Why You Shouldn’t Deal Crack

Don't be that guy

I’m sure a PSA announcement or two may have touched on the dangers involved with dealing crack, but I don’t think any of them touched upon the possibility that you might unload your AK-47 into some trick-or-treaters.

12-year-old T.J. Darrisaw was returning home from a Halloween party with his dad and brothers when they decided to do some trick-or-treating to end the night. But they made the mistake of stopping at the home of Quentin Patrick, a crack dealer gone paranoid after getting shot in a robbery 10 months before.

“Crack dealer gone paranoid” might be a more volatile situation than a nuclear reactor melting down.

Their Halloween masks, apparently freaked out Patrick’s girlfriend. She looked out the window and screamed that there were three large men in masks with a rope outside the door. Patrick grabbed his AK-47, which had been modified to fully automatic. He unloaded the entire magazine — 30 bullets in all — into the front of the house.

To say there was a breakdown in the logical progression of rational thought, would be an understatement. What kind of a crackhead girlfriend (this kind, I guess), looks out the window on Halloween, sees a 9 year-old, 11-year old, another kid and a dad (and a rope?)and assumes that these people are here to rob the house?

And what kind of a crack head (this kind, I guess), takes his cracked out girlfriend’s word as truth before seeing for himself, and unloading 30 rounds of an AK-47 “into the front of his house”? Talk about irritable! Sadly, the 11-year old died after he was hit 11 times. And because there is nothing like the U.S. legal system,

But in a strange twist, U.S. District Judge Matthew Perry agreed with defense lawyers that Quentin Patrick didn’t intend to kill the kid. Yesterday, he found the dealer guilty of voluntary manslaughter instead of murder. And he sentenced him to just 16 years, only months above minimum sentencing guidelines.

What was I saying earlier about the breakdown in the logical progression of rational thought? WTF!