4-year-old hospitalized after eating Oxycontin Skittles
A 4-year-old girl was hospitalized after eating candy that was tainted with Oxycontin, law enforcement officials said.
The girl was with her grandparents, driving home from Tampa International Airport, when she became lethargic. They took her straight to the hospital, NewsChannel5 sister station WFTS-TV in Tampa reported.
Sheriff’s deputies said they found several pills of Oxycontin and Oxycodone mixed in with the Skittles, and confirm the bag had been resealed.
TIA police Chief Paul Sireci said officers pulled about 30 bags of Skittles off store shelves as a precaution.
However, it appears the Skittles were not purchased at the airport. The girl’s candy was in a blue bag. Airport concessionaires said it has not stocked blue bags of Skittles since April.
Sireci said it’s possible someone gave candy to the girl, or she picked up a bag from a bench.
All the bags taken from airport store shelves were opened and a check of the product revealed that the bags did not contain any foreign substances and there were no obvious signs of product tampering, said TIA spokeswoman Brenda Gohagen in a prepared statement.
Sheriff’s officials said they have sent the pills from the bag off to a lab for testing.
The girl has been released from the hospital and doctors said she will be fine.
A spokesman for Wrigley, which makes Skittles, said the sheriff’s office has contacted them and they are cooperating fully with their ongoing investigation. “Wrigley goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure maximum product safety standards.”
December 5th, 2009 at 12:59 am
[..YouTube..] fuck you dude, they werent thinking at the time “oh i could accidently leave this somewhere and a kid might actually think it was skittles” he was thinking ” oh this is a great way to smuggle some oxy onto a plane”
December 8th, 2009 at 12:44 am
[..YouTube..] i cant believe some people here seriously think someone left a bag of skittles with OC in it with the purpose of hurting/killing a kid. MORONS. there are WAY cheaper ways to poison someone. oc is expensive! someone was trying to smuggle pills through an airport and that was their way of doing it. they probably got nervous at the last minute and ditched them. PERIOD. furthermore, oc tastes DISGUSTING… even a fucking marine would have a hard time chewing one then swallowing it. I HATE PEOPLE!!
December 9th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
[..YouTube..] That kid was a WHORE
December 11th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
[..YouTube..] damn I wish I found that bag of candy lol
December 12th, 2009 at 10:32 am
[..YouTube..] omg who ever lost that is probably one MAD mother fucker. hes a fuckin moron for leaving them. that could have been worth alot of money. fuck that would be so badass if i found that i would be in heaven
December 12th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
[..YouTube..] lol ur an idiot. haha just wanted to say that. pretty much wat whiterliar sed is wat id say too lol no body would leave something that expensive just to kill some random person for no reason
December 12th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
[..YouTube..] I wish i had that candy
i’m from singapore and
u can’t find oxycontin in singapore
December 20th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
[..YouTube..] What a waste of OC
December 20th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
[..YouTube..] not THAT expensive.
December 20th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
[..YouTube..] theres no way she swallowed them because they taste so bad!
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:37 am
[..YouTube..] Hey is anyone interested in buying some OC/benzos online? I have an online source i can refer some people to if anyone is interested. Theyre cheap and this guy will ship wherever. Email me at the email address in my profile if youre interested.
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:32 pm
[..YouTube..] police ass nigga…lol
December 24th, 2009 at 7:03 am
[..YouTube..] no f’n way someone would waste oxy to try and harm another person. that is just the dumbest f’n thing I have ever heard in my f’n life.
December 24th, 2009 at 7:03 am
[..YouTube..] blah blah blah
December 24th, 2009 at 10:01 am
[..YouTube..] noone does this to my skittles damnit!!!!!
December 24th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
[..YouTube..] Glue? wow are they really that fucking stupid? You put it under a damn hot iron..
December 30th, 2009 at 9:07 am
[..YouTube..] I wish I found that bag…. but are these investigators really that stupid? Someone was clearly trying to traffic drugs through an airport there is no other possibility that some store sold it like that.
January 2nd, 2010 at 8:45 am
[..YouTube..] LOL, i think this is funny, if you wanna let your kid eat shit they find or let them hangout with senior citizens, serves you right. if they tasted so bad, why eat them? why not spit it out? because shes stupid.
January 2nd, 2010 at 8:47 am
[..YouTube..] XD u cant traffic a bag of oxys u fucking retard, it was some junkies stash and he dropped it for some reason. oxycontin is an opiet, its highly addictive a skittle bag full would last less than a week.
