Misty C.

[djk]

she might be in WD's right now for any number of substances. it's probably all she has got. From what I've witnessed in behavior of other users I can see the gf have a slight painkiller, xannax, pot fondness. Losing them all at the same time can be very uncomfortable and disorienting. I sometimes get the feeling I'm watching her detox in real time.

 

[LeLe1953]

http://no-smoking.org/july98/07-20-98-6.html

I know it is illegal here (California) and looking at this article, I think they can take underage smokers to court in florida as well.

If you get caught smoking 3 times, you are denied a driver's license.

Are you kidding me?????????? NO driver's license if you are caught smoking 3 times. A little stupid use of the police in my book. Ah, shouldn't they be working more to enforce the law to prevent gang banging since there are so many youth sucked into that life style. Honestly, I worried way more about drugs, drinking or skipping school when my daughter was a teen. I realize smoking can kill ya but so can doing drugs, street racing, gang banging and a whole host of other stupid things.
In the case of Misty, she is 17 living with an older man, no education, not much common sense it seems, no goals it would appear, having sex and has been having sex for awhile.............smoking is the LAST thing I would worry about.

 

[ElizaAvalon]

Honestly, I can't imagine anywhere in the country where underage smoking is actually policed!

 

[LeLe1953]

At the local high school here lots of kids have been taken in. This is a new thing the cops are doing.

Again, that's just stupid. Are those kids making good grades? Are they college bound? Do they have part time jobs? Are they productive members of society? Yeah, let's bust their balls cause they lite up a cig. Sorry, but I come the day we smoked pot in the car in our parking lot at school and everyone smoked out in the school yard on break, including teachers. We had cig vending machines in the school. I turned out okay...even got my "edumacation".
Do I think smoking is good for you? NO, but I don't think smokers should be treated as 2nd class citzens either. And I sure dont think kids need to be hauled into the police station for it. Geez, just call the parent.

I know we shouldnt smoke around kids but if those kids were clean, fed, loved, I dont care if Misty smoked. I will take someone who smokes but takes care of the kids vs someone who doesnt & knocks the crap out of them .

 

[Never4GetCaylee]

I don't understand why this question has a thread? I think we have a place for questions and answers. It doesn't pertain to Haleigh being missing or even to the case in any way.

I agree. After Haleigh is found then maybe LE can get around to citing her for smoking and maybe for littering if she didn't put them all out in an ashtray. But right now with a little girl's life at stake for some reason I just don't think this is a top priority and not at all revelant.

 

[ElizaAvalon]

http://no-smoking.org/july98/07-20-98-6.html

I know it is illegal here (California) and looking at this article, I think they can take underage smokers to court in florida as well.

If you get caught smoking 3 times, you are denied a driver's license.

You are kidding??!!

Never heard of such a thing!

Do they really enforce this???

Somehow I doubt it.

 

[NSC]

I was just looking at Crystals Myspace page with all the pics. Sometimes for me it is hard to imagine certain behavior from people. Anyway, there is a picture of her and her friends partying, the room was filled in EXCESS of marijuana posters etc etc etc...

Now, just saying if she was with RC my guess is that the pot thing existed in that relationship as well. Now, don't see RC changing but having another GF that also smokes post. So what if MC was stoned and just out of it??? Thinking the kids went to bed for the night - she smokes a bowl and thinks she can relax. Falls asleep without leaving the house and wakes up later and is confused - Ron comes home. Now the pot thing is more in my mind than her actually leaving the house. Because great grandma said she was a good caretaker.

I am the 1st person to stand up and dislike drugs. Was never a druggie personally--maybe a 6 mos stink in high school trying out the pot but it made me so tired and pass out that I didn't like it. But I knew plenty of druggies, plenty of parents who did drugs (in an affluent area*gasp) and alot of these people were good people, they just liked pot. I don't want anyone to take any personal offense. JMO

Also, one other picture shows Hayleigh on the slip and slide running. Her body structure resembles that of my niece who has turners syndrome. My niece walks with a limp and is broad chested.

 

[petresq_algc]

You are kidding??!!

Never heard of such a thing!

Do they really enforce this???

Somehow I doubt it.

I don't understand why this smoking thing keeps getting brought up Why is this an issue when there is a missing 5 yr. old girl out there somewhere? How will