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Nightmare: Innocent Man Mistakenly Locked Up in Mental Hospital, Injected With Powerful Antipsychotic Drugs

Dec. 26, 2012 4:54pm
Australian Man Mistakenly Locked Up in Mental Hospital, Injected With Powerful Anti Psychotic Drugs

Graylands Hospital (Source: PerthNow)

A man, mistaken for an escaped mental patient, was picked up by police, detained at a mental facility and injected with powerful antipsychotic drugs. Yes, we know it may sound like a pretty good plot for psychological thriller, but it actually happened to a innocent Australian man.

The bizarre incident occurred earlier this month after the man was wrongly identified by hospital staff as an involuntary patient who left Australia’s Graylands Hospital without permission. Authorities claim they did not realize what had happened until they had already given him the drugs.

The man soon fell ill after having the drug cocktail forced on him and required medical attention.

The man was given the antipsychotic drug Clozapine, “generally given to schizophrenia patients when other medication has failed. The drug caused an adverse reaction and the man was treated in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital overnight,” the West Australian reports.

Health authorities and police are now investigating the incident.

News.com.au has more details:

The series of events started after a patient at the hospital left without permission in mid December.

Police were called to help locate the patient and several days later, a man with the same description of the escapee was brought back to Graylands by police where he was wrongly identified by hospital staff as the runaway patient.

The man was subsequently given a batch of antipsychotic drugs but it caused an adverse reaction and he was treated overnight in hospital.

The actual missing patient later returned to Graylands on his own.

Western Australia (WA) Mental Health Minister Helen Morton has reportedly apologized for the dreadful mistake.”

“I am very sorry for the distress and hurt that the misidentified man has endured,” Mental Health Minister Helen Morton said. “I find it hard to imagine that if proper processes were followed, there is any excuse for such a terrible mistake to be made. I will await the outcome of the clinical review, however people must be held accountable for this dreadful mistake and ensure it never happens again.”

According to Shadow attorney-general John Quigley, the incident was “nothing short of unlawful assault”.

 

(H/T: Gawker)

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  • BasketFullOfPuppies
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 10:25pm

    I always gripe about the state of our country, with all of it’s “lawsuit happy” citizens filing suit for the most trivial things. But, I hope this guy sues and wins… big time. There is no excuse.

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    • Mr. H.
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:36pm

      Different country, different laws, wont happen. I would wish it would though.

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    • Maji
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:06am

      Send in…
      I don’t think you were mis-identified the
      rest of the story is plausable.

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    • BODYBAG
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:07am

      As horrible and traumatic as this must have been there is an upside ——
      Dude has one whopper of a slam-dunk lawsuit that will likely set him up for life.
      And in this case it is warranted and completely understandable.

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    • JohnOttersaid
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:31am

      Leftists always use the word “educated” rather than “smart”. An “uneducated” person is someone whose head is not filled with all of the same worthless crap that is in theirs and, God forbid, may have the capacity to think for themselves. An “educated” person is someone who knows to jump up and quote the answer to the corresponding questions approved by the leftist establishment when the bell rings. Smart people have a bothersome tendency to question things and often fail to conform, so they cannot be classified as “educated”.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 6:42am

      Sendin…..the only reason TX education is so bad is they are forced to teach to the Hispanics who can’t read and write in their own language, let alone English. The teachers are forced to go extra slow in order to get them caught up to grade level and can’t teach our LEGAL children properly.

      And the only children without health care are also illegal aliens. Have you heard of Medicaid? Have you ever been to an emergency room in Texas? You’ll find all the kids with a cold/flu/fever brought in by their parents to the only place that has to treat them for free (can you say on the taxpayer’s dollar). And part of the responsiblitiy lies on employers, because they hire people who SAY they have a social security number without checking it out. They hire them as “independent contractors” which means they are responsible for paying their own taxes instead of having the employer withhold it from their check. Therefore, it’s like getting paid under the table. They actually MAKE $15 an hour.

      Your statement tells me 1.) you are a troll sent to stir up trouble and try to make everyone look stupid and divert the real topic and 2.) have never actually been to Texas.

      And to the rest of the real contributors on the Blaze, sorry for feeding the troll, but I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

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    • starman70
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:15am

      GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE!!! Here you have another example of what Obamacare will turn into.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:23am

      Send the Meteors comes back from her 3 day paid vacation, goes back to working for a progressive 501(c) charity and promptly gets owned by Loriann12.

