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Just enough info for most to think of something else. Click bait is getting better every day. Soon there will be no news at all.
Do they make cocaine in pill form?
No that's why its bullshit. Cocaine isn't psychoactive orally at quantities that could be pressed into a pill. Its also fuckinhlg expensive and MDMA is dirt cheap. Pill pressers could've added 10x more MDMA in a pill for less amount of money then a non psychoactive amount of cocaine. Makes no sense.
Not saying this didn't happen. But outlets never understand how shit works irl.
Yeah, it's like back in the early 90s we'd do pills and people would say the heavy ones had smack in them. I had to explain, weight for weight, smack was way more expensive than mdma. And I was doing both. They cut it with some other shit. Really good pills back in those days, though. Best night of your life, every time.
He has scary eyes
That sucks that they didn’t even get to enjoy such good drugs.
At least it wasn't fluoride. That would be unforgivable.
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.
I swear to god Republicans are wasting their talents on politics. They have such amazing imaginations. they should be writers or artists or something. like I highly doubt any of us would think "fuck Dairy Queen, I hate Dairy Queen. I know! i'll go buy some MDMA and Cocaine and then plant it in their Ice Cream..that'll show them!"
or Jewish Space Lasers. or Flat Earths. or any of that. Sure DiscWorld exists but wouldn't you want to watch a movie about Jewish Space Lasers? ....oh right Spaceballs.
Ok maybe Republicans aren't talented they just rip off other peoples ideas.
Ever wonder why they scream "false flag" or "fed" every time some nazi POS makes them look bad by agreeing with them in public?
It's because they pull shit like this and expect everyone else to as well.
Yep, it's always projection. They only know how they act so they assume everyone else would act the same way.
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.
"Do not put ecstasy and cocaine in thy granddaughter's ice cream" must have been on the tablet Moses dropped.
I'm pretty sure this would fall under bear false witness.
Obviously that would cover the lying part, but not the part about giving drugs to children in the first place. Also, my comment was an obvious joke?
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.
So where did he get the drugs?
I didn't say they were equally stupid. I said one explanation was most likely correct, but thr other wasn't completely implausible.
Yes, faking an attempted drugging for attention/politics/whatever is less likely to get someone killed. But it's so a really fucking stupid plan that had to actually be completely premeditated. Just look how well it worked out for him.
The potential child abuse plan is monstrous and risks killing them, but pedophiles do risky and horrible things all the time. And at least the part of the plan that involves showing the cops the drugs can be seen as a bad decision made in the moment by someone panicking and not thinking clearly.
People don't read anything but the headline before spouting off whatever comes into their head.
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.
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^
Trumped, if you would. I think the dictionary explaination of the term will change in the decades to come.
Conservatives are pedos. They are one and the same. There is no divide anymore. It’s the party for pedo perverts
Another republican pedophile you say.
Is it Tuesday again alrwady?
Not pedophila this time, he was trying to plant drugs and then get the ice cream shop in trouble.
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.
It's weird how mass rumors spread in the '70s even in the absence of an Internet. I remember one that involved Rod Stewart supposedly swallowing so much sperm that he had to go to the hospital to have his stomach pumped. Stewart even talked about this one on a recent podcast; he was well aware of the rumor and even knew who started it.
I remeber that one. Also, Richard Gere and the hamster, Marilyn Manson and the rib. The satanic panic about D&D and metal played backwards.
I thought the rib was earlier, with Alice Cooper.
You're probably right, I think the rib one got recycled a few times.
Pedo Party
Reminder that the conservatives in your life are 100% onboard.
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.
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.
Welcome to North Carolina. This state is so gerrymandered that we have Virginia Fox.