One more reason not to shop at Wal-Mart: cocaine in the toy department
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A man shopping for a bike for his kid's Christmas present found a product he wasn't looking for on the shelves: a bag containing a gram of white, powdery substance that turned out to be cocaine. While scanning the toy shelves, he noticed an open pack of cigarettes. Thinking that cigarettes shouldn't be left where kids could easily found them, he picked the pack up and found about a gram of cocaine inside. That the substance was found and turned over to police was fortunate, according to the spokeswoman for the Oklahoma police department who confiscated and destroyed the cocaine. She noted that the amount discovered could be lethal for a child. "Being in the toy department, a child could easily have found it, and children will put anything in their mouths," she said.
Police currently have no suspects: "We don't really know why someone would leave cocaine, especially in the toy department of such a big department store."
[I have removed a picture of my daughter originally attached to this post because of certain nasty comments]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 22)
Mel 12-08-2006 @ 8:20PM
Oh come on are you really going to stop shopping at Wal-Mart just because some strung out druggie left drugs in the toy department. I am sure that is Wal-Marts fault.
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k 12-08-2006 @ 8:23PM
oh no.
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James Adkins 12-08-2006 @ 8:23PM
Don't you think the statement"One More Reason Not To Shop At Wal-Mart" is unfair? You are conveying the idea that Wal-Mart put that mess(cocain) on the shelves and condones drug use. It might have been put there by a Sears or Target spy. I am not a vivid fan of Wal-Mart, but come-on. This accusation is reduclious. But then everybody wants to bring the Big Boy down, so have your say.
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Rena 12-08-2006 @ 8:28PM
Along with the smart remark about WalMart and one more reason not to shop there because of the cocaine, which by the way could have been found anywhere, What gave you the right to sit your daughter down in middle of the parking lot with the WalMart sign behind her and her crying That was very cruel to her just to get a picture.
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doug 12-08-2006 @ 8:30PM
oh the horror!..it's not that wall mart under pays, not that their employees are underbenefited, not that they hire illegals, not that they don't understand what customer service is..no..it's a bit of cocaine found that we know they didn't plant!....the horror! but hey, lethal kid's toys are on sale for christmas!
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hurricane andrew 12-08-2006 @ 8:31PM
oooh, is THAT where I left it?
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Haywood Jablomey 12-08-2006 @ 8:31PM
WALMART is Gaelic for "trailer trash." Never been there, never will.
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kim beasley 12-08-2006 @ 8:32PM
It is not walmarts falt that edyits and crack heads are so stupid they put stuff like that were some pressus gift from god can get a hold of it and harm them self so stop blamming it on walmart the only thing they can do is drug test the people that work for them and clear ther employers and there name
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ALLEN 12-08-2006 @ 8:33PM
Who could be so narrow minded to thing this would be a reason NOT to shop at Walmart. It could have happen at local mom and pop store as well as anywhere else. Come on grow up.
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Sheri 12-08-2006 @ 8:34PM
It is totally unfair to say "one more reason not to shop at Walmart", it wasn't one of the employees, who are screened for drugs, that put it there. Walmart is a great place that has the lowest prices and a great selection of merchandise. If not for Walmart, we would all be paying a lot more for everything.
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Carol 12-08-2006 @ 8:35PM
Anyone could have dropped that box of cigarettes. Not a reason not to shop at Wal Mart. Glad no innocent child was hurt.
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justin 12-08-2006 @ 8:35PM
Just because one WalMart had some cocaine in the aisle, doesnt mean that all of the wal marts are hiding cocaine for kids to get. More than likely, it was a simple deal gone bad between employees switching shifts. If you want to look at the other side of it maybe. people make too big of a deal out of everything. Plus, there are too many people on the planet as there is! and what would be one less kid running around anyway if they did eat the cocaine? one sad family, but people die everyday for unknown reasons. It is God's way of saying that earth is getting way to overpopulated with people. So he is slimming it down a little. Go God!
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Emily 12-08-2006 @ 8:35PM
I'm confused about the whining baby in the middle of the Walmart parking lot in the picture that accompanies the story. Is she crying because her cigarette-pack of crack got taken away? Or because she's about to get run over by a car because her momma set her down in the middle of a Walmart parking lot--known for white trash who can't drive their rattly old cars properly? Does the picture have anything at all to do with the story other than it's a picture of a Walmart? I don't get it.
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Harry Ballsonia 12-08-2006 @ 8:39PM
That couldve been found at any retailer .... and that smart guy leaves his daughter in the parking lot to take a pic, when the child couldve easily been run over or backed over by some other idiot not paying attention.... SMART MOVE ... so big deal ...DONT SHOP THERE.... it leaves more parking spaces for someone like me, who does shop at WALMART!
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stephanie 12-08-2006 @ 8:42PM
Geez people... relax!! The headline was supposed to be comical... Obviously, the person that wrote the story shops at Wal-Mart (hence the picture), and wasn't trying to stop people from going there because some lunatic placed his cds on the shelf while he/she shopped for christmas presents. Let's just all breathe a sigh of relief that it was discovered by a law abiding citizen and discarded of properly. Furthermore, the picture was a riot! All kids get pissed when they have to leave a toy store, and inevitably drop to the ground someplace to protest! I honestly think that taking a quick picture of her tantrum, was better than a public butt beating!! Great story and headline!!!
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Chris 12-08-2006 @ 8:42PM
I dont think that the headline is too bad. Im not a big shopper at walmart, and I think that this goes to show what type of people shop at walmart. Its not just for rednecks anymore! I also believe that walmart is to blame for not being as vigilant for trash. I say this being a father, imagine if your child found that cocaine and ate it, you would scream lawsuit and hunt walmart down like a modern day frankenstien. But since you didnt find it and your child is fine, we shouldnt blame walmart. Hypocritical society!
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Jeff 12-08-2006 @ 8:42PM
Your comments and picture are absolutely dispicable. Whether it was an employee or customer losing a gram of cocaine, (no one who uses the stuff is going to "plant" $100 worth of their habit)what difference dose that make?
Do you really think a drug user planted it so someone career struggling left tilted journalist like you has Internet fodder?
And as for the moron that calls WM shoppers trailer trash: Aren't you just holier than Art Thou? I'm really impressed with your idiotic comments.
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Steve Schieffer 12-08-2006 @ 8:43PM
Wal-Mart=Always using communist slave labor to build the products WE buy from them.....ALWAYS. Then they try to tell us that outsourcing American jobs is good for America. Are we REALLY that gullible? Well, are we?
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Melissa 12-08-2006 @ 8:43PM
It's official. Walmart does sell everything.
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kim beasley 12-08-2006 @ 8:44PM
stop slamming walmart for what a crack head done they did not allow the sooooo called person to put that crap ther the only thing they can do that they probly have not thought off is drug test ther employee and clear ther names as well see crack and coke heads have no brain cause they have cooked what little they had and its not wallmarts falt that this happend so but off them and go back too your bible
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