When Did Police Decide That Common Sense Is For Losers?

You know, if those in authority didn’t behave like robots and used just a tad of reason when dealing with the public, maybe we wouldn’t have to use the legal system to enforce common decency.

Via Skimble

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) – A woman with a brain tumor filed a lawsuit against Walgreens Advance Care Inc., saying when she arrived to pick up her painkiller prescription one day, a pharmacist had her arrested.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Pierce County Superior Court, Shannon O’Brien, 35, said she went to the drive-up window at a Walgreen Drug Store two blocks from her home last July 7. The pharmacist on duty thought she had faked her Percocet prescription and called police, the lawsuit stated.

“I was in hysterics – crying, very upset and very embarrassed,” O’Brien told The Associated Press on Thursday. “They could have checked my records. I’ve had the same medicine every month.”

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O’Brien, who was first diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1994, said she told the officer who handcuffed her that he could call her doctor or her nurse to verify the prescription.

“I told him I had brain cancer, and I had a medical information card inside my wallet,” she said. “It didn’t matter to him. He didn’t believe anything I was telling him.”

As Skimble says, “American life gets more humiliating by the day.”

I’m sure Toe-art Reform will put this little whiner in her place. A real American would be glad to get arrested and hauled off to jail if it helped fight the drug war, brain cancer or not.