Police: Teens drugged parents to use Internet
ROCKLIN, Calif. (AP) - Police say two California teenagers used a prescription sleeping medication to spike the milkshakes of too-strict parents so they could log onto the Internet.
The parents called police and the 15-year-old Rocklin girl and a 16-year-old friend were taken to Juvenile Hall. Rocklin is 20 miles northeast of Sacramento.
The Sacramento Bee reports the girls offered to pick up milkshakes at a fast-food restaurant for the parents of one of the girls on Friday night.
The drug was mixed into the shakes and the couple fell asleep. The suspicious parents picked up a drug test kit the following day.
The girls told investigators they wanted to use the Internet, which was shut down daily at 10 p.m.
It's unclear what the girls did on the Internet.
I also suspect that some parents need educating in how to password protect router settings in order to restrict activity based on time and also how to log ALL internet activity.
 @Commenter87643 A password alone won't work as every router has a reset button that any teenager will quickly learn about. I have advised parents to use a lockable tool box with holes cut in it for the wires. However, you still may be defeated by the neighbors unsecured WiFi. It doesn't take a determined teenager long to find "Linksys" or Netgear" out there.
 @Ankle Biter I was keeping in mind the reset button, but generally, the kids will be looking for ways their parents won't be able to detect....I suspect these teens thought their parents would wake up 'feeling refreshed' and wonder at how they got such a good night's sleep!
Interesting how these parents that I would call "responsible" have been labeled as "too-strict", but the article doesn't say if the girls call them that (no doubt), or if the police called them that or if the article's writer is saying it.
I'm thinking right about now that is exactly why the parents would not let them use the internet unsupervised. Look what they learn on there!
Wow...... If I were their parents, I would be sticking their happy butts into a long term, in-house counseling facility (i.e. teen boot camp, etc.) -- not only for their safety, but for the safety of all those around them. Obviously, they have zero integrity or empathy to pull a stunt like that. Its one thing to "sneak" onto the internet when the parents are asleep (normal teenage behavior), but when you are actually drugging a person and thinking its ok to do that -- well, that is borderline sociopathic.
 @The WA Mama "boot camp's" cost a danged fortune, and as far as I know, good luck finding help to pay for it!
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We can HOPE these two will spend a goodly while in some form of punishment, but if it's their first or second offense, that's very unlikely.
@Commenter87643 There are ways to offset the costs: some insurance companies cover it, if they can get it court mandated, they may be able to get it at a reduced rate, get a loan, there are also a ton of agencies out there that could be a good resource. It takes doing some legwork on the parents part. I know if my kids were like that, I'd be doing everything in my power to get them the help they needed.
 @The WA Mama  @Commenter87643 Well we shopped for this about 17 years ago. We had one of our kids that was just wild. If you're on the poor side tho, even getting a loan isn't possible. At that time it was minimum of $21,800 a YEAR to send a kid to any kind of 'camp' like that. I suspect the prices have gone up proportionately.
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One of our friends' kids was so wild they were able to get a court order allowing them to take their incarcerated child down to Oregon for lock-down treatment in a mental hospital. But that family had insurance that covered the 'mental illness treatment' angle.
The real story here is kids with access to prescription drugs
@ballardanian Most homes have prescription drugs on hand and you can buy them pretty much anywhere. They are relatively easy to get.
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Also that they would drug their parents. Thats is all sorts of f-ed up.
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Wow! My mom used to take my keyboard if my grades needed work, but I just figured out how to pull up the on-screen one. They are clever but this will probably will make their lives more difficult until they move out.
 @SoTweetie "but I just figured out how to pull up the on-screen one."
On-screen keyboard...Which pretty much dates you - and confirms a lot of what we suspected...
 @OrcasThunder Yeah, born in 1987... I often state my age. Idiot
 @SoTweetie "I often state my age. Idiot"
Oh, come on...being young doesn't make you an idiot...
Mom and Dad better start sleeping with one eye open....
Kids today: Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way.
Number one, good on the parents for not allowing 15-16 year old kids to use the internet after 10pm. That's a perfectly reasonable and sensible rule. Number two, good on the parents for getting test kits and then contacting the police. Drugging someone is dangerous and a serious criminal offense. They probably thought what they were doing was harmless and that they wouldn't be found out. I guess they're learning otherwise. If one of those parents had been taking other medications, they could have interacted with whatever the milkshakes were spiked with and caused a serious medical event or even killed them.
"Police say two California teenagers used a prescription sleeping medication to spike the milkshakes of too-strict parents so they could log onto the Internet." Shutting down the internet at 10pm daily makes a parent too strict? Wow... I must be a beast. I shut mine down at 9pm for the kids. TV too. At 9pm it's time to go to bed or read a book. In rare instances that my middle and high school kids aren't done with homework by then, I of course allow them to use it to complete their work. But there is no joy surfing at night. I don't think that justifies a spiked milkshake.