MS Thief Seeking Pain Pills Gets Beans Pascagoula MS

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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 1:56 pm

A pharmacist in southeastern Mississippi says some drug store
burglar got a surprise when they broke into his business
to steal the pain medication Lortab: the pills
had been replaced with beans.

Pharmacist Mac Clark works at Fred's Drug
Store in Pascagoula and told WLOX TV the
store has broken into several times in the
past six months, and each time the burglars
got Lortab. He decided he needed a decoy.

He put kidney beans in a large Lortab bottle.
Around 6 a.m. Wednesday, the burglars came back.
The only thing stolen was the Lortab bottle filled with beans.

Investigators believe the burglar cut him or
herself during the break-in because they
found a trail of blood leading away from the building.

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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 2:08 pm

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 2:58 pm

They need to do that here in Maine, in this case Oxycontin is drug of choice!!

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:13 pm

With any luck they were raw kidney beans and said thief will try and take them.

Uncooked kidney beans are toxic Smile

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:51 pm

In the early 1970s I worked in a very large liquor/wine shop. We had a constant, ongoing problem with our oldest and most expensive bottles of wine being shoplifted. Finally I took an empty bottle with a famous label of a very old vintage and filled it with a combination of whatever I could find in the back room; some coffee grounds for "sediment", a mix of spoiled wines that had been returned by customers and were slated to go back to the distributors for refund, water, apple juice, whatever. Nothing disgusting, nothing noxious or poisonous, but there can't be any doubt that the concoction simply must have tasted absolutely ghastly. Then I'd cram a cork into it and slip a neutral lead "capsule" covering over the top, put an insanely overpriced tag on it, and put it in the display rack. We color-coded the tag and made sure than all the cashiers knew that if by some remote chance a real customer tried to buy it, they were to refuse the sale. But the absurd price tag kept real customers away, while fake bottle after fake bottle was stolen. Eventually we built a locked cabinet for the high-end bottles but I've often wondered what the idiots who stole the fakes thought when they drank them. Did they ooh and ahh simply assuming that this is what expensive, rare old vintages are supposed to taste like??? puke

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:14 pm

When I worked at Vanderbilt University in the AIDS/Other Viruses Research Division, our lunches or what we kept in the break room refrigerator would disappear over night.

I was the division administrator and was charged with investigating these thefts. I called the Night Maintenance Shift Supervisor to my office and talked with him about the thefts. He assured me his workers were NOT taking the food.

However, the thefts continued.

Again I called the Night Maintenance Shift Supervisor to my office.

I explained that we did research on about 10 different viruses, including the AIDS virus and perhaps he should explain this fact to his workers and that we were disgusted with the food thefts and perhaps some of our staff just might lace some of the food with said viruses.

All food thefts stopped!!

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:20 pm

^^^ I love it. Thumbs up

I once had a co-worker who brown bagged to work. Over three consecutive days somebody stole his lunch from the common refrigerator. On the fourth day he removed the outer wrapper of a bar of Ex-Lax, leaving only the foil wrapper visible and slipped it into the bag. His lunch "walked away" during the morning and all he had to do was sit back and watch for whoever made repeated trips to the restroom during the afternoon. Twisted Evil

It worked. The perp came over to his desk and threatened to report him to the front office. My friend replied that he would be delighted if he did that, and he would even accompany him to see the boss.

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:27 pm

^^^ A little Epsom salts lightly sprinkled on some food will cause similar! I know of one (now retired) US sailor who sprinkled Epsom salts on some food of a couple other sailors who were being pricks. Twisted Evil

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