KSP: Mom High On Bath Salts Drops Boy On Interstate

WLWT ^ | March 1, 2011 | WLWT

[TSgt]

CALVERT CITY, Ky. -- A mother charged with endangering her children said she was wandering along a western Kentucky interstate with them after snorting bath salts.

Kentucky State Police said they found a 2-year-old boy with a head injury lying on the inside edge of Interstate 24 in Marshall County and his mother carrying a 5-year-old child in the median.

Police said 29-year-old Cynthia Palmer told officers she had been snorting bath salts and began to hallucinate Monday night while driving from the Tennessee side of Fort Campbell.

Officers said she stopped and attempted to carry both children across the roadway, but dropped the younger child and left him.

The 2-year-old was taken to a hospital and the older child was taken into custody by Tennessee Social Services.

Palmer was charged with assault, wanton endangerment and public intoxication.

Court records do not list an attorney for her.

A Kentucky House committee approved a bill last month that would ban the sale or possession of the synthetic drug marketed as bath salts and sold under such brand names as “Ivory Wave” or “Purple Wave.”

Committee members were told that the substance can cause delusional behavior, confusion, agitation and paranoia.

[fr_freak]

You can go all the way back to when someone said, "you know, that leaf on that plant.... I wonder what it'd be like to light it on fire, and inhale the burning emissions."

More likely it went something like this:

"Hey its cold out here, let's get a fire started. Those plants over there look burnable. There we go. Say, anyone else hungry as hell?"

[Thrownatbirth]

I’m not sure what makes someone think, “hey, why don’t I snort bath salt?”

Someone who took "Calgon, take me away!" a bit too literally.

[ZULU]

These idiots would snort anything they can get their hands on.

When I was a kid, it was airplane cement and gasoline vapors.

The kid is probably brain damaged from its mom.

I had a High School gym teacher who said pot heads and druggies shouldn’t be incarcerated. They should be dropped off on an island without a boat in a shark infested sea with all the poppy seeds they want. I think he was right.

[familyop]

According to liberal dopers, the war on drugs forced her to do it.

[UCANSEE2]

Yeah, I've wondered about that kind of thing too. You can go all the way back to when someone said, "you know, that leaf on that plant.... I wonder what it'd be like to light it on fire, and inhale the burning emissions." There's certainly more examples from further back. Then again, I like lobster and who was the first guy who thought, "let's boil that sucker and eat the innards"?

Or the first person that said, "I'm gonna eat whatever pops out of that chicken's butt".

[reagan_fanatic]

My Wife was in WalMart yesterday when a man walked in, rushed back to electronics, grabbed a can of compressed air and started huffing it. He went crazy, banging his head against display racks and just going nuts. When he came to, the cop told that he hoped his head hurt and hauled him off to jail.

People are weird.

[TSgt]

According to liberal dopers, the war on drugs forced her to do it.

Oh' yeah, I've already read some of those posts on the news sites. If she had legal access to cocaine or meth this wouldn't have happened! /SAR

[wildbill]

Snorting bath salts?

This takes the old phrase, “Keep your nose clean” to a whole new level.

[healy61]

This is actually synthetic cocaine. The high last several days and is sold by the gram. It tends to have a high rate of psychiatric hospitalizations and suicide attempts.

[ZULU]

Amazing.

[Lurking Libertarian]

I’m really at a loss as to understanding this new bath salts thing. Are they legitimately bath salts? Can you actually use them in a bath, or are they surreptitiously designer drugs packaged as bath salts?

The latter.

[SouthTexas]

With all the real drugs out there...

[antiRepublicrat]

A Kentucky House committee approved a bill last month that would ban the sale or possession of the synthetic drug

Great, now just as many people will get it, but instead of getting it from the store, with the money fueling legitimate business profits, they'll get it from their neighborhood drug dealer and the money will fund gang activity.

[DannyTN]

"Uh Oh. Now we have to sign in and register to buy bath salts along with Sudafed..."

That's only if were lucky. Homeland Security could use this to insist on searching us while we are taking a bath.

[txlurker]

Some funny comments. But this story is very sad. Hope the babies are going to be ok.

[lonevoice]

There is a cohort of (barely) human beings that simply should *not* be permitted to breed.

But then how would they qualify for welfare, food stamps, section 8 housing, free health care, and all the other public assistance available to single mothers? < /sarc>

[antiRepublicrat]

Then again, I like lobster and who was the first guy who thought, "let's boil that sucker and eat the innards"?

Long, long ago, you ate whetever moved. If you didn't die from it, you ate it again. or you starved. Lobster used to be considered the disgusting creepy-crawly that only poor people and servants ate.

[Nervous Tick]

>> But then how would they qualify for welfare, food stamps, &etc

Maybe we could tie off their genitalia and send ‘em on an all expenses paid trip to colonize an asteroid or something.

I’d be happy to kick some in on the airfare.

[trisham]

More here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/22/AR2011012203854.html

[JackOfVA]

Committee members were told that the substance can cause delusional behavior, confusion, agitation and paranoia.

To the dopers those effects are collectively known as "fun"

Also sounds like the behavior of the typical Obama voter.

Jack