Posted on 08/20/2013 5:35:57 PM PDT by South40
Journalist Michael Hastings, who was killed in a fiery Los Angeles crash in June, died of "traumatic injuries" as a result of the accident and had traces of drugs in his system, Los Angeles coroner's officials said Tuesday.
Hastings, 33, died June 18 in a single-vehicle accident. His car burst into flames and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Coroner's officials said Hastings had traces of amphetamine in his system, consistent with possible intake of methamphetamine many hours before death, as well as marijuana. Neither were considered a factor in the crash, according to toxicology reports.
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Your right, but my religion strictly limits the number of apostrophies I can use in a day and eyev reached my limit so i have to substitute like sounding words like “your” and “their” to get my points across. Sometimes i even have to invent new words.
eyev also had a very bad day so eyem slightly cranky.
My apolgies for snarky replies.
Apologies accepted. Thank you.
No not tonight. I believe that everyone has a pre-set amount of liquor that they can consume during their lifetime. I hit my limit 21 years ago.
But I did not become an anti drink nazi. I think everyone should be able to drink as much as they want and I hope that when (or if) they decide they do not want to drink anymore they do not have to have another drop.
If you drink have one for me. But I would recommend you stay away from the Iron City. It was always a race betwen the heartburn and the buzz for me.
Meth. Right. What, no child porn on his computer too? Didn’t he abuse puppies? I heard he was pro life and hated gays. Plus, he thought global warming is a hoax.
He is certainly guilty of something.
Whatever amphetamine he was using, he was a relapsed addict and his family was concerned enough about it to be trying to get him back into rehab. So I think we can safely conclude he wasn’t acting normal.
“I see you’ve conveniently arrived back at a Hastings Case thread in your usual role as an apologist for Statist-Hits-From-Mars.”
Well, in order to be an apologist for something, that thing has to actually have happened. In this case, the only “hit” is a delusion you’ve dreamed up in your mind.
“Why should anyone believe this same kind of improbable BS shoveled on them when Breitbart was reported to have had a “heart attack”?”
Maybe because this guy was known to be a relapsed addict whose family was trying to get back in rehab. Or do you think it is “improbable” for a relapsed addict to have drugs in their system?
“Now Hastings suddenly is a “METH-Head?”
Hey, take it up with Hasting, he was doing the drugs, not me.
“You STILL fail to explain why Hastings car blew up as though it’d been hit by tank mortar... “
Tank mortar? What witness said that? Or is that just another part of your delusion?
Maybe, except he abused prescription amphetamines in the past too. So, if he was prescribed one of those, you can bet your bottom dollar he wasn’t just taking them for ADD. Addicts can’t take their poison in moderation.
Supposedly his wife turned on a dime. Maybe the wife was "counseled" about protecting her husband's reputation. On the other hand, he was in a high stress racket. A psychotic break is not out of the realm of possibility. Maybe he realized the truth that he was out there alone with his male reproductive organ in his hand. We're not likely to ever know from the the personal stuff. You have to admit that the actual "accident" was a bit operatic.
I was skeptical until I read his family was gathering for an intervention. In that context, his remark about going off the radar could mean he was not going to hang around.
I have seen tweakers up close & personal. There is nothing normal in their thought process. Several scenarios come to mind
-He saw the tree, didn’t give a shit and had no concept of car vs tree=certain death
-saw the tree & thought he could drive right over it.
Tweakers have no sense of reality. They are psychotic, amoral and there is no reasoning with one. No humanity at all. They can fool anyone of us, as the are master manipulators.
Yeah, his email reads in a whole different light if you consider the possibility of drug-fueled paranoia at work. I’m still waiting for anyone to show whether any of his coworkers corroborated his story about being questioned by the feds. Seems like that would be easy to verify or debunk.
ROTFLOL!
His family got the message from his assassination and the subsequent murder of the coroner who was the photograph taker.
They like to live, you know.
So...1 + 1 = 3? Got it, Copernicus. Your handle is a less than subtle give-away of your sole intention and mission.
Maybe because this guy was known to be a relapsed addict whose family was trying to get back in rehab. Or do you think it is “improbable” for a relapsed addict to have drugs in their system?
