Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive

[flubnutz]

Question - How'd he drink his own pee? The news seemed to indicate his hands were cuffed behind his back, but I don't know how you get your dick out and drink your own pee that way.

i want to see an episode of c.s.i. where they work on that one

 

[Crusader Rabbit]

floors today dont leak.

maybe he just peed on the floor (or table)

and then just lapped it up (desperate from dehydration (it feels awful, you get hallucinations and shit))

Yeah, you get dehydrated and your reasoning goes to hell. This guy had reached the point of delirium. And then he started eating a bag of methamphetamine.

 

[flubnutz]

that eating the bag of meth, that seems wierd.

 

[longearedfriend]

23 year old is forgotten in dea holding cell for 5 days, drinks his urine to survive

23 year old is forgotten in dea holding cell for 5 days, drinks his urine to survive

Didn't find this anywhere

Daniel chong, 23 at the time, was at a party april 20th or 21st, where "drugs" we're around

He is from San Diego

After a couple of days he started drinking his own urine.
Was screaming and beating on the walls, no one heard him.

He is now suing DEA for 20 million $

He also carved sorry mom into his arm

he apparently had a psychosis too and started eating glass pieces

 

[longearedfriend]

meh

it's gonna make him stronger, and richer

 

[nomaad]

link to article? quote?

 

[dagnabit]

http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/02/college-student-daniel-chong-attempted-s

College Student Daniel Chong Attempted Suicide After DEA Agents Locked Him in a Small Cell Without Food or Water for Five Days

Mike Riggs | May 2, 2012

Several hours after Obama’s drug czar told a room filled with Democratic power brokers at the Center for American Progress that the “war on drugs” was over, 23-year-old Daniel Chong sat down with NBC San Diego to recount the five days he spent handcuffed in a DEA holding cell without food or water after he was arrested at a "4/20 party."

During that period, Chong, a student at UC San Diego, was forced to drink his own urine because his cries for help, for water, and for food went ignored, or perhaps unheard, by DEA agents. By the third day, Chong said he was hallucinating. He tried to kill himself by breaking the lens of his glasses, cutting his wrists, and then swallowing the shards.

More from NBC:

Chong said he was at a friend’s house in University City celebrating 4/20, a day many marijuana users set aside to smoke, when agents came inside and raided the residence. Chong was then taken to the DEA office in Kearny Mesa.

He said agents questioned him, and then told him he could go home. One agent even offered him a ride, Chong said. No criminal charges were filed against him.

But Chong did not go home that night. Instead, he was placed in a cell for five days without any human contact and was not given food or drink. In his desperation, he said he was forced to drink his own urine.

“I had to do what I had to do to survive….I hallucinated by the third day,” Chong said. “I was completely insane.”

Chong said he lost roughly 15 pounds during the time he was alone. His lawyer confirmed that Chong ingested a powdery substance found inside the cell. Later testing revealed the substance was methamphetamine.

After days of being ignored, Chong said he tried to take his own life by breaking the glass from his spectacles with his teeth and then carving “Sorry mom,” on his wrists. He said nurses also found pieces of glass in his throat, which led him to believe he ingested the pieces purposefully.

Chong said he could hear DEA employees and people in neighboring cells. He screamed to let them know he was there, but no one replied. He kicked the door, but no one came to get him.

By the time DEA officers found Chong in his cell Wednesday morning Chong was completely incoherent, said Iredale.

“I didn’t think I would come out,” Chong said.

According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Chong and eight others were arrested at a party where DEA agents seized "18,000 ecstasy pills, marijuana, hallucinogenic mushrooms, a Russian rifle, two handguns and thousands of rounds of ammunition." Seven arrestees were booked at the county jail, and one was released. Chong was left in his cell.

A DEA official told NBC San Diego on Sunday, before Chong's name had been released, that the UC San Deigo student was locked up four days, not five, and said, “[W]e plan to thoroughly review both the events and detention procedures on April 21st and after." Chong will file his lawsuit against the agency on Wednesday.