January 4th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
[..YouTube..] Wow, don’t try to talk bullshit to someone when all you know is bullshit on the subject. You obviously have no idea how much the street value goes for on the higher doses of Oxycontin, usually 1$ per mg, that means 80 bucks per 80 mg pill and most dealers or addicts buy them in bulk.
So yes, trafficking of Oxycontin has been going on for a while but it may have just been a junkie’s stash that he misplaced while fucked up.
And by the way, it’s spelled “Opiate”…dumbass.
January 6th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
[..YouTube..] @stealthmeth Yeah, why can’t I find a skittles bag of oxy’s?!? lol damnit
January 6th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
[..YouTube..] @WhiterLiar Someone paid for those pills and that’s probably how the deal was set up but the girl found them first. I bet some junkie was pissed off.
January 6th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
[..YouTube..] @ten8goa Not that fucking pricey damn. You’re getting fucked if you pay that much lmfao.
January 6th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
[..YouTube..] @TrueGanja You’ll be the one to find a bag of skittles that have cyanide or something. That would be fucked up lol.
January 9th, 2010 at 9:12 am
[..YouTube..] yeah dude some junky must have freaked
January 11th, 2010 at 7:55 am
[..YouTube..] i only smoke weed.. ive heard of codeine from li lwaynes songs.. and also oxycontin.. oen day my fren who is weird and is a total pothead.. was beggin me to do codine and oxy wit him.. but i said no cuz i wasnt sure wut it does and i know its worse then weed…… but wut exactly does it do????? is the high better then weed? is it dangerous?
January 11th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
[..YouTube..] What a lucky child, she won the skittles lottery.
January 20th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
[..YouTube..] oxys are a million times better then weed. umm.. not very dangerous. just don’t drink caffeine with em. makes you feel like shit.
January 20th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
[..YouTube..] agreed
January 27th, 2010 at 8:31 am
[..YouTube..] @Zlave We pay $40 for an 80 in Ontario and thats still too damn much we use to get them for 25 good times
January 27th, 2010 at 11:52 am
[..YouTube..] they don’t taste that bad, ” even a marine would have a hard time” really? I’ve seen drug addicts chew them and swallow it so they must be fucking super human!
January 27th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
[..YouTube..] Damn wish I could find those prices 25 bucks an 80 sounds so insane today, best i can see em at is $50 per
January 30th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
[..YouTube..] strange story
January 31st, 2010 at 2:53 am
[..YouTube..] Oxys are super dangerous.dont listen 2 these kids, they know NOTHING.. please trust me on this, OR just do some research
January 31st, 2010 at 2:57 am
[..YouTube..] You are so wrong,, stop saying this, you have no idea what your talking about, You are giveing people super bad information. So just stop, You know nothing about it, do some research b4 you eff up some kids life by telling him oxys are not dangerous
January 31st, 2010 at 6:49 am
[..YouTube..] damn i live by here when was this?
February 1st, 2010 at 5:17 am
[..YouTube..] Where i live we would pay a bill for em all day. Addicts will pay any price
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:36 am
[..YouTube..] god i wish i found em
February 3rd, 2010 at 10:24 am
[..YouTube..] oxy is about 80 bucks a pill…cheaper to be a heroin addict.
February 3rd, 2010 at 7:48 pm
[..YouTube..] lucky little bitch… j/k why can’t I find a bag of o.c.’s and roxy’s??? i’d literally eat them like skittles….
February 4th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
[..YouTube..] @ChaosFF7….That’s a rip…I get them a hell of a lot cheaper.
February 5th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
[..YouTube..] hey guys, ive been buying my oxycontin online from this guy for the past year or so for reall cheap prices. this dealer wants me to get him some new customers, so if anyone is interested I can refer you to him. he has OC80s and xanax at the moment. He ships quickly to any place. if you wana become one of his new customers, email me at the email address in my profile and ill refer you to him.
February 14th, 2010 at 11:48 am
[..YouTube..] I dont understand how she could eat them at all they taste like shit. I would have thought she wouldnt have got one down and might have thrown up right then and there.. thats so fucked up I mena not that the person intended for a kid to have taken them they just got spooked by something and ditched them or they just dropped them and didnt realize it..
