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2009-10-06 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Bag of cocaine 'shot out' of suspect's backside

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Posted by Beavis 2009-10-06 14:44|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 they found a .38 caliber revolver loaded with five cartridges in his car's engine compartment

Wouldn't those cartridges have a tendency to discharge when heated?

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-10-06 15:02|| 2009-10-06 15:02|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if that would happen to me if I took a laxative? I don't usually inspect what comes out, so maybe? Nah!

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-10-06 15:37|| 2009-10-06 15:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Crack cocaine?

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-10-06 15:54|| 2009-10-06 15:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Not surprising. I did my residency in Richmond, Virginia, and a couple times of month we'd get a 'mule' or 'packer', a person who transported drugs in their intestines, parked in our ER. They had swallowed latex balloons filled with cocaine; the latex generally having been reinforced by using several balloons. However, if it leaked as it occasionally did, the cocaine would leach into the persons' blood.

The first symptom was generally intractable seizures, followed by death.

One of my colleagues had a great X-ray of this: a chest film where, at the bottom of the film, you can just make out a half-dozen balloons of cocaine in the splenic flexure of the colon. That person died.

Posted by Steve White 2009-10-06 16:04|| 2009-10-06 16:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like MCV, Dr. Steve. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-10-06 17:19|| 2009-10-06 17:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks you Dr. Steve..... I'm re-thinking two career choices now.

Posted by .5MT 2009-10-06 18:05|| 2009-10-06 18:05|| Front Page Top

#7 swksvolFF go to your room.

Posted by lotp 2009-10-06 19:48|| 2009-10-06 19:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Beat me to it, lotp.

Posted by Pappy 2009-10-06 21:39|| 2009-10-06 21:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Yup, MCV.

Posted by Steve White 2009-10-06 21:55|| 2009-10-06 21:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Still otherwise known in certain circles as MC-Free, Dr. Steve. :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-10-06 22:11|| 2009-10-06 22:11|| Front Page Top

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