Money Crimes with Nicole Lapin - True Poisoning Stories From Reddit

Episode Date: October 7, 2026

Poison doesn't always come from a stranger. Sometimes it's stirred into your coffee by the person who claims to love you most.Sabrina Deana-Roga and Alexis Linkletter bring each other three terrifying poisoning stories from Reddit. A brother poisons his brother's girlfriend for years, a man grows suspicious that his mother put cyanide in his ramen, and a girlfriend slips Viagra into her boyfriend's drink without his knowledge. Each host hears the other's stories for the first time and reacts as the true motive behind each poisoning comes to light.Content Warning: This episode covers non-consensual drugging and sexual coercion. Please listen with care.For more, follow Crimes Of Reddit wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/1838511303If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Scams, Money, & Murder to never miss a case! To hear episodes ad-free, subscribe to Crime House+. Join at crimehouseplus.com or if you’re listening on Apple Podcasts, tap “Try Free” at the top of this show’s page. Scams, Money, & Murder is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios.🎧 Need More to Binge? Listen to other Crime House Originals Clues, Crimes Of Reddit, Crime House 24/7, Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, Murder True Crime Stories, and more wherever you get your podcasts!Follow me on SocialInstagram: @CrimehouseTikTok: @CrimehouseFacebook: @crimehousestudiosX: @crimehousemediaYouTube: @crimehousestudios

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It helps us build this community, and we love hearing from you. To get early access and ad-free listening, subscribe to the Crimehouse Plus community on Apple Podcasts. You can also catch us on YouTube where we include visuals that bring every case to life. Hello. Hi. Welcome back to Crimes of Reddit. I have a question. Are you a morning person?

No. Okay. Really not. Are you a night person? Yes. Okay. Well, actually, I shouldn't know that because I'm up to like. You were working last night at like 11 p.m.

Yeah, like I come alive in the night. But this is actually getting up to do this has been really good for me. Yeah. It's like pushing me to get out of bed before 8 a.m. A reason to wake up in the morning. Exactly. No, I'm really not a morning person. Are you? I'm a sleep person. I'm the best when I'm asleep. Yeah. And then I go through ebbs and floats. I really enjoy a slow morning, like a really quiet. No one's around. Oh, yeah. Sun's coming up. A couple hours before you have to do work. I love that. But today I need a caffeine drip. Yep. Injected into my veins. Which I feel like is very apropos for the things. theme for today's episode. A hundred percent. Because it's poisoning. Stories where people have been poisoned by a lot of, in a lot of the cases, well, the stories at least that I have, by the last

person they would ever suspect. Well, think about how intimate poisoning is, how close you have to be to someone, and you need to have access to like the things they're ingesting in their home usually. So like, it's usually pretty close. And I don't know those specific stats, but like a lot of Poisoners are women. And that is the case. Actually, it's the case in one of my stories. It's not the case in my first story. Well, then I'm excited to hear it because you're right.

Most of the poisoning stories you hear about or the ones that become documentaries, it's women. Yeah. I do love the idea of growing poisonous plants in my backyard. Well, yeah, because it's spooky. Not to use them, but just to just to add to your lore. Yeah, I love that. To be the spooky girl that I am. Yep.

Yeah. So today, like we said, we have stories all about poisonings found on Reddit, shared by people just like you out there. Hopefully most people aren't poisoned. But if you have been, you can also share your stories on our subreddit, Crimes of Pod, and maybe we'll feature it in a future episode. I don't know the story you have picked out. So I'll be reacting blind, and then you'll be reacting blind to the stories that I have.

That's right. I can't wait. Shall we do it? Let's do it. Okay, before we get into today's stories, I do want to give a content warning that there are mentions of non-consensual drugging and sexual coercion in this episode. This is called My Brother, 18 Male, has been poisoning my girlfriend 24 female for the past three years.

Yep. Okay, so this was originally posted in August of 2019, and then we do have an update from as recent as 2025. Oh, wow. Yeah. As context, my girlfriend has always been allergic to lactose, very severely to the point where if she had any traces in her food, she would basically shit herself on the spot ever since she was a kid.

Bummer. Such a bummer. Cheese is so good. The best. My brother and I have always been on good terms and always hung out together until three years ago when I met my girlfriend. He started getting more distant and mean towards. me talking about how my girlfriend was ruining our broship and taking me away from our family and him.

