Today's Doofus is from Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
An Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputy arrested a woman who brought her own drugs to the hospital.
The patient had been admitted to Fort Walton Beach Medical Center for reasons which the police report did not specify. As the patient's attending nurses inventoried her personal effects, they found a black plastic ashtray, a razor blade, and a "large white chalky substance."
The nurses stored the suspected narcotics in the pharmacy's safe and notified the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Department. A deputy responded after the patient had been discharged, and performed a field test on the substance, which tested positive as crack cocaine.
Truly, sometimes the mind boggles . . . You're going to hospital, knowing you'll probably be taking some fairly serious medication: and yet you bring your own illegal narcotics with you, despite the real possibility that they might interact dangerously - even fatally - with your prescribed medicines? That's doofidity of a truly epic nature!
Sheesh!
Peter
On the other hand, that type of stupidity tends to be self-correcting.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I am reading too much into it, but I think you may have missed something. Nurses do not ordinarily inventory someone's personal effects. This would sem to indicate to me the possibility that the woman was brought to the hospital possibly due to an accident, or in other words unexpectedly. No excuse for her to have illegal narcotics mind you, but puts the whole thing in another light as to whether or not she actually checked herself into the hospital as if she had a preset appointment and then broguht drugs to the hospital in her personal effects. Dumb to be doing crack - sure. Dumb to have it in her personal effects - sure. Just maybe not dumb enough to knowingly bring it to a hospital where her bag would be inventoried by a nurse. When was the last time you had any of your personal effect inventoried by a nurse?
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GB
I'm not surprised... There is a segment of society that doesn't even think about drugs, as they are an everyday part of their lives...
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