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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Did he wash down some Tide pods?
That’s one dumb M’fer.
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.
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”.
Another psycho.
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.
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.
Baking soda.
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?
Was he really that bored..
Just tryin to be white on the inside.
Translation: I watched him drink it and immediately thought, why didn't somebody else help him?
Something like Peppermint Schnapps
or Ouzo, with a louder “Bark” than Clorox.
Shoulda chugged some Draino.
You’re the first to ask that question.
What was the bleach doing there to begin with?
SPJNK.
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.
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.
Lol! That sounds like a good one.
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