I told him he was crazy and I didn't think too much of it until recently. So going back to three years ago, when I introduced Katie to my parents, my brother was livid. I moved out about six months later because I was tired of his constant bitching about her coming over when she would hang out and sleep over. Ever since then, we would have family dinners at my parents every month on Sundays. My family is Italian, so we eat a lot of pasta and sauce. But my parents always made two separate meals ever since they met Katie, one with no milk or lactose-free milk for Katie, and then one for the rest of us, probably very heavy on the dairy. They must really like her because that's nice. That's very considerate. Yeah. She never had any issues unless there was accidental cross-contamination,

which sure, that happens every once in a while. But the problem was, every month, at those dinners, all of a sudden, she started getting sick, to the point of having to run to the bathroom and having excruciating diarrhea for an hour with severe cramps. Which, poor woman. I know. Every single time. It was to a point that I started refusing to go to these dinners, and my parents kept insisting that we give it another try. We did, and it was fine for a few months. But then it started again.

This goes on and off for about two and a half years. I got really mad last week and got up in the middle of the dinner and said to my parents, Something is up and someone is messing with Katie's food. My parents go quiet and they asked why I would say that. My brother then turned rather pale and stopped smiling. I knew instantly it was him. I confronted him and he started crying saying that he felt like he had to get payback at her because she stole away his big brother and that wasn't fair.

He said he was adding milk to the batch of food that was made for her and that he had no regrets. I was absolutely livid, as was Katie. She excused herself, asked me to drive her back to our place, and it has been three months since that last dinner. She has cut contact with my parents. Katie refuses to talk to them anymore because they should have had my brother in check and given him a worse punishment because he literally just got a talking to and a smack behind the head and that was it. And she can't believe that I haven't stopped talking to my parents and brother as well. My parents, on the other hand, are mad that we let this little incident break up our relationship with the family, and my girlfriend says if I keep contacting them and insisting she forgives my brother, she's going to leave.

I love this girl to death. We've got plans to buy a house eventually and have kids. But on the other hand, I love my parents, but I can't have both, it seems like. What should I do? Okay. Why is she blaming the parents? There's something deeply wrong. with the 18-year-old, we're going to get there. But, like, I don't think it's fair to ask him to cut off contact with the parents. The brother, I understand. Yeah. It does seem like they're deeply enmeshed family, and maybe there's just more, like, if the parents are texting Katie and, like, defending the brother all the time, I would understand being like, I need distance from them. But yeah, the brother is. No, it's messing with her health and having no regrets. Also, like, maybe she's upset because it's like, how did you guys not put this together? Why did you keep insisting that I try this

over and over again? It's like, were you guys just turning a blind eye to what was going on? Yeah. And at a certain point, it's like, why didn't she just bring her own food? I was just going to say, at a certain... Like, at two and a half years of that, I would be bringing my own food that I prepared and I'd just be like, I'm going to serve myself. I've gone to restaurants before and brought my own food. I feel like something more proactive could have gone on. I feel like she might be resentful at her boyfriend for, like, forcing her to keep. trying like she might have had suspicions that he brushed off like it could be the original poster could be omitting some culpability probably which is what it kind of sounds like yes like because

there's some pieces missing yeah and so there are a couple comments and then we have a couple updates but one of the comments was your brother is an evil selfish petty little fuck and you should distance yourself from him until he grows the fuck up you didn't ruin your broship with him he did and then someone else wrote and like quoted the original poster saying my girlfriend says if I keep contacting them and insisting she forgives my brother, she's going to leave me. The commenter said, I don't blame her. Why would she want to forgive or speak to people who would sweep your brother's horrible behavior under the rug? Your parents had to know he was doing it. That's why they asked you why you thought that instead of immediately denying it. She has a choice

to either stay away from them entirely or leave the relationship. I do think there are other options, kind of like you're saying. You could split the difference, but yeah. Again, Here's a thing. Disfunction in families can't really see their dysfunction and this poster is part of that dysfunction. And downplaying to some degree what's happened is a problem. Letting the parents who may have been in denial, like it's all a problem. And I think he's not going to admit that. Right. Because the original poster is the one telling this from his perspective and not the victims. I just, I'm also very curious about this relationship with his brother.

Like, it's bordering on obsessive. Feels like very needy. Yeah. And very, I've just never heard of anything like that. Like, it makes me think that the brother has something else going on, the younger brother, who's the one poisoning in this situation. I've heard of these situation in, like, twin relationships where, like, one twin gets a boyfriend and it, like, sort of messes up the twin thing. The dynamic, yeah. Yeah.

