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Getting Your Goat: West Virginia Man Arrested After Being Found With Dead Goat After Two-Day Binge on Bath Salts

Ok, it does not get much stranger than this. CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia man found wearing women’s underwear and standing over a goat’s carcass told police he was high on bath salts. In West Virginia, Mark L. Thompson, 19, was arrested after witnesses stated that they came into his home and found him wearing a bra and female underwear and covered in blood. At this feet was the dead pygmy goat of his neighbor. Thompson told an officer named Cpl. Snuffer that he was high on “bath salts” and “wasn’t in his right mind.”

Thompson was found standing over the goat by a man sent by the owner — after being told the goat was in Thompson’s house. It is not clear if Thompson thought this would be like the scene in Godfather with Robert Duvall saying “This goat has no family — nobody knows that she worked here. It’ll be as if she never existed.” Well, it didn’t work out that way. The goat was a gift by neighbor Lisa Powers for her 4-year-old grandson. When Powers’ nephew confronted him, Thompson fled the home.

Police later explained that “Thompson said he had been on bath salts for about three days.” High on bath salts? Well, it turns out to be a growing problem with people digesting the salts. Moreover, other stories reveal people high on bath salts stabbing themselves or others. The substance known as the drug – also known as Ivory Coast, Purple Wave or Vanilla Sky has been causing tragic deaths in this and other countries.

Police found a pink leash around the neck of the goat and a pornographic magazine photo lying a few feet away.

Source: MSNBC

27 thoughts on “Getting Your Goat: West Virginia Man Arrested After Being Found With Dead Goat After Two-Day Binge on Bath Salts”

  2. Sounds like the poor mans angel dust. Considering the details of the story I’m thinking that it’s lucky some neighborhood child or his girlfriend wasn’t with him when he freaked out. The headline could have been much different.

  3. now i know why that little package that comes with new shoes says “do not eat”.

  4. “Police found a pink leash around the neck of the goat and a pornographic magazine photo lying a few feet away.”

    ” found him wearing a bra and female underwear and covered in blood”

    From the Urban Dictionary.

    ” FREAK!!!!!

    1. to become very excited about something, usually resulting in exhibit of said excitement.
    2. to have a highly anxious response to something, likely leading to a hostile reaction. (short for “freak out”)”

  5. Elaine and Stamford,
    I couldn’t believe that in the is story the cops name is Snuffer? I thought it was a joke. That officer must have had one tough childhood with that name.
    I had not heard of bath salts being abused before this. Wow. You have to want to get high awful bad if you are eating this crap!

  6. N’ us’n po’ boys cain only skore Epsom Salts from MalWart.

  7. Elaine M,

    “A police officer named Cpl. Snuffer and a guy high on bath salts wearing women’s underwear and standing over a dead goat?”

    Lol …

  8. A police officer named Cpl. Snuffer and a guy high on bath salts wearing women’s underwear and standing over a dead goat? Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Anyone who would ingest bath salts isn’t in his “right mind” to begin with.

  9. My reaction after reading the first paragraph was to wonder how the hell anyone could get high on bath salts. I’m obviously out of the loop.

  10. If I had a nickel for every time I got high and came down with a dead goat at my feet whilst donning my mothers unmentionables I would be filthy rich! Good times….good times….

  11. Sigh … what ever happened to good, old fashioned LSD, peyote, mescaline … kid’s today …

  12. http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/03/2199134/fla-lawmakers-vote-to-make-bath.html

    Fla. lawmakers vote to make ‘bath salts’ illegal .
    The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla.

    The Florida Senate has unanimously voted to ban the drug known as MDPV or “bath salts.”

    Senators unanimously approved the bill (HB 1039) on Tuesday. The House approved it last week. It now goes to Gov. Rick Scott’s desk for his signature

    ———-

    http://www.bnd.com/2011/05/04/1695482/bath-salt-ban-may-save-lives.html

    Wednesday, May. 04, 2011

    Oh, for the day when bath salts involved only a relaxing soak in the tub. Now it is fast becoming a dangerous, readily available way to get high using a legal product.

    We’ve just had two local residents die after suspected ingestion of bath salts. The American Association of Poison Control Centers says U.S. centers have taken 1,782 calls through about bath salts this year, compared with 302 calls in all of 2010.

    Kudos to St. Clair County State’s Attorney Brendan Kelly for his proactive efforts to stop this burgeoning problem. He plans to ask the St. Clair County Board this month to first ban the synthetic drug in bath salts. If the board does so, he will then ask cities countywide to do the same.

    This would be a stopgap measure until Illinois lawmakers make the drug in bath salts against the law.

  13. Breathing new life into that hoary Washington DC adage that nothing is more fatal to a political career than being caught in bed with a live boy or a dead girl/strike> goat.

  14. Woosty, they label it bath salt and that it is not for human consumption. That is how they keep it from being illegal. That stuff is no more bath salt than gunpowder. It is a drug, is intended to be used as a drug and you bathe in it at your own risk. After looking at that photo, I do not want that stuff on my skin or inside me.

  15. bad stuff, very bad. I don’t understand why it is considered ‘legal’ when part of its ingredient is an illegal psychoactive drug…..plus what is wrong with people…. IT”S BATHSALT….WHY WOULD YOU PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH!!!!! (or up your nose….)

  17. My first reaction was to get a chuckle out of the headline which seemed to present a twist on the old DC adage about a politician not wanting to be caught with a live boy or a dead goat. Then I read OS’s sobering comments and looked at what appear to be lesions similar to meth addicts’ on the guy’s face. My smile melted quickly.

  18. AY, I wish I were. This kind of story is going to be more and more prominent in coming days, months and weeks. It will be harder to control than many drugs, harder to test for and as I write this, it is NOT illegal.

    This stuff is going to take off faster than a SCUD missile among the drug community and those they influence. Cheap, plentiful and a powerful high. Messes you up, but still gets you high. Now, we are going to see it as a new gateway drug to snag younger kids who are curious and want to experiment so see what the uproar is about.

  20. First of all these are not your mama’s bath salts. This is a new designer drug that is making the rounds. It is packaged as “bath salts” and “not for human consumption.” This is a legal dodge, because it is not really a bath salt, and it IS intended by the manufacturer to be consumed. However,these are drugs with a number of bad effects, including the following (from WebMD):

    “Agitation, paranoia, hallucinations, chest pain, suicidality. It’s a very scary stimulant that is out there. We get high blood pressure and increased pulse, but there’s something more, something different that’s causing these other extreme effects. But right now, there’s no test to pick up this drug. The only way we know if someone has taken them is if they tell you they have. We will be hearing more bizarre cases that lead back to the”bath salts” drug.

    The clinical presentation is similar to mephedrone [a chemical found in other designer drugs], with agitation, psychosis, and stimulatory effects. Both of these agents should be of concern, as severe agitated behavior, like an amphetamine overdose, has occurred.

    These drugs have been found being sold in tobacco shops, service stations and other small outlets. There is no clinical test at this time. Read more from WebMD:

    http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/features/bath-salts-drug-dangers

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