And there’s the backpedal. Now we just wait for that other shoe.
Actually, I was primarily addressing your cavalier attitude towards putting drugs and stuff in people’s food in general. Someone earlier mentioned Visine; you supported feeding someone Ex-Lax. Both could have unintended, and potentially serious, consequences. But I guess that’s ok, as long as they had it coming, huh?
You should never give Ambien (or similar sleep medication) to someone unawares. If he got in the car and drove off it could be very serious.
Geez… 
I didn’t talk to you at the Dopefest because two weeks later you’d talk about drugging your boyfriend against his will? You’ve got an interesting grasp of causality.
Lobster, you have hovered at a 15yro mentality for far too long. Grow the fuck up.
So, what do ya’ll do at Dopefests, do each other Bodily Harm with bar furniture? 
Dude, it’s fucking Federal Code. Never apologize for mis-reading Federal Code, even most Congressmen don’t really understand most of it. 
It was 2 am, he was sick and we don’t own a car. But you’re right I should have considered this.
Eh. If your OP had been “My good roommate who has never done weird shit stole my cheques and messed up my life,” my response would have been all sympathy and (hopefully) helpful advice. To me, your OP read like this; “My terrible room-mate who is a drug user and under felony charges has been doing weird and awful escalating things, and I’ve stuck around long enough for him to do something truly rotten to me, but it’s all his fault.” If you don’t see your own role in the shit sandwich you’ve gotten, you’re probably doomed to keep on making the same bad decisions with the same bad results.
Not that I don’t trust your padlock, but I don’t trust your thieving roomate. In other words, you don’t have anything in there that this bowl-skid could get his hands on & use against you do you? Something that his criminal record might keep him from getting due to a background check? Because until he’s in lock-up, nothing in that room is secure.
A very good friend was in an apartment with theiving asshat roomie in downtown New Brunswick; he thought a wooden door with a padlock worked fine too. It did…until that day he came home to find the hard-on had used a 12-lb sledge hammer to break down the door while he was at work. Yes, he broke down his bedroom door…and for what? His PC? His checkbook? No… for a dog-eared stash of porn mags. :mad: :mad: :mad:
I think if you took all of the hijacks out of this thread, it would be less than a page long. Anyway…
Yeah, this is a big part of it. By the time I moved in this summer, Dave was paying maybe half his rent and my friend was again in danger of losing the house. Still, he didn’t want to kick Dave out because he was at least paying some money, and because he just plain didn’t have the heart to, felon or not.
Dave finally got to the point where he was paying almost no rent at all and my friend had had enough.
I’m hoping they revoke his probation and that it’s not an issue. If not, I don’t know how things will play out. Thing is, neither of us is on any kind of lease or anything like that. Nobody ever signed a thing.
Well thanks, Dr. Phil.
I guess I just thought that I could handle him and that there was no other way for him to do me harm. I rarely talk to the guy. He keeps to himself and his friends and me to mine. 99% of the time, he’s not bothering me. I also didn’t want to do what would essentially amount to screwing my friend over. And I don’t have a chance in hell of getting rent this cheap anywhere else.
Nope, no firearms.
“Hey, boyfriend, we both need some sleep. You’ve been keeping applesauce down OK, how about I mix in some Ambien with that?”
Man this Dave guy IS a douche! Just talking about him makes half the people here go batshit insane! I can only imagine having to LIVE with this guy, yeesh…
And I agree with Polymer (the guest who came here for this thread and is already disgusted by us) that you gotta make sure your friend follows through with a solid eviction of this guy so you can make sure he has no right to come back once he’s released and you have a place to stay.
Probably.
I’d worry about a steak knife or a baseball bat. Maybe he figures he can get away with the checks because he is going to come into your room with the above sledge hammer and whack your ass. Take care.
Oh, let’s not get all fucking hysterical here. I see this lobstermobster backlash mob forming, and it’s just silly, and exactly what we should be trying to avoid. Interesting new people are so damn rare around here, why not chase one off, eh? Lame. Let’s not get all self-righteous on the n00b, OK?
I’m not endorsing poisoning here, or giving someone drugs without their consent. I would never do either. Also, sharing prescriptions = double plus ungood. Let me just state that clearly for the record. But…
I have a scrip for Ambien, and I’d never share it or take more than one per night because the pharmacy doles that shit out like deBeers doles out diamonds, and if you run out before 30 days have passed, you are SOL. However, and I heard this from my doctor, I do know for a fact that you can easily take more than one, or double your dose, if you need to, without risk of ODing and dying.
IANA pharmacist, but I am an experienced Ambien user for a long fucking time, so relax. Fact is, lobstermobster was not going to kill her boyfriend with 2 Ambien, even if they were 10mg pills. The only risk would have been him driving, which lemme tell you, if you aren’t used to taking Ambien, and you take 2… you aren’t walking, much less driving, anywhere. Two hits-- it hitting you, you hitting the closest horizontal surface. Just to put this in perspective.
I would have told him I was mixing it with applesauce, myself. Why? Because if you don’t know that you are suddenly going to go into an amnesiac state, then go unconscious, it can be quite disconcerting. Hell, it’s disconcerting even if you know it’s coming. And that’s not cool. But death? Unlikely. Very unlikely.
All I can do is laugh and laugh at this comment.
Apparently no one else got the reference. To be fair, though, it was after Phil Hartman died.
Just don’t forget that Dave may employ Beth’s equally effective “crying like a little girl” technique. It did wonders for selling Mushmouth hats.
-AdmiralCrunch, *Unofficial Newsradio Geek *
Hmm…I was thinking Nikita Khrushchev at the UN.
I stopped watching News Radio after Hartman died though.
Yeah, that’s what I was going for, though I was a big fan of NewsRadio, and even (gasp) enjoyed the Jon Lovitz episodes from the fifth season.
of course, we were mainly pointing out that dosing some one w/o their knowledge & permission was A. dangerous (not necessarily fatal), and B. illegal.
your doc gave you advice about how it affects you under normal circumstances, not how it affecs another, ill person.