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ShyGuyInChicago
January 17th, 2011, 05:09 PM
http://www.examiner.com/substance-abuse-in-detroit/teen-wants-to-drug-parents-as-unconscious

News articles are posted here about many things, but here is one that is in a way about me. I asked the question mentioned in the article last year on Yahoo Answers because I came up with a movie idea about a girl who drugs her parents in order to sneak out of the house, but accidentally kills them. A person who read the question thought that there was a good chance of it being real case of a teen who wants to drug their own parents. I found this article over a year ago, and I was rather disheartened to know that someone thought that I might have had sinister intentions.

Teen wants to drug parents, as in unconscious

August 1st, 2009 8:57 pm ET


Teens under too much pressure

Some of the questions asked on the Internet these days are scary, and sometimes involve criminal behavior. Some of the responses as well show criminal conspiratorial assistance. Had this question not involved drugs, an article about it wouldn't have crossed my mind. Of course, it does, in a criminal as well as morally reprehensible way.

Heard about the child who wants to drug their parents so he or she can behave inappropriately? That’s taking it a little too far, right? Not for the person in this story who may be a real adult, or a teen posing as an adult.

Enter Ellis, a person seeking an answer on Yahoo's Ask.

Question: “Have you ever heard of a child that drugs their parents so that they can do something they shouldn’t be doing? I mean drugging them unconscious” [sic]

Ok, this could be a real adult, a kid posing as an adult, or a couple of kids seeking an answer to a question that should raise red flags all over the United States, especially for the unfortunate parents who are the target of this investigational question. Is this a real adult who has knowledge, or suspicions that this is going on, or already has happened? Is this a group of teens sitting around a computer with nothing else to do but ride the icons of cyberspace like it was a steering wheel in a stolen automobile? Or, maybe this is the real thing, and the kid is posing as an adult to cover his or her trail, in which case we should be alarmed, and back-tracking the email address.

Ellis would like to put his parents to sleep

In any event, if this is representative of teen “fun” these days, it is in bad taste. If this is for real, then we need to do some serious work with our youth because we’re rapidly losing them to both drugs, and violence. And according to one Ellis' respondent, he is not the only one who needs help.

One of the people responding to Ellis’ question was Rich G.

Response: “That would be ace, it would save me from scoring my own drugs.”

As in, yeah dude, that would be too cool to drug our parents so we could steal their prescription drugs, money, and go partying, tearing up the streets in their car too! Ah, dude, that's the stuff!

Not much else needs to be said here. If this happened, or is about to happen, the fact that anyone would think about doing something like this has some serious psychological issues. And to do it to a parent is even more compelling.

The fact that drugs are at the center of this doesn’t surprise me, as addicts are capable of anything. Many, many times throughout an addict’s life they swore up, down, and sideways they’d never stoop to certain behaviors. Unfortunately, that is the exception rather than the rule. Plenty of addicts said they wouldn’t resort to prostitution, until one day the money dried up, desperation set in, and the drug was yanking on them so hard they would have pimped grandma out, and thrown her out on the 8 Mile stroll to make some loot for them. Both females, and males have sold their bodies for drugs, while others would offer to sell body parts for drugs if they could survive another day absent the pieces. There is no limit to what an addict will do, especially when a pack of angry gorillas are chronically pounding on your back commanding you to feed them, NOW!

Prescription drug abuse with teens rising

The story of the person who wants to put thier parents to sleep is symptomatic of a more pressing problem. A large portion of the younger generation placing little, or no value on their own lives, as well as others, including families. The Internet is patent with people not out for the right thing. Daily, one can surf the net, and find inappropriate musings, if not outright illegal activity, on the sites that are in the same vein as the one highlighted here. Seeking information on drugging one's parents is a criminal conspiracy at the very least when you get a response from what is now a co-conspirator. It’s like there is this pulsing, seething undercurrent within the younger generation that finds them stressed to the max, with little hope due to the economic climate, and pressured to succeed, while reality presents little in the way of opportunity for them.

