Trumped, if you would. I think the dictionary explaination of the term will change in the decades to come.
The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine
Coke comes in pills now?
"Do not put ecstasy and cocaine in thy granddaughter's ice cream" must have been on the tablet Moses dropped.
Obviously that would cover the lying part, but not the part about giving drugs to children in the first place. Also, my comment was an obvious joke?
The article says that he did both of those things, but it isn't clear on what happened between those two events. Did he put the pills in and go straight to the cops? Did he give the ice cream to the kids? Were the pills clearly visible or were they buried?
I agree that the most likely explanation is that he was trying to create a story and/or attack DQ and its employees. But it isn't totally implausible that he might have been trying to drug the kids and pivoted when they found the pills. He has to be an idiot either way, they are both terrible plans.
No, they're really not both equally dumb plans. In one he got found out because there was video surveillance he didn't expect. In the other he may have had a double homicide on his hands because he tried to do something untoward with drugs that aren't stealthy in ice cream and don't facilitate it, and instead of making up some lie so the girls don't tell anyone about the failed pill plan, he escalates it straight to the police.
This isn't a complicated mystery.
I didn't say they were equally stupid. I said one explanation was most likely correct, but thr other wasn't completely implausible.
Yes, faking an attempted drugging for attention/politics/whatever is less likely to get someone killed. But it's so a really fucking stupid plan that had to actually be completely premeditated. Just look how well it worked out for him.
The potential child abuse plan is monstrous and risks killing them, but pedophiles do risky and horrible things all the time. And at least the part of the plan that involves showing the cops the drugs can be seen as a bad decision made in the moment by someone panicking and not thinking clearly.
Ever wonder why they scream "false flag" or "fed" every time some nazi POS makes them look bad by agreeing with them in public?
It's because they pull shit like this and expect everyone else to as well.
I swear to god Republicans are wasting their talents on politics. They have such amazing imaginations. they should be writers or artists or something. like I highly doubt any of us would think "fuck Dairy Queen, I hate Dairy Queen. I know! i'll go buy some MDMA and Cocaine and then plant it in their Ice Cream..that'll show them!"
or Jewish Space Lasers. or Flat Earths. or any of that. Sure DiscWorld exists but wouldn't you want to watch a movie about Jewish Space Lasers? ....oh right Spaceballs.
Ok maybe Republicans aren't talented they just rip off other peoples ideas.
I sometimes wish people were required to answer a few questions about the article before they could comment. We'd have fewer comments, but would we be missing anything of value?
I assume he tried to drug his grandaughters, the girls discovered the pills, and then he had to play dumb and come up with a story "Dairy Queen must have put those in there!!"
No, he definitely wanted to use this to stoke the fire in the minds of the "drug problem" locally. The DQ is probably staffed by some minority or other group that he hates, so if the optics show those "evil people putting drugs into innocent little white girls food" to create more hatred. Just pure evil.
According to Raleigh, North Carolina NBC affiliate WRAL News, on August 8, Yokeley approached a Wilmington police officer and claimed his two juvenile granddaughters had discovered two suspicious pills in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive.
However, surveillance video later revealed that Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats. The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine, as noted in an arrest warrant. The authorities said they have evidence he slipped drugs into the girls’ ice cream.
I don't think that's "definite".
It also doesn't really make a ton of sense, as you can easily propagandize and villainize without personally exposing your granddaughters to drugs and risking severe legal troubles, by twisting facts or straight up making shit up "they're eating the dogs" style.
The paragraphs you quoted don't really support one theory over another about his motives
in the same way that alcohol is a date rape drug, any drug that inhibits you can be used to control you
Why does he have coke and ecstasy?
Why don't you?
Because the party of small government tells me what I can and can’t put in my body.
Why don't I?
So that's why we haven't seen /u/whip-its around here in a while.
Because it's not the '90s any more.
:(
Imagine being able to get both coke and mdma and then trying to put the coke in pill form.
Imagine it.
He probably just had some ecstasy and that had a little cocaine in it. Also if they just did a Marquis test before sending it off both mdma and cocaine can show as the same color so they would just go with that until they get confirmation from the lab.
According to the report, neither child consumed the drugs; the pills were promptly sent to a state laboratory for further confirmation.
thank fuck he was way too stupid to crush it up
They don't mention the ages, but those kids could have died.
Even still, I cannot imagine the horror of MDMA+Coke comedown through the eyes of a child.
Fucking psycho.
Yokeley approached a Wilmington police officer and claimed his two juvenile granddaughters had discovered two suspicious pills in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen
Sounds like he wasn't trying to drug them, fortunately I guess. Either way the guy is still off his rocker.
Or, he was trying to drug them and the children found the drugs, so he tried to make them think it wasn't him.
At the very least, we know he had the drugs, and we know he put them in the ice cream where they could have been consumed by his granddaughters.
