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Posted on June 7 at 12:21 a.m.
OK, a couple of reality checks here. First of all, no one is going to jail for selling anyone the type of N2O he was using. They are readily available chargers for whipped cream dispensers and can be purchased online or at many restaurant supply stores; probably grocery stores as well.
As for the possiblity of overdose death by N2O--it is EXTREMELY difficult. The typical manner of ingestion is by using a device to release the gas from the cartridge into a balloon and hyperventilate into it until you reach a form of anesthesia, or so I'm told. When the user reaches a level of anethetiziation in which they lose consciousness, they go back to breathing normally unless they have done something abnormal, such as placing an unregulated flow directly over the nose and mouth, enclosing themself in a very small, airtight compartment with a large amount of unregulated gas flowing into the area (obviously rarely, if ever, happens), or places a bag over the head to intensify the effect and accidentally asphyxiates, which IS NOT the same as perishing from an overdose. Nitrous oxide "overdoses" are almost unrecorded since the 2 in 2008, but even deaths attributed to NO2 OD are almost always, in fact, deaths associated with unsafe behavior while under the influence. There is a night and day difference between the two.
Ken, you usually put google where your mouth is...if you have references I missed please post a link. I honestly would like to know.
This article appears to have been written early on when details are sketchy, and I doubt the family would appreciate my uninformed speculation on what exactly happened in this traged, so I'll leave it at that.
Posted on May 20 at 4:22 p.m.
Likely Held Marijuana; No Drugs Seized or Suspects Arrested
Best line of the story. Chalk one up for the good guys, indeed.
Posted on February 4 at 9:17 a.m.
Gotta say I'm stoked that a few pounds of meth are off the street, but what's with trying to make a penny ante heroin dealer sound like Dr. Diaz? Now that was a significant drug bust that took supply off the street. These are just two more stats for the prison system, meanwhile the supply chain for heroin and meth has not even hit a speedbump.
Posted on February 4 at 9:11 a.m.
I'm driving down the freeway in the middle of the night, chatting away with my wife after a long day when suddenly, completely out of nowhere, a man is in my lane and I have no time to avoid him. Or maybe I didn't see what I hit, but I know something was there and now there's a high likelihood that cops are soon to be involved. Now, I'm a 78-year-old man with no criminal history or anything, so I'm pretty sure that I kept a lid on my drinking, but man....it was a long day, and even if I don't feel intoxicated there's a chance I'm over .08. Not to mention the fact that I'm a Vietnamese immigrant. Now I'm faced with a choice: do I try to ignore what just happened--someone will definitely come along soon to call 911 and the damage is done by no fault of my own--or do I put myself in a position to spend the rest of my life in jail for vehicular manslaughter? It's easy to say you'd stop. I hope I'd stop. But I have seen the way the law is applied nowadays. Fairness, rationality, and justice are not a part of it. I can't say with certainty that I'd stop, and I think it's fairly simplistic to paint this as a black-and-white situation. Especially given the fact that alcohol is not a proven factor, just part of my theoretical scenario. He could just as easily panicked while stone sober.
Posted on January 22 at 10:07 p.m.
These hunters were obviously a couple of pussies
Posted on October 3 at 3:42 a.m.
The fact is: the county jail is packed, mostly with folks from north county, I'd guess. Another fact is that if you released everyone who never hurt a soul or committed a property crime you'd have more than enough room in there for the bad guys, and since building costs will balloon as this farce comes closer to reality, we'd save enough money for treatment programs AND all that transport from county jail to Santa Maria courthouse, AND free parking at the beaches and parks. And who knows what else. It's time to wake up and smell the refuse living off of your tax dollars--can someone quickly google how much do we "waste" on welfare programs vs how much we "spend" on additional and unnecessary police, probation officers, corrections officers, ADA's, judges, court mandated "nonprofit" treatment centers, paramilitary interdiction teams.....oh yeah, and muthaf'in JAILS?!?!
Posted on September 12 at 12:30 a.m.
Another stu like the rest of them that made our little beach town a cesspool--only this one's so infatuated with beerbongs and the Embarcadero loop that he wants to re-live it over and over. Congrats on your "feat".
The local kids that grew up in I.V. had some fun games, too. I don't think the stus liked them too much. I think I still have a closet full of taps somewhere and a knuckle that just never did heal.
Posted on August 24 at 1:15 a.m.
Don, your comment "Council members Randy Rowse and Frank Hotchkiss still don't get that when there is a conflict of interest officials must abstain." is incorrect for several reasons. I'll stop at 2:
1) Personal beliefs that differ from the applicant are not valid reason for determining a "conflict of interest". Political beliefs and the location of begonias are mutually exclusive.
2) If the ABR felt they just could not be fair because they were raised by people unqualified to teach a human being to navigate society, then they should have recused themselves, not abstained. There's a difference.
Either way, none of them should have allowed their inner-voice to allow their logic to circumvent item #1 on the list. So Rowse and Hotchkiss are, in this extremely rare instance, absolutely correct. This issue should not be over until there is a new ABR. I believe in homosexuals' right to marry, but I feel that the First Amendment trumps it EVERY TIME.
Posted on August 6 at 12:40 a.m.
I have no idea what happened in this case, but I can tell you this with 100% confidence: The SB DA's office is a cesspool. Justice takes a back seat to ego, politics, favoritism, cronyism, and money. Based on my experience with Dudley's administration and her flock of flying apes this is my firm opinion and that of everyone I've spoken to about it.
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Posted on June 7 at 12:30 a.m.
An Assembly Bill to ban or limit the sales of whipped cream chargers are as useless as a ban on raw milk. More legislation for a non-problem. Keep working on bathsalts and that weird fake marijuana spray that's giving kids dementia if you must leap into the drug war. There's already strict limits on medical grade N2O sold in quantity, and N2O sold for racing purposes has chemicals like sulfur added to make it impossible to abuse. It would take something like 1000 whip cream chargers to equal a small medical grade tank. It's not meth, people.
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