-Nik Magill
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the most horrifying twist yet, all that was found in his system was marijuana.
Not even synthetic to make him lose his shit, it appeared to be just the
regular ol' hashish kind. They didn't find booze or lsd or bath salts or
steroids or anything.
So
why did they automatically jump to the conclusion of bath salts if they had no
proof? And, as far as I've seen, this incident was the first really big
situation to bring bath salts into the media. What I'm getting from this, from
my crack reporting skills (inserting tongue into cheek), is that even though
this may be the first thing to reveal bath salts to the general population, the
authorities (whomever they may be) have been well-aware of bath salts, and the
horrid things that bath salts can make people do. If they weren't aware of the
side effects, like a great majority of America wasn't, then they couldn't have
jumped to the bath salt conclusion, could they?
This
leads me to wonder: Since it turned out that this instance wasn't bath salts,
what about all of the other times that we've seen bath salts crop up since
then? There was one where a guy was on his roof with an unloaded shotgun,
screaming at the people to get off of his front lawn. The people who weren't
there... And then the one I mentioned before of the lady who beat the snot out
of her daughter and then died in the process of being arrested after being
tazed and pepper sprayed. Were those both instances of bath salts, or just the
convenient excuse used to explain away erratic behavior that is becoming a
horrifying phenomenon?
As
far as I've heard, all character witnesses for the Miami Zombie have stated
that he was a soft-spoken, kind, religious man. Sure he had a few run-ins with
the law in the past, but he was a changed man, and who hasn't? (present author
not included) So what could have caused this guy to strip to the buff, swing
from a light post, and then cause puncture wounds to the chest, brain damage
and facial chewage to a hapless homeless?
And
I just remembered, didn't they say it could take over a year for us to hear
anything? I'm certainly not complaining. Maybe they read my last article and
decided it was an important enough story to push through the pipes.
I'm
super excited at these recent developments, that we're getting to see this
unfold in a reasonable amount of time, and every new tidbit is a complete
surprise! Hopefully soon we'll hear something about what was actually going on
with the attacker, and maybe some development on the attackee as well. Stay
tuned, my little Pretzelers.
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