Posted on 02/23/2021 10:44:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
According to the CDC, fentanyl is the most dangerous drug in America
This week, an Arizona family received far more than they bargained for when they bought a Glo Worm toy for their daughter — only to find that it was stuffed with a sandwich bag full of illicit drugs.
According to a Facebook post by the Phoenix Police Department, the unlucky parents purchased the toy from a thrift store in El Mirage, Arizona. Before letting their daughter play with the toy, the parents cleaned and washed it only to discover the bag with more than 5,000 pills "believed to be fentanyl."
Police said the parents immediately called them after discovering the drugs and handed them over.
FAA Grounds Planes With Pratt & Whitney Engines Involved in Denver Failure "Great job parents!" the Phoenix Police Department wrote on social media.
The CDC named fentanyl the most dangerous drug in America — in 2016 alone, it caused more than 18,000 deaths. It's a synthetic opioid similar to morphine, but 50 to 100 times more potent, with a heroin-like effect.
Other common drugs can be laced with fentanyl without the user's knowledge — often leading to tragic and irreversible consequences. Less than a month ago, relationship therapist Dr. Laura Berman's 16-year-old son passed away from an overdose of fentanyl-laced Xanax.
The Phoenix Police Department also reminded the public to be sure to carefully inspect all pre-loved items for their own safety.
After all, the use of innocent children's toys as a vessel for drugs isn't an entirely new phenomenon. In 2015, New Jersey mom Elizabeth Faidley ordered her daughter a $500, "handmade" mermaid baby doll from Etsy. But the doll's apparent creepiness wasn't its only problem — after Faidley took it to a doll hospital for a makeover, the employees found two ounces of cocaine in its head.
Further investigation determined that the Etsy shop was actually a cover-up for a drug smuggling operation, Faidley wrote in a viral Facebook post.
for me, I just wouldn't buy a second hand fabric toy for my child....just no way to get it clean unless its fully washable...
Was that fentanyl or carfentanyl?
Biden’s fault!!
But the story does nothing to explain how a drug dealer let the toy carrying the drug get lost into a second hand store.
Or how about the other story with the cocaine? How did that happen?
I went to this woman’s Facebook page and read the whole story all the while wondering how could anyone be so stupid as to spend so much money on this stupid doll and pursue it further throwing more money down the drain at this doll hospital that was expensive.
I ended up thinking this woman is a rich liberal. If you read her Facebook page further down the line you will see she is a big supporter off Biden.
She had a post lauding the fact that Biden will evidently conquer Covid when he gets his plan going.
Biden has no plan for Covid.
They have smuggled drugs in dolls since the civil war.
Biden has no plan for lunch, let alone covid.
CC
Probably the wife or girlfriend collected excess toys and got rid of them.
Holy crap, kids chew on toys; that was a close call.
My lawn man told me it was a "crack pipe".
==8-O
You mean his late wife or girlfriend...
Drug Dealers lack a sense of humor about mistakes like this.
Well, Biden does have plans...very important plans!
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