Dispensary Corner 22 Apr 10
April 22, 2010
BUNGLED burglar should have
learnt his A,B,C’s!
A double blow was dealt to a US
pharmacy thief, after it was
revealed that not only did he get
busted, but he misread the label
on the pills he stole, and nabbed
the bladder control medication
oxybutynin instead of the
painkiller oxycontin.
The thief was caught in the act
of rifling through pills when an
alarm in Matlack’s Hometown
Pharmacy alerted police officers
to his break-in.
He was arrested making off
with the pills in his car.
“Sadly, illiteracy affects all
lifestyles, including criminal
activity,” said the arresting officer
David Sherma.
“This suspect wasted his time
breaking in to steal narcotic
painkillers because he couldn’t
even decipher the labels properly,
even through simple phonetics,”
he added.
NOT the sharpest tools in the shed!
In pharmacy related crime news
closer to home, a district court in
Adelaide has heard that two
would-be pharmacy robbers
made the mistake of revealing
their identities when they called
their local pharmacist by name.
The pair attempted to rob two
pharmacies in Nov last year, but
were apprehended soon after
their foiled spree and now face
sentencing in May.
IN a bid to confront smokers
about the reality of their habit,
yesterday Pfizer launched its
‘Stamp Out Smoking’ campaign
in Sydney’s Martin Place (PD Tue).
The campaign includes a fairly
scary display of 219,000
cigarettes (the amount it is
estimated a smoker will consume
in their lifetime) laid out in the
busy city thoroughfare.
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