Teen Paid Homeless Man $5 To Drink Cleaning Solution.

[NaturalHigh]

A Waffle House restaurant worker in Georgia was arrested on charges of allegedly paying a homeless man $5 to drink a poisonous cocktail of chemical cleaning solution that left him in critical condition, according to police.

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The homeless man is in critical condition. What kind of a sick bastard would do something like this? There's nothing in the article to indicate that the poor guy did anything to threaten the kid or that they even knew each other.

[Oceansaway]

1. sickening to say the least...when i was young,

we got our 'kicks' by teepeeing(toilet papering) a friend or foes house....

[Arkansas Granny]

2. What a sick thing to do. This is the type of person who puts

firecrackers in a frog's mouth to watch it blow up.

[NaturalHigh]

3. You got that right.

I don't understand people who find joy in others' suffering.

[stop the bleeding]

4. Kid is practicing to be a Repuke! I am not laughing either - hurting

people for fun is their game.


Where in the Fuck was this kid's moral values???!!?!?!?!?
I know 2 wrongs don't make it right but it would feel good to make this kid drink that crap, or better yet he should have to take care of the man for a pre-determined time




Give Mommy a Kiss....

[Trillo]

5. At the risk of sounding callous,

if the homeless drinker was told it was "cleaning solution", then wasn't it his choice to drink it?

Neither the OP or the article states what the homeless person was told of the ingredients, or what the restaurant worker claims he told the homeless in regards to this, so I call BS.

More Corporate Media Non-News.

[Don Claybrook]

7. It may be bad local reporting, sure

But you're calling it BS just because the reporting sucks? How are you able to know that the story isn't true? How do you know the homeless man wasn't staggering drunk, or mentally incapacitated in some other way?

The kid sounds like a heartless piece of garbage who has no sense of what humanity means.

[Trillo]

14. Perhaps, but perhaps it was a suicide attempt.

"kid sounds like a heartless piece of garbage who has no sense of what humanity means."

Yet, a bottle of bleach at the grocery store is nearly the same cost as a bottle of drinking water. Should grocery stores be held liable for those who might decide to commit suicide by drinking their cleaning solutions?

All I'm saying is that if the ingredients were disclosed by the restaurant worker, then there's very little difference between this alleged happening, and my grocery store example, other than my example is corporate, and the restaurant worker is just a lowly natural person, surely someone to legally pounce on and hold to a different standard than a corporation.

[MidwestTransplant]

19. No but people who induce them to drink the bleach through

promise of monetary reward should be held accountable.

[Trillo]

22. The Non-Article doesn't state that, however.

If it does state that fact is in evidence, then please correct me.

[NaturalHigh]

25. Doesn't state what?

A Waffle House restaurant worker in Georgia was arrested on charges of allegedly paying a homeless man $5 to drink a poisonous cocktail of chemical cleaning solution that left him in critical condition, according to police.

Clearly this punk paid the guy to drink the poison, whether or not he told the poor guy what was actually in the cocktail.

[Trillo]

27. Okay, I see I need to slow down with you a little.

Where does it state that the restaurant worker 'admitted' paying $5.00 to the homeless man contingent upon his drinking it?

Maybe the worker gave $5.00 to the homeless person because he was feeling generous, and the homeless person on his/her own decided to drink some thrown away cleaning solution he obtained from the garbage, then falsely claimed the worker gave him $5.00 only if he drank it? In other words, maybe the homeless person 'lied.'

"Clearly this punk paid the guy to drink the poison"

That is not stated in the non-article, merely that he "was arrested". It is clear that to you, and many others here, the "arrested guy" is "guilty" before trial. So much for innocent until proven guilty.

[MidwestTransplant]

26. He was arrested on suspision of doing just that.

I don't get what you are saying? Maybe he didn't do it but he was arrested for doing just that and that's what the article was reporting.

[Trillo]

30. Precisely. Article is slim on "facts", but

makes many implications as to guilt versus innocence.

All we know is
1) a named person was arrested.
2) another named person is in the hospital with serious injuries.

We DO NOT KNOW if there's a factual connection between 1) and 2).

edit: spelling

[kay1864]

31. Would you be happy...

if everyone here said, "Disgusting" and aded "(if true)"

Nothing wrong with commenting on an incident that's reported in the news.

