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The time a scuba instructor brought his handgun into the school’s public pool locker room, and failed to notice the teenager
watching him. Although the guy locked his gun in a locker, he then put the key to the lock..uh..into a bag hanging on the wall,
making it pretty easy for the kid to then steal his gun. The kid was later caught. The scuba instructor was rightfully prosecuted
in municipal court for bringing a gun onto school property but the kid was not prosecuted in juvenile court for possessing a gun
on school property; a charging decision nobody could understand. Welcome to the criminal justice system.

1 a.m. in a nursing home: Emergency aid crew confirms the dead-looking 92 year old resident is indeed dead. Old age, natural
causes, dead. They pack up their EKG heart monitors and gear and leave, with me right behind them. The head nurse on staff,
a new gal, stops me. “Uh…what…what..do I do now?!?” she asks with slight bit of panic in her voice. I stare at her quizzically. “Is
this your first dead person you’ve seen here? Did they not tell you this was going to happen? I’m sure there’s a checklist here
somewhere you should consult..”

56 year old woman is slumped over her steering wheel in the WalMart parking lot. People notice. She revives herself, and goes
back to inhaling chemicals from cans of compressed air, because everybody needs a hobby I guess. Alarmed witnesses call 911. I
arrive and find the woman in an altered mental state; she’s just finished her 6th can. First thing I do is reach into her car and
remove the keys from ignition, because I don’t trust her. I turn my back on her for a few seconds to call for an aid car and all the
witnesses start yelling because she’s grabbed a 7th can of liquid difluoroethane and started to furiously inhale from it. See? I told
you I didn’t trust her! So I have to quickly grab her and drag her out of the car to an ambulance that just arrived. Woman goes
to the hospital. In addition to the difluoroethane saturating her blood and infusing her brain, she’s got freezer burns on her
hands from holding the cans which turned freezing cold when used. And the skinny red tube she used to suck the chemicals in
while pressing the trigger? Yeah, that got cold enough to freeze her lips too, and turn them bloody. The worst part is, the initial
“high” from inhaling that stuff lasts only about 5 minutes per can. Then the destroyed liver and kidneys have to spend the next
couple weeks trying to neutralize and process all those nasty chemicals. She said the reason why she was doing that was because
her son had died.