I think I just found the worst front page article in CNN history

[JEDI]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/04/06/vbs.colombian.devils.breath/index.html?hpt=C2

wat?

cliffs:

-Go to columbia to try a drug
-Meet up with drug dealer
-Buy drug
-Throw drug away
-Come home

WTF? What kind of an article is that?

what do u mean kill free will?

u just an obidient slave and do whatever anyone wants?

 

[Colt45]

[...] It is called scopolamine [...]

erm... datura grows here, you didn't have to go to Colombia.

 

[zinfamous]

lol at comments:

"We almost did stuff." End of story.

 

[Slew Foot]

Scopolamine? I give that stuff to a bunch of my patients, its an anti nausea patch.

 

[nakedfrog]

erm... datura grows here, you didn't have to go to Colombia.

Ah, but that doesn't get them a tax-deductible trip to South America, does it?

 

[StepUp]

<--- Lived in Colombia... drug is definitely feared, and the effects are very real.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Scopolamine is known about in Colombia. There were some stories of Taxi drivers using it on female customers and it is pretty much analogous to Rohypnol. I.e., do a fucking story about Rohypnol and actually take it, it's a little more relevant to a North American.

Story is epic in it's failure, but yay sensationalist journalism.

<--- Checked story with my Wife, who is a Bogotainian born and bred.

 

[JEDI]

<--- Lived in Colombia... drug is definitely feared, and the effects are very real.

so what are the effects?

 

[AMDZen]

By worst I assume you mean best?

 

[zinfamous]

By worst I assume you mean best?

did you read the story? it's nothing more than an abstract of something that didn't happen...

It "reads well," sure, but you end up with zero reporting.

 

[shortylickens]

The fact its on CNN's website automatically means it sucks balls.
Fuck CNN.
And fuck their shitty fucking website.

 

[SagaLore]

Uh... were is the Page 2? Next? Read More? WHAT?

 

[Anonemous]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine

In a bizarre case, a band of female thieves would impregnate their breasts with scopolamine and then would lure potential victims to lick their nipples. "Losing all willpower, the men readily gave up their bank access codes. The breast-temptress thieves then held them hostage for days while draining their accounts."[15] In June 2008, more than 20 people were hospitalized with psychosis in Norway after ingesting counterfeit Rohypnol tablets containing scopolamine. [3] There have been many reports of tourists robbed after having scopolamine slipped into drinks in bars, as well as food saturated with scopolamine being served to tourists in fast-food stands in various Asian countries. Most recently, these incidents have been reported in Thailand.

 

[ShawnD1]

so what are the effects?

Lucky for you, my former boss tried to kill himself with this stuff. He had a headache, then he got dizzy, then he fell on the floor. I called 911 and the paramedics didn't have a clue what was wrong with him. He was gone from work for a really really long time. I don't know if he was sick or just milking it. He was a lazy bastard, so I assume the later.

He must be the all time worst pharmacist in history. If you're a pharmacist and you can't even figure out how to kill yourself properly, you probably suck at being a pharmacist.

 

[amdhunter]

did you guys see the video?

that dude was tripping for 17 days, walking around bogata with his hand covering his face... would you want to try something like that?

Hell. Fucking. Yes.

 

[Printer Bandit]

Go to the vbs.tv website and watch the full video. they start tripping on it and go CRAZY!!!

 

[meltdown75]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopolamine

how the hell does one "impregnate" a breast? fail

 

[moshquerade]

how the hell does one "impregnate" a breast? fail

some certainly do try....

 

[DivideBYZero]

some certainly do try....

And trying is the fun part, even if you don't succeed, you still win. ()

 

[meltdown75]

i love motorboating boobies.

damn it. where's my next kill.

 

[lxskllr]

I think the real point of the article was to highlight VICE's journalistic style, which is very similar to a blog as noted above. Apparently, they're fully transparent, and you get your articles fully unedited, even one's that shouldn't have been articles in the first place. I'm not sure I agree with that approach. Anybody can do crappy journalism. It takes talent to condense a lot of information into a compelling story. There's something to be said for presenting raw information though. It's a quantity vs quality judgment call.