Dogs force teenager to overdose on drugs!
That's right. According to NSW Greens MP Sylvia Hale and other campaigners, the presence of sniffer dogs at the Big Day Out caused a 17-year old teenager to overdose and die.
The girl had taken three ecstasy tablets to the concert, panicked when she saw the dogs and swallowed all three tablets at once to escape detection. Hale has been warning governments for years that this might happen.
So a teenage girl goes to an major event, once that due to problems in the past will be heavily policed, carrying illegal and deadly substances. Once there she sees the cops and dogs and decides to get rid of the incriminating evidence. Instead of dropping the tablets to the ground, dumping them in a toilet/rubbish bin, or even handing them to police and claiming she found them, she swallows them.
But it's not her fault. It's the big mean police man and his vicious dogs that are to blame.
Doesn't anyone have to take responsibility for their actions any more? I'll tell why this girl died, because she was an idiot. She broke the law, did the most incredibly stupid thing in her life to escape responsibility for breaking the law in the first place and lost her life. Tragic, but still the fault lies entirely with the girl, not the police.
Can you imagine how many more overdoes there would be if police weren't at these events? Drug dealers would have a field day. People who don't take drugs to these events due to fear of being caught, would take them. The number of young people hyped up on drugs would escalate and bring with it the social ramifications that it entails.
Hale and associates would be better off campaigning against drugs then against police measures to reduce drug use if they were serious about saving lives.
The girl had taken three ecstasy tablets to the concert, panicked when she saw the dogs and swallowed all three tablets at once to escape detection. Hale has been warning governments for years that this might happen.
So a teenage girl goes to an major event, once that due to problems in the past will be heavily policed, carrying illegal and deadly substances. Once there she sees the cops and dogs and decides to get rid of the incriminating evidence. Instead of dropping the tablets to the ground, dumping them in a toilet/rubbish bin, or even handing them to police and claiming she found them, she swallows them.
But it's not her fault. It's the big mean police man and his vicious dogs that are to blame.
Doesn't anyone have to take responsibility for their actions any more? I'll tell why this girl died, because she was an idiot. She broke the law, did the most incredibly stupid thing in her life to escape responsibility for breaking the law in the first place and lost her life. Tragic, but still the fault lies entirely with the girl, not the police.
Can you imagine how many more overdoes there would be if police weren't at these events? Drug dealers would have a field day. People who don't take drugs to these events due to fear of being caught, would take them. The number of young people hyped up on drugs would escalate and bring with it the social ramifications that it entails.
Hale and associates would be better off campaigning against drugs then against police measures to reduce drug use if they were serious about saving lives.
posted by Renegade79 at 8:10 am
3 Comments:
completely agree.
sylvia hale made the most irrelevant comment on this topic i have heard in a long time! it is relevant in that it has to do with the topic, but is so completely useless and makes absolutely no sense that it might aswell be deemed irrelevant.
how on earth can u blame the god dam police and theirdogs?!!?! (i dont mean to offend any1 with this, but...) its like saying hitler saw a tree which intimidated him, so he killed people... ITS ENTIRELY NOT HIS FAULT FOR BEING AN IDIOT
I also quote from the article linked in Nat's post:
"“The Ombudsman’s 2006 Review of the Police Powers (Drug Detection Dogs) Act 2001 found no evidence that sniffer dogs disrupt low level drug dealing, have a deterrent effect on drug users or reduce drug related crime.”
(see the ombudsman’s report at http://www.ombo.nsw.gov.au/show.asp?id=431
“Not only will the dogs do nothing to detect the Mr Bigs of drug distribution, they will give false positive responses to far more non-users than users,” Ms Hale said."
Said dogs should not have been there in the first place. The post by the greens has a government report backing them up.
Now I am NOT saying that the police made the kid stupid (did that on their own, and paid a too bigger price for it), but at least the greens are asking a good question which is, why are the dogs there in the first place?
To be pedantic Lindsay (and you know how I love to be) the Greens do not have a government report backing them up. They have a government report that arrives at a similar conclusion after taking a much different path.
Also the ABC story has been updated and turns out this incident was in WA. So we have a NSW minister using a NSW government report to criticise WA police.
As for why the police were there, back in 2001 a 15 year old girl was trampled to death. Many others were hospitalised with dehydration, some of which was attributed to drugs, thus the police crack down since.
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