But not with, like, this age difference. It seems very weird. I'm obsessed with twins marrying twins. Yeah. They go to conventions. There's a convention for this. Yeah. And a lot of the times they like meet each other and marry each other through these conventions. I want to go to a twin convention. Do you have any twins in your family? I do. I have siblings that are twins, boy and girl, and then all my, I have cousins that are identical twins. My dad's an identical twin. Really? My stepmom is a twin. Wow. Yeah. Okay, I have an update. The original poster wrote, I've read over 200 comments from you, guys, and it just validated my mind that my family is fucked up. I contacted my mom and confronted her about why she would defend my idiotic brother, and she basically said he was young and stupid. I told her a few of your comments and that Katie could press charges, and my mom broke down crying, saying, my brother won't do it again. And I said, yeah, hell no, he won't because I have decided to cut them off for good. Katie was actually relieved when I told her I was on her side and cut them off.

basically told me she was going to dump me for being an idiot who couldn't support his girlfriend of three years when she was basically being tortured for fun. I'm glad she didn't and that we're getting through this together. Thank you for every comment. When you're faced with this kind of dilemma and you've been close to your family for over 20 years, you do get blindsided. So similar to what you're saying. Katie and I officially cut them out starting today. We plan to move to the U.S. next year. We've always wanted to live there and finally be away from them.

I think that's a good point that he included where. it's like tortured her. He was watching her suffering every time. It's not like, oh, she eats it and she feels a little sick later when she goes home. Like he was watching her suffer for two years. It's really insidious. Word of the week for me. I've been using that word all the time. But it is. It's very malicious for somebody to be like getting off on hurting someone in a repeated way. Yeah. And I'm glad that they didn't let the brother win because the brother was trying, his whole purpose. of doing this was to get Katie and the original poster to break up. And if they had, he would have won. And it would have validated him being like, I did the right thing. I got what I wanted. And he probably would continue doing things like that. But now he has to face the consequences of he doesn't have a relationship with the brother anymore. Right. Okay. We have an update. This came in 2025. People were, because a lot of people were asking questions. Did you ever end up moving? Are you still in no contact? Have your parents or brother ever made an effort to apologize? An original poster wrote, we actually never ended up moving to the U.S. but did go no contact. It's been a roller coaster. We kept it no contact, but it really fucked up the family dynamic. Katie and I got married in between. It has been hard, but no, we have no further information about my brother or family.

My mom has kept trying to reach out, but we blocked her and did not respond. It's just so sad. Sometimes you have to be the one to end a cycle of dysfunction. And sometimes that is your only chance and for them to take you seriously because like family systems are so reliant on one another. Like you never think a family member will cut you off because it's just like your family, your family. It's like family doesn't mean you have to put up with abuse. Agreed. Agreed.

In this story, like this is abuse, what was described. Yeah. And the original poster has now created his own family with Katie. That's right. Broke the cycle. Where they don't poison people they love. That's right. Are we ready?

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from angry spirits to haunted houses to unexplainable magic. These are true first-person accounts told by the stars who lived through them. Follow Celebrity Ghost Stories, available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. My mother has poisoned me. This is a throwaway account. Ever since I became an adult about a decade ago, my mother has been against me moving out of the house. I finally got a job as a line cook three years ago. My mother and the rest of my family, which includes my sister and father, has been against it,

mainly saying that that job can't sustain me, which was true. They also said that I'd hate working, which turned out to be false. About a year and a half later, I quit due to health reasons. Wait, I'm sorry, that they would hate working, so they're trying to make sure that this child never works and lives at home forever? They don't want them working. And they're discouraging the working. Okay. Red flag already, but true.

Yes. About a year and a half later, I quit due to health reasons. The following spring, I got a new job as a computer programmer. So original posters like getting a shit together, which is great. While they seemed supportive at first, my mother and sister, who I lived with, gradually became hostile. Eventually, moved out of the house. About a month later, I lost my job, kind of abruptly. And about three months later, I moved back home.

Everything was cool at first, but as I was getting calls from, recruiters and going to job interviews, they gradually became more hostile again, accusing me of being distant and not caring for them. They seemed to be very controlling and hateful of the fact that I wanted to move out and wanted a decent job. So last month, I finally got that job as a programmer again. But it was out of town. I had just enough money to relocate to the new city. They became very hostile, starting a few days before I left, accusing me of not loving them, of hating them. and on the day before I was scheduled to leave. My mother gave me two of the styrofoam ramen noodle cups

and tore that cardboard covering that's normally on it and threw it away. I was suspicious that they would try to sabotage my life by this point, so I was careful and not trying to anger them. She gave me a few more food items, which I didn't use, to take on the trip with me. When I arrived at my new city and entered my hotel room, I chilled out. I was to go to work the next day, so I was to go to work the next day, So after the first day at work, I ate a cup of ramen noodles and I felt sick. I knew that feeling because my sister fed me something that made me feel the same way in late 2011.

