Ocular albinism
Posted on 08/20/2007 4:32:47 PM PDT by Coleus
A school custodian has sued the Fair Lawn Board of Education, claiming his co-workers attempted to poison him at an office party by lacing his pizza with hallucinogenic drugs. Dominick A. Rao, a custodian in the district since 2000, said he was often bullied by his supervisor and co-workers because he has bilateral ocular albinism, a condition in which the eyes lack pigment. Rao's disability causes reduced vision of 20/200. According to the lawsuit, filed in Superior Court in Hackensack, Rao accuses his fellow custodians of "poisoning" his food with small quantities of the hallucinogen LSD. He claims this occurred on multiple occasions, leading to what he said was a life-threatening incident at a work party two years ago.
On Aug. 19, 2005, at a party at Fair Lawn High School, Rao claims he was served pizza out of a different box than the other custodians, said his attorney, Richard Mazawey of Clifton. After eating, he began feeling unusual and went to the emergency room at Hackensack University Medical Center, where it was determined that "he had a controlled dangerous substance running through his bloodstream," according to Mazawey. "He said he felt like his body and system were melting from the inside out, like he was living in a kaleidoscope," Mazawey said.
When Rao, who according to his attorney has no history of drug use, returned to work, a co-worker asked him, "How are you still alive?" the suit states. "Upon hearing this, he realized how extensive the plot to poison him truly was," according to the suit. Schools Superintendent Bruce Watson declined to comment on the suit, saying he had not received a copy. Rao filed a police report more than a year after the incident, on Aug. 21, 2006, said Fair Lawn police Sgt. Derek Bastinck. Criminal charges were never brought on the defendants, Bastinck said.
According to Mazawey, Rao's failure to go to the police after the incident was a result of "the traumatic event of his injection of toxins in August 2005 and the harrowing circumstances of him trying to stay alive and getting to a doctor and getting treatment." Rao, who worked as a custodian at Fair Lawn High School at the time of the incident, continues to work in the district at the Radburn School. The suit also names Rao's former supervisor, Troy Roughgarden, and other custodial staff members, including Yunel Henriquez, Charles Workhoven, Roger Ryan, Joseph Seriano and Natalie Lacatena. Rao is asking for back pay, front pay, lost benefits, compensatory damages for humiliation, mental anguish and other pain and suffering, punitive damages, attorney fees and the cost of the suit.
well they could have put anchovies on which would have been worse.
When oh when will it end?
As to the man in the article, I always remind people that just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
A pizza just for me...All I have to do is add anchovies and it’s mine...all mine!!
Sounds like Owsley’s Peppe-WHOA-ni pizza.
This happened to me once 20 years ago but for a different physical deformity. It`s amazing how many bags of sugar one can pour down a gas tank.
A pizza laced with LSD.... was it topped with anchovies? Humpback whale? Extraterretrial manifestations of the cosmic consciousness? Or was it in the shape of the gigantic Roswell discus transporter of superior beings come to bring us enlightment and the Age of Aquarius? My pizza floats over the waters of remembrance and tells me to gaze at stones. It changes colors and shapes like a flattened lava lamp. Delivered to my door by an evanescent being of light on a white horse, who turns out, alas, to be my podiatrist.
(With apologies to a once-funny Woody Allen)
;^)
The look on his face was priceless when I snagged a piece and chomped down, telling him it was great to have a fellow anchovy lover at work!
That’s...”extraterrestrial”... I think. Arghhh!
Anyway, I too learned long ago that an anchovies and onions pizza was mine to enjoy alone.
All alone....
A pizza with acid on it. What’s it called? the Timothy Leary Supreme ???
I always wondered how many cups it took to stop an engine. ?
Did they really poison his food or is he just paranoid? Schizophrenic? I know belladonna is deadly and hallucinogenic but does LSD kill?
There's something seriously missing in this story. This dude has a "history" someplace and the story isn't telling it.
ping
It may open new doorways, but they don’t lead anywhere.
I’m not filing away that tidbit of information. Nope, not at all ... :-D
Now I'm no eye dr, but how does a lack of pigment contribute to 20/200 vision? And how is that a disability? Surely 20/200 is not a disability. That is very much correctable with glasses/contacts.
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