God Bless the Free Market

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

A pharmacist refused to give an asthma inhaler to a New Jersey woman who was suffering a major attack in the store, because she only had a $20 note - and the inhaler was $21.50.

Katherine O'Connor had left her inhaler at home and was near the local CVS pharmacy with her boyfriend when she began to suffer a major attack.

Boyfriend Jack Brown said they rushed into the store and tried to find the pharmacist while Miss O'Connor was still having the attack.

But the pharmacist refused to hand over the inhaler, which would have easily put an end to Miss O'Connor's suffering, because the couple was short one dollar and change.

Mr Brown said: 'I had exactly a $20 bill. It came to $21 and some change. I offered him [the pharmacist] my cell phone, my wallet. I said I live right around the corner. I come in here all the time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1321256/Pharmacist-refused-inhaler-woman-having-asthma-attack--1-50-short.html


Problem, asthmatics?
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[East Coast Hustle]

HOPEFULLY SHE'LL DIE BEFORE SHE REPRODUCES AND PASSES HER WEAKNESS ON TO A NEW GENERATION
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[Adios]

HOPEFULLY SHE'LL DIE BEFORE SHE REPRODUCES AND PASSES HER WEAKNESS ON TO A NEW GENERATION
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[Doktor Howl]

Wow, that pharmacist is a shitbag.

EDIT:  Whoops, Daily Mail.  Never happened.

[Remington]

Wow, that pharmacist is a shitbag.

EDIT:  Whoops, Daily Mail.  Never happened.

http://news.google.ca/news/more?hl=en&biw=1680&bih=777&q=pharmacist+$20&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dVP_AFETdGBbIIMyZdptrEjFAMFAM&ei=hdm8TIafNMG78gaG-_m2Dw&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&cd=1&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQqgIoADAA?

[Doktor Howl]

Wow, that pharmacist is a shitbag.

EDIT:  Whoops, Daily Mail.  Never happened.

http://news.google.ca/news/more?hl=en&biw=1680&bih=777&q=pharmacist+$20&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dVP_AFETdGBbIIMyZdptrEjFAMFAM&ei=hdm8TIafNMG78gaG-_m2Dw&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&cd=1&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQqgIoADAA?

Okay, pharmacist is a shitbag.

[Jasper]

I would almost forgive the pharmacist if he was doing it to be mean, but it's more likely he was doing it out of smallness.  Unpardonable.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

I would almost forgive the pharmacist if he was doing it to be mean, but it's more likely he was doing it out of smallness.  Unpardonable.

If its any consolation, the chick was kinda ugly.

[Doktor Howl]

I would almost forgive the pharmacist if he was doing it to be mean, but it's more likely he was doing it out of smallness.  Unpardonable.

If its any consolation, the chick was kinda ugly.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

I would almost forgive the pharmacist if he was doing it to be mean, but it's more likely he was doing it out of smallness.  Unpardonable.

If its any consolation, the chick was kinda ugly.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

Personally I think my eyes are a bit too far apart, and I have a bad habit of procrastinating when it comes to important things.

[Elder Iptuous]

wow.
that's fucked up.
why wasn't there an actual human being present to cover the 1.50 and underscore just what an asswipe the proprietor was?

[Doktor Howl]

wow.
that's fucked up.
why wasn't there an actual human being present to cover the 1.50 and underscore just what an asswipe the proprietor was?

Look at Glittersnatch's last few posts, and ask that again.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

*Jimmy Carter arrives on the scene to calm things down*

NO U! TELL THIS GUY WHAT"S WHAT!

OKAY!

LORD GLITTERSNATCH:

WHAT"S WHAT!

In the butt

i LOVE YOUR TAP DANCING METROID, LORD GLITTERSNATCH

Its not a tap dancing metroid its a sophisticated metriod.

Hey, this just stopped being funny.

Some people didn't get to be the Mean Girls in 9th grade, but never matured beyond aspiring to it.

I dont see it

[Doktor Howl]

Who cares?

[Cain]

You'd think her entire cell phone and wallet - which I'm pretty sure comes to a greater sum than $21.50 - would have been sufficient down payment for the inhaler, while she ran (well, walked and wheezed) home for some change.

Incidentally, something about this story isn't ringing right, beyond it being reported in the Daily Mail (I know, there are other sources, all probably cribbed from the original source without verification).  I used to have asthma, before I thankfully outgrew it, and if I was having an attack in a store, I'd barely be able to talk, let alone walk around the corner to go home and get more change.  But then, my asthma was pretty bad, and I know there are varying grades of it and the attacks people can suffer.

Just saying, it still reads a little odd, from where I'm sitting.