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People aren't reading the article. He both put the pills in the ice cream and reported them to police. He was trying to implicate Dairy Queen or one of their workers in a crime.
It's wild how they scream and cry about the "10 commandments" but have zero hesitation breaking any and all of those commandments in the most blatant and direct ways imaginable.
The article says that he did both of those things, but it isn't clear on what happened between those two events. Did he put the pills in and go straight to the cops? Did he give the ice cream to the kids? Were the pills clearly visible or were they buried?
I agree that the most likely explanation is that he was trying to create a story and/or attack DQ and its employees. But it isn't totally implausible that he might have been trying to drug the kids and pivoted when they found the pills. He has to be an idiot either way, they are both terrible plans.
No, they're really not both equally dumb plans. In one he got found out because there was video surveillance he didn't expect. In the other he may have had a double homicide on his hands because he tried to do something untoward with drugs that aren't stealthy in ice cream and don't facilitate it, and instead of making up some lie so the girls don't tell anyone about the failed pill plan, he escalates it straight to the police.
This isn't a complicated mystery.
People don't read anything but the headline before spouting off whatever comes into their head.
I sometimes wish people were required to answer a few questions about the article before they could comment. We'd have fewer comments, but would we be missing anything of value?
Conservatives are pedos. They are one and the same. There is no divide anymore. It’s the party for pedo perverts
Pedo Party
Reminder that the conservatives in your life are 100% onboard.
Another republican pedophile you say.
Is it Tuesday again alrwady?
Sometimes it feels like it's Tuesday every day of the week with these folks.
Welcome to North Carolina. This state is so gerrymandered that we have Virginia Fox.
You know how parents get worked up about strangers poisoning Halloween candy? How there have been waves of panics about that? Razor blades in apples, all that? Not a real thing. You know what actually created those fears? An incident
a single incident
of a guy killing his kid in an insurance fraud case in the 1970s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan
Ronald Clark O'Bryan (October 19, 1944 – March 31, 1984), nicknamed The Candy Man, The Man Who Killed Halloween and The Pixy Stix Killer, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy (April 5, 1966 – October 31, 1974) on Halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing. O'Bryan poisoned his son in order to claim life insurance money to ease his own financial troubles, as he was $100,000 in debt. O'Bryan also distributed poisoned candy to his daughter and three other children in an attempt to cover up his crime; however, neither his daughter nor the other children ate the poisoned candy. He was convicted of capital murder in June 1975 and sentenced to death. He was executed by lethal injection in March 1984.
Really not enthusiastic about the idea of a "fast food workers must be drugging my kids" panic.
Damn. So desperate to be a victim, he made victims of his own grandkids. Piece of trash. The ironic part is he was caught by the surveillance state he no doubt supported till now.
According to Raleigh, North Carolina NBC affiliate WRAL News, on August 8, Yokeley approached a Wilmington police officer and claimed his two juvenile granddaughters had discovered two suspicious pills in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive.
However, surveillance video later revealed that Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats. The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine, as noted in an arrest warrant. The authorities said they have evidence he slipped drugs into the girls' ice cream.
This is MAGA/the Republican party in a nutshell. Getting people worked up and freaking out chasing imaginary LGBTQ+/Dem/woke bogeymen while their own members are literally harming children.
The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine
Coke comes in pills now?
Even assuming he wasn't a fuck faced idiot, what would framing some poor service worker even achieve?
Other than a sadist boner of course
He probably wanted to generate a story about a minority endangering his pure white grandkids, or just a simple scam against the company for a settlement.
I'll be curious if in 6 months time the whole affair will be ~covered up~/^dropped^
Director position at the CDC just opened up
Share this EVERYWHERE. Especially truth social. Over and over again
Great read! Haven't had a laugh like this in a while. Fucking idiot!
According to the report, neither child consumed the drugs; the pills were promptly sent to a state laboratory for further confirmation.
thank fuck he was way too stupid to crush it up
They don't mention the ages, but those kids could have died.
Even still, I cannot imagine the horror of MDMA+Coke comedown through the eyes of a child.
Fucking psycho.
Boy, this guy must really have a grudge against DQ. I suppose that must have black/latino/gay/trans employees or something. That's enough to send most MAGAts over the ledge these days.
I assume he tried to drug his grandaughters, the girls discovered the pills, and then he had to play dumb and come up with a story "Dairy Queen must have put those in there!!"
No, he definitely wanted to use this to stoke the fire in the minds of the "drug problem" locally. The DQ is probably staffed by some minority or other group that he hates, so if the optics show those "evil people putting drugs into innocent little white girls food" to create more hatred. Just pure evil.
According to Raleigh, North Carolina NBC affiliate WRAL News, on August 8, Yokeley approached a Wilmington police officer and claimed his two juvenile granddaughters had discovered two suspicious pills in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive.
However, surveillance video later revealed that Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats. The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine, as noted in an arrest warrant. The authorities said they have evidence he slipped drugs into the girls’ ice cream.
Utterly insane. Litteral demons in the flesh. What sick fuck tries to drug his own granddaughters? America really doesn't put forth our best do we? Execute this monster.
wow grandparent of the year award. seems like he wanted to play the victim and have a "personal story" about drugs. he should be treated as if his intentions were to sexually molest his granddaughter after getting her high. get him a taste of his own medicine.
Why does he have coke and ecstasy?
Why don't you?
Because the party of small government tells me what I can and can’t put in my body.
You read this and the first question is why? Its also the least likely to ever get answered. Settle for the what he did and make sure he can't do it ever again. Of course in todays world trump will give him a medal.
The mdma kind of makes me think he was planning on molesting them. He is also a republican, so it tracks.
Yokeley approached a Wilmington police officer and claimed his two juvenile granddaughters had discovered two suspicious pills in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen
Sounds like he wasn't trying to drug them, fortunately I guess. Either way the guy is still off his rocker.
Or, he was trying to drug them and the children found the drugs, so he tried to make them think it wasn't him.
At the very least, we know he had the drugs, and we know he put them in the ice cream where they could have been consumed by his granddaughters.
It was him. People on Dairy Queen salary don’t slip mdma into kids ice cream
However, surveillance video later revealed that Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats. The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine, as noted in an arrest warrant. The authorities said they have evidence he slipped drugs into the girls' ice cream.
The drag queens have done it again
Overlook the creepiness and realize that this man tried to cosby two little girls, in his custody, with ice cream, and failed. So he's pathetic even among other pedophiles.
MAGAs main characteristic is hatred, but incompetence is a close second. Bonus for every accusation being a confession.
It's a different kind of scummy going on here; he didn't want his grandkids to actually eat it, he wanted to get media attention and stoke more fear in his base. It would be like someone slipping razors into their own kids candy to rage-bait about Halloween being unsafe.
To be clear, this isn't any better than the alternative; he put his grandkids in danger for a publicity stunt that could have very easily resulted in them consuming the drugs. Which also raises the question how how he got that cocaine in the first place.
Why would any sane person want to risk damage to their grandchildren just to score some attention and outrage? Oh, republican… right…