      ROFL LMAO

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    • rangerskippy
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 10:53am

      Sendthemeatballs

      You will notice all thos non-legal imigrants from Mexico do not run to North Korea for free healthcare in the local Emergency Room?

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    • rangerskippy
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:09am

      Sendthemeatballs

      You will also notice that Texas residents are not running off to live in the more liberals states, but currently, a whole lot of folks from lib states are moving to Texas.

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    • CABERNETQHS
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:13am

      @ meteor

      Who are you kidding? We know your nuts, but thanks for the tale. And you’re a guy? All this time I thought you were a 13 year old girl.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 11:43am

      Hed was one of those who THOUGHT about not-liking KING-OCOMMIHOOD…….. .

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    • SendTheMeteors
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:13pm

      rangerskippy, yes, people are moving to Texas. Mostly to Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Blue counties.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:44pm

      “yes, people are moving to Texas. Mostly to Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Blue counties”

      Big cities have lots of jobs that is why people move there not because they have blue laws. People & industry are in big cities DESPITE blue politicians not because of them. Even great cites can only survive blue laws & blue politicians for so long.

      There was a a great city called Detroit? Remember it? The Blue politicians rode her hard & put her away wet. She died.

      There about to dis-incorporate Detroit.

      Thx for playing Meteors. Please come again. :)

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    • SenorStrange
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:09pm

      SendTheMeteors needs to be returned to the mental hospital because they truly are insane and very misinformed about Texas. The only uneducated and cheap labor in texas is from the same place, illegal aliens. Forced on us, by the way by, ********.

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    • SendTheMeteors
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:14pm

      Walkabout quotes me, ““yes, people are moving to Texas. Mostly to Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Blue counties” And then says, “Big cities have lots of jobs that is why people move there not because they have blue laws…”

      Uh, Walkabout, I wasn’t talking about blue laws, although those laws, meant to enforce extremist religious prohibitions, are quietly going away across the country. I meant blue in the sense of democratic. And the those counties aren’t becoming less democratic with the influx of people, they’re becoming more democratic.

      But anyway, I’d like to hear more about these blue laws if you have any further comments in that direction.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:37am

      Send the Meteors
      Walkabout, I wasn’t talking about blue laws, although those laws, meant to enforce extremist religious prohibitions, are quietly going away across the country
      ***
      You can’t name the blue laws. Maybe you were reading Hawthorne & reliving the Scarlet Letter in a waking dream.
      Maybe you were talking about gambling prohibitions. Those fell 3 decades ago. And schools are still underfunded, states are still going bankrupt & the most voracious opposition to new casinos & slot machines are from current franchisees. Each new casino now forces diminishing returns on all current casinos. In Meteors/JZS perfect world there are more casinos than factories.

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  • Spitfire1938
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 9:43pm

    I must say I feel compelled to add a bit of history to my comments. I was in my 20′s when the Democrat/Liberals, then unidentified by me as communists, started a ten year coordinated effort to destroy the system of what where then called “INSANE ASYLUMS” throughout the US. They used every tactic in their bag to smear the reputation of even the most reputable institutes. They constantly reported ‘alleged’ abuses committed against helpless inmates by brutal “Orderlies” and incompetent Nurses Aids. They constantly suggested ordinary citizens were being falsely incarcerated after being “SET-UP” by greedy and/or revengeful relatives or spouses. They incessantly complained about the complete lack of monetary support from the State and tied that to alleged inadequate maintenance and horrendous unsanitary conditions for inmates. Then they insisted no one should be institutionalized or medicated against their will. It wasn’t “FAIR” to be treated that way. I could go on… you get my point. Of course ‘virtually none of it was true, most of if was simply made up or embellishment of minor incidents. When rare real incidents occurred they pulled all stops and crucified the system. Eventually they convinced most Americans, and what you see happening today in ‘Mental Health’ where you live is the result of their deceit!. The important thing to note is that an alternative to what they were, and did destroy, was NEVER MENTIONED or suggested! Have you noticed any parallels….

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    • wadajada
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 9:59pm

      HHmm..This is kinda like our schools today….Mainstream all the kids and if they disrupt the other kids…Oh well ….If theacher spends most of the day with the “problem student” no big deal …The smart kids wil have time to catch up in HS ( a teacher really told me that)…….If we hold back most of the students that is ok too….just to be fair to the kids who need the extra help……. :(

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    • Mikev5
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:17am

      This is true in many ways and a reason we now have so many shooting sprees now days they closed up a vast majority of the places and set them into the general public. I worked in a restaurant where they tried using some of these freed people on a work program to try and integrate them into society again as dishwashers all I can say is they were violent if approached wrong I had one of these freed people slam me into a locker because I walked by him to close that scared the hell out of me. These people should never have been let loose into the general public they can become dangerous at any given time they can snap and go crazy on you.

