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This Could Be a Sign That America’s Youth Are Way Too Addicted to the Internet

Jan. 3, 2013 4:36pm Jason Howerton

California Teens Drug Parents With Prescription Medicine to Get Around Internet Ban

(NBC Los Angeles)

Unhappy about her parents’ Internet ban after 10 p.m., a teenage daughter and her friend allegedly spiked the parents milkshakes so they could get on the web after hours, according to police.

On Dec. 28, the teens reportedly went out to get their parents some milkshakes with bad intentions. The incident occurred in Rocklin, Calif., a city of roughly 60,000 people.

“The 16-year-old daughter and her (15-year-old) friend were at a house in Rocklin and they say, ‘hey mom and dad, how about we get you some milkshakes?’ They go to a local fast food restaurant and get some milkshakes,” Rocklin Police Department Lt. Lon Milka said Thursday.

The two teens dropped some type of anti-anxiety medicine into the shakes and gave them to the parents, according to Milka. The parents finished about a quarter of the milkshakes before realizing they “tasted funny” and had a “gritty feel.” They poured the rest out, but ended up passing out about an hour later, police said.

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Danny78
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 7:45pm
Excellent. The children are ours now. mwahahahahahahahahahahah.

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mackadoo57
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 7:43pm
The Government owns your children. They are infesting their minds with communism and you need not destroy your country. Home School and Private Christian Schools are better and stop using schools for your baby sitter. If you cant do that ask what was taught at school and if against the constitution educate your children that they are liars this is how Communism started during the Hitler era now the O-Hitler Era.

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- 1snake1
  Posted on January 4, 2013 at 1:46am
  As someone who lost family in the Shoa, you have NO idea how insulting your comparison of Obama to Hitler is. Way to plss on the graves of all of those kiIIed in death camps.
  
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- comstox
  Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:59am
  Couldn’t have said it better myself Mack! ESPECIALLY the Communism part. As a country… We’re cooked! Get ready for the new “Fundamentally Changed” Bolshevik Occupation!
  
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GuruMeditation
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:43pm
Pathetic.

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- turkey13
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 6:33pm
  And they are so nieve you can headline their websites that the sky is falling and they will look up! Next time you are out in public try it – tell some blond grad bimbo that her round ear ring is on up side down and she will grab it. Tell the local jock his corvatt is shooting flames out the exaust6 and he will believe you. Tell the biggest computer nerd in town that you hit XCSPQ-21 and can override the I-Pad and theywill ty it.That’s why these radical left wing nuts can control your kids at college.
  
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- SovereignSoul
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 9:44pm
  No, they control them with spelling.
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on January 4, 2013 at 7:35pm
  Well, kids, you thought your parents were too strict? Wait ’til you experience juvie!
  
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nzkiwi
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:39pm
I had to smile when GB was talking about new TVs.

We got a new TV and my 6 y.o. daughter figured out how to work it before I did…

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- badswing
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:43pm
  “perscription” ! really. no editor????
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 6:07pm
  What?
  
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- tradcatholicgirl
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 9:03pm
  The editorial work is consistently lacking.
  
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ResistSocialism
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:31pm
Well I have thought about this in depth. At least until the next sensational ‘news’ article is posted here and elsewhere… lol. I have determined we need to ban the Internet.

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MisterSarcastic
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:16pm
I guess I’ve been too busy on the internet to notice.

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- ResistSocialism
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:25pm
  lol
  
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Gildersleeve
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:13pm
Shave her head. :-)

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WildschweinJager
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:07pm
Thanks Glenn. I am listening to your radio show. Thanks for what you do. You are a good man. Never give in, never give up.

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ranepowel
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:04pm
“Technology is as bad as alcoholism,” reports a website linking to an online video of a man sending out a broadcast.

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Zipit
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:01pm
These people should talk to the guy who introduced his 9mm to his daughters laptop!!!

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- WildschweinJager
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:15pm
  Yup! All this “mom and dad I need this for school” c-r-a-p, needs to be seen for what it is. Snowjob by the kids to watch porn or play games, in that order. And no your “little darlings” are not different.
  
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yiska8
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:00pm
If I did that, my *ss would feel the thorns of a mesquite switch 10 maybe 15 times over. And I’d be kicked out of the house. These kids are lost and unreachable. They’re Godless. Internet and tech withdrawal will bring down this generation. Their empathy level is frightening.

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- Jmeth
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:11pm
  I agree with you on that
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:40pm
  “That’s right, the parents turned them into the cops. The teen girls, whose names were not released, were booked into Placer County Juvenile Hall on suspicion of “willfully mingling a pharmaceutical into food and conspiracy,” the report adds.”
  
  Outstanding decision. Leave ‘em there for a good while.
  
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- yiska8
  Posted on January 4, 2013 at 2:01pm
  @Bodybag
  These girls are going to go “cold turkey” in their cells. I can picture the little snakes trying to text imaginary buttons on the concrete walls!
  
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WildschweinJager
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:00pm
Ms Celia Bigelow is raging and blazing hot. She is reason enough for internet addiction.

