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Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive

Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive - Daniel Chong, a 24-year old student at UC San Diego, was taken into custody & abandoned in a holding cell for 5 days without food or water. “They never came back."



Student abandoned in DEA holding cell drank own urine to survive

By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 21:33 EDT
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Topics: Daniel ChongDEAUC San Diego


Daniel Chong, a 24-year old student at UC San Diego, was taken into custody during a drug raid and abandoned in a holding cell for five days without food or water, according to NBC San Diego.
“They never came back, ignored all my cries and I still don’t know what happened,” he said. “I’m not sure how they could forget me.”
On April 21, Drug Enforcement Agents raided an apartment where Chong and his friends were smoking marijuana. Nine people were arrested and the agents reportedly seized ecstasy pills, marijuana, prescription medication, psychedelic mushrooms and weapons, according to CBS 8 News. Seven of those arrested were taken to jail and one was released.
Chong, however, was left handcuffed in a 5 ft. by 10 ft. holding cell.
Chong said he screamed and kicked the door, but to no avail. Eventually, he began hallucinating and drank his own urine in hopes of staying hydrated. After days without any human contact, he tried to kill himself by breaking his glasses with his teeth, and using the glass to cut himself.
Surprisingly, Chong allegedly found a bag of methamphetamine in the holding cell, which he used to stay awake.
After five days, a DEA worker heard noises coming from the holding cell and discovered him. Chong was taken to the hospital, where he spent three days in the intensive care unit.
The DEA has not apologized to Chong. He has not been charged with any crime.
Watch video, courtesy of NBC San Diego, below:
View more videos at: http://nbcsandiego.com.
 

FoCo(No.Co)

Barned
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Wow, tweaking out on meth dehydrated and alone in a holding cell.

I wonder if taking the meth helped pass the time or if it made everything much much worse. I would guess the latter.
 

headband 707

Plant whisperer
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sue sue sue ,, and then sue again,, and this is what Obummer stands behind and if he died you think anyone would have heard about that? Well it's the US they can do what they want .. headband 707
 

shmalphy

Member
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Wow, tweaking out on meth dehydrated and alone in a holding cell.

I wonder if taking the meth helped pass the time or if it made everything much much worse. I would guess the latter.
Nothing passes the time like tweaking out over a tall glass of hot piss
 
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sneaky101

Member
It sucks so bad that this happened to him. Now the DEA will have to use taxPayer money to pay for damages he deserves for their fuck up. There should be some type of punishment for the agency for that shit! Anytime taxpayer $$ is used for stuff like this, heads should roll. They are supposed to be good stewards of our $. What a shame. I feel for this guy.
 

paladin420

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This should be paid out the their personal accounts,401's, what ever. They fucked up why should I pay more for their fuck-up???
 
T

Toes.

if I did something like that at my job... I would have to pay out of my own pocket for forgetting that stuff in the closet.
 

Iraganji

Member
Taxpayers paying for the DEA's fuck ups is one thing, but tax payers are also paying for their "normal" behavior. We are funding our own mistreatment either way.

It's very normal for college kids to smoke herbs, and eat shrooms. ;) It's called blowing off steam and discovering who you are. Leave them alone, realizing they are surfs about to embrace a life of servitude is punishment enough for these young folks.
 

sneaky101

Member
Taxpayers paying for the DEA's fuck ups is one thing, but tax payers are also paying for their "normal" behavior. We are funding our own mistreatment either way.

It's very normal for college kids to smoke herbs, and eat shrooms. ;) It's called blowing off steam and discovering who you are. Leave them alone, realizing they are surfs about to embrace a life of servitude is punishment enough for these young folks.

I was thinking of this just the other day. We pay taxes for police protection (at least one reason we pay taxes), we elect people for government office to pursue our interests, big pharma buys them off to keep cannabis illegal (so they can profit of course) and use the money we payed for police protection to harass, detain, and incarcerate us. Makes one just shake his head. Very sad!
 

b00m

~No Guts~ ~No Glory~
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Holy Shit :yoinks: :nono:
Wow what a story, I think he should sue their arses off, by the way the story goes the DEA have locked him up in there and plants the meth in the hopes he Over-Doses or dies from meth induced dehydration. Like someone else mentioned, no one would of heard a thing if the poor kid had actually died, he should make as much Noise and Exposure that he can muster and SUE the fuckers for their jobs and pensions as a starting point, then go for the payout :D
:joint:
 

abellguy

Member
These fuckers are so inept that they don't even know they have someone in a holding cell? It makes you wonder how people like that can even stand to be around themselves. I guess that is why they came up with plausible deniability :rasta:
 
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