Let's all take a step back and recognize that this is not a man making thoughtful decisions. He put drugs in ice cream for his granddaughters. His thought process isn't likely to be anything we can fully comprehend.
Can you imagine being the parents here? "Honey, your dad slipped ecstasy into the girls' ice cream again. Could we please just go back to the Guatemalan babysitter?"
If the ice-cream had bits in it they might have just not chewed on it enough to recognize a pill or taste ...
I don't believe for a second he did not have the intent of drugging them... most likely had in the back of his mind if they got very ill he'd get them to a hospital and still blame what they ate.
If the ice-cream had bits in it they might have just not chewed on it enough to recognize a pill or taste
So you have also never tasted mdma. Even a tiny crumb will make you gag the second it touches your tongue
Kind of depends on what is sold to someone as ecstasy. If its actual crystalline MDMA then it wouldnt be in a pill. It was probably 2CB which is often sold as ecstasy even though it isnt MDMA, the effects are somewhat similar enough. 2CB is generally a large and tasteless chalky pill
It was him. People on Dairy Queen salary don’t slip mdma into kids ice cream
However, surveillance video later revealed that Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats. The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine, as noted in an arrest warrant. The authorities said they have evidence he slipped drugs into the girls' ice cream.
They mean he set up the drugs to report and create some kind of spectacle, instead of adding them to drug the grandkids.
Intended to drug the ice cream, didn't intend to let the grandkids consume the ice cream.
Yeah about that, why not drug his own ice-cream or coffee, he'd be sure he could cause a ruckuss then. Now he planned to drug kids, "hoping" they'd notice it and taking the risk they wouldn't.
It's all very fishy.
He has to frame it to SAVE THE CHILDREN or some such.
I certainly wouldn't trust him either, but fact is, he told the cops about the drugs he planted.
He could've just not done that, or drugged ice cream from a tub at home, or told the kids they're sprinkles or something.
To be its pretty clear that he didn't intend to directly harm the kids, and was "just" willing to put them into a stressful situation where an accident could have resulted in harm, anyway.
They're... drugs. So yes, he (intended) to drug them. Who gives a fuck what the exact composition is?
These illegal stimulants could have harmed and even killed them. He put them in their ice cream, neither they nor their parents were aware and didn't consent to consuming the pills. Even if he intended to "catch" it, a million different things could have prevented that. He gambled with those girls' lives to create a fake political enemy. If he had done that to my kids, I would have had to resist retaliating against him, and I'm not even a parent!
I'm asking for his motive. I believe he put the pills in there because he wanted to make a scene about it. Not because he wanted them to ingest them. The article doesn't state how this was done, did the children ever possess the ice cream while it was contaminated? Or did he take them, plant the drugs, and head for the counter?
Either way he should have the book thrown at him for this and if there's more information out there and I'm wrong, fine but I just don't see how speculating that he intended to drug them makes sense given the facts presented in the article.
You know how parents get worked up about strangers poisoning Halloween candy? How there have been waves of panics about that? Razor blades in apples, all that? Not a real thing. You know what actually created those fears? An incident --- a single incident --- of a guy killing his kid in an insurance fraud case in the 1970s.
Ronald Clark O'Bryan (October 19, 1944 – March 31, 1984), nicknamed The Candy Man, The Man Who Killed Halloween and The Pixy Stix Killer, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy (April 5, 1966 – October 31, 1974) on Halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing. O'Bryan poisoned his son in order to claim life insurance money to ease his own financial troubles, as he was $100,000 in debt. O'Bryan also distributed poisoned candy to his daughter and three other children in an attempt to cover up his crime; however, neither his daughter nor the other children ate the poisoned candy. He was convicted of capital murder in June 1975 and sentenced to death. He was executed by lethal injection in March 1984.
Really not enthusiastic about the idea of a "fast food workers must be drugging my kids" panic.
It's weird how mass rumors spread in the '70s even in the absence of an Internet. I remember one that involved Rod Stewart supposedly swallowing so much sperm that he had to go to the hospital to have his stomach pumped. Stewart even talked about this one on a recent podcast; he was well aware of the rumor and even knew who started it.
I thought the rib was earlier, with Alice Cooper.
Another republican pedophile you say.
Is it Tuesday again alrwady?
At least it wasn't fluoride. That would be unforgivable.
The drag queens have done it again
Pedo Party
Reminder that the conservatives in your life are 100% onboard.
Overlook the creepiness and realize that this man tried to cosby two little girls, in his custody, with ice cream, and failed. So he's pathetic even among other pedophiles.
MAGAs main characteristic is hatred, but incompetence is a close second. Bonus for every accusation being a confession.
It's a different kind of scummy going on here; he didn't want his grandkids to actually eat it, he wanted to get media attention and stoke more fear in his base. It would be like someone slipping razors into their own kids candy to rage-bait about Halloween being unsafe.