The recent death by overdose from the prescription drug Xanax, and Oxymorphone of the 16 year-old girlfriend of a U. S. Fort Lewis soldier highlights the pervasiveness of the drug problem. The girl was found in Pvt. Timothy Bennitt's barracks, and the soldier is now facing 82 years in a military prison for the charges against him. The military is having problems with soldiers abusing drugs as well, including with their spouses, and girlfriends.

We need to start educating these children earlier in their lives about the risky behaviors that could find them one day trying to put their own parents to sleep. Can you imagine a world where all the parents are sleeping? With 17,500 new teens getting high for the first time on prescription drugs each week, many parents are nodded out already.

Sage
January 17th, 2011, 05:16 PM
If you're going to break the law, don't ask how to do it on Yahoo Answers.

ShyGuyInChicago
January 17th, 2011, 05:17 PM
If you're going to break the law, don't ask how to do it on Yahoo Answers.

I wasn't going to break the law. I was came up with a movie idea, and I wanted to know if anyone heard of it happening in real life.

Sage
January 17th, 2011, 05:18 PM
I wasn't going to break the law. I was came up with a movie idea, and I wanted to know if anyone heard of it happening in real life.

I'm sure. I'll trust the news article before I trust a random post on a forum.

ShyGuyInChicago
January 17th, 2011, 05:26 PM
I'm sure. I'll trust the news article before I trust a random post on a forum.

And in the question I didn't even ask how to do it? I asked if anyone heard of it happening.

Sage
January 17th, 2011, 05:27 PM
And in the question I didn't even ask how to do it? I asked if anyone heard of it happening.

Why would you try poisoning your parents? That's despicable.

Kaius
January 17th, 2011, 05:28 PM
People need to actually delve deeper into the actual happenings before they write stupid misleading news articles. Did they even speak to you Ellis?

Sage
January 17th, 2011, 05:31 PM
Did they even speak to you Ellis?

Yes, were the authorities notified?

ShyGuyInChicago
January 17th, 2011, 05:32 PM
Why would you try poisoning your parents? That's despicable.

I wouldn't do anything to hurt them despite how they often anger me.

Anyway this actually one of several ideas for movies that I developed.

http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=87761&highlight=my+movie+tv+show+ideas

Sage
January 17th, 2011, 05:33 PM
I wouldn't do anything to hurt them despite how they often anger me.

Poison hurts people, dude.

ShyGuyInChicago
January 17th, 2011, 05:34 PM
People need to actually delve deeper into the actual happenings before they write stupid misleading news articles. Did they even speak to you Ellis?

No. I did not even find the article until months after it was published.

ShyGuyInChicago
January 17th, 2011, 05:39 PM
Poison hurts people, dude.

I wouldn't do that either. I would never harm my parents.

Kaius
January 17th, 2011, 05:39 PM
No. I did not even find the article until months after it was published.

I'd complain personally tbh. They've not bothered to find out any true facts before publishing.

Sage
January 17th, 2011, 05:41 PM
I wouldn't do that either. I would never harm my parents.

Then why are you asking how to do it online? You're busted, man.

Kaius
January 17th, 2011, 05:42 PM
Then why are you asking how to do it online? You're busted, man.

He didn't once ask, the only thing he asked was if anyone had heard of it.

ShyGuyInChicago
January 17th, 2011, 05:43 PM
Then why are you asking how to do it online? You're busted, man.

For the umpteenth Time I was not asking how to do it. I was asking if anyone has heard about it happening in real life. Did you see the link I gave to my movie ideas? That was one of the the ideas.

Sage
January 17th, 2011, 05:44 PM
He didn't once ask, the only thing he asked was if anyone had heard of it.

Why would somebody ask such things if they had no intentions of doing it?!

ShyGuyInChicago
January 17th, 2011, 05:57 PM
Why would somebody ask such things if they had no intentions of doing it?!

This is the wording of the question.

