Fentanyl Tablets Shaped Like Transformers?
From the "I love my home-town" files...
I’m proud of my home town. I grew up in Huntington, WV. It’s a place with a rich history. Before it was even Huntington, and well before my family arrived, it was one of the supply points for the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Heck, we even had a bank robbed by none other than Jesse James! (The building still stands.)
A lot of cargo came through Huntington down the centuries, whether on the mighty Ohio river on riverboats, on modern barges or via the innumerable trains that passed on it’s steel tracks.
My great-grandfather, Sam Owens, helped build some of its many roads using heavy equipment drawn by mules.
Fast forward and Huntington, home of Marshall University (Alma Mater to my wife and me), was also the site of the terrible Marshall University football team crash, November 14, 1970.
Those of us who went to school there have fond, poignant memories of the memorial sculpture and fountain on campus. The film ‘We are Marshall’ did a beautiful job commemorating that deep wound to the community.
However, now and then I have to shake my head.
In 2016, Huntington had the honor of hosting 28 heroin overdoses in 4 hours.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/4-hours-in-huntington-va-how-the-heroin-epidemic-choked-a-city/
That sort of thing makes one long for the relative calm of Bangkok.
Then, this morning while getting ready for work, my wife and I saw this story.
Tablets laced with fentanyl and MDMA, printed in the shape of transformers and looking for all the world like chewable kids vitamins.
How sick do you have to be? I mean, I get that a generation of young people, now adults, were really into transformers.
But these seem designed to addict and kill kids.
Just when you thought people couldn’t get any worse…
Watch out parents! You never know what’s out there.
This message brought to you by Optimus Prime…and he’s not happy.
Edwin
Diabolical.
The government can't stop what we are in for.