Casual Criminal Stupidity

After ordering takeout from Del Taco, a Colorado couple were surprised to find among the taco sauce and other condiments a small bag of pot. They notified police who then arrested 26 year-old Dennis Klermund at the restaurant, it goes without saying that he was also fired.

Yes the story is funny, but it also serves as a great example of how casually people break the law and risk arrest, fines, jail, injury and even death that are inherent with drug and alcohol abuse. The above idiot was so nonchalant about his drug use that not only did he goof up an intended drug transaction; he left the rest of his dope and paraphernalia in his work locker where the police dogs promptly found it. Duh!

Before you laugh too hard at this moron, try a little introspection yourself.

Click “Read more” to see what I came up with…

It didn’t take long for me to realize that my pre-recovery constant drunk driving was something that I was more than casual about, and the repercussions of this activity could have been exponentially worse than getting busted for possession. Even though people could have died, including myself, I accepted the risk of this behavior as if it was nothing more than chancing getting caught in the rain without an umbrella.

More? Yes, probably much more than I can remember. I know that we sold drugs out of our apartment and had on many occasions enough stashed in the house to send us all to the big house… we thought that was “cool”. Same goes for guns. In my sobriety, I do not know how anyone could consider theft as a causal act, but somehow I pulled it off back then.

The real kicker for all of this is that jail or death is usually the only things that can jolt us into seeing the severity of a situation brought on by substance abuse. For those of us who are really good at it, we can drink and drug ourselves right back into acceptance within a matter of days after a close call or even tragedy. Then there are those that have never had a problem, yet. I have professional acquaintances; those respected in the community- that still perform these acts of casual criminal stupidity on a weekly basis like buying pot and drunk driving.

You never know when one of these pillars of the community will become the next headline news moron. Who knew something so casual could bring such serious grief?

I did.