Ky. man claims caffeine insanity in wife's death

reply to post by yeahright


Oh I understand that a court cannot prove one to be innocent, but since US law states that a person is innocent until or unless proven guilty, they must surely be legaly regarded as innocent after a trial which fails to convict them, otherwise the whole premise of innocent until proven guilty is totaly out of the window. Do you see what I am saying? You cant blow two trumpets at once !

reply to post by yeahright


Fair enough, but how do you "harm society?" I don't agree that a crime is ever committed against the state. A "crime" has a "victim" otherwise it is not a crime in my opinion. I think we have far too many victimless crimes on the books, too much docket space, too many prisoners for crimes that did not have a clear victim. A person has a right to face their accuser. Does a prosecutor represent the whole of society? Who is the victim of drug possession? Yourself? Who is the victim of selling bootleg cd's? The actual artist or record studio? Do you think they are going to show up in court to face you for your $100 street corner project? If they do not show up, then there is no victim, so there is no crime. Why waste court docket space, prosecutor manpower, and jailhouse space when there is no victim to face in court?

And, like it or not, rich guys do manipulate the system already. They do pay hefty fines or legal fees or community improvement donations to avoid jail time. Why should it be ok for the rich guys but not the average guys?

Maybe you are right, and we need to first define "crime" and "victim" more substantially, and fix the criminal justice system appropriately, and then the issue of civil vs. criminal might go away all on its own.

Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by unityemissions

 

He didn't just have a cup of joe, he was taking over 400mg of caffeine a day, which is equvelant to about 9 or 10 sodas a day. I would explode from that!

I mentioned before that I experimented with Testosterone. At that same point in time bodybuilders like me were taking an "ECA" stack. It was 400mg Caffeine, 50mg Ephedrine, 200mg Aspirin. We took it every day in addition to Testosterone and my normal caffeinated drinks. Plus a lot of endorphin and adrenalin making workouts. Plus a lifestyle around a lot of similar guys and girls and parties. Add to that a typical 20 year old's vigor and fearlessness, and you have the worst possible homicidal combination, yet somehow 99.9% of us were able to keep normal jobs, have normal relationships, and refrain from any major crimes? How can that be with all of those evil chemicals surging through systems?

I seriously doubt that 999/1000 people who take all of that aren't committing major crimes. I also doubt that you have enough personal experience with tens of thousands of body builders to make such a comment with any real backing.

reply to post by yeahright


Ah I understand.
Jargon... needs banning from the modern world. Law needs refining down to , did he do it or not. Facts or no one leaves the building.

reply to post by unityemissions


I never said 10s of 1000s?

I know maybe a dozen guys that were trying all the stuff I was trying. Plus, I know how it personally made me feel and act. There is a significant change, no denying that. But the responsibility is still your own. It won't put thoughts into your head, but it may give you the confidence to act on thoughts you already had. Therefore if you give someone with homicidal tendencies a bunch of some chemical that will ease up their reservations, then they may commit the act that was only a fantasy before the chemical. Alcohol, a ridiculous amount of caffeine, Testosterone, or sugar, whatever it is that pushes them over the edge, is still not the primary cause. It didn't give them the idea or the psychosis, it only gave them the ambition to go through with it.

The ultimate blame still falls on the individual.

Lets clear up a few things with snippets from the story..

Prosecutors, meanwhile, said their own expert may testify there was no evidence Smith had consumed diet pills or energy drinks as he claimed before his wife died.

Prosecutor Michelle Snodgrass said Smith tested negative for amphetamine-type substances shortly after the killing.

Tested Negative... there went his claim to taking 400 milligrams of caffeine a day.....so he wasn't buzzed or flying high.... hum...

After sleeping intermittently, Smith had nap with one child he picked up from school at midday at a school near their home in Dayton, Ky

So he wasn't sleep deprived either...

As for the other case cited...

Moorer said Noble awoke in pajamas and slippers in near-freezing weather, went to a Starbucks and downed two large coffees before driving eight miles to Pullman where the pedestrians were hit.

Medical tests in the Noble case resulted in a diagnosis of a rare form of bipolar disorder — triggered by heavy consumption of caffeine, Moorer said.

Everyone read that last part right
bipolar disorder —Triggered by heavy consumption of caffeine
Does Woody also have a bipolar disorder????
if so there not saying, only that he did it because he had too much coffee!

Piss poor excuse if you ask me....

Originally posted by unityemissions
Caffeine is the same type of drug as speed and coc aine.

Not quite. They work on different receptors in the brain. Caffeine works on adenosine (a chemical that builds up in the brain throughout the day resulting in sleepiness at night and is metabolized during sleep). Speed and coc aine I believe both work on dopamine, which is used in the brain for all kinds of things and expains why these drugs eff you up a lot more.

Actually speed and coc aine are in two different categories as well. Speed is an amphetamine; coke is in a class by itself I believe.

Not that you can't OD on caffeine causing all sorts of problems. But ODing on caffeine and ODing on speed or coc aine are two totally different animals (although I should mention that of these I am familiar firsthand only with caffeine overdose).