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Shakes were spiked, cops say By Ed Fletcher efletcher@sacbee.com Published: Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 - 12:00 am | Page 1B Last Modified: Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 - 6:08 am Two Placer County teenage girls were arrested for allegedly using drugged milkshakes to knock out the parents of one of the girls so they could log on to the Internet, Rocklin police said. Internet access at the Rocklin home was routinely shut off at 10 p.m., said Lt. Lon Milka, a department spokesman. Milka said that on Friday evening, a 15-year-old girl – who had a 16-year-old friend from Roseville visiting – offered to pick up milkshakes from a local fast-food restaurant for her parents. The parents drank about a quarter of the milkshakes but didn't finish them, saying they tasted funny and were grainy, Milka said. But the shakes – loaded with prescription sleep aids allegedly provided by the friend – were effective, and the parents quickly fell asleep. They awoke at 1 a.m. with unexplained hangover symptoms, but went back to sleep. In the morning, with the headache and grogginess still present, they went to the Rocklin police station to pick up a drug test kit, Milka said. "Many parents buy them and have their kids' urine tested," Milka said. But in this case, they used the $5 kit to test themselves, he said. When the parents tested positive, they alerted the police, and the girls were taken to juvenile hall. "The girls wanted to use the Internet, and they'd go to whatever means they had to," Milka said. What the girls did on the Internet that night is not yet clear, Milka said. "For our investigation, that wasn't as important as the drugging with the milkshake," Milka said. It's also unclear whether someone manually shut off wireless Internet access each night at 10 p.m. or it happened automatically. A little bit of adolescent pushback, as teens begin to express their individuality, is good, said Leslie Whitten Baughman, a child therapist with a practice in Sacramento. But drugging your parents "would not be a healthy level of rebellion." The 15-year-old told police that her parents' Internet policy was "too strict," Milka said. Teens often fear being left out of "once-in-a-lifetime" events, which they might experience on the Internet, said Gordon Richards, executive director of EMQ FamiliesFirst, a children's social services nonprofit. While the alleged actions seem extreme, Richards said it's important to note that the human brain is still developing in teen years – helping to explain the apparent lack of judgment. Milka said he's never seen anything like the Rocklin case. The teens were arrested on charges of conspiracy and willfully mingling a pharmaceutical with food. "If they were adults, they could be facing prison time," Milka said. He said the girls were arrested as juveniles and that it would be up to the District Attorney's Office to decide if the crime justifies adult punishment. Because the girls are juveniles, their names are not being released to the media. Milka said he didn't know how long they were in custody or whether they had been released.

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/03/508...-cops-say.html

Omg that's sad. Over the Internet! Wow

That's pretty extreme. Couldn't they have used the internet the next day?

Sneaky girls. Their bad judgment will cost them. I doubt the parents will ever be able to completely trust their daughter again.

My list of reasons I am not having children keeps getting longer and longer...

Entitlement has reached critical levels with young people. This is so scary and sad.

It says a lot about hopelessly misplaced priorities. Those girls must have put an awful lot of the drug in those drinks. The parents only drank 1/4 of the milkshakes and it made them ill enough that they went to the police when they woke up the next day. Who knows if it would have killed them if they had consumed the whole thing. She was willing to risk her parents' health for just an extra hour or two on the web.

Originally Posted by Jahpson

Entitlement has reached critical levels with young people. This is so scary and sad.

+1

My younger cousins, twins that are 10 or 11 years old, both have laptops one has an iphone 4S and one has an iPod touch. It is ridiculous because they whined and whined for this electronics and acted like they had to have them to get along day to day.

Originally Posted by natalie78

My list of reasons I am not having children keeps getting longer and longer...

So very true. :(

Kinda scary. Drug the parents for Internet, I wonder what else they would do if the parents didn't allow them something.

^^ One word....

"Menendez"

Seems a bit extreme, isn't it?

Were they holding the WiFi password hostage, or something? They should have done what most normal kids do: wait for the parents to go to bed. (You know, because they were tired, not because of some chemical help.)

That's insane, though.


And I agree: kids are getting too entitled these days. On one of those Lamebook-type posts, someone posted that they got the new iPhone for Christmas. But they were mad because that was their only gift so they broke it.

I feel like there was something else going on that the girls didn't want their parents/the police to know about and they're just pretending it's about the internet. Either way, they're

Originally Posted by natalie78

My list of reasons I am not having children keeps getting longer and longer...

My list of reasons to move to Montana and live in a cabin writing my psychotic manifesto keeps getting longer.