Posted on 03/09/2025 10:30:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Though the doctors recommended that the packets be removed through surgery, Shanid refused to sign the consent form as he started showing behavioural changes.
The postmortem examination of Shanid Saleem, 28, who died after swallowing a packet of MDMA to escape from the police in Thamarassery on Saturday, confirmed overdose as the cause of death. Thamarassery DySP K Susheer said the postmortem held at Kozhikode Medical College Hospital (MCH) on Sunday revealed he Shanid swallowed a packet containing 9g of ganja and another having MDMA in liquid form. The packet of MDMA was found torn, while the other was intact, he said.
Experts said MDMA overdose leads to multiple organ failure within hours and finally, death. Also, there is no antidote for its overdose, they said. “Upon MDMA overdose, what follows is a complex and dangerous health issue. MDMA, a synthetic drug, is a nervous system stimulant and is used to feel more energetic and alert. Even a limited quantity of MDMA will increase the heart rate and blood pressure, cause wakefulness and sweating and hike the body temperature,” said Dr Suresh Kumar P N, a psychiatrist from Kozhikode.
He said its overdose will cause the blood pressure to shoot up leading to cerebral haemorrhage. “The heart starts beating very fast, leading to heart failure. And when the body temperature increases abnormally, it affects all organs. MDMA overdose may also lead to seizure and drop in sodium level,” Dr Suresh said, adding that all these factors lead to failure of the brain, heart, kidney and other organs.
“The death rate is high. If a patient who overdosed is brought to the hospital within an hour or two, doctors can do a stomach wash with a universal antidote. However, it can only reduce absorption level; the complexities will continue,” he said.
The Thamarassery DySP said usually, gold smugglers swallow the metal to escape from authoirities. “There is no change to the gold’s form later. However, drug peddlers doing it is dangerous and leads to overdose as in Shanid’s case,” Susheer said.
After he swallowed the drugs, the cops first took Shanid to the Thamarassery taluk hospital and later to the Kozhikode MCH. Though the doctors recommended that the packets be removed through surgery, Shanid refused to sign the consent form as he started showing behavioural changes. He died while the authorities were planning to go ahead with the surgery considering his critical condition. The inquest was held at the MCH in the presence of a magistrate, and the body handed over to relatives after postmortem.
Probably a preferable way to perish than 99% of the other ways people cross the Ganges in Thamarassery.
Major PEW!!
STINKORAMA!!
MDMA is “Ecstasy.” Sounds like he died happy.
Gee, that's too damn bad.
> who died after swallowing a packet of MDMA to escape from the police
It worked.
Probably not. Organ failure is often unpleasant and painful, and the impacts on his CNS would have left him disoriented with a sensation of burning up from hyperthermia. The much-touted mellowness of Ecstasy comes at a relatively low dose.
speaking on the ganges river, saw a documentary on india where they were all bathing in mass and brushing thier teeth
The LD50 for MDMA is 180 mg per kg. That means a 150 lb. individual would have to consume between 700mg-1400mg to be at 50% risk of death. That’s substantially more than a recreational dose ~100mg. My guess is this individual was a mule or just exceptionally dumb. Possible Darwin award winner?
So the escape worked... permanently.
LOL!
Brutal. 😊
It should be legal. I’d like to try it once before croaking. It could be useful in old-folks homes under medical supervision. I don’t think users take it too often.
Thanks, I was.
If this doofus did this in the US, his family would get a multi-million dollar settlement regardless of his stupidity and refusal to sign documents
Indians themselves smell horrible. A few towns over from me, a college is nearly all Indian students, and families have moved in en masse. They are at my gym and in stores. At Aldi yesterday, I had to stay 5 feet back of an Indian family in line because of the stench. And in the gym I go out of my way to avoid Indians due to their body odor. It is atrocious, but I don’t know why.
Currie based diet and hygiene.
I think it is the spices they use in their food, and how much they use.
In a similar vein, I traveled to China in 1991. While visiting a really cool Shaolin temple (Buddhist), a monk came out and walked right up to me. In perfect English he said, "You are an American, are you not?" I answered in the affirmative and asked how he knew. He said he could tell by the smell. He said it is not an objectionable smell, but a positively identifiable one.
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