Drink up!

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Cavallo
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:58pm
Go camping for a week without cell phones. Detox! Man, I wish I could do that again. I hope to do so again before I am too old to enjoy it.

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- wordweaver
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:10pm
  Definitely a good plan. I took some high school kids on a backpacking trip a couple years ago, and for some it was the first time they had ever camped or been “disconnected” from cell phones or internet. They definitely had withdrawal anxiety. I wish the trip had been longer, and then they would have realized they can get along fine without such things, and also appreciate that there is a big ol’ beautiful, wide world out there to enjoy – and it’s the real deal – not some Sim World.
  
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TH30PH1LUS
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:58pm
If your child even thinks about drugging you, much less DOES drug you… you have failed at life.

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- yiska8
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:18pm
  Exactly.
  
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- ResistSocialism
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:32pm
  @TH30PH1LUS it’s the Internets fault
  
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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:57pm
The girls probably used Google to learn how to do this.

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Magyar
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:55pm
The more they are handed and the less they have to work for a damn thing will breed generation after generation of children who have NO sense of importance, self-worth and no understanding of responsibility— exactly what the government wants— dependency!

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ResistSocialism
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:54pm
Is there a treatment for BS addiction?! Just saying… lol

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Coded-Dude
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:54pm
I always find it intriguing when local news makes its way onto the Blaze. Sadly, that intrigue is met with complete disappointment…….considering the content of the articles that make it here are or idiots performing acts of stupidity.

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:52pm
Doesn’t sound like an addiction problem, sounds like a respect problem, or an intelligence problem.

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- mackadoo57
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 7:32pm
  When I was growing up Rittilin or however you spell it was a swift kick in the $ss. They never had this crap. When I was seven I was cutting grass, went to bed at 9PM and went to school and cut grass on weekends and gave my mom money for the gas, use of the non gas lawn mower, money to savings and a little money for me to spend not much.
  
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Frodo RinosBane
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:52pm
Those parents need to get rid of the Internet altogether. The kids’ addiction just turned criminal.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:07pm
  Yup, no internet, no cell phones, nada. You’d be surprised about how liberating it actually is, after you first get over that initial hump of information need.
  
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mcsledge
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:51pm
Moderation in all things. Technology is great, but it also serves as one of satan’s greatest tools for destroying man. Time spent on devices is time that could be spent on far greater good.

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- listeninginVT
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:04pm
  True I just spent most of today on Gocomics.com, caught up on For Bettor or For Worse and added Rose is Rose to my daily comic list…. It’s not just being on line, it is what you are doing there as well. ( to be honest, I also did full kitchen cleaning and laundry and cooking etc… but it feels like a ‘wasted day’ anyway)
  
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KalanVA
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:45pm
My son went away to college and after two failed semesters we found out that he had a video game/ internet addiction. He doesn’t drink or do drugs but technology is his drug. Two years of treatment later and he is a functioning, responsible, and respectful adult. He had to change his Computer Engineering degree just as you wouldn’t want a bartender who is an alcoholic. There are now psychological treatment centers that deal with this addiction.

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- ranepowel
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:05pm
  You’re lying, and it’s very, very sad :(
  
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- KalanVA
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:28pm
  Very sad is the fact we spent a lot of time, money and tears
  
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RaydocX
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:45pm
These comparisons are dangerous, and the urge to label everything as dependence and addiction suggests a pharmaceutical fix… For a very few the net is a problem. True of anything… Food, sleep, video games, sex, you name it.

Self control and responsibility are the answer, both in short supply the way we are raising kds today.

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- Rowgue
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 5:26pm
  I don’t know that the comparisons are dangerous. People can and do get addicted to the internet, online games, texting, etc. Sure the obvious health risks of a drinking or drug addiction are more readily apparent and easier to illustrate. But any addiction can cause somebody to go off the deep end and render their lives a complete shambles.
  
  There are endless examples of people that got addicted to online gaming or internet chat rooms or similar things to the point that they became so obsessed they stopped going to their jobs, completely abandoned personal relationships, and essentially their entire lives consist of whatever it is they are obsessed with at the expense of everything else.
  
  You’re onto the real point though. And that is that it isn’t really the thing that’s causing the addiction. It’s the characteristics of the person that open them up to becoming fixated on something to the point of the exlusion of everything else. If they weren’t addicted to the internet they’d be addicted to something else, their current vice is simply what they use as the focus of their destructive behavior. It’s the person that needs the fixing not the thing they’re fixated on.
  
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Rowgue
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:44pm
This would have been a relevant question about a decade ago. There isn’t really any question that a lot of people have an unhealthy obsession with “being connected” anymore. And it’s not just youth.

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ResistSocialism
Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:40pm
Beck might be onto something here. Maybe I should stop ‘TheBlaze’. Or maybe Glenn should have a drink. lol

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- RightUnite
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:46pm
  Right… Maybe you should….
  
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- ResistSocialism
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:49pm
  @RightUnite stop TheBlaze or have a drink? Maybe I will do neither so there. lol
  
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