What is up with this family? I don't know. It gets crazier, though. Which I then assume was because of my recent illness. I felt weak, lightheaded, and short of breath. I drank water to make me feel better because that's what I did the last time it happened to me. Over the week, my mother kept calling me, making sure to remind me to eat my ramen noodles. I was short on cash then, waiting for my first paycheck. I never told her that I ate it. I suspected then that I had been poisoned. And after doing some

Googling, I believed it was cyanide. Now, that is something that you should never have. I'm not okay. It's crazy. It gets so crazy. And also because we all know, and it says it on all food products, if it's been opened to not consume something because you presume it's been tampered with or whatever. But when it's coming from your mother, I would never question. than putting poison. I know. It's insane. This like puts, you know,

sometimes you hear stories of other people's misfortune and it really puts into perspective like your life. And my family is a little bit crazy but I feel grateful that they're not to this extent. He's seeing a pattern here

where it's like they're trying to disrupt my ability to get a job, to move out. You know, clearly the sister's still living at home. So. Yes. And the O.P. already has a history

by someone in his family. Yeah. But like they said, it's like they didn't want to think that at first. And that's what he says here. O.P. continues. Now, being poisoned by your family is something that you should never have to think,

that your own mother would do that to you. So I resisted that thought because I simply could not bear to think it. So I got a cyanide test in order to kit, and I tried it. Here are the results of my test. Do we have photo? Yeah.

So it definitely was positive. And original poster posted this in the Reddit thread and linked it. So they're giving a lot of information and evidence about what's going on. Now they say, now I guess I'm going to call the cops and never speak to my family again. Obviously, they're agonized over this. And then they give an update. So I'm not sure what time the first post was made. Right. But the O.P. labels the update as 8.45 a.m. So maybe like the day before or, but the update is this. I'm currently in Topeka, Kansas. I work downtown in a government office building, which has a police department. I visited the Capitol

police station there and spoke to an officer and showed them my evidence so far and said that he could do nothing about it since the package was opened. And I assume like the ramen noodles. And also, isn't it out of state or it's out of town far enough away that where is the jurisdiction? Yeah. Well, what they're saying the police is arguing is that there's like a chain of custody problem where it's like, okay, well, what if it was tampered with before your mom opened it for you? Like, what if it was tampered with, what if it had cyanide in it from the factory? Like, there's no way to know that when it was put in, right? Isn't that the point of an investigation? Sure. So it gets really interesting in the comments. So one of the first comments, it's so funny that the commenters went here

first. They were like, let your employers know. You don't have to tell them the whole story. You just have to say to them, my family is whack. If they call and tell you something, confirm it with me first. So the commenters start immediately suggesting that the previous times that he's been fired is because of them. And it's so funny because, you know, OP said that this was a throwaway account. Throwaway accounts literally poisoned by my mom. So OP says, I've always wondered if they had anything to do with me being released from my last job. I'm a really good programmer and I wasn't really given a clear reason for why I was let go. Oh, that's so. It's crazy to me that I, I, Not to say, like, I understand it in the sense of, like, it's forgivable, but I understand

sabotage in that way if you're trying to be possessive of someone. But if you want to keep someone in your life, poisoning them is so extreme because that could very easily lead to death. Well, interestingly, in the comments, like, because this was one of the most active OPs I've ever seen, like, because they respond to all the questions. And, like, a lot. Someone's like, why would your mother want you dead? And O.P. responds like, Munchausen by proxy, I suspect. He's like, because he said he left his first job due to health problems.

And he went home. Yeah. And he was struggling with health problems, he said in these comments, like his whole life. So sometimes it's literally just like an addiction for the child to continue needing the parent. Because sometimes it's not just about keeping them close to home. It's like feeling needed, right? So that could be part of it. he starts to like come around to that on his own some people say you know i hate to sound like an

asshole but if anyone tried to poison me you bet your ass would be calling the cops but seriously i thought of the phrase i brought you into this world i suppose it's only fitting that i take you out of it i thought that was only in the movies this is a commenter call the police get that bitch charged get yourself checked out at the hospital also until you have proof that the rest of your family were involved don't shut them out just yet but remain suspicious so opi responds to that and says, I've been on your side of hearing crazy stories many times, and I reacted the same way that you did. But it's totally different when it's being done by your own family against you. You lose rationality. I know what they did was very evil and that they deserved to rot in jail. However, my familial attachment to them still makes me not want to believe that they would do such a thing.

