Seniors jailed for selling meds to drug addicts

illbill

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Sat Dec-17-05 05:42 PM
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Seniors jailed for selling meds to drug addicts

<snip>PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — Dottie Neeley, 87, was fingerprinted, photographed and thrown in jail, imprisoned as much by the tubing from her oxygen tank as by the concrete and steel around her.

The woman - who spent two days in jail after her arrest last December -- is among a growing number of Kentucky senior citizens charged in a crackdown on a crime authorities say is rampant in Appalachia: Elderly people are reselling their painkillers and other medications to addicts.<snip>

Full story: http://www.realopinion.com/realboards/showthread.php?p=6713

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Spinzonner

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Sat Dec-17-05 05:48 PM
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1. If you haven't got enough years left to do the time

Don't do the crime ?

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illbill

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Sat Dec-17-05 05:51 PM
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2. hahaha...

I could just imagine a 90 year old granny being taken away to a women's prison... that's a sad sight.

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Viva_La_Revolution

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Sat Dec-17-05 05:55 PM
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3. Selling their meds to pay the heating bill perhaps?

Or maybe they don't like the taste of catfood?

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GrumpyGreg

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Sat Dec-17-05 06:09 PM
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4. Go Granny ! As a granny myself I feel like I'm leading a fairly

dull life here in Massachusetts compared to those Kentucky gals.

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rfkrfk

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Mon Dec-19-05 07:01 AM
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5. aiding others in destroying their hearing, is not praiseworthy

at least not usually

I have no sympathy for these people,
they know what they are doing is wrong,
actions have consequences

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