Have you ever heard of a child that drugs their parents so that they can do something they shouldn’t be doing? I mean drugging them unconscious

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Teen wants to drug parents, as in unconscious - Detroit substance abuse | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/substance-abuse-in-detroit/teen-wants-to-drug-parents-as-unconscious#ixzz1BKr48KX8

Second, this is my thread of script ideas:

http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1152866#post1152866

Third, I have attached is what I have completed of the script.

Sage
January 17th, 2011, 05:59 PM
This is the wording of the question.

Have you ever heard of a child that drugs their parents so that they can do something they shouldn’t be doing? I mean drugging them unconscious

Continue reading on Examiner.com: Teen wants to drug parents, as in unconscious - Detroit substance abuse | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/substance-abuse-in-detroit/teen-wants-to-drug-parents-as-unconscious#ixzz1BKr48KX8

Second, this is my thread of script ideas:

http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1152866#post1152866

Third, I have attached is what I have completed of the script.

You can't fool me, villain! I'm much too genre savvy (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitle27wsaewjf1ss) for your schemes!

ShyGuyInChicago
January 17th, 2011, 06:00 PM
You can't fool me, villain! I'm much too genre savvy (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitle27wsaewjf1ss) for your schemes!

If you think I plan to do such a thing then prove it.

Sage
January 17th, 2011, 06:16 PM
If you think I plan to do such a thing then prove it.

Heath Ledger once started acting really crazy and he said it was just for a movie, but then he went out and blew up half of Gotham City! And now he's dead! I'm onto your schemes. As we speak I am contacting the police force in Chicago to report the imminent psychedellic threat you pose to your family.

Amnesiac
January 17th, 2011, 06:25 PM
I commented:

This article is ridiculous. You're trying to make a case for your own moral platform by criticizing a person on Yahoo! Answers for asking a hypothetical question. I know, for a fact, that you have not contacted Ellis regarding the situation. Why? Because I know Ellis, he's a member on a forum I post on. You fail to recognize that the Internet is a breeding ground for trolls and that most of the questions asked on it are hypothetical. Framing someone as a possible criminal without even bothering to contact them is the lowest form of journalism. You should be disappointed with this mediocre piece of writing.

EDIT: I have more.

Actually, let me emphasize how disgusted I am with this putrid article. It's difficult for me to describe how angry this terrible collection of false and condescending opinions makes me. It astounds me that you consider yourself a qualified writer when you literally scrounge the Internet for people to frame as criminals without even ONCE contacting them for further details. Writers like you are the scum of Internet journalism. "Daily, one can surf the net, and find inappropriate musings, if not outright illegal activity, on the sites that are in the same vein as the one highlighted here. Seeking information on drugging one's parents is a criminal conspiracy at the very least when you get a response from what is now a co-conspirator." Really? Are you that incredibly blind to how the Internet works? As I stated in my previous comment, most people on the Internet are NOT to be taken seriously and many of the questions are hypothetical. Are you aware of websites like 4chan, where people post the most disgusting questions for laughs?

On behalf of the rest of the Internet community, I'm here to say that this article is one of the worst articles I have seen on the Internet, ever. Do not take this seriously. This man has not done his research — it seems like the only thing he did was read the Yahoo! Answers page and try and push his own moral agenda using it. Despicable.

I think everyone should comment on this article pwning this dumbass guy.

UnknownError
January 17th, 2011, 06:58 PM
Laawl people are thick. I doubt he even read the whole of the question you asked. :P

Heath Ledger once started acting really crazy and he said it was just for a movie, but then he went out and blew up half of Gotham City! And now he's dead! I'm onto your schemes. As we speak I am contacting the police force in Chicago to report the imminent psychedellic threat you pose to your family.

Ahaa made me LOL. xD

Sogeking
January 17th, 2011, 08:14 PM
I commented:

This article is ridiculous. You're trying to make a case for your own moral platform by criticizing a person on Yahoo! Answers for asking a hypothetical question. I know, for a fact, that you have not contacted Ellis regarding the situation. Why? Because I know Ellis, he's a member on a forum I post on. You fail to recognize that the Internet is a breeding ground for trolls and that most of the questions asked on it are hypothetical. Framing someone as a possible criminal without even bothering to contact them is the lowest form of journalism. You should be disappointed with this mediocre piece of writing.

