Narcotics Cop Linda Wagner Cries Over IceBreakers Candy
Hershey’s makes a candy called IceBreakers. Its a mint. Somebody decided to package it as a powder form inside a dissolvable cellulose packet. The cops in Philadelphia, rather than clean the streets of real drugs and real drug users, went on a rampage against Hershey over the mint pouches. In fact, the stupid pouches made Linda Wagner cry. Linda is a pathetic cop who could not even deduce that her own daughter, Krystle Baehr, was whoring herself out for heroin.
From the USA Today here, with thanks to Poppy.
Linda Wagner, a Philadelphia narcotics officer whose teenage daughter died of a heroin overdose, held back tears when she saw the pouches.
Because even though the packets are clearly labeled as IceBreakers candy, she was scared it would make kids want to swallow cocaine packets. Packets that I guess, cops like Wagner should get off the streets and away from kids. So instead of going after the real cocaine, she wants to solve the problem by going after candy.
I seethe when the news tries to club us with “absolute moral authority” statements from people like Wagner. Reminds me of the perpetually crying Cindy Sheehan. Just because she lost her daughter, we are not supposed to question her demands upon a corporation?
Hey, if the stupid cop thinks IceBreakers are bad, wait till she gets a load of the new Cascade Dishwasher Dissolvable Packets. Its just like the IceBreakers but bigger! Does this mean she will cry more tears? Will children start putting large bags of cocaine in the dishwasher?
The packets are clearly labeled as candy. And there are loads of candies and mints that look like freaking drugs.
Tic-tacs have no markings. An Altoids mint is the ugliest, most poorly manufactured mint there is. It has no label and clearly looks like it was made in a basement by a Crackhead. How does this stupid Narc agent distinguish an Altoids from Ecstasy?
Ever see Nerds candies? If they are pale yellow or tan, it looks just like crack rock. OMG, Nerds will make this stupid Narc agent cry.
How is Philly doing with their rampant drug crimes? Does hiring weepy women really help curb illegal drugs? I’m glad she’s all over the IceBreakers thing though. She couldn’t get her own daughter off of heroin, but she’s going to stop the dissolvable sugar packet thing cold. I guess dentists will thank her.
If you think its unfair that I pick on a cop whose daughter died, well, there were clues to her behavior. Cops are supposed to detect clues. Krystle Baehr even wrote it down in her diary that she was heavily into drugs and was in trouble. But this mom refused to search her room or question Krystle’s behavior until she was found dead in the back seat of her car of a heroin overdose.
From Linda’s own words here:
Until her death, I believed that I had the perfect all-American girl. After her passing, I began to look through her belongings and found items that indicated drug use. Her diary enlightened me even more. She smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine, took ecstasy and drank alcohol. She died from a heroin overdose.
Its sad when a parent loses a child. But its no excuse to go after a candymaker. Go after the drug dealers instead.
And I’m content that the primary resource of informtion on Krystle Baehr and her whackjob Mom still shows a girl who whored herself out for drugs to die slowly in the cold in her car from an overdose.
If that leaves a bad taste in your mouth, might I suggest some delicious Hershey’s mints?
I get letters. Greg Massott writes:
I responded to him:
Greg,
Thanks for the note. Yeah, I’m not sure why this story has suddenly become interesting again after it has been on the site for the past few years.
The story is about the mother and the daughter. Not about the candy. It is about how a poor parent attempts to use “absolute moral authority” because she has a dead daughter and can produce tears on TV to intimidate a corporation to change a product.
your a sick person to speak about someone you don’t even know. I was one of Krystle friends and to see this made me sick to my stomach. She didn;t whore herself out for drugs. You have no clue what the hell you are talking about. She was was robbed and left to dit a horrible death by herself in the cold. You are so wrong about so much. You obviously have no dignity or respect and I hope you get yours one day
Being that you don’t even know the details of krystle’s death (which can be found in a simple google search) makes this post completely irrelevant.
Being that you don’t even know the details of krystle’s death (which can be found in a simple google search) makes this post completely irrelevant.
AR, so nice you posted it twice. So enlighten me as to what the simple google search says!