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KSP: Mom High On Bath Salts Drops Boy On Interstate
WLWT ^ | March 1, 2011 | WLWT

Posted on 03/01/2011 10:34:06 AM PST by TSgt

CALVERT CITY, Ky. -- A mother charged with endangering her children said she was wandering along a western Kentucky interstate with them after snorting bath salts.

Kentucky State Police said they found a 2-year-old boy with a head injury lying on the inside edge of Interstate 24 in Marshall County and his mother carrying a 5-year-old child in the median.

Police said 29-year-old Cynthia Palmer told officers she had been snorting bath salts and began to hallucinate Monday night while driving from the Tennessee side of Fort Campbell.

Officers said she stopped and attempted to carry both children across the roadway, but dropped the younger child and left him.

The 2-year-old was taken to a hospital and the older child was taken into custody by Tennessee Social Services.

Palmer was charged with assault, wanton endangerment and public intoxication.

Court records do not list an attorney for her.

A Kentucky House committee approved a bill last month that would ban the sale or possession of the synthetic drug marketed as bath salts and sold under such brand names as “Ivory Wave” or “Purple Wave.”

Committee members were told that the substance can cause delusional behavior, confusion, agitation and paranoia.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: kentucky; ky; lazwouldhitit; ohio; pennsylvania
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To: GreenAccord
You can go all the way back to when someone said, "you know, that leaf on that plant.... I wonder what it'd be like to light it on fire, and inhale the burning emissions."

More likely it went something like this:

"Hey its cold out here, let's get a fire started. Those plants over there look burnable. There we go. Say, anyone else hungry as hell?"
21 posted on 03/01/2011 10:53:19 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: TSgt
I’m not sure what makes someone think, “hey, why don’t I snort bath salt?”

Someone who took "Calgon, take me away!" a bit too literally.
22 posted on 03/01/2011 10:54:35 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: TruthConquers

These idiots would snort anything they can get their hands on.

When I was a kid, it was airplane cement and gasoline vapors.

The kid is probably brain damaged from its mom.

I had a High School gym teacher who said pot heads and druggies shouldn’t be incarcerated. They should be dropped off on an island without a boat in a shark infested sea with all the poppy seeds they want. I think he was right.


23 posted on 03/01/2011 10:56:48 AM PST by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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To: TSgt

According to liberal dopers, the war on drugs forced her to do it.


24 posted on 03/01/2011 10:56:48 AM PST by familyop ("Don't worry, they'll row for a month before they figure out I'm fakin' it." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: GreenAccord; TSgt
Yeah, I've wondered about that kind of thing too. You can go all the way back to when someone said, "you know, that leaf on that plant.... I wonder what it'd be like to light it on fire, and inhale the burning emissions." There's certainly more examples from further back. Then again, I like lobster and who was the first guy who thought, "let's boil that sucker and eat the innards"?

Or the first person that said, "I'm gonna eat whatever pops out of that chicken's butt".

25 posted on 03/01/2011 10:57:07 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: TSgt
My Wife was in WalMart yesterday when a man walked in, rushed back to electronics, grabbed a can of compressed air and started huffing it. He went crazy, banging his head against display racks and just going nuts. When he came to, the cop told that he hoped his head hurt and hauled him off to jail.

People are weird.

26 posted on 03/01/2011 10:59:30 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
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To: familyop
According to liberal dopers, the war on drugs forced her to do it.

Oh' yeah, I've already read some of those posts on the news sites. If she had legal access to cocaine or meth this wouldn't have happened! /SAR
27 posted on 03/01/2011 11:03:55 AM PST by TSgt (Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
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To: TSgt

Snorting bath salts?

This takes the old phrase, “Keep your nose clean” to a whole new level.


28 posted on 03/01/2011 11:04:01 AM PST by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: ZULU

This is actually synthetic cocaine. The high last several days and is sold by the gram. It tends to have a high rate of psychiatric hospitalizations and suicide attempts.


29 posted on 03/01/2011 11:04:12 AM PST by healy61
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To: healy61

Amazing.


30 posted on 03/01/2011 11:06:13 AM PST by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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To: rarestia
I’m really at a loss as to understanding this new bath salts thing. Are they legitimately bath salts? Can you actually use them in a bath, or are they surreptitiously designer drugs packaged as bath salts?

The latter.

31 posted on 03/01/2011 11:06:54 AM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: TSgt

With all the real drugs out there...


32 posted on 03/01/2011 11:06:54 AM PST by SouthTexas (Tea time!)
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To: TSgt
A Kentucky House committee approved a bill last month that would ban the sale or possession of the synthetic drug

Great, now just as many people will get it, but instead of getting it from the store, with the money fueling legitimate business profits, they'll get it from their neighborhood drug dealer and the money will fund gang activity.

33 posted on 03/01/2011 11:07:19 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: ZULU
"Uh Oh. Now we have to sign in and register to buy bath salts along with Sudafed..."

That's only if were lucky. Homeland Security could use this to insist on searching us while we are taking a bath.

34 posted on 03/01/2011 11:09:11 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: TSgt

Some funny comments. But this story is very sad. Hope the babies are going to be ok.


35 posted on 03/01/2011 11:09:43 AM PST by txlurker
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To: Nervous Tick
There is a cohort of (barely) human beings that simply should *not* be permitted to breed.

But then how would they qualify for welfare, food stamps, section 8 housing, free health care, and all the other public assistance available to single mothers? < /sarc>

36 posted on 03/01/2011 11:15:08 AM PST by lonevoice (Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
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To: GreenAccord
Then again, I like lobster and who was the first guy who thought, "let's boil that sucker and eat the innards"?

Long, long ago, you ate whetever moved. If you didn't die from it, you ate it again. or you starved. Lobster used to be considered the disgusting creepy-crawly that only poor people and servants ate.

37 posted on 03/01/2011 11:17:53 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: lonevoice

>> But then how would they qualify for welfare, food stamps, &etc

Maybe we could tie off their genitalia and send ‘em on an all expenses paid trip to colonize an asteroid or something.

I’d be happy to kick some in on the airfare.


38 posted on 03/01/2011 11:19:44 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: TSgt

More here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/22/AR2011012203854.html


39 posted on 03/01/2011 11:25:36 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: John O
Committee members were told that the substance can cause delusional behavior, confusion, agitation and paranoia.

To the dopers those effects are collectively known as "fun"

Also sounds like the behavior of the typical Obama voter.

Jack

40 posted on 03/01/2011 11:25:47 AM PST by JackOfVA
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