You're never too old to "break bad"

Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2013-08-04 01:34

Story here. Point is not to "pick on an old lady". (Well, she WAS selling Hydrocodone illegally, so really, what's the issue with just reporting it?) It's to show you're not only never too old to break bad, and yet even a woman can do so. Excerpt:

'Meet Pearl Jones.

The 85-year-old Tennessee woman was arrested Tuesday for felony drug distribution and maintaining a dwelling where drugs were being peddled.

While most of her octogenarian peers are enjoying their golden years, Jones was allegedly selling Hydrocodone, the powerful painkiller, from her home, according to a Kingsport Police Department report.

A search of Jones’s home turned up “narcotics in addition to evidence” corroborating a police probe “into Jones selling narcotics from this residence.”'

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Reading the story comments, I might agree with some saying she's too small-time to be bothered with. Others say the police should be sensitive to her possible motivations for selling, like really needing the money. I guess that last one is a valid question given her advanced age, but did she utterly lack a means of income supplementation from the government and if so had truly no alternative *but* to start dealing pills?

Sometimes ppl her age commit murder. Should they be given a pass just because the next bus scheduled to arrive at their bus-stop is being driven by the Grim Reaper?

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2013-08-04 01:55