And that, of course, you know, your mom loves you. I'm just going to have to be strong. I mean, I would recommend, like, the first thing I would do is go to the doctor and find out what else is in your system. Mm-hmm. So a lot of people are also saying, like, you need a better test. Yeah. That there can be false positives. One commenter says you need to get a hair test. So cyanide stays in your hair follicles for years and can be dated. Yeah. Piss tests, blood tests can be inaccurate. Mm-hmm. From my chem class in college, I think my professor told us that the false positive rate can be high. Original poster says, do you have any idea how I can get one done. They seem pretty proactive about this. Now, there's an update. Okay. A couple months later. Okay. My mother has poisoned me part two. I posted this a few months ago, then they link the original post. I was only able to file a police report, but only that so far. The police do not have enough evidence to investigate. I've gone no contact with my family. I currently live in a cheap motel in Topeka, Kansas. Yesterday, after getting home from work,

I work for the Kansas state government as a software developer. The lady at the front desk told me that my mother called them looking for me and to speak to me. For security reasons, the motel needed both my name and my room number in order to like patch them in or, you know, give them more information about the guest at the motel. And my mother didn't have the room number. She didn't attempt to call my cell phone at all, which makes me believe that she just wanted to know if I'm staying there. So this morning, I leave a little earlier than usual. The sky was still in the early twilight phase. I take the bus to work because my car blew a gasket. As I was going towards the bus stop, I saw someone in a strange car and beckoning me over, like waving me over to talk to me. I looked but kept on walking. Then she opened the car door and she was in a black outfit in a hood, really strange for my mother. Then I knew it was her when I saw her face. She told me to come here. I said no, I kept a good distance. She said that she just wanted to know if I was okay.

So I said, yes, I'm okay. But she is a gun owner and a good shot. This is horrifying. Yeah, and the comments, especially on the update, are so interesting too. She routinely kicked all of our asses in duck hunt when we were little and still power owned us when playing Wii games with the gun controller. So I ended up taking another bus to get to my job. So when I got off work, this is. what they're asking. When I get off work, what's the best way to go home? Should I even go? What

should I do? I really think that it might not be safe for me in Topeka. So if anyone knows any dot net development jobs, please PM me. I just need advice. So the comment section is like, go to the police, make another incident report, don't interact if you see her again, tell the motel. It's, we get a restraining order. Yeah. And like, people are trying to help. Like, I'll help you, find a job. Like, people are very invested in this story. It's, it is devastating. Yeah. Because you see someone who's really trying to start a life for themselves. Yeah. And one person says, I remember reading your original post, what a scary and horrible situation to be in. It sounds like that you don't have enough evidence that she tried to murder you.

Your best case of action would be to file a restraining order. But like, I don't even think he would be given a restraining order. Like, there's not enough. No, because like you don't have any proof. Like, you need like verbal threats documented. Like your mom's showing up. and saying, I want to make sure you're okay in a dark hood. It's like, in another interesting thing that was like coming up in these comments, most people were very supportive. A few people, and I thought was so interesting, started to suspect that this person may be suffering from paranoid delusions.

That the O.P is? Yeah. Because some people are like, this is too insane to, like, not saying that, like, maybe they did poison them, but, like, you know, you just don't know. Like some people's like reality gets so warped. Especially on Reddit. You never really know. Right.

I mean, but it's like that one story we read where the O.P seemed like the asshole. And then you got the perspective from the coworkers. And then it was like, oh, and you're like, oh, shit. Yeah. Well, it was like because he was in that workplace. Yeah.

Relationship. And then someone who work with them came back and said, that man is not mentally competent enough to be in a relationship. And it got like, you got this whole other perspective. But one more comment. just response from O.P. I want to touch on. They just get into the weeds about when really this stuff started, like early 20s when he was trying to get out of the house. Then he talked about his mom

encouraging him to be on welfare, but then would take the money. There's a lot of minutia here that feels very real to me. It's just fascinating and devastating. But there were no updates after that. What was the year of the last update? I mean, all of these occurred a long time ago. There This is a 13-year-old story. But people are still checking in hoping, like, they'll give an update. Crazy. I wish it was easier to find. I know the whole point I read it is like...

Give me your real identity. But, yeah, I wish we could find them, track them down. I know, because, like, I'd love to know what happened. At least by then, though, Opie had already cut off his family. So he's, like, one step in the right direction. Well, now I'm also worried about the sister, who also, he said, lives at home because she deals with stuff too. He accused her of poisoning. Right, too. But if it's a pattern, is the mom poisoning the sister and it's just everyone...

Maybe it wasn't even the sister, though. Maybe the mom poisoned whatever the sister made for the O.P. Yeah. Or maybe, like, there are two peas in a pod. There's, like, a true crime story where there's, like, a family of five siblings. They did a whole documentary about it. I wish I could remember their names. And all the siblings, like, died. And the mom and one daughter were, like, poisoning everybody and killing everybody. And then when the mom got desperate, when the cops were closing it on them, she tried to kill the last daughter, who was like, she turned on her with Annie Freeze. It was like a huge story. Should we be, like, should people have to take a test to be apparent? Yes. Right? Yes.

