Posted on 06/07/2013 1:39:32 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Sources tell CBS 3 that blood tests on the crane operator involved with Wednesday’s deadly building collapse in Center City detected the presence of a prescription painkiller and marijuana.
The blood, along with urine, was taken from 42-year-old Sean Benschop at the hospital approximately two hours after the collapse at 22nd and Market Streets, which killed six people and injured 13. (See Related Story)
Sources say investigators also noticed that Benschop, who has a history of 11 prior arrests, including a conviction for possession and dealing drugs, was speaking in what police considered an unusually slow, quiet way, “almost whispering,” according to a source.
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“With his record, why was he even hired to operate a crane?”
You don’t really want to go there do you? (grin)
Just makes you want to spend money in CO, doesn’t it. [More than a little irony and sarcasm there.]
A drunken crane operator almost impaled me onto a boxcar at Ceco Steel, Lemont, IL, summer of 1968. Looked like this guy in Philly, too...Amish he was.
What, if anything, did the operation of the crane have to do with the building’s collapse? The article says that the crane operator is not being charged with anything.
Also, the article does not say how much of either the pain killer, or the pot were detected in the operator. These tests are very sensitive, so a “detectable” amount can be far less than required for impairment.
RIIIGHT; and some moron who is so smoked out that he can’t win the game of “FIND YOUR OWN FOOT” is OK to operate a motor vehicle or heavy equipment?
NOT on my job site slick, in fact I would have had him jailed and out of of the Operator Engineers forever.
At least the legal drug alcohol doesn't impair people... except for the fact that it's worse (in terms of death and violence) than all illegal drugs combined.
Prohibitionists are Tyrants. And criminal negligence is criminal negligence.
This guy isn't a criminal because he smoked weed, he's a criminal because he operated a very dangerous piece of equipment while under the influence of drugs. Whether the drugs in question were legal or not is irrelevant.
Personally, if forced to make such a choice, I'd rather have somebody who is stoned on weed operating a crane long before I'd settle for someone who has had several alcoholic beverages.
Just looking at numbers would be a fool’s errand. There’s the potential of “impairment”, however measured, from MJ, and from the painkiller, and from the combination.
I was a union ironworker for 15 years till a crane knocked me off the steel and broke my back falling three floors.
Alcohol wasn't found in his system, was it?
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