Help! Arrested for small amount of drugs!

[Lurch]

Moe ßeta <Moe.ße...@absolutely.corrupt.us.gov> wrote in
<26sgougdcoohnn9gr...@4ax.com>:

>On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:03:01 -0400, Sgt Crackrock
><ligh...@catchme.com> wrote:
>
>>X-No-Archive: Yes
>>US IL: Coroner - Skydiver Was Impaired By Drugs
>>URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1733/a09.html
>>Newshawk: Beth2
>>Pubdate: Sat, 14 Sep 2002
>>Source: Peoria Journal Star (IL)
>>Copyright: 2002sPeoria Journal Star
>>Contact: fo...@pjstar.com
>>Website: http://pjstar.com/
>>Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/338
>>Author: Associated Press
>>Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)
>>
>>CORONER: SKYDIVER WAS IMPAIRED BY DRUGS
>>
>>OTTAWA - Twice this year, drugs have been found in the bloodstream of
>>experienced skydivers who died at Skydive Chicago.
>>
>>LaSalle County Coroner Jody Bernard released a toxicology report
>>Wednesday that said marijuana was found in Skydive Chicago instructor
>>Ronald Passmore Jr.'s system. Passmore severed his aorta by slamming
>>his chest on the surface of a pond while trying to skim across the
>>water in a trick parachute landing July 14.
>>
>>The toxicology report was conducted at St. Louis University Hospital,
>>where laboratory director Christopher Long said Passmore's blood
>>contained about double the level of drugs considered an impairment.
>>
>>"This is serious impairment due to marijuana - cannabis - that would
>>affect everything you could possibly use to skydive, particularly
>>reaction time and depth perception," Long said. Passmore was the
>>second instructor to die at Skydive Chicago and the sixth jumper
>>overall in the past year. Last October, Bruce Greig of Jacksonville
>>died and was found to have the drug Ecstasy in his system. Trace
>>amounts of cocaine and marijuana in Greig's system were not considered
>>impairments at the time of the accident.
>>
>>Passmore was a veteran of more than 1,300 jumps.
>>
> This report is biased and preoccupied with making a
>sensational case against drugs use. The primary cause of Mr.
>Passmore's untimely death was his participation in high risk skydiving
>stunts. That's essentially 100% why the accident happened. It's
>reasonable to speculate that his using marijuana at the time played an
>incidental secondary role. Not vice versa as this report implies. My
>sincere condolences to the Passmore family.
>
> The primary cause of this accident has been addressed by
>Skydive Chicago which has banned the future performance of this type
>of high risk stunt.
>
> Keep sky-diving, END the fraudulent, corrupt war on drugs!
>
>

One could apply the axium that 90% of accidents occure within 5 miles of
your home. Is this because people drive carelessly around your house? No
it's because it's where you do 90% of your driving, so odds are thats where
you'll have an accident. Like wise if you parachute, odds are you'll
eventually have a sky diving related accident, where as if you didn't you
wouldn't.

There was a tractor trailer that drove off a bridge here several years ago
killing a woman on the ground below the bridge. The final reported stated
that the use of hash by the driver and his passenger contributed to the
accident. They made little of the drivers speed or the over loaded trailer,
or any other factor. He might have dropped a twinky for crying out loud.
;)

--
When I was a child I thought
and acted as a child.
When I became a man I took
that child out back and had
him shot.

[brian bennett]

Sgt Crackrock wrote:
>
> X-No-Archive: Yes
> US IL: Coroner - Skydiver Was Impaired By Drugs
> URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1733/a09.html
> Newshawk: Beth2
> Pubdate: Sat, 14 Sep 2002
> Source: Peoria Journal Star (IL)
> Copyright: 2002sPeoria Journal Star
> Contact: fo...@pjstar.com
> Website: http://pjstar.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/338
> Author: Associated Press
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)
>
> CORONER: SKYDIVER WAS IMPAIRED BY DRUGS
>
> OTTAWA - Twice this year, drugs have been found in the bloodstream of
> experienced skydivers who died at Skydive Chicago.
>

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so let's see: a guy engaging in a high risk activity (skydiving) also engaged in
lower risk activity (smoking pot), and he died while engaging in the more
dangerous of these two pursuits ... so the message is "drugs are bad"? more
like "hey if you jump from an airplane, you may die."

pay attention class: *some* people like to do dangerous things. sometimes,
when they do dangerous things they die. other people don't ever do anything
they think is dangerous, but they die anyway.

b
--
"Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since
the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned;
yet we have not advanced an inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect
of coercion? To make one half of the world fools, and the other half
hypocrites."

-- Thomas Jefferson

[craig spence]

you can not say the fact they smokede a wee bit of pot was the reason
they died. i know a lot of people that do high risk sports and are
fine having a wee smoke

[Wise Ben]

sp...@hotmail.com (craig spence) wrote in message news:<801c876f.02092...@posting.google.com>...

> you can not say the fact they smokede a wee bit of pot was the reason
> they died. i know a lot of people that do high risk sports and are
> fine having a wee smoke

I remember watching some pro-BMXer on Gravity Games once, who was so obviously
stoned.