And to think that I was going to have my son apply to Harvard. BMCC appear to be a better choice. At least his buddies can russle up a few cash bucks from drug deals to bail him out.

Schroeder and his lawyer ought to get together and form Shitbag & Shitbag PA.

So he's not just a little turd, he's also ignorant about how drugs work, and arrogant enough to think everyone else is too. That's not particularly surprising to me because I've met plenty of other lawyers like that (i.e., obnoxious drunks who are so sanctimonious about drugs that they're completely ignorant about what they actually do), but it is somewhat surprising his "friends" left him in jail. Usually guys like this act like they're wedded to their bros from school.

Harvard Law FAIL

26-year-old Brian Schroeder said someone might have "put something in his drink"

Of course...now you're the victim. Um, maybe, just maybe, you're the world's biggest asshole?

If the movie The Hangover were based on a true story, the "roofie defense" might hold water. But I don't think they really work like that.

Actually, I don't even think it worked like that in the movie! They didn't commit any random acts of violence that I can recall - just got really wasted and didn't remember it in the morning.

And yeah, unless this dude had his drink spiked with php, which I seriously doubt ("Hey bro, I didn't know you liked to get wet!) he is as full of shit as ever.

Harvard Law School Grad?

Maybe this will be his Open at his Defense.......

Oh yeah, I drank too much, I was drugged.......

I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My ethics didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD.

Now I wonder, will he hire a Harvard Lawyer to get him out of this?

Maybe he should try Yale.......

Wait. You've just graduated from Harvard Law and yet none of your Harvard pals can come up with $3k? Either your "friends" don't have much faith in you or this recession has turned into a depression.

...or they just said, "Fuck him. I don't want to be the guy that bailed out the guy who torches the remains of terrorism victims."

Even if he was drugged or drunk it doesn't matter. You might do stupid things when under the influence, but you don't do things that are out of your latent mindset.

Doing things outside your latent mindset depends on the drug.

Dissociative anesthetics like PHP can change your thinking entirely. PHP, of course, is known as the "I put my baby in the oven because it was the devil" drug.

This, however, in no way looks like PHP. It looks like a desperate lie.

PHP is an internet scripting language. as far as i know, it's never caused anyone to put babies in ovens.

i'm sort of dubious about PCP making people capable of acting so contrary to their normal mindset as to [for example] bake babies, or set memorial chapels on fire.

this kid is grasping at excuses & doing rather poorly. maybe he should have paid better attention in class.

Ha! I've been coding too many hours... :-)

Of course I meant PCP. And as I said, this idiot is not a typical candidate for PCP, it is likely a lie.

But I would not dismiss PCP as being like alcohol or pot -- it does, in fact, cause people to act in unpredictable and dangerous ways. Running naked on highways, violent behavior with complete immunity to pain, and there are the real horror stories -- rapper Big Lurch killed and ate part of his girlfriend, and the baby in the oven is a true story, and sadly there are more.

PCP is lousy stuff; while PHP only has problems with high-performance object handling.

i guess i'm always wary of horror stories representing the majority of people's experiences on any particular drug--never tried PCP myself nor wanted to, but i know people who have & didn't run around overturning cars in a parking lot.

that said, it does seem to be a lot more likely to cause girlfriend-eating than, say, a few beers.

[now if PHP made people overturn cars in parking lots? office life would get much more interesting]

"I don't know what they teach these kids at Harvard..."

yes, you've got it sir. he learned this trick in the core Harvard class: "Pissing Off New Yorkers, 101"

what happened to the guy who "dared" him?

you'd think he would put up the bail money.

Really...what kind of friend triple dog dares you and then doesn't even post bail?

...Really? He was drugged? I am skeptical, to say the least.

Ugh, I hate lawyers. Besides public defenders and prosecutors, they are perhaps the greatest wastes of life in the Universe.

If they used their intelligence on more important things, the world would be a better place.