Which one of you teary eyed fuckers found the light of God?

A West Virginia man listened to President Barack Obama deliver an anti-drug-abuse speech and then called 911 to ask law enforcement to take his drugs and help him kick his habit, authorities said Thursday.

In an unusually personal speech Oct. 21 in Charleston, West Virginia, Obama told of how he'd done illegal drugs in his youth and said, "So, when I think about it, there but for the grace of God ..."

The Kanawha County Sheriff's Office said that a few hours later, a Cross Lanes man called 911, said he needed help and asked for dispatchers to send law enforcement to his home. A deputy was sent when the man didn't answer repeated calls back.

When the deputy arrived, the man -- described only as in his mid-30s -- walked out and placed his hands on a wall, the sheriff's said in a statement Thursday announcing that it wasn't pressing any charges.

The man said he'd watched Obama's speech and wanted to live a drug-free life for his mother, according to the sheriff's office. He then took investigators to a cooler full of drugs, including 16 packs of the powerful opiate suboxone, marijuana, 19 grams of ecstasy and 158 pain pills, it said.

An ambulance was called to take the man to a drug treatment center, where he was admitted voluntarily.

"We applaud this person's self-initiated efforts and wish him well in his recovery," the sheriff's office said.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obamas-quit-drugs-message-worked-immediately-west-virginia-man-n454136?cid=sm_fb


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[210 Points] None:

All jokes aside, I'm really glad to hear this guy didn't catch a charge.


[79 Points] None:

This would be a great way out of a charge if you knew for sure that something was going down.


[48 Points] None:

Damn this is so cheezy, but heartwarming, like air-bud.

Dude must have been mesmerized by obama to call the cops on himself for prison-term felonies, like wtf man!

Maybe he was just barred out.


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[15 Points] None:

That'd be me. I was peaking on 500 ug when I saw the Obama speech. I hate it when I do stupid fucking things on acid.


[10 Points] willreignsomnipotent:

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He then took investigators to a cooler full of drugs, including 16 packs of the powerful opiate suboxone, marijuana, 19 grams of ecstasy and 158 pain pills, it said.

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the sheriff's said in a statement Thursday announcing that it wasn't pressing any charges.

It's actually pretty cool of them, that they didn't take the low hanging fruit of an easy arrest, on what might have been considered "intent to distribute" quantity of drugs. (For the MDMA, if that's pure and not the weight of pressed pills, and on the "pain pills" as well. Article's not specific enough on the others to say...)

Good for him, though. Really strange way to go about it, gotta say. And possibly a risky one, too. Some jurisdictions that poor bastard might have ended up detoxing in a jail cell, cold turkey.


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[6 Points] jtemps92:

God hates quitters

Nah on a real though, fair play to this guy.. Though I can't be the only one surprised the coppers didn't just arrest him?


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[2 Points] None:

God bless obomba


[2 Points] wheresyourfather:

tl;dr "A West Virginia man"


[2 Points] octomarvel:

Obama cooked the breakfast with no hog.


[2 Points] Brennantop:

He definitely snitched.


[1 Points] GEEZUS00:

So you're telling me that Obama is the way?


[1 Points] young_k:

They left out "charges were being filed for when the man was released"


[1 Points] illegal_junkie:

There's no way this guy didn't own a ton of money to his dealer/supplier and this is his way of getting out of it.


[1 Points] DreadPRoberts2:

Anyone got a link to the speech? sounds out the gates


[1 Points] Heretrythisguy:

I applaud him for trying to change his life. Well done if he succeeds!


[1 Points] None:

bless his soul.


[1 Points] theHangedGod:

Some people do drugs for the experience, some do them as a dirty habit to distract themselves.

This man had a dirty habit, I'm glad he kicked it.


[1 Points] Dat-Cog:

Hey poor! You don't have to fiend anymore! Jesus is here...


[1 Points] KeyboardNinja007:

I was surprised this ended without him being shot.


[1 Points] agentgreasy:

Why do they always talk about suboxone wrong?


[1 Points] domo_origato:

It may have happened, maybe not. If it did happen, I wish him all the best.