Fribur wrote:
1) Is PCP addictive? I honestly don't know.
It has no physical addiction. One can argue that anything pleasurable can have 'psychological' addiction. But no, it doesn't meet the standards for physical addiction or dependancy the way opiates and other substances do. PCP is also rarely the main drug being abused, I've
never seen a rehab case where someone's main drug was PCP. Generally they're smoking cigarettes dipped in PCP because they can't get their main drug, which is often meth or cocaine.
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2) He's obviously fucked up in his head somewhere, whether drugs or just naturally, given that he was sitting in the backyard chopping his own legs up...
PCP will do that to you. My family was once attacked by a man on PCP, at Disneyland. We were in line for the ride with the little cars. He was a huge black guy (I was like ...10, everyone was huge to me) and he started saying shit like "I'm stronger than Muhammad Ali". My mother turned to me and said, "Run, protect your brothers". She then grabbed my middle brother and THREW him under the bars, dropped the stroller top on my youngest brother and flung the stroller as hard as she could also under the bars. I turned to see if she was coming and he grabbed at us. I went under the bars after my sibs, and looked back at my mom. My mom is 5'3", and thin. The guy had grabbed the girl my age in the family next to us, and wouldn't let go. My mother was holding on to him preventing him from pulling her across the bars to his side (the zig zag bars for the ride). The little girls mom bit him, and then I saw her spit out something and bite again.
She spat out the man's flesh, she was literally taking chunks out of his arm. All of his friends were dogpiling him and he tossed them off like rag dolls.
Two guys, I think they were military on vacation, went on the guy and blitzed him. They clearly knew how to fight and these guys were built. They couldn't keep him down but they got the girl free. He tore off a chunk of her plastic jacket (that shit was hard to rip) and a bunch of her hair. She came screaming out (I think my mom and her mom threw her the way my mom tossed my brothers). I was standing there in shell shock figuring if they came near us I'd just run to where we were supposed to meet if we got seperated.
All this took place in like under 3 minutes, though it seemed like forever. Disney security seemed to come literally out of the bushes. Disney cops were EVERYWHERE and like 20 of them descended down and managed to get the guy cuffed and removed. He was removed in probably under 5 minutes. They had it all on tape (cameras everywhere in the park) and my mom gave her info in case they needed it tho they said they wouldn't. They also cuffed the 2 guys who had jumped him, and my mom wanted to be sure they were let go, and was told they would be, they just wanted EVERYONE involved to be secured and removed safely and since those guys were still fighting it was also for their safety blah blah blah.
I've seen people on PCP since then, but that incident is foremost on my mind probably because of my age. I've never seen anyone display that type of strength or insanity. His friends were shocked. Several of them knew it was PCP though they said he hadn't done any 'dust' that day. (At the time I had no idea wtf they were talking about, my mom explained it later as I was old enough to be told given what I had seen). The guy didn't respond to pain and had appeared to break one of his arms or wrist or some shit at one point...and kept going.
His friends were horrified. They were all black too but seemed nice and reasonable and were just fucking horrified he had grabbed a kid like that. They immediately tried to stop their friend and help the kid, and one of them was screaming to security that he was on angel dust, I guess to warn them against the danger.
I have no problems believing someone on PCP could sit there and chop at their legs all day long. One of the girls I went to school with, her dad and his partner were almost killed by a guy on PCP. They shot the guy numerous times and he kept coming, picked up his partner like a rag doll by one arm and slammed her into a wall.
There's plenty of verifiable stories about them jumping off high things, high enough to break their legs or their back, and they get up and keep running on a broken leg, or broken foot. Many have broken their arms while cuffed, or broken a wrist and pulled out their hand.
The first time I saw Terminator, I thought of that guy on PCP, I shit you not.
Not everyone who does PCP will go fucking Batshit McCrazy, or there would be no market for the drug. But like meth, it CAN induce psychosis. People on meth. can have experiences similar to someone who is a paranoid schizophrenic. PCP can cause extreme violence and the appearance of excessive strength. Going purely off memory, I believe it's a heavy adreline rush coupled with feeling no pain, so that's why they're able to do such extraordinary things. It's like a mother who lifts the car off her kid...except these guys are just going
batshit.
So, now we can get to 'well clearly they're CRAZY then?'. And the answer is 'Yes'. The cavaet is,
they made the choice.
No different from someone drinking and driving and killing an entire family while doing so. They made the choice to pick up that first drink without making arrangements. Sure their judgement was impaired when they killed that family...but they made choices when their judgement wasn't impaired that lead to it. No difference at all.