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    • Frederick_Douglass_Republican
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:22am

      I had a worthless canadian liberal tell me Regan closed all the asylums so it was all his fault.

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    • Rice Water
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 6:46pm

      The cost between maintaining a person with supports in the community is minuscule compared to institutionalization. Yep, things happen, but no more so than among the general population. I’m not sure if this was a direct policy from Reagan, but it was a pretty smart one if it was. The vast majority of de-institutionalized people lead much more fulfilling lives, and are actually contributing to society.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 9:15pm

    What would have happened if they got a tip to check the DNC convention? Just sayin’

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 8:39pm

    talk about a nightmare, those meds could have killed him. hope by the time he is done with them, he owns the hospital

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  • mcmeador
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 8:03pm

    I wouldn’t be surprised if this gets paraded around the mainstream media in order to convince people that gun control and not mental illness should be our focus in public safety issues.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 12:46pm

      Actually, trying to convince the citizens that its mental illness causing these shootings is a form of hidden agenda of the gun control nuts.Its merely the excuse to disarm anyone they so choose.Its how low down dictatorships are born.Its what our forefathers fought against.It amazes me how many of you on here seem to embrace the madness masking as rationality.
      The Soviets used the same ploy.Are we going to be so stupid as to adopt it?Wait a minute many of you on here already have.
      There is something I’d like to know.Why did anyone fight for any of y’alls freedoms?You don’t seem to care.You refuse to understand that the big picture of this is our enslavement.Clandestine enslavement is still enslavement.

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  • Spitfire1938
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 7:32pm

    This is a planted story intended to dissuade you from supporting the re-building of a sane mental health system in the USA. If “they” can convince the average citizen “Insane Asylums” are a threat… “they” win! Think about those people who are ‘literally’ unable to care for themselves and are FORCED by progressive/communist Democrats to live Homeless destitute filthy degrading existence’s on the streets of our cities! View this story in THAT LIGHT and wonder; is the Blaze a dupe… or a conspirator!?!?

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    • rpp
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 7:44pm

      I think you may be correct. Such a story may well have been planted by anti-gun zealots.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 7:56pm

      Hey – this is in Australia so I don’t see what the big deal is! They have free health care so I don’t think they will charge him for his stay.

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    • 123456beatriz
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 8:06pm

      If you don’t i like the Blaze well DON’T READ IT. Still we are free to read whatever we want. Still we are not communists yet.

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    • Spitfire1938
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 8:10pm

      TURKEY13… Doesn’t matter where it took place; their intent is to plant the NEGATIVE IMAGE! Six months, a year from now the CONTEXT is gone, but the NEGATIVE IMAGE remains….

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    • glassaudioguy
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 8:18pm

      It may not be necessarily a planted story, but just letting us know it’s out there. The one downside to a strictly news site like The Blaze vs. Glenn’s show is that he can give cogent commentary just as you did, which I agree with, BTW. This hospital should be required to fingerprint patients so something like this doesn’t happen again.

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    • Spitfire1938
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 8:31pm

      123… Please note; I did not say: The Blaze planted the story, only that, for reasons unknown, they reprinted it! Like you, I am a subscriber of the blaze… and, like you, I love it! (Perhaps, since you seem to be easily provoked… we should reopen the question of YOUR Mental Health?) See the manipulation technique I was referring to now?

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    • KIWL-DA-WABBIT
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 8:47pm

      Sounds like a law suit to me.

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  • judyaz
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 7:14pm

    It is a nightmare; I agree. Did you know that the U.S. Government has given funding to mental health agencies, such as “warm” lines and crisis calls, so that callers are not told they are being recorded. Also slightly trained people type up highlights of the conversation on a computer and kept as records. So “anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law,” if it ever comes up later. They also have the legal power to have police come take you away against your will if the amateur phone responder decided you may be a danger to yourself or others. From there you go to a county mental hospital where your behavior there determines whether you will be kept and be given psychiatric meds until a judge can see you, or you stay there longer in a straight jacket. You have no rights as a citizen there. If it were a jail you could make one phone call. The more you protect, the stronger anti-psychotic meds they will give you until you are a zombie. That will control your behavior. No agitation, no being upset about illegal confinement.Yo get out you must admit to being sick and tell them how much they’ve helped you and that you will take your new meds to control you.
    Unelected bureaucrats! New world order.
    Guilty until proven innocent, like this man.
    So they may apologize. Who will heal his brain or body of damages the medications may have done to him, since they have bad effects on the healthy? Even anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds kill some neurons.

