Posted on 06/19/2003 1:00:14 PM PDT by chance33_98
Man Accused Of Drugging Wife To Stop Her Nagging Complaint: Woman Found Vicodin In Her Ice Cream
POSTED: 11:25 a.m. EDT June 19, 2003
STEVENS POINT, Wis. -- A Stevens Point man is accused of drugging his wife with a prescription painkiller, telling investigators she was nagging him for failing to do some chores.
A criminal complaint filed in Portage County says Gary Guinn put Vicodin in some ice cream he bought for his wife.
When she bit into something bitter, she spit it out and reported it to the ice cream stand and police. A sample was sent to the state crime lab in Madison, which determined the presence of Vicodin.
When detectives questioned Guinn, he allegedly told them his wife had been nagging him after she returned from a trip because he failed to do some work he had promised to do.
The complaint says Guinn had the Vicodin because of recent surgery.
A court date is scheduled July 14.
He obviously didn't mix it into the ice cream well enough. It works... umm... errr... I would think it should work. ;-) (all joking of course!)
How about those 'funny' greeting cards? For my 30th birthday, I got a card that said, "You're so old, you fart dust". That's ok, when he gets cards from the kids, they're pretty darn insulting.
I didn't have to ask him if my butt looked fat, he would volunteer the info, not to mention that I looked like hell after sitting up with sick kids all night. Yes we are divorced :-)
Hey, lighten up a bit! First, he didn't use poison. Second, if he was violent he'd have slugged her. And if he's hen-pecked, isn't the hen at least somewhat to blame? He just wanted her to mellow out a bit, that's all.
That being said, he was both immature and wrong. He should have tried to mellow her out with a glass of wine at some nice restaurant instead of this. But jail? Nope. If I were the judge, I'd sentence BOTH of them to 6 months of weekly marriage counseling, and I'd make him account for every pill he took on a weekly basis. And maybe a divorce would be best.
Why do men die before women? Because they WANT to. That's a joke, get it?
I thought FReepers were above the "blame the victim" game, but I guess not.
For someone who doens't have a medical license, this "husband" has a lot of nerve trying to "prescribe" ANY prescription meds to his wife (or anyone else)without her consent or knowledge. For all he knew, she could have had a violent allergic to it or something. That stuff is pretty potent stuff. If she had ended up in hospital seriously sick, don't think an attempted murder charge would be far behind.
My husband took one after some dental surgery once and he was OUT COLD. After that he refused to ever take it again. He would rather suffer w/ some pain than be in a brainless fog.
Vicodin is not something to play games with. I agree with you on one point though. If he really wanted to mellow her out, he should have taken her to nice restaurant, ordered her a glass of wine (or something with chocolate in it) and left it at that.
I think jail time would do him some good because it looks like HE's the one who needs to mellow out, not her.
I agree to some degree, since they don't give much detail about exactly what they are doing, it's hard to replicate their good ideas as well. But at least you figure out what DOESN'T work so you don't repeat it at your dinner table.
She keeps nagging at you night and day,it's enough to drive you nuts
Get on the phone,leave her alone
It's time you make a stand
Believe me,I'm happy to be
Your backdoor man
Dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Do you have a sister ? :O)
I thought FReepers were above the "blame the victim" game, but I guess not.
As with all arguments (especially between spouses), there are 2 sides...and then there's the truth. In almost ALL cases, both sides are somewhat wrong. If this guy was henpecked, isn't the hen a bit to blame? NO, it is no excuse for what he did - that was wrong. I come from a family with lots of medical education and experience, and I'd be among the last to play with medications. But this wasn't a bolt from the blue - her nagging had to have taken place over a period of years or decades. Bothering someone you are supposed to love and care for a great deal, to the point that he is so bothered by your nagging that he feels he has no other option - that deserves some blame also. And on his side, he DIDN'T go further - he didn't poison her, hit her, etc. Against him is that he might be a lazy bum that never does anything around the house-or maybe a few things, but never enough to satisfy her. You see, it is complicated and there is almost certainly blame enough to go around.
I was NOT blaming the victim, which is something that I'm very much against. I just believe in analyzing ALL sides of a disagreement/conflict, as in almost such instances there are aggrieved parties on all sides. To paraphrase my wife, I am sure that this lady was no white dove, either.
I'll stick with no jail time - a judge should force them to go through marriage counseling.
Just crush them and use them like sprinkles.
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