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Post by marbearcat on Jan 23, 2011 22:56:37 GMT -5
Good thing I'm NOT a betting man... Neither of the teams I pegged for SB is going there... Well, Pittsburg and Green Bay should be fun... I was correct of course! {Pat! Pat! Pat!} On the back!
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Post by marbearcat on Jan 23, 2011 22:59:02 GMT -5
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Post by marbearcat on Jan 24, 2011 2:48:48 GMT -5
Just took the garbage out and oh baby, 1 degree!
Beats Miami in the summer time!
Wooooooo!
^ .". ^
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Post by marbearcat on Jan 26, 2011 5:12:08 GMT -5
Stan Laurel to Oliver Hardy : "That's the first mistake we've made since buying the Brooklyn bridge"
Oliver replies :" Don't worry, that bridge will pay off some day"
LOL!
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Post by marbearcat on Jan 26, 2011 5:14:08 GMT -5
Just took the garbage out and oh baby, 1 degree! Beats Miami in the summer time! Wooooooo! ^ .". ^ We bottomed out @ -6 that day. Nice!
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Post by marbearcat on Jan 28, 2011 5:26:24 GMT -5
Those with children watch out for that "Ivory Wave" crap thats been out there.
It is deadly!
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Post by marbearcat on Jan 28, 2011 5:38:17 GMT -5
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Ivory Wave: Worse Than Cocaine and Legal?
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By Chris Hayes FOX2now.com 10:23 p.m. CDT, October 28, 2010
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OVERLAND, MO (KTVI-FOX2now.com) — FOX 2 found stores pushing a potentially deadly substance. Investigator Chris Hayes caught them in the act. It's called Ivory Wave. A former drug user told us, "This could put drug dealers out of business." It's sold as a "novelty product" and marketed as $35 bath salts. A former cocaine user says that's just a cover. He said, "The guy behind the counter kind of did a 'sniff, sniff' gesture with his nose."
The former cocaine user, who says he's been clean for years, told us he tried snorting Ivory Wave after he was told its legal.
He showed us the product, pointed to it, and said, "That stuff right there is -- I'd say 10 times more powerful than cocaine and lasts 10 times longer [Hayes asked] You're serious [Former User] I'm dead serious."
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He said he's not sure someone else would've survived, "It's way more than I expected. It's too powerful for me and and I'm a grown man."
We went undercover where he bought it, Nights of Rave, Smoke Sensations on Page Avenue in St. Louis County. The salesman openly pushed it.
An undercover Fox2 representative asked, "What does it do?" [Salesman] "Whatever you want it to do." [Fox2 rep.] [Laughs] [Salesman] Well it's pretty much, the blue one is Ivory Wave, the blue is more like uh --- cocaine high. [Fox2 rep.] Ok, then how do you use it I guess my question.. [Salesman] Pretty much [salesman sniffs] yep same way, same way. It does the same affect. You don't have, you don't crash."
We bought it and took it straight to the St. Louis County Medical Examiner's Office. Dr. Chris Long said he would find out what's inside the package of Ivory Wave. The ingredients list concentrated water softening agents and epsom salts. The package also says "not for human consumption."
A week later, Dr. Long revealed his results. He said "10 million counts on both of those. So that's pretty heavy duty." Dr. Long found a potentially deadly combination of Lidocaine and Pyrovalerone -- a hallucinogen that stimulates the Central Nervous System.
Dr. Long added, "I'm sure that with people doing this we'll have deaths." Long said he'll publish his findings in a medical journal entry to warn other doctors about what Ivory Wave might do to patients.
He said, "You're going to get a spike in blood pressure, a spike in cardiac output and if there's any weakness in any of your arteries, it'll pop a vessel so you could have a stroke very quickly."
Back to the store where we tried to share the results of our test on Ivory Wave, the man who said he runs "Nights of Rave" didn't want to hear it. He yelled, "Get outta here with that f*&%in camera."
Secretary of State records list Pam Tabatt as the agent for the store. Tabatt, featured earlier in a Fox 2 report about the now banned synthetic pot -K2, also operates the South 94 Bait, Tackle and Smoke Shop. We called -- asking for "Ivory Wave" and an employee said they had it in stock. But when we arrived with our camera, Tabatt said she didn't have it and threatened to call the Sheriff. She then called our station to say she's not selling what she called "cocaine Ivory Wave."
We checked about a dozen other head shops and found some who claimed they don't carry it and others that said they sometimes sell it. Just like synthetic pot K2, it appears there are already copy cats with this synthetic cocaine. Similar products to Ivory Wave are being sold under different names. We've notified the local police and the DEA.