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    • judyaz
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 7:53pm

      I know because I had volunteer training.

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    • John655
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 8:37pm

      Ohh Sorry,

      My wifes wroks as a crisis clinician, she’s an LCSW. I’m in a pinko liberal state and my wife has not heard of anyone being locked up for polical views. On the contary, in recent years the trend has been to let crazier and crazier people go home and refuse meds. It does help to explain a lot of the posts I read on the Blaze.

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    • 1776freedomofspeech
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 8:43pm

      @john

      Nice put down on the Blazer you wanker, you are a troll. If you don’t like the Blazers then don’t come here.

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    • John655
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 8:55pm

      I love the Blaze. And I’ve been following Beck since 2001. I am no troll. I am however discerning about what stories I will post on. But when a, to be plain spoken, “nut” makes a post about the governement making phones call to trick us into commiting ourselves. I have to call foul. So watch you jump all over. I’d bet we are on the same side of most issues. God Bless

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    • Frederick_Douglass_Republican
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:36am

      Anti depression/anxiety meds kill neurons? Getting drunk does. A few days of Clozapine – no. Many or probably most of the street bums you see (oh, soooo sorry; Hoooomless people) would be cared for in institutions if our society had not been turned into snake pit by degenerate “liberals”. When the insane asylums were shut down they literally pushed them out the door. One small town I visited in the 80′s had just weeks earlier had the nearby state mental hospital closed down this way. I was in my late teens and the locals were looking at me like they didn’t know what to expect me to do. Like they feared me. Then I found out it was because it was a small town where everybody knew each other, but they didn’t know me and the town was flooded with people from the institution who were unpredictable and, well – insane.

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  • GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 6:27pm

    The good part is he probably gets a discount from the same asylum for the treatment he now needs for the rest of his life…

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    • db321
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 7:20pm

      I think that is the guy that made the Mohammed Video that caused the Benghazi protest.

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  • TRILO
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 6:20pm

    The sign of things to come. With the hysteria over the CT shooter not only are the idiot politicians talking about striping our 2nd amendment rights, they are talking about broadening the criteria to allow person to be committed into a mental institution against their will.

    Remember the marine who was detained in a mental facility against his will because of something he posted to his Facebook.

    A couple of years ago I took a tour of our local jail for a citizen’s police academy that I attended. I was shocked that the facility hands out mood altering medication upon request to “calm” the inmates. The modern day Soma pill from the novel “Brave New World”.

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  • SaturdaysWarrior76
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 6:14pm

    Oh my gosh that poor man! What a nightmare that would be!

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    • KIWL-DA-WABBIT
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 9:18pm

      At least they just drugged him, here in the US they would have turned him into swiss cheese, he would have looked like one of those cartoons where the character takes a drink and then spouts like a sprinkler.

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  • mildot rider
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:57pm

    With the NDAA law that your senators keep passing you can expect this kind of thing to be the norm in the USA. You can be picked up for no other reason than walking down the street if a government thug has it in for you. Your family will never know what happened to you and you may be shipped to a foreign country without trial…forever.

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    • mrunner
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 6:11pm

      Just got “Agenda 21″ for Christmas. Not to far into it- but if Beck and his shadow author are anywhere near on target- it is coming to a town near you…

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  • 702TruthSeeker
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:56pm

    oops, he just lost his 2nd ammendment right on a technicality…

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    • 2 + 2 = Cat
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 6:02pm

      Just to let you know, this happened in Australia. In the “Down Under,” they have no gun rights to begin with.

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    • chips1
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 11:34pm

      He still qualifies for the 2016 DNC.

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:42pm

    sounds like the staff have been taking the real patients drugs,the staff all need a drug test and then they all should be sued and put in jail,then just maybe when obama care kicks in and the unions start running it, they will have seen and heard of all the stupid ways the system has been flawed that they will not make such mistakes, not !!!! they have and will continue to screw everything they touch up,so people you better get ready because when you go in to have a tooth pulled,they just might cut your leg off instead and you will still have a toothache.

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  • Old Ogre
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:26pm

    They used this limp wrist excuse the last time we had a second amendment crisis too! I am sure it might even be the same old regurgitated lie!! Think about it;, what a great way to avoid getting our nut huts back! Oh we cant take a chance on locking the wrong guy up, heaven forbid that but we will let them stay out in public and kill innocent kids!

