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Drugs found in driver's truck involved in tragic wreck
Newsobserver.com ^
| 7/2/2011
| THOMASI MCDONALD AND BRUCE SICELOFF
Posted on 07/02/2011 7:43:08 PM PDT by Former Fetus
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Look at the picture carefully. You can see the bed of the Ford pickup rolled up in front of the tractor trailer. The pickup cab, with the driver, are still under the tractor trailer. I've never seen anything like this!
To: Former Fetus
yeah and the freakin retards say marijuana is harmless.
Even if you could prove some medical benefit to marijuana, smoking it wouldn’t be the delivery method.
Stupid hippies just want to get high
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posted on
07/02/2011 7:45:08 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Former Fetus
How was he getting the methadone if he is a long-haul truck driver? When you first get on methadone, you have to show up at the same clinic each and every morning, seven days a week, to get your dose. That’s why methadone is known as ‘liquid handcuffs’.
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posted on
07/02/2011 7:48:26 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
(Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
To: yldstrk
yeah and the freakin retards say marijuana is harmless. Nothing is 'harmless'. Not water, not food, not anything. This person should be tossed into prison for the rest of his natural life regardless of the substances he was impaired by at the time of this incident.
L
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posted on
07/02/2011 7:48:34 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Former Fetus
Graybeal, of 306 Elena Lane in Newport, Tenn., is a convicted rapist and burglar, according to court records.
That alone should have been enough to keep him out of the truck. My mother had to have an FBI background check when she was driving.
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posted on
07/02/2011 7:48:34 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Former Fetus
DURHAM -- State troopers say the driver of a tractor-trailer was under the influence of marijuana and methadone when his vehicle caused a crash on Interstate 40 that killed three people Thursday.
Ronald Eugene Graybeal, 50, is in the Durham County jail after being charged with driving while impaired and three counts of felony death by vehicle.
Graybeal, of 306 Elena Lane in Newport, Tenn., is a convicted rapist and burglar, according to court records.
He was driving a truck owned by an East Tennessee company that has been cited for dozens of violations related to fatigued drivers and unsafe driving, according to federal inspection records.
Just...wow.
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posted on
07/02/2011 7:50:44 PM PDT
by
arderkrag
(Georgia is God's Country.----------In the same way Rush is balance, I am consensus.)
To: cripplecreek
My mother had to have an FBI background check when she was driving. It's a TSA background check and you only have to do it if you are getting a Hazmat endorsement on your license.
I didn't think you could hold a CDL if you were a convicted felon. Maybe he was just driving intrastate.
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posted on
07/02/2011 7:52:12 PM PDT
by
SeeSharp
To: Former Fetus
wow.... this reminds me though. Did we ever find out who the driver was in the amtrack truck crash in the middle of no where?
To: Former Fetus
What?! Marijuana?!
That couldn't be.
Everyone knows marijuana is a harmless substance.
Well . . . don't they? . . . hello? . . . anyone? . . .
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posted on
07/02/2011 7:55:57 PM PDT
by
YHAOS
(you betcha!)
To: Former Fetus
To: Former Fetus
In a just world, this POS stoner crook would be dangling at the end of a rope by the end of the week.
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posted on
07/02/2011 7:58:57 PM PDT
by
GenXteacher
(He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
To: yldstrk
*But* cigarettes *must* be banned.
That deadly second/third/fourth hand smoke kills people, you know.
Hypocrites.
[am I the only person who’s noticed that pot has *smoke* too?]
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posted on
07/02/2011 7:59:19 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(I wear my sunglasses at night.)
To: Former Fetus
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posted on
07/02/2011 8:01:14 PM PDT
by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: Hoodat
Nope...that’s in the past..it can now be dispensed in tablet form.
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posted on
07/02/2011 8:03:36 PM PDT
by
Recovering Ex-hippie
(where is the Great Santini when we need him??)
To: Lurker
This person should be tossed into prison for the rest of his natural life regardless of the substances he was impaired by at the time of this incident.Back in 1997, one of my good friends and his son were killed in a head on collision much like this one. The big rig driver who crossed over into the wrong line on a two lane highway was on methadone. He got seven years in prison and is out and enjoying life now while my friend and his 14 year-old son were sentenced to death for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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posted on
07/02/2011 8:06:10 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: Inyo-Mono
I'm terribly sorry for your loss. I've long said that if you want to get away with murder, use a car as the weapon.
L
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posted on
07/02/2011 8:07:36 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Former Fetus
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posted on
07/02/2011 8:07:50 PM PDT
by
AdamBomb
To: Former Fetus
I've never seen anything like this! I haven't, either . . ...
. . . . and
. . . . .and the perp:
The semi had to have rear-ended the pickup when it was stopped?!?
Anyhow, what a mug shot. This poor guy is ----ed.
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posted on
07/02/2011 8:08:00 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
(The road to serfdom is being paved by RINOs, and Lisa Murkowski is their mascot.)
To: Inyo-Mono
and is out and enjoying life now It occurs to me that it's within your power to rectify that situation if you wanted to badly enough.
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posted on
07/02/2011 8:08:32 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: YHAOS
Big Whoop.
ALL drugs fall under the DUI laws.
The guy was on LOTS of drugs...and so why don’t we make alcohol illegal too.
STOP the War on Drugs...no one said marijuanna is always “harmless”. NO ONE should be driving under the influence.Period.
the problem here is enforcement of Truck Driving regulations..your argument that the problem is the marijuanna avoids real enforcement of safe truck driving.
I am against anyone driving under the influence..alcohol, drugs, fatigue, etc. And I don’t want to continue with the SWAT teams, the total waste of billions of dollars of my tax money under a WOd that has FAILED..
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posted on
07/02/2011 8:09:38 PM PDT
by
Recovering Ex-hippie
(where is the Great Santini when we need him??)
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