Cold and flu season is approaching, and as usual we are being deluged with a lot of good advice on how to avoid becoming ill. I found this story the other day that shows we should also be careful even after we get sick.
Apparently Sally Harpold, a grandmother from Clinton Indiana, purchased a box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband at one drugstore, and then less than a week later bought a box of Mucinex-D for her daughter.
What she didn't realize was that she is only allowed to buy up to 3.0 grams of pseudo ephedrine, an ingredient in over the counter cold medicines, per week. The two purchases netted 3.6 grams.
It also brought the police to her door 4 months later, where she was arrested, hand-cuffed, hauled into jail, questioned about her cold medicine purchases, and then bailed out by her husband who was thankfully over his cold and able to get to the jail to bring her back home.
The Vermillion County Prosecutor and the Vermillion County Sheriff justified the arrest as a valid method for battling methamphetamine production in small labs in Indiana, and forcing it to be manufactured in larger labs in Mexico.
It is a travesty that any elected official would defend a law that allows an arrest like this to take place.
It's an even bigger travesty that so many of us won't condemn a law that allows an arrest like this to take place.
Apparently Sally Harpold, a grandmother from Clinton Indiana, purchased a box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband at one drugstore, and then less than a week later bought a box of Mucinex-D for her daughter.
What she didn't realize was that she is only allowed to buy up to 3.0 grams of pseudo ephedrine, an ingredient in over the counter cold medicines, per week. The two purchases netted 3.6 grams.
It also brought the police to her door 4 months later, where she was arrested, hand-cuffed, hauled into jail, questioned about her cold medicine purchases, and then bailed out by her husband who was thankfully over his cold and able to get to the jail to bring her back home.
The Vermillion County Prosecutor and the Vermillion County Sheriff justified the arrest as a valid method for battling methamphetamine production in small labs in Indiana, and forcing it to be manufactured in larger labs in Mexico.
It is a travesty that any elected official would defend a law that allows an arrest like this to take place.
It's an even bigger travesty that so many of us won't condemn a law that allows an arrest like this to take place.
What if you have several all sick at the same time?
What a Crock...
Guess We will have to buy some each week as to not set off the,
"Big Red Drug flag"
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How a Man plays the game shows something of his character
How he loses shows all of it..
Ridiculous.
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think they should look into the buyers a little more before they go breaking down doors. If the person has a rap sheet a mile long with drug charges and whatnot then fine, they have my blessing to bust them if they've bought too much of that stuff. If it's a 65 year old (example) grandmother that's just trying to take care of her family, leave the woman alone! I wonder if they even asked her why she bought all the medicine. I bet they didn't. How sad...
WHY DID IT TAKE THEM 4 MONTHS TO GO PICK HER UP????