"Known relapse addict"? By whose definition? And how do YOU know Hastings' family details of such intervention?
Hey, take it up with Hasting [the "METH head], he was doing the drugs, not me.
"Traces" is not exactly the same as abuse. I realize this is a gray area of distinction for you.
ME: “You STILL fail to explain why Hastings car blew up as though it’d been hit by tank mortar... “
Tank mortar? What witness said that? Or is that just another part of your delusion?
Nice reading comprehension. What part of "as though" didn't you understand, Mr. 'Official (Fairy-Tale) Report"'? And besides, we've already determined that Hastings car was an inexplicably unusual fireball as was his bullet-ridden vehicle AND cremated body DURING the strange crash. Never mind his inexplicable un-authorized cremation.
For those of us NOT covering the back-side of the "Official" narrative for some odd reason, we know definitively that Hastings' surveillance and obvious hit occurred because of his investigative journalism exposing YOUR overlords.
+1
Ya think?? For good reason: TO SEND A MESSAGE. (as if Breitbart's "heart attack" wasn't.)
We are witnessing overt Soviet-type of assassinations during a regime and media that operates just like the old USSR and TASS....and we're not supposed to notice??
What makes you believe that this "gathering" was contrived cover, mis-direction and disinformation?
Tweakers have no sense of reality. They are psychotic, amoral and there is no reasoning with one. No humanity at all. They can fool anyone of us, as the are master manipulators.
That's quite a leap of presumption in the case of Hastings...
I have a much different concept of who-is-fooling-who, and just who the real "manipulators" are in this case....
Now just who would have to motive to see to it that Hastings was not only eliminated, but that the narrative would support the notion that he was "unstable" to begin with?
Firsthand scoop?
I can’t figure this out. It seems he had problems with substances. And he was onto some pretty big stories. Was he paranoid because of the drugs, was he manic about things he was finding out that weren’t such a big deal?
Or was he onto something and had to be put down?
If there is conspiracy here and not drug fueled paranoia, I’d say shamefully that our country is better than the old polonium tricks up putin’s sleeve.
“Your handle is a less than subtle give-away of your sole intention and mission.”
You have no idea what my handle means. You’ve just assigned it some meaning in your own delusional mind without even bothering to ask me about it. That’s what delusional people do; they see confirmations of their own paranoid fantasies in normal, everyday things.
“”Known relapse addict”? By whose definition?”
His family’s. I suppose you knew Hastings better than them, eh?
“And how do YOU know Hastings’ family details of such intervention?”
It’s in the coroner’s report.
“Hey, take it up with Hasting [the “METH head], he was doing the drugs, not me.”
If you are going to quote me, do not insert comments into my quote that I did not make. That is shady behavior that doesn’t belong on FR.
“Traces” is not exactly the same as abuse. I realize this is a gray area of distinction for you.”
Yes, because there are plenty of relapsed addicts who use amphetamines responsibly, right? If you knew anything about tox screenings, you would know that all they ever find are traces, even if you are a raging addict. Traces are what the tests are designed to find, genius.
“Nice reading comprehension. What part of “as though” didn’t you understand”
So you admit, the “like a tank mortar” description was just your own personal insinuation, and that no actual witness described the event in those terms?
“And besides, we’ve already determined that Hastings car was an inexplicably unusual fireball as was his bullet-ridden vehicle AND cremated body DURING the strange crash.”
Don’t say “we” like I am included in your delusions, buddy. I remember you and some other wackos deciding, based on visual inspection of one photo, that you thought there were bullet holes in the car. That doesn’t make a “bullet-ridden vehicle” into a reality. And the vehicle fire wasn’t inexplicable, except in your own deluded fantasy.
“we know definitively that Hastings’ surveillance and obvious hit occurred because of his investigative journalism exposing YOUR overlords.”
Oh really, you KNOW this? Then you can point me to a witness that confirms that the feds were actually questioning people Hastings knew, as Hastings claims? Should be simple enough, since you KNOW that it is true, right?
His coworkers or employees said he died of natural causes before his body had cooled. Why so fast? And why did he turn beet reedlike that?
True. The guy did work for Rolling Stone and i think drug use is mandatory. I just don’t trust government at any level. By their actions they should never get the benefit of doubt.
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