Posted on 08/19/2015 7:24:51 AM PDT by redreno
State officials are investigating a complaint that raises this question: Should a man who was convicted of poisoning children on his son's football team in 2000 be in charge of an entire city's water?
Jerome M. Breland is interim utilities operations manager for North Las Vegas, meaning he's head of the city's water and sewer system, though he's been safeguarding the water for the city of 230,000 for several years as a water systems supervisor.
State law says a water operator's certificate, issued by the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection, can be revoked if the operator "has demonstrated disregard for the health and safety of the public."
That's essentially the crime Breland was convicted of in 2001: "performance of an act of neglect of duty in willful or wanton disregard for safety of persons or property."
Eight children hospitalized
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Ipecac is not a poison. The teammates were stealing his drink to torment him. Sux2bthem.
The unearthing of facts surrounding the complaint in this case seems to be the sort of due diligence that we can’t reasonably expect governments to actually do themselves.
Beyond your understanding how you could do something like this? Oh, well, it's okay then. Never mind.
He could have gotten off if he had had a better lawyer. His son was a victim of bullying and theft, and ipecac isn’t a poison.
Poisoning Las Vegas water system? Hell, the EPA is doing that without having to even face changers....yet.
Agree if the kid had used the ipecac. The kid needs to learn how to handle bullies.
When in a backwards country don’t drink the water.
Someone was stealing other peoples food out of a fridge at work.
So I bought some Chocolate Chocolate Chip ice cream, and stuffed some ExLax in it, labeled it with my name.
Came back latter to find just a thin scum left, kind of a “FU” from the turd who ate it. About 30 minutes later one of my co workers was racing to the can...
Yes, ipecac is a poison. That’s how/why it makes people throw up.
But, it is highly unlikely that it would have caused any serious problems in the dilution that it would have been in the water supply.
Clearly, he should be transferred to D.C......
Uh.....NO!!!
When I was in Jr High, there started to be a problem with lunches being stolen out of lockers (we weren’t allowed to have locks). I got tired of having my lunch stolen and going hungry for the rest of the day, so one day I made a nice peanut butter, jelly, and dead roach sandwich. Sure enough, my lunch was once again stolen. Within an hour I’m hearing “Sheila was eating a sandwich and she pulled a roach leg out of her mouth!” Guess what? Sheila and another girl stopped stealing lunches. I stopped putting my lunch in my locker and carried it around with me until the next year when I got to high school and we were allowed to have locks.
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