Posted on 12/02/2020 8:32:06 AM PST by BenLurkin
Kolb and his son traveled from their home in San Mateo for a ski trip in Lake Tahoe and were staying at a cabin ... when Kolb woke up before dawn and began pacing around the cabin. He woke up his then 16-year-old son and asked him to get medical help...
Kolb’s son called 911 and reported his father was acting odd and was “in a dream-like state,” according to court documents. He told the dispatcher his father had a history of temporal lobe epilepsy and that they had smoked marijuana together before going to bed. Temporal lobe epilepsy can cause people to feel a sudden sense of fear or anxiety, anger or sadness, though a lawsuit filed by Kaye says Kolb had not had a similar incident in about 15 years.
Kolb’s son “...simply requested medical help as he observed his father suffering from a mental health episode,” Kaye said in court documents.
When Placer County Deputy Curtis Honeycutt arrived, he found Kolb and his son standing outside the cabin in the cold. Kolb was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt and pajama bottoms and Honeycutt instructed them to go back inside instead of securing Kolb in the back of the patrol car to await mental health intervention, the lawsuit said.
Once inside, Kolb grabbed a carving fork.... Honeycutt began “repeatedly, unreasonably and unjustifiably discharging his office issued firearm,” shattering one of Kolb’s vertebrae, the lawsuit said.
After the incident, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted on its Facebook page that Honeycutt believed his life was in danger after Kolb stabbed him with a sharp instrument. His bulletproof vest protected him from injury but when Kolb tried to stab him a second time, the deputy used his service weapon to end the attack, the department said.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
my neighbor took his son camping and introduced him to dope smoking. The kid went on to other dangerous drugs.
According to the Epilepsy Foundation, TLS seizures are usually over in a few minutes. That leaves marijuana-induced schizophrenia on the table. Why did the stoner son have daddy in short sleeves outside in the cold and expecting the officer to roll up and throw daddy in a cage without question one? Cops aren't uber drivers.
What was the son's problem that he was unwilling to drive his own blood needing mental health intervention to the ER? (or, especially in Tahoe, bundle them up and walk it off - then go to the ER). It's not like Tahoe doesn't have 24-hr hospitals. Daddy's acting strange after getting stoned so it's not the son's responsibility? And they're the victims? I don't get it.
forensic evidence showed the deputy’s vest had no signs of a stabbing, Kolb said.
“”They also secretly recorded him while he spoke on his cellphone with family members to obtain incriminating information against his father, the lawsuit alleged.””
He spoke with family members to get information against his father? The writer should be in jail!!!!
Marijuana does have medicinal properties; the use in this case was recreational.
It’s recreational and does not hurt anyone.
Those with pre-existing mental conditions ought not use any recreational drug, including alcohol; what's the proper conclusion for governmental policy?
What was the son's problem that he was unwilling to drive his own blood needing mental health intervention to the ER?
His son was 16 at the time.
Thanks for the clarification. I just read the excerpt (obviously). I hate it when people don’t read the articles and blurt out uninformed statements!
Kolb is the plaintiff’s lawyer, and he may or may not be telling it like it is.
When my boys turned 21 they asked me to go out for a drink with them. I refused.
I had quit drinking the day my wife told me she was pregnant. I stopped on the way home to give my best friend the happy news. He fixed us a nice scotch. I had the one drink and went home.
Never drank again.
My kids never saw me with alcohol or smelled it on me.
I just don’t understand parents these days.
Here's what the sheriff’s office says:
'Angela Musallam, a spokeswoman for the Placer County Sheriff’s Office, said Tuesday that the sheriff’s office “does not have anything further to say about Mr. Kolb’s case.”'
From the original reports it was a long BBQ skewer that he attempted to use on the cop. A BBQ skewer would be too blunt to cut a shirt or vest, but could be plunged deep into bare flesh. Not to mention that someone wearing a bulletproof vest would not be able to feel the difference between being struck by a sharp blade and being struck by a skewer and would have to assume the other guy was trying to inflict damage and could have a knife capable of doing it, and if there was wrestling the cop would have to do whatever was neccessary to insure his weapons were secure from being grabbed and used against him or others.
I’d like to know what the son’s testimony was before blaming the cop, even though the son was high. Was there a struggle of any kind? If not, why did the cop pull the weapon out? When did the son see the weapon come out? What was his dad doing and where when the gun came out?
If there was a struggle, I would have to side with the cop. If there was no struggle, I would want to hear the explanation for the escalation.
Ditto. Never saw my WWII pilot father ever take a drink and neither has my son seen the same from me. I took Dad’s action as setting the example you want others to follow and follow for a good reason.
Anecdotes about alcohol abuse aren't relevant to a discussion about marijuana and mental illness.
Yep. Kids are great at imitating the behavior of their parents, the primary influences in their lives.
My dad never drank around me and I never drank around my kids. Both boys have tried it but didn’t get past the social drinker stage.
True *IF* one doesn't plan to conclude from marijuana use sometimes triggering breaks from reality that marijuana ought to be illegal. If you're not so planning, I withdraw my observations (which were no more anecdotal than this article, btw).
Doesn't apply as I haven't mentioned or even alluded to your personal behavior.
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