I don't know. Yes. Or at least a class. I mean, I know there are problems with that, but yeah. Make them take a class. Yeah. Whatever. Interesting.

Crazy, right? Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever been? I hope not, but have you ever been poison? No. Or like roofied or anything? Maybe. Really? Maybe there's one night I can think of that doesn't, my level of intoxication doesn't make sense. All my friends were there actually. We joke about it. They said I was like, they said I was like an astronaut, like in one of those space suits with the hose attached to it

bouncing on the moon. Like it's the joke that I was like an astronaut that night. And I was like, I don't understand what happened. Yeah. Because I only had a couple drinks. Yeah. And I can, I can put them back. That shouldn't have happened to me. So maybe, but like nothing bad happened. So I never really interrogated it too deeply. How about you? I have not that I know of. I don't think I have fortunately, but I know a girl who was literally stabbed with a needle with a crazy concoction of drugs at a bar. I think it was overseas in Europe somewhere yet with a needle. Was she okay? Yeah, but she, because she felt it right after it happened and immediately went to her friends and they took her to the hospital. But she was like in and out of consciousness for a while and they like did a test to see what was

injected in her. And it was like a concoction of basically date rate jugs. Thank God she was sober enough to feel it and not brush it off. Yeah. Because you might feel like a pinch sometimes. Right. Be like what the fuck was that? She was wearing jeans too, like through her pants. Yeah. Well, they probably did it on purpose so they couldn't look and see if there was like a needle

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It is called, am I overreacting? Girlfriend put Viagra in my drink without telling me. This happened a while ago, but it still deeply bothers me. I've talked to a handful of my friends about it, and their response has been, dude, you must be gay or you lucky dog, I don't see what the problem is, which concerned about your friends. But so for context, my now ex-girlfriend and I are both law enforcement for the same department. I worked nights. She worked days, so our schedules were kind of hectic sometimes. One night she came to my apartment, and when I got home, she put a boba tea in my hand and told me

to drink it. I'm not a fan of boba, so I told her, thank you, that's sweet, but I'd rather have something else. She acted really disappointed and was very adamant that I should drink it. I didn't want to make her feel bad since I thought she was just trying to do something nice for me, so I took a few sips and I set it down. She picked it up off the counter, put it back in my hand, and said, you need to drink all of it. I told her, fine. So we went to lay down and watch a movie where I set the cup on my nightstand, but didn't touch it again. We ended up having sex a few times, and at some point I got up and went to the kitchen to grab a drink. When I opened my trash can to throw something away, I saw a medication blister pack sitting on top of the garbage.

At first, I didn't think anything of it, but then I remembered how adamant she was about me finishing that drink, and I started to get a weird feeling and everything clicked. I picked this blister pack up, and sure enough, it was packaging for Viagra. I immediately got this overwhelming feeling of being violated, because he was. I didn't know what to say. I was honestly pretty hurt, but not wanting to let my immediate emotions lead me into saying something I would regret, I held my tongue and went to bed. The next day, she texted me saying I seemed off, so I decided to confront her by asking about the drink. She initially denied it all, but when I sent her a picture of the rapper I had found, she just responded with the kissy face emoji.

As if it was some cute romantic act. It turned into a huge argument because she just couldn't comprehend why this was bothering me so much, saying it's basically just vitamins and that she originally got the idea from an episode of Bob's burgers. So much wrong with this, but... But what finally sent me over the edge was the text, which we have a photo of, and I'll read it in a minute, where she thought I was mad because I felt emasculated and that her and her roommate, who was also a police officer, came up with the whole plan while I was at work because I had previously that day told her how busy my day was and that I couldn't wait to just lay down. She was worried I'd be too tired to have sex, so her roommate's boyfriend gave her the pill,

which is so fucked up. It's just all weird. It's so icky. It's all so strange and, like, sad. Have a conversation. Well, like, have, no, it's just, like, first of all, the first thing that impress me is that, like, when people are angry and, like, I would, like, confront someone right away because I can't... Yeah.

The fact that men can just go to sleep, compartmentalize like that,'s insane. I do appreciate that he was like, my emotions are too high now because we love an emotionally regulated king. We do. But, yeah, because he probably knew himself and was like, I'm not going to be able to have a coherent conversation right now. Yeah. Then the Bob's Burgers, I mean, strange.

