What do you get when you cross an addiction for opiates with an attitude like 'the night santa went crazy'? Well, you certainly don't get a pretty picture!
A 90-year-old man was arrested on Monday at the Brainerd Walmart after police said he attempted to bribe a pharmacist for hydrocodone and began to harass people in the store when he was refused.
Oh... Really?? Gramps should have talked to the kids these days. He'd have at least avoided making a total ass of himself, before nearly going postal.
Several staff members at the Walmart said that Bradford came in and offered the pharmacist $100 to sell him 10 hydrocodone pills without a prescription.
$10 a pill? Really??? Umm.. I'm hardly 'in the know'...but I work at a college I was just attending as a student last semester. It isn't exactly top secret national security information to hear these things...and $10 was just an insult! OUCH!
...for an honest pharmacist, like this guy likely was? Any amount is an insult...but even for a crooked one?? $10 a pill?? What did the guy think he rated as a charity case?!
He then went to the store deli and got into an argument with a worker there, throwing items around the shop.
What a crying shame that a 90 yr old is hooked. To be fair though, his physician is more than likely the one who got him hooked in the first place.
I can't get started on the subject of giving the elderly all the pharmaceuticals they can handle or I won't shut up. My poor Mom...1 prescription made her urinate and the other kept her from urinating.
Jas
You're either part of the solution or part of the problem. There is no middle ground.
Okay... I am kinda curious here..When did a 90 year old getting violent and threatening to come back with a gun to commit armed robbery get more sympathy than a 60, 40 or 30 year old?
Gramps guns will kill as sure as anyone else's if dementia isn't a part of his wagon load of issues.
We're kinda selective on who gets a pass and who gets some pretty serious scrutiny for committing amazingly similar crimes...aren't we?
I've also met a couple old farts in my time that the world surely benefited by seeing pass on. Mean old bitter birds that are as much a menace to themselves as anyone near them.
"I just killed a kid," Charles Martin said, according to a recording of the Sunday afternoon call (audio) released by police in Union Township, near Batavia, about 20 miles east of Cincinnati.
"You just killed a kid?" the surprised 911 operator said.
"Yes, ma'am," the caller replied.
Martin, 66, is charged with murdering 15-year-old Larry Mugrage, who lived next door to the house where Martin kept a meticulous front lawn with grass that he could sometimes be seen measuring to the inch.
Age doesn't reduce the capacity to do real damage, IMO. Our society has some interesting double standards when it comes to accountability and personal responsibility I'm thinking.
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Okay... I am kinda curious here..When did a 90 year old getting violent and threatening to come back with a gun to commit armed robbery get more sympathy than a 60, 40 or 30 year old?
Gramps guns will kill as sure as anyone else's if dementia isn't a part of his wagon load of issues.
We're kinda selective on who gets a pass and who gets some pretty serious scrutiny for committing amazingly similar crimes...aren't we?
I've also met a couple old farts in my time that the world surely benefited by seeing pass on. Mean old bitter birds that are as much a menace to themselves as anyone near them.
Age doesn't reduce the capacity to do real damage, IMO. Our society has some interesting double standards when it comes to accountability and personal responsibility I'm thinking.
No, @wrabbit2000, it isn't that the elderly get a free pass. Unless this 90 yr old is a lot different than most, his threats are attune to a child yelling "My dad can whip your dad!" Had he actually made good on his threat, well, that would have been a different story.
I'm sorry ya'll. One of the hats I've worn in my lifetime is as a geriatric nursing assistant (both in and out of hospital/nursing home/private setting). I've seen first hand how the doctors pass out pharmaceuticals like candy to them. So, I don't give them a free pass...just the benefit of the doubt.
Jas
You're either part of the solution or part of the problem. There is no middle ground.
I'll grant everyone this..without further research I don't have the time (or desire) to do right now? None of us can say whether this is the grandfatherly image we'd like to think of for an old man, or the kind you would have no problem believing was a SS Camp Guard in his earlier life....to prove that evil doesn't die. It just menaces the world until it winks out like a burned out light bulb.
Without knowing more? He could be either one of those extremes, or, yes, just a regular joe with no particular good OR bad side, just caught in a screwed up world that has all the compassion of an executioner facing a layoff.
I stand corrected in assuming or presuming...as much as anyone, on either end, I'd imagine. I guess we all bring some inherent bias and prejudice to a story, even if we sincerely don't intend personal injection of issues.
I'm on the fence on this one. While on one hand, I can sympathize, on the other hand have a hard time doing so. A addict threatening violence is still a addict threatening violence, regardless of age.
If his Doc is the one who got him hooked, which is more likely the case, then that Doctor needs his License to practice removed ASAP, and the old man should be put into forced ReHab immediately as well, free of charge to him.
The VA where I just moved to has a reputation for being pill pushers, even made the MSM. The place is 40 miles from where I live and I cannot wait to go up there to schedule a new PCP. They will receive a earful if they try to prescribe this kid opiates.
Freakin' Doctors need to be looking for a cure...not a means to cover up the symptoms.
Beware the man who has one gun, he probably knows how to use it.
It seems that not a lot of information is available yet, but I did find this:
3 Charges Found
The following raw charge information was entered by law enforcement authorities during detainment of Edsel Bradford on 2015-09-07. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.
1.RESISTING ARREST OR OBSTRUCTION OF LEGAL PROCESS 2.VANDALISM/MALICIOUS MISCHIEF 3.DISORDERLY CONDUCT
Possible Previous Arrests None Found
The suspect, Bradford, was jailed by authorities on Monday, September 7th, 2015, according to official records obtained from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office. Bradford has been charged on multiple counts. Curiously, when Tennessee Arrests conducted a cross reference check for Edsel Bradford, we located 0 possible previous arrests for Bradford.