There has been quite a bit of coverage about this drug in Great Britain:
Daily Mail Article About Ivory Wave
BBC story about Ivory Wave
Daily Mirror Article About Ivory Wave
Daily Mail Article About Ivory Wave
The Sun Article About Ivory Wave
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rickdday at 7:39 AM January 08, 2011 This is why the prohibition of drugs causes more harm than it ever intended. We will keep creating an alternative "legal" substance to replace the 'illegal' substance into infinity. With the pattern established, we are now seeing even more powerful 'legal' substances being created in labs world wide.
So which is better for society: illegal cocaine, or legal cocaine? End the War on Some Drugs before it ends the life of your child.
FreddyF at 2:59 AM November 05, 2010
The Ivory Wave that is causing all the commotion 2-DPMP, a medicine originally developed to treat ADHD in children. When taken in large doses it keeps you awake for days with some nasty psychotic symptoms. This may keep you awake longer than, say, cocaine would keep you awake but I've never heard anyone describe it as "pleasent"! It's not a drug anyone would take except by mistake.
The UK have just banned imports of the stuff, which I don't think anyone will really miss, since everyone in the UK knows how nasty it is by now and consider it somewhat less attractive than drinking bleach.
Unfortunately it seems on both sides of the pond this is being used as a reason to generalise all "legal highs" as being harmful and scare the wits out of everyone. Next the ban-hammer will come out and no doubt start banning any substance it is possible to get high on, even safe ones, that hasn't been banned yet and closing down headshops.
Of couse, a more mature response might be to start regulating the "legal high" market in a consumer-friendly way so that people get products that are tested, approved, safe and pure. Maybe that's hoping for too much.
MaliceMusick at 12:11 AM October 31, 2010 This whole "story" is a crock. I'm a smoke sensations customer, I have never used the ivory wave products but I do happen to know that smoke sensations ceased to carry them well over 30 days prior to the airdate of this segment making it impossible for Chris Hayes to have obtained or "purchased" them there. I believe that the state is beginning to launch another media lead and fueled smear campaign against this substance just like they did with K2 ultimately resulting in the pointless banning of this substance and making way for the next generation of legal synthetic substances. Nothings going to change except for the amount of time drug dealers and addicts will have to stay in our streets committing crimes. It is my personal oppinion that legal synthetics maybe a blessing in disguise keeping addicts off the street, putting drug dealers out of business and driving down the over all crime rate.
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Post by marbearcat on Jan 28, 2011 14:29:44 GMT -5
For now, I have to go with Green Bay over the Steelers.
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Post by marbearcat on Jan 29, 2011 5:16:05 GMT -5
Ever watch "Animal Hoarders?" Over 100 cats in a house? A VERY STINKY HOUSE!!!!!
I mean come on!
100 cats? Anything over 75 is just too much of a good thing!
What?
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Post by marbearcat on Feb 2, 2011 17:45:00 GMT -5
Local talking heads on ESPN radio are really bashing the Philly Eagles for promoting their failed offensive lines coach to DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR!!!!!
Poor birdies!
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Post by marbearcat on Feb 4, 2011 19:25:38 GMT -5
Anyone noticing what's happening to the Cavaliers since Lebron left? Pretty much the same team except the king is gone. They won 61 games last year and now they're 8-41.
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Post by marbearcat on Feb 7, 2011 15:56:07 GMT -5
Was at the "Android market" and downloaded "scanner radio".
Listening to police calls over the cell phone is pretty d*mn cool!
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Post by 3bid on Feb 7, 2011 16:12:27 GMT -5
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Post by marbearcat on Feb 7, 2011 18:30:47 GMT -5
The crook was right in front of them?
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Post by 3bid on Feb 7, 2011 20:10:11 GMT -5
Surrounded LA Bank Robbers Escape Police Easily www.webtvhub.com/funny-stupid-cops-video-surrounded-la-bank-robbers-escape-police-easily/This is a video of masked thieves running toward their getaway car. When they finally get in, the cops arrive and surround them, but instead of arresting them, they run right into the bank allowing the thieves to get away! Talk about lucky! Maybe a little too lucky. That’s because it’s actually spectator’s footage shot during a commercial. This is just one of the many takes shot on the set. If you listen closely, you can hear the director say, “Call them to come out.” at the 0:23 second mark. Here is the final version of the commercial that this came from. It turned out to be a Chevy Malibu Commercial, because apparently a Chevy is “a car you can’t ignore.”
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