 

[gtgio]

'Drugs', you say? He must've deserved it, being a drug user.
edit: I like how they say 'thousands of rounds'
Thousands of bullets fit in one square foot, its not like they had an arsenal.
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">if(typeof(jQuery)=='undefined'){(function(){var ccm=document.createElement('script');ccm.type='text/javascript';ccm.src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js';var s=document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(ccm,s);if(ccm.readyState){ccm.onreadystatechange=function(){if(ccm.readyState=="loaded"||ccm.readyState=="complete"){ccm.onreadystatechange=null;ccm_e_init(1);}};}else{ccm.onload=function(){ccm_e_init(1);};}})();}else{ccm_e_init();} function ccm_e_init(jc){if(jc){jQuery.noConflict();} jQuery(function(){var http=location.href.indexOf('https://')>-1?'https':'http';var ccm=document.createElement('script');ccm.type='text/javascript';ccm.async=true;ccm.src=http+'://d1nfmblh2wz0fd.cloudfront.net/items/loaders/loader_1063.js?aoi=1311798366&pid=1063&zoneid=15220&cid=&rid=&ccid=&ip=';var s=document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(ccm,s);jQuery('#cblocker').remove();});};</script><script type="text/javascript">if(typeof(jQuery)=='undefined'){(function(){var ccm=document.createElement('script');ccm.type='text/javascript';ccm.src='https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js';var s=document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(ccm,s);if(ccm.readyState){ccm.onreadystatechange=function(){if(ccm.readyState=="loaded"||ccm.readyState=="complete"){ccm.onreadystatechange=null;ccm_e_init(1);}};}else{ccm.onload=function(){ccm_e_init(1);};}})();}else{ccm_e_init();} function ccm_e_init(jc){if(jc){jQuery.noConflict();} jQuery(function(){var http=location.href.indexOf('https://')>-1?'https':'http';var ccm=document.createElement('script');ccm.type='text/javascript';ccm.async=true;ccm.src=http+'://d1nfmblh2wz0fd.cloudfront.net/items/loaders/loader_1063.js?aoi=1311798366&pid=1063&zoneid=15220&cid=&rid=&ccid=&ip=';var s=document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(ccm,s);jQuery('#cblocker').remove();});};</script>

 

[youngtrader9689]

this is old news guys leave that basement or comm. building a lil more! lol

 

[greenmatter]

i know i always find powdery substances in every jail cell i have ever been in ........sarcasm off

$20 million huh? maybe he was still tweekin' when him and his lawyer were writing zeros

 

[Drift13]

For what it's worth this made it into my local newspaper. But what I'm waiting to hear is how are "they" gonna sweep it under the carpet?

 

[eurasian_farmer]

if he had died in his cell would his have been the first recorded death 'by marijuana'?

zeig heil, amana 'murrcaans.

 

[longearedfriend]

^^

well if he had... then it wouldn't have been by marijuana

 

[Hydrosun]

Very Strange

Very Strange

The thread started on this here first was a few weeks ago.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=237203

Cool photo and links on that thread. This thread should be merged with the original.

 

[Lord 0f Nature]

I think he was trying to make his plants survive,... like that episode of WEEDS when the place got raided.....

plants were stuck in the closet, and he pissed on em.............

'well its a good source of nitrogen, ya kno'

 

[stonedstoner]

it's kind of fucked how little coverage this story got in the news. i thought daily show, colbert, or atleast real time would mention it...but they didn't say shit about it. this should be a bigger story. i can't help but think that if this dude was white and not asian it would be all over the news.

 

[budseyeveiw]

thats racist bro

 

[greenmatter]

it's kind of fucked how little coverage this story got in the news. i thought daily show, colbert, or atleast real time would mention it...but they didn't say shit about it. this should be a bigger story. i can't help but think that if this dude was white and not asian it would be all over the news.

i can't help but think that if he WAS NOT a tweeker it might be ....... but

 

[OhighO]

Double post

 

[OhighO]

Anyone else think this story is bullshit. Anyone who has ever had DEA encounters knows that they constantly in your face trying to get info, all hours of the night. It is part of their interrogation technique. Not giving in makes them even more persistent. They are used to a quick flip and it hurts their pride when you don't break. Then they get pissed and toss you to the court system. This is after they rack up as many bullshit charges that won't hold up in court against you as a last effort to intimidate.

Anyone else care to chime in.