Will do. Uncle Jesse and I always raise a glass whenever I’ve kicked someone ass in the Pit.
Oh. Oh, you think you proved something.
Everyone else, help me out. Is this person yet another Doper who is sort of tolerated because everyone feels sorry for them? Am I dealing with SDMBKL or Rand Rover or yet another one of these?
Oh my, yes. Do let us have this poll.
I will put up my posts in the thread against yours. Who has the better of the argument?!?
Yes, because the Pit is some sort of contest. And treating people like shit somehow means you’ve won.
I have fucking experience with being so vindictive you want to hurt yourself. I also know that certain bodily functions override this. There is no way that guy stayed in there if he were actually free to go. It is far more likely the cops were trying to punish him for being in there and then, since they do it all the time, lied to cover their asses.
I mean, we have first hand experience with you in how people who are in the justice system act like assholes.
EDIT: And, yes, KG is only tolerated. He says he’s a lawyer, but then treats everyone like shit and expects them to believe him.
Oh, holy shit. You think winning a poll in the BBQ Pit will validate you?
Wow. I know I won’t. You obviously wouldn’t win on the merits of this discussion (or you wouldn’t have broadened it thusly) but I am absolutely sure that you are vastly more palatable to this place than I am.
You win. I’ll drink my piss. I was wrong to complain. You are right. I don’t deserve water.
Also, I’m looking forward to people now telling me I’m only tolerated. I know. That’s because I stand up for people, and sometimes that hurts the bullies’ widdle feelings.
No, I concede that you and Kimmy are celebrities in these parts. I’m sucking down my piss and totally regretting my obstinacy.
For the record: it is salty.
So once a person decides he just doesn’t want to leave the jail, the police just shrug and leave him there? They don’t bring food and water to the cell? I’m pretty sure if there’s no charges against you, if you’re free to go, you actually have to go. You can’t just say “no, actually, it’s nice in here with me and my piss”. And even if they did decide to let you stay for some insane reason, they would ALSO FEED YOU. People have had hunger strikes before, but those tend to end with people forcing them to eat and drink – or, I believe more often, with them breaking the hunger strike themselves.
According to the LA times the DEA has apologized.
I still don’t get what the fuck happened. So kid gets - for whatever reason, whether he’s arrested or not, doesn’t matter - taken to the county lockup. And then - what, not a single officer does any sort of thorough checks for five days? All the paperwork gets lost and at no point does anyone say, “Hey, who’s the kid in cell three?” No one even comes and talks to him?
The whole story just seems fishy as hell.
Actually, it makes more sense to me that this happened because he didn’t get arrested. There was no paper trail to show that he existed within the system – he wasn’t put into a population that got care and feeding as a matter of routine. Essentially, when the agent who stuck him in the locked room left the building, no one else know who he was or why he was there. And prisoners are probably shouting stuff all the time, and everyone would assume that someone else was responsible for this guy and would take care of it.
Just to be clear, no-one seems to be disputing that he was locked in the cell, free to go or not. Also, he wasn’t even under arrest and wasn’t charged with any crime, so probably not a member of a drug syndicate. Not even a criminal, just someone swept up in a dragnet. There’s also been no evidence presented that he either smuggled any drugs in, or refused to leave.
Not one fucking thing about this story makes a lick of sense!
1.The amounts of drugs seized indicate this was a major dealing operation, they must therefore have had surveillance on the place but didn’t know who the sellers were?
2.Nothing about this room he was held in makes sense, including the fact it had no lights. After six hours I’d have been trying my best to kick through the drywall, why didn’t he?
3.They intentionally left a bag of meth in the room?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?! This is by far the strangest element, did they want him to ingest some so he would test positive? So they could claim it was his? WTF was going on here?
Final conclusion: They put him in there with the bag of meth hoping he’d take some and or pocket it thinking SCORE! Now they have something to charge him with, who is going to believe a admitted drug user when he claims it was a set up?
OK, let’s do that.
Cite for the bolded part, please? Your links don’t contain that information, but you state it as tho it were a fact. In fact, you quoted the passage that states that Chong “was placed in a cell for five days without any human contact and was not given food or drink.” Are you claiming that he placed himself in that cell? What information are you basing that claim on?
Cite, please? Again, none of the links you provided makes this claim. Where did you get your information from?
Where did you read that he refused to go? I didn’t see that in any of the articles linked in this thread.
In fact, I find it hard to believe he was free to go, since the AP reports that he was handcuffed.
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Surely the DEA would be quick to counter such an allegation if it were untrue, wouldn’t they?
And why would they have covered his hospital bills if they were not at fault?
Did they ? I was under the impression that they just didn’t know it was there at all. Presumably they booked some meth dealers prior without bothering to search them, the dealers took the opportunity to discretely ditch the goods somewhere in the cell, and the ace DEA cops didn’t even sweep the cell before throwing another guy in there.
At least that’s how I see it happening. If so, it’s not even shoddy work on the DEA’s part, it’s downright don’t give a flying fuck work.
He wasn’t taken to county lockup. Seven people were, he was not one of them. He was at the regional DEA headquarters. Most police stations and other places that hold prisoners on a temporary basis are not equipped to hold a large number of people. And not equipped to hold any for long. Without knowing how the facility is laid out I would bet he was placed in an area that they do not use often and then there was a miscommunication due to the amount of people involved. We are not talking about a prison where the cells are visible to guards walking by. There are no guards.
I could swear one of the stories mentioned that the DEA admitted to knowing about the meth in the room.
How can you walk away when locked in a cell? Why aren’t Charley Manson and OJ walking out of their cells?
Chong has filed a $20 million lawsuit. Here’s hoping he wins every cent.
You didn’t even read the Op’s cite:
"He said agents questioned him, and then told him he could go home. One agent even offered him a ride, Chong said. No criminal charges were filed against him.