February 14th, 2010 at 5:26 pm
[..YouTube..] 80? they cost like 8 bucks
February 18th, 2010 at 3:51 am
[..YouTube..] In central California where I live an 80mg would go for about $40 for 1. If you buy 10 then they go for about $300 ($30 a piece). What a dumb f*ck to leave that much dope where a kid could find it, not to mention he or she threw away about $500! Probably was about to board the plane and chickened out about Airport Security…
February 18th, 2010 at 10:40 am
[..YouTube..] you doit once and its over, it relaxes yo and in a way gives you energy, i use to wake up do three 30mg oxycoodones and goto work, you feel sooo good and unstopable
February 20th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
[..YouTube..] i shoot oxycontin on a daily basis up to 10 times a day.. up to 80mg x 5…. i wish i could quit.. it’s just so damn addictive, it’s ruining my life.. dont do it!.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:16 am
[..YouTube..] @nil8er, i was there 3 years ago man, i shot 13 40mg OCs in one day and i wanted more.
shit didnt get me high anymore so i went on the methadone program, went from spending $160 aday to only payn $6 aday.
the life style is hard to break but you have to ask yourself “are you still having fun”…if the answer is “no” then id get on the program man.
FUCK OXY!!!~
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:18 am
[..YouTube..] PesciNcasino…idiot.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:20 am
[..YouTube..] iv seen them go for over $100 for just one 80mg…when the towns dry addicts will pay anything.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:22 am
[..YouTube..] what kind of sick fuck would do this?
and what kind of fool would waste pills like that?
stupid world…stupid ppl
February 22nd, 2010 at 10:49 am
[..YouTube..] your mothers smelly pussy
February 24th, 2010 at 8:04 am
[..YouTube..] 0MG THAT P00R BABY i D0NT THINK WH0 EVER DID IT DID IT INTENTIONALLY- MAYBE IT WAS A DRUG TRADE & HE KNEW THAT NO ONE WOULD CHECK A CLOSED BAG OF SKITTLES. N0 0NE WiTH A RiGHT MiND W0ULD WASTE PiLLS W0RTH THAT MUCH AS A PRANK
February 24th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
[..YouTube..] jeeeeesssuusssss homey must have been doped out and dropped them
February 25th, 2010 at 2:06 am
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February 26th, 2010 at 7:05 am
[..YouTube..] i want some of THOSE skittles.
March 1st, 2010 at 2:51 pm
[..YouTube..] clearly it was someone planning on smuggling them onto a plane, but probably got too nervous and left it behind.
March 1st, 2010 at 6:57 pm
[..YouTube..] thats one posible reasion, its probably the right one but there are sum sick fuks out there and it has been done b4.
i didnt listern the first time, i thought she got them from a shop…i didnt hear the part where she just found them.
you would think alittle kid woud spit that crap out…its foul tasting shit and i find it hard to believe the little girl even got through one pill.
but i guess it wouldnt take much to kill a toddler
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:47 pm
[..YouTube..] I lol’d.
March 4th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
[..YouTube..] @mesuhlikemusic yeaaaaa
March 8th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
[..YouTube..] Please go to an NA meeting. Or ask your doctor to put you on Suboxine. Suboxine was the only thing that helped me get off oxycontin. You are not alone.
March 11th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
[..YouTube..] whoever lost that bag is pisssssed off.
March 12th, 2010 at 7:31 am
[..YouTube..] i take suboxone everyday, it is a fucking miracle drug. But every single payday..(which is today) i always fuck up aznd buy 7 perks
March 13th, 2010 at 8:49 am
[..YouTube..] who the FUCK would waste the oxys like that.!!!
March 13th, 2010 at 8:50 am
[..YouTube..] id be fuckin STOKEd if i bought some skittles and there was oxys in there instead!!
March 15th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
[..YouTube..] okay dude we get it you’re a low life pill popper
March 15th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
[..YouTube..] ya nothing like a little girl almost dying that’s a real knee slapper
March 15th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
[..YouTube..] act like u know the first thing about me… go fuck yourself faggot
March 15th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
[..YouTube..] wow dude you really put me in my place.
March 16th, 2010 at 10:44 am
[..YouTube..] so dont say shit if u have no clue…
March 16th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
[..YouTube..] well when you say the same thing twice about how you’d be so fucking stoked to get some oxys that’s kind of a giveaway
March 17th, 2010 at 9:37 am
[..YouTube..] when you say stuff like low life when u dont know anything about the person is fucking stupid so just mid ur own business and shut the fk up