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:20pm

    Sounds like the staff has some mental illness and incompetence as well and he should sue them for all he can get.

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    • DadRocked
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:41pm

      Another bad story of socialized medicine with lowly paid, unschooled laymen?

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 8:53am

      That’s what it sounds like to me and our health care system will be just as good as theirs after Barry fixes it.

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  • David1967
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:19pm

    I see a law suit and assault and battery charges and kidnapping charging. Someone needs to go to jail because of this. Makes you wonder if this has not happened before and the poor misidentified person is still being locked up. After a while they would be insane for real. Someone has to go to jail for this.

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 3:50am

      They really should go to jail for it. It’s not fun when you are locked up against your will. A very similar type of thing happened to me. The people who did it need to feel the same fear and helplessness that man was subjected to.

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  • TSUNAMI_22
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:18pm

    How convenient. You people really need to wake up. Doesn’t it make perfect sense to imply that mental institutions can’t be trusted to incarcerate the right people since that is the direction the NRA is suggesting the country go to head-off mass killings of innocents?

    You see? Now it HAS to be the fault of the gun, because the mental health facilities do the wrong thing by incarcerating innocent people.

    They want your guns and they are going to use your emotionally reactive ignorance and idiocy to get them.

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    • RoguePO
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:25pm

      “Australia”

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    • Old Ogre
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:40pm

      That is what i just said, and this was in Australia where they don’t have guns, don’t they see the irony in that ;-) Besides, we did not hear his side of it, he might have actually had fun! Like the old guy on the show “Fringe” and all his mind altering drugs…

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    • TSUNAMI_22
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 7:01pm

      The fact that this happened in Australia has nothing to do with my point.

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  • Hickory
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:14pm

    Government unleashed on innocent citlzens. This is coming to the US via Obama and his thugs.

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  • malbro
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:12pm

    Big Money lawsuit………….

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  • lessoneleg
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:09pm

    Hey no problem, when released he’s still Piers Morgan.

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:09pm

    Most of us are getting to know how he feels.

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  • denkat56
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:08pm

    Hear piers , hear piers. We got a new home for you.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:06pm

    Welcome to the future of America, I hope he can sue their tail off.

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  • Rohawk
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:06pm

    I think its an insult even to the insane to force mind altering medication on someone. Doctors don’t truly know what they are doing which explains the high percentage of mass murderers who are underr the influence of these drugs.

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    • RaydocX
      Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:18pm

      that’s nice… but when patients are a danger to others and themselves, the tools available are what you use. yes, better tools would be better, but…

      this was obviously a procedure flaw… how did they not verify who this man was or who he said he was before hitting him with the anti-psychotic. Tardive dyskinesia is an awful side effect and if not treated can be a permanent side effect.

      the story does not explain where the actual escapee was, or why they did not twig to who the man really was in time, so there are some GAPING holed in the story.

      Not quite as gaping, though as the suggestion many or most mass murderers are on nueroleptics… Many may be, but only after they are caught and incarcerated. Absent appropriate anti-psychotic therapy the number of mass murderers goes up, and the current American system which frowns on institutions leaves far too many wandering neighborhoods and streets, with only stressed families to care for them.

      A better means of assessing possible nut cases without negative repurcussions for insurance and employement, a better means of guaranteeing patients needing anti-psychotics take them, and better monitoring of known psychotics in their ‘real world lives’ might limit the number of Sandy Hook style attacks… and could benefit the lives of the millions with psychiatric illness and the lives of their families.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on December 27, 2012 at 1:02pm

      First off raydoc I disagee with you.Most crazies don’t kill people.Mental illness is a scapegoat for failing to address the real problems.Many of the real problems lead back into a crooked system on all levels.What we don’t need are laws designed to make it any easier to commit people.What we do need is laws that put people back in control over their own lives as much as possible.What we see in america is a direct result of hidden attacks on the fourth admendment Furthermore the biggest attack recently is within the medical system.Its time to clip that power.We don’t need anything or anyone to make it any easier to commit genocide.If you think the mental health laws and gun control isn’t part of it you are dead wrong.Its one of the final lynch pins.Please wake up you aren’t immune even if you think you are.They will eventually come for you the same as for the rest of us.

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  • schroeder123
    Posted on December 26, 2012 at 5:00pm

    I would love to represent this gentlemen. This is a 5-10 million dollar law suit.

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