To be clear, this isn't any better than the alternative; he put his grandkids in danger for a publicity stunt that could have very easily resulted in them consuming the drugs. Which also raises the question how how he got that cocaine in the first place.
From his usual hook up I'm sure.
You read this and the first question is why? Its also the least likely to ever get answered. Settle for the what he did and make sure he can't do it ever again. Of course in todays world trump will give him a medal.
When it comes to children, I'm guessing its easier to manipulate them into thinking it's their fault because they "liked" it and wanted to keep going, even though it's the drug. It's easier to keep kids silent if they think they are part of the guilty party and not the victim.
The article says children but doesn't give much more info. I'm imagining an 8 year old and I'm struggling to think of any other reason.
I agree but in todays world kids get some instruction on abuse. While its possible that his granddaughters have been kept as ignorant as possible. Most kids get some, if very limited instruction on abuse in most schools in the country these day. Its one of the reason why scumbags like trump and his brothers and sisters in abuse hate 'woke'. They don't want their victims to be educated about scumbags like them. My daughter received some education on abuse when she was in school. Some very basic things early on with a little more detail as she got older. I of course gave her quite a bit more than the school did. So much so I was called to her school one time to ask why I was giving he so much information on it. I made the reason why very clear to them.
I was sexually abused as a child. By two people. One was a family member. I was punished by my parents for trying talking about it. It was easier for them to let me be abused than it was for them to do something about it. After all what would everyone think about them if it had came to light. I quizzed my daughter on what she was taught and while very basic and watered down they did instill in her the idea that it was wrong and she should speak up if it occurred. I expanded on it and showed her how these scumbags work. So much so she counseled her dormmates in college when she became a RA.
That's not a thing. I've known lots of drug dealers in my life, and I've never known a single one that would do something like drug random kids just for kicks. Why? There's no upside in this. It's just a waste of good drugs.
PedoCons
Welcome to North Carolina. This state is so gerrymandered that we have Virginia Fox.
wow grandparent of the year award. seems like he wanted to play the victim and have a "personal story" about drugs. he should be treated as if his intentions were to sexually molest his granddaughter after getting her high. get him a taste of his own medicine.
He posted a $100,000 secured bond after his arrest and transport to the New Hanover County Detention Center, per the report.
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Utterly insane. Litteral demons in the flesh. What sick fuck tries to drug his own granddaughters? America really doesn't put forth our best do we? Execute this monster.
James Edwin Yokeley Jr. — the 66-year-old Republican chairman of the Surry County, North Carolina, Board of Elections
Oh wow, ANOTHER pedophile rapist Republican. Does he also use too much spray tan? Release the trumpstein files.
Do they make cocaine in pill form?
No that's why its bullshit. Cocaine isn't psychoactive orally at quantities that could be pressed into a pill. Its also fuckinhlg expensive and MDMA is dirt cheap. Pill pressers could've added 10x more MDMA in a pill for less amount of money then a non psychoactive amount of cocaine. Makes no sense.
Not saying this didn't happen. But outlets never understand how shit works irl.
Yeah, it's like back in the early 90s we'd do pills and people would say the heavy ones had smack in them. I had to explain, weight for weight, smack was way more expensive than mdma. And I was doing both. They cut it with some other shit. Really good pills back in those days, though. Best night of your life, every time.
What probably went on: dealer weighted his cocaine, after that with the same scoop MDMA. That MDMA now has cocaine traces, and ends up in pills.
Not that I don't agree with going w/ every opertunity to get this fucker locked up. But this is also how people end up multiple years jail for one pill, if they really hate you.
I mean, yeah, your suggestion is plausible. It would only be trace amounts though.
Fact is, there's never an excuse for dosing anyone, ever, not without their knowledge and informed consent. That shit is unforgivable.
Also, looks like this fucker dosed his own granddaughter. And I'm thinking he probably didn't do it just to give her a nice buzz. Particularly as he's a republican. His own granddaughter.
Edit Shit I've just realised ppl might not understand 90s British slang - to dose someone meant to give them drugs without their knowledge, usually a debilitating amount.
That's what I was thinking. Either that or the coke was a false positive.
This is normal NC GOP stuff. They are criminals, most of them are pedophiles, and they do everything they can to make elections as screwed up as possible.
Great read! Haven't had a laugh like this in a while. Fucking idiot!
That sucks that they didn’t even get to enjoy such good drugs.
The college version of me wouldn't mind having a grandpa like that
While you may not have been exemplary, your ability to consent and make informed decisions existed at that age.
He has scary eyes
Jesus fucking christ on a cross.
To what end!?
Sick broken twisted human.
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Damn. So desperate to be a victim, he made victims of his own grandkids. Piece of trash. The ironic part is he was caught by the surveillance state he no doubt supported till now.
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