Yeah. Then the two police officers conspiring, then her being a police officer not thinking, its problem to poison somebody and drug somebody against their will. Yeah. I tried to further my point by trying to reverse it and said if I had done something to her and she reported it to professional standards, which is basically internal affairs, I would have been fired and most likely arrested. And her response was basically, well, I would never report it, which I took as her trying

to convince me not to report it. But it's such a good point. Like, if roles were reversed. Yeah. Yeah. Our relationship ended soon after when on a trip to Peru, this part, okay, this is like just tickles my spooky side. On a trip to Peru, a doctor used a guinea pig to absorb all this negative energy from my ex-girlfriend before sacrificing the guinea pig because they needed to rid the negativity. Aw. But apparently the doctor told her the guinea pig said that I was a source of negativity in her life.

so she broke up with me. I feel bad for the guinea pig. I do too, but I know that it's like a ritual that they do there. They eat guinea pigs in Peru. Did they eat it? Yeah. Well, I don't know if they did in this situation. But the fact that the Peru doctor picked up on negative energy in her, they were spot on with that.

Hell yeah. O.P. was like, I wish I was making this up, but that's a story for another post. Anyhow, am I overreacting for letting this turn into such a big problem, or was she genuinely just trying to make a romantic gesture? which, and I'm going to read the text exchange between them, but I think we can all agree that is not a romantic gesture in any way. Okay. The ex-girlfriend text says, you don't understand how much I feel. I am very fucking empathetic. Even when I don't agree with your point of view, I understand it. I know you felt emasculated and hurt that I put something in your drink. That was wrong of me. Even if it wasn't vitamins, I should not have done it. I honestly caved in. I was

talking to, and the name's blurred, but I guess it was the friend, about seeing you that day and how tired you were probably going to be, and her boyfriend overheard, and long story short, they gave me that package and told me I should crush it and put it in your drink, and I did. O.P. responds, it's okay. I forgive you for valuing sex more than my feelings that night. Girlfriend responds, I didn't value sex more than your feelings. You didn't drink it. We had sex a couple of times and I stopped initiating sex. He goes, no, that's exactly what you did. The fact that I didn't drink it is irrelevant. You have absolutely no idea how fucked up that was and are just now apologizing for it. If I had done that to you and you went to PSU, I'd be fired and in jail right now.

She responds, I would have never gone to PSU. And it doesn't sound like he did either. No. Well, we have an update. Oh. Yeah. Okay. But her first text of, you don't understand how much I feel. I'm very fucking empathetic. Even when I don't agree with your point of view, I understand it. I know you felt emasculated. I'm like, him feeling emasculated has nothing to do with this. Nothing to do with this. He hasn't, at least not in his post. And also in those texts, that's not what he seems focused on. Right. He wasn't even defensive about that. No. And an emasculated person would be defensive about that. Yeah. And also like, if you want to have sex with your partner and they're going to come home and be tired, well, first of all, if they had a long day at work, they have

every right to come home and be tired and go to sleep. Yeah. As he should. Yeah. But if you feel like you're missing intimacy in your relationship, that needs to be a conversation and sex has to be consensual. Yeah. 100%. I mean, literally there's no other, there's no situation where it should not be consensual. Absolutely. Okay. So comments. You are not overreacting. If a male friend of yours or a male family member came to you saying their girlfriend did this, how would you react to it? it isn't right or okay, dude. I think it's a proper reaction that she is now your ex because what she did was just plain wrong. She could have communicated with you about potentially taking it in the future in order to be intimate together instead of slipping it into your drink.

And then they edited being like, isn't this a form of assault? You would know better working in law enforcement. O.P. wrote, the thing is, the way the law is written in my state, it is gender specific. When I did report it, she resigned. But after consulting with prosecutors and magistrates and pouring over the verbiage of the law for my state, we came to the realization that as a man, I cannot be a victim of any type of date rape or rape. And again, we don't know where this is. But magistrate makes me think. I can see how it would be a little.

No, magistrate can be like, you know how some states have like, I mean, Boston, I think it's parishes. Is it? Oh, no, Louisiana, it's parishes. Because Boston, it's, like, Massachusetts has a name for. Interesting. Like, in South Carolina, it has magistrate judges, too. So it sounds like it's in the U.S., but. So another person commented saying,

Viagra can have serious side effects. That's why people need to go to a doctor and get evaluated before they prescribed it. That's super fucked up to give someone drugs without consent. And that part is definitely illegal. And she works in law enforcement. What the fuck? Well, and that's the thing. It's like, this seems okay.

Not okay, but like, he's okay. Right. But some men have heart attacks on Viagra. You know, like there's 100%. Like if he wasn't okay, this would be murder. Like if he died. You know, so. And then a lot of other people were saying in the comments, like, I don't even care if it's vitamin C. Don't be putting shit in my drink. Agreed. 100%. You should have full control of what you're putting inside your body. Yep. We did get a follow up. And OP said, my ex managed to get. And OP said, my ex managed to get. hired by another agency, even in the same county, even with the investigation being in her file. I've said it a few times on this post, but I think it's worth mentioning again. I completely understand why people hate cops when someone like her can still get a job as one after this incident. It's disgusting. It is. It's horrifying. Yeah. That this person is protecting us. Yeah. It's not great. I mean, especially considering her view on breaking, like, she didn't see that as a problem. And like, it sounds like an entitlement issue. Right.