[MidwestTransplant]

34. How is this different than anything else reported pre conviction?

I don't get your point. Should we hold of on slamming Bush based on today NYT article re domestic spying because we can't be certain it's true yet?

[Trillo]

35. It's different because Bush is a public person, with public

responsibilities, but the accused arrestee detailed in this article is a private person who is being held publicly responsible with cleverly constructed insinuations, and likely, even if innocent, will never have any benefits of having been held publicly responsible. Bush at least gets a couple hundred grand and commensurate authority to run the Executive Branch until he's impeached or his term runs out, so he's already received his benefit.

My objection is also due to the lack of logic in the reported facts in the article linked by the OP.

edit: spelling

[Warpy]

8. Untreated DTs are 50% fatal

and that means that $5.00 might have been the difference between life and death to an alcoholic homeless man.

That's one reason he might have done it.

[NaturalHigh]

9. Whatever the poor man was told...

this little punk took advantage of him for some perverse, sadistic, kick.

[stop the bleeding]

11. agreed - we know right and wrong

- too bad the repukes don't



Give Mommy a Kiss....

[SmokingJacket]

32. Exploiting desperation is wrong.

It may well be BS, but if it's true... well, there's gotta be a law.

[RagingInMiami]

33. A lot of homeless people are mentally ill

[Crankie Avalon]

6. Not even a "teen," really...

...he's 19, so he really should have known better. He'll be tried as an adult, and I think that's for the best.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. We had a thread on something like this a while back about a sicko who

got women and girls to drink dangerous things like that.

Have these nut cases always been around or is this something new?

[mikelewis]

12. They've always been around...

We used to call them Nazi's but now Republican seems to fit nicely.

[NaturalHigh]

13. I don't know.

Maybe they've always been around and we just hear about them more now. Maybe some people are just becoming more calloused when it comes to others.

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. I am not sure. I do know in the other thread it was a sexual thrill thing

so I think this is more than just being callous. Callous is not holding a door open for someone and letting it slam in their face.

This is premeditated murder as far as I am concerned.

[lpbk2713]

15. From what I can discern from the article .....

It happened while Wilson was on the job at the Waffle House and could have happened on the WH premises. If the guy survives he probably won't have to worry about being homeless any longer because WH and the courts will make him a rich man.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

16. It makes me wonder what the kid was feeding the patrons

of his Waffle House.

[NaturalHigh]

18. If I were a Waffle House exec...

I would be looking to pay this guy's medical bills to get out in front of this one. You're right; the corporate office is probably going to be shelling out seven figures to this guy or his family.

[RepublicanElephant]

17. dubya's torture culture.

dubya blew-up frogs, too.

[derby378]

20. "Have a Waffle House Christmas, MOTHERFUCKER!!!"

Seriously. My heart is sick and sad over this.

This looks like the next logical extension after the Bumfight craze. But boy, is this sick.

[NaturalHigh]

23. Whatever happened to the bastards who produced "Bumfights"?

Did they ever get the prison terms they so richly deserved?

[ronnykmarshall]

21. a future president of the united states.

[kay1864]

24. No, it wasn't a suicide attempt

The WH cook said, "Here drink this". When the homeless man balked, he offered him $5 to drink it. He did so, and shortly thereafter collapsed on the floor.

Pure sick cruelty.

[kay1864]

29. More...

The incident began early Wednesday when Rex Leo went to a Waffle House after helping his sister decorate her house for Christmas.

Quinton Wilson, a cook, was drinking a bottle of apple juice and bickering with Rex Leo, Linda Leo said other customers told her.

After finishing the juice, Wilson allegedly filled it with liquid cleaner and dared Rex Leo to drink it. When Rex Leo wouldn't, witnesses told Linda Leo, Wilson offered him $5.

Already intoxicated, Rex Leo took the dare, his sister said.

"He slammed it about two-thirds down and collapsed, hit the floor," Linda Leo said. "We were told if help had arrived five minutes later, he'd be dead."

Wilson, 19, was immediately fired, Norcross-based Waffle House spokesman Pat Warner said. A waitress was also fired because she did not stop Wilson.