EDIT: I have more.
Actually, let me emphasize how disgusted I am with this putrid article. It's difficult for me to describe how angry this terrible collection of false and condescending opinions makes me. It astounds me that you consider yourself a qualified writer when you literally scrounge the Internet for people to frame as criminals without even ONCE contacting them for further details. Writers like you are the scum of Internet journalism. "Daily, one can surf the net, and find inappropriate musings, if not outright illegal activity, on the sites that are in the same vein as the one highlighted here. Seeking information on drugging one's parents is a criminal conspiracy at the very least when you get a response from what is now a co-conspirator." Really? Are you that incredibly blind to how the Internet works? As I stated in my previous comment, most people on the Internet are NOT to be taken seriously and many of the questions are hypothetical. Are you aware of websites like 4chan, where people post the most disgusting questions for laughs?

On behalf of the rest of the Internet community, I'm here to say that this article is one of the worst articles I have seen on the Internet, ever. Do not take this seriously. This man has not done his research — it seems like the only thing he did was read the Yahoo! Answers page and try and push his own moral agenda using it. Despicable.


I think everyone should comment on this article pwning this dumbass guy.

You're feeding a troll dude. Plus, this article was written a year ago, I doubt he would see the comments on this page.

As for the OP has the police knocked on your door?

If he wasn't trolling then this dude is just giving false accusations based on little evidence he found on yahoo answers, a "not so very reliable" source.

Amnesiac
January 17th, 2011, 08:28 PM
You're feeding a troll dude. Plus, this article was written a year ago, I doubt he would see the comments on this page.

As for the OP has the police knocked on your door?

If he wasn't trolling then this dude is just giving false accusations based on little evidence he found on yahoo answers, a "not so very reliable" source.

He's not trolling, he's an actual columnist. Sure, he may not see it, but other people will. Besides, I like telling people they're ignorant fuckheads and embarrassing them in public.

The Joker
January 18th, 2011, 02:08 AM
He's not trolling, he's an actual columnist.

You've fallen into his trap, already.

Continuum
January 18th, 2011, 08:52 AM
He's not trolling, he's an actual columnist. Sure, he may not see it, but other people will. Besides, I like telling people they're ignorant fuckheads and embarrassing them in public.

You sound like the AVGN, if I may commend. :P

But seriously, this guy takes it too far. And even, only us here will notice that he's trolling. ONLY US. He doesn't understand the meaning of Hypothetical.

Amnesiac
January 18th, 2011, 04:53 PM
You've fallen into his trap, already.

http://www.ackbar.org/images/ackbar.jpg

You sound like the AVGN, if I may commend. :P

Don't watch him, but thanks? :P

Charleigh
January 21st, 2011, 02:17 PM
I wouldn't do that either. I would never harm my parents.

Your contradicting yourself.
Basically, you hate your parents and you want to drug them we get it.

Magus
January 21st, 2011, 02:19 PM
Remember when I told you they are too dark and stuff. I bet that person was a faint-hearted conservative.

DinoCrisisFan
January 21st, 2011, 06:03 PM
This is so lulzworthy

Amnesiac
January 21st, 2011, 10:09 PM
Your contradicting yourself.
Basically, you hate your parents and you want to drug them we get it.

Are you trolling?

Magus
January 22nd, 2011, 01:15 AM
Are you trolling?
Maybe she misunderstood the message.

Amnesiac
January 22nd, 2011, 01:33 AM
Maybe she misunderstood the message.

You're probably right, Faris. sigh.

Sebastian Michaelis
January 22nd, 2011, 01:39 AM
hello! DOES KNOW ONE UNDERSTAND THAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT A MOVIE IDEA NOT WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO TO HIS PARENTS!!!