4-Year-Old Hospitalized After Eating Tainted Candy (Oxycontin)

[OhioChick]

Source: Newsnet5.com

11:48 am EDT July 28, 2009

Oxycontin Found In Skittles

TAMPA, Fla. -- A 4-year-old girl was hospitalized after eating candy that was tainted with Oxycontin, law enforcement officials said.

The girl was with her grandparents, driving home from Tampa International Airport, when she became lethargic. They took her straight to the hospital, NewsChannel5 sister station WFTS-TV in Tampa reported.

Sheriff's deputies said they found several pills of Oxycontin and Oxycodone mixed in with the Skittles, and confirm the bag had been resealed.

TIA police Chief Paul Sireci said officers pulled about 30 bags of Skittles off store shelves as a precaution.

However, it appears the Skittles were not purchased at the airport. The girl's candy was in a blue bag. Airport concessionaires said it has not stocked blue bags of Skittles since April.

Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/news/20201775/detail.html

[soleft]

1. That's what happens when you visit Uncle Rush's house

[wilt the stilt]

8. Uncle rush

only likes boys about 13-16 years old

[mamaleah]

2. What kind of sicko

puts drugs in candy, then reseals them and puts them back on the store shelves?

[Mariana]

15. Maybe no one did.

She might have picked them up off the ground or found them in a seat.

She had been at the airport. Someone was smuggling the drugs, maybe just for their own use, in the candy bag and lost track of it, I bet.

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Distributor mixup

That candy wasn't supposed to go to Tampa. It was supposed to go to the following address:

Mr. Rush Limbaugh
EIB Broadcasting
666 Nutball Blvd
West Palm Beach FL 33401

[Becky72]

20. Lol. Aw man. I was about to make a Limbaugh joke

You beat me to it :-)

[liberal N proud]

4. Tampa is only about 4 hours from Rush

He could conceivably make the trip and and out the candy and return in one day.

[Fridays Child]

5. Um, maybe packaging operations for both were outsourced to the same offshore company.

Only being half sarcastic here. Nothing that US companies could do for an extra penny of profit should shock anyone who's been paying attention.

[sofa king]

17. Mars is circumspect about naming where North American Skittles are now made.

http://www.masterfoodsnews.com/products_detail.asp?prodId=157

They're proud to mention that Skittles were once made in the U.S.--in 1982. But I wouldn't be surprised at all to learn that they're now made at a Tijuana Vicodin factory.

[Fridays Child]

18. You know what I just realized?

Tijuana Vicodin Factory would make an excellent punk rock group name. But I guess the maker of Vicodin have a lock on the product name. Too bad.

[sofa king]

21. You could just shorten it to "Vike."

Or how about "The Vicodinings"? Then you could have a costume punk band.

[Fridays Child]

23. Or "vikey." That's what the kids call it.

It's a real problem, over at the high school but, apparently, oxycontin is a bigger problem. A teacher told me that parents are actually giving it to their kids to sell.

Upon her return to classes, after she'd been in a serious car accident, the daughter of a friend was essentially bombarded by kids asking her if she had any narcotics that she wanted to sell. She would never have done it (she's "straight edge") but her mom had already thrown out all of her left over pain meds, anyway.

Scary shit, and some of the faculty think that the administration has its head in the sand, on this issue.

[berni_mccoy]

6. Rush wanted her to taste the rainbow.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Mopar151]

7. There's another chapter comin' n/t

[Soylent Brice]

9. illegal drug trade exposed??

[Wizard777]

10. Likely a dealer was using it as a stash and lost it. She found it and assumed that it was okay -

since it was sealed.

[Mojambo]

11. I'll be picking up some Skittles tonight. n/t

[jus_the_facts]

12. We all know here at DU that SKITTLES will kick your ass....

....could NOT resist! :hide:

[OhioChick]

13. Where is she, anyway? Thought she'd see this..

:hide:

[jus_the_facts]

16. I don't know....I haven't been around a whole lot myself....

....guess she's takin' a break too? :hi:

[Robb]

19. I heard she got mixed up with drugs somehow.

Still working on the details. :D

[jus_the_facts]

22. We'll have to start a fund drive thread to bond her out and get her an asskickin' lawyer....

....yes inDEED! :D

:hi:

[Skittles]

25. I WILL KICK ROBB ASS

YES INDEED

[Skittles]

24. I WILL KICK SKITTLES-TAMPERING ASS

un-fucking-believable the sick twisted fucks out there :puke:

[Brother Buzz]

14. I bet a drug user got cold feet

I have no doubt an addict thought he was slick hiding his traveling stash sealed a Skittles® bag when Paranoia struck him. He ditched it, the child picked it up.

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

I have no doubt Skittles will kick his ass. It may take five, or it may take fifty, but she will get him. Bank on it.