: muggs
Stop it.
To: Dog Gone
Apologies to Lazamataz, but I 'proudly posted without reading the article' because I couldn't get past the title. LOL!
Oh, yeah, this is funny. Here's a guy that's dead over a grubby $20 worth of weed. Sometimes the complete dearth of intelligent life periodically in evidence here leaves me speechless.
13
posted on
11/19/2003 7:14:51 PM PST
by
agitator
(Ok, mic check...line one...)
To: Big Giant Head
Just Ping!
14
posted on
11/19/2003 7:15:30 PM PST
by
Marie Antoinette
(Happily repopulating the midwest since 1991!)
To: Dog Gone
Free Tommy Chong!
15
posted on
11/19/2003 7:15:37 PM PST
by
South40
(My vote helped defeat cruz bustamante; did yours?)
To: Dog Gone
WoW! Talk about goin' down the wrong pipe...
To: Dog Gone
Texas man, too. Who woulda' thunk?
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posted on
11/19/2003 7:16:53 PM PST
by
oyez
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Just damn.If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
11/19/2003 7:16:54 PM PST
by
mhking
To: xrp; jmc813
Recorded death due to marijuana
19
posted on
11/19/2003 7:17:11 PM PST
by
cinFLA
To: Dan from Michigan
Darwin award..... Don't you just love the smell of chlorine in the gene pool?
20
posted on
11/19/2003 7:18:39 PM PST
by
scooter2
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