Where it's like, why do you think you can do that? Like, yeah, it's just definitely elaps in judgment. And that's not great if you're carrying a gun and wield power over people. And isn't really taking accountability at all either. Yeah. It's not good. And like, let's talk about the roommate that they suggested it according to her. Yeah. Which might not be true. Sure. But like they came out with it together. And they like, the way that it seemed like they were like laughing about it, this is a funny idea. Yeah.

Bizarre. Now I'm also curious what episode of Bob's Burgers this is. I know. Like what did they do on Bob's burgers to trigger this idea for her? Probably that. Just seems like no respect. It's like if someone's tired after work, they're tired after work. Yeah.

Like grow up. This is a little bit of a pivot. But last night at dinner, I saw the man who. voices SpongeBob. Really? Well, I saw the back of his head. How do you know what that man looks like? Kailan Moore of Clues' Podcasts and Heart Starts Pounding was like, that guy voices SpongeBob.

How did she know? I don't know. Big SpongeBob fan. That's the thing. I don't know who anyone looks like who voices cartoons because I never see him. It kind of tracks. Tom Kenny. That's kind of what I would think.

Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Just a little lighthearted note to end on before. Absolutely. Before we say goodbye. Well, that's an interesting, different kind of poisoning. You know what I mean? Like the other ones were to harm. That one was to get control over somebody. And you know what it reminded me of? Like, how deep did you get into the Epstein files? Pretty deep. So there are accusations in there that accusations, accusations, unconfirmed, unsubstantiated accusations that Epstein claimed that he distanced himself from. from Bill Gates because he was cheating on Melinda Gates with a young woman from overseas that he contracted an STD and that he then there's an email. I did not go this deep.

There's an email exchange and again unsubstantiated. Epsine alleges that Gates tried to get medication to cure an STD he gave Melinda that she didn't know she had to slip it in her food to cure it so she wouldn't find out he was cheating. This is all over the obscene files, allegedly unsubstantiated. Bill Gates has made a statement. He denies the allegations. Well, of course he would deny that allegation. He denies the allegations. He says they're completely false, but he was allegedly cheating with like a backgammon champion or something from overseas. Allegations. Absubstantiated. That reminds me a lot of, I don't know if you've read this book. It's called Blitzed.

But I've heard of it. And it's all about during World War II and Nazi Germany how they used drugs on a lot of the Nazi soldiers to like make them more malleable or just like control them. Even they change the frequency of radio to do that as well. I've heard stories of and I'm not, I don't remember which war, which countries that they would give soldiers cocaine too. To keep them awake, to make them aggressive. Yeah, that's crazy. But our country does it too. Yes.

Yeah. I mean, we're not, you know, allegations unconstitiated. This is maybe the closest I've gotten to someone poisoning when we were in high school. And it's not me, but when we were in high school, my friend, his parents were out of town. And so he wanted to throw a party at his house. But his younger sister was one of those like goody two shoes probably would have told his parents immediately types of kids. Nothing wrong with that. But so he decided to make them dinner and he put NyQuil in her pasta so that she would sleep through the party.

Did it work? No. Didn't work. And also NyQuil has such a strong flavor. Yes. Like that pasta was probably disgusting. But man, do you sleep well when you take NyQuil? You do.

I have weird dreams when I take NyQuil. Me too. In any like PM medication. Yeah. But like since you brought that up, what are your thoughts on like spiking punctual? And like weed and brownies without telling people, like that's also sort of the same thing. When you don't tell people it's not cool. And it's been like downplayed, you know?

Like I feel like that became just like a trope in teenage movies and things like that. But when you think about it, it's actually so dangerous. It's so dangerous. Yeah. Again, it also goes back to like you don't know someone could be alert. Like Corinne, who I would do two girls my ghostbeth is allergic to weed. So if she ate a pot brownie, I don't think she would die, but there are probably people who they would die from it. You don't know. Yeah, I think everyone should know what they're consuming.

Yes. Yeah. I feel like we're not saying anything new. Yeah. It's still, it's like some things are just considered not that serious when they really are when you unpack it. No poisoning people. Yeah. Wow. That was a good one. I feel like every time we do these episodes, I'm like, damn. That was shockingly good. Damn. But also shockingly horrifying how many crimes are just being committed by people every day. that unfortunately, like, the law isn't working or there's nothing to do. Yeah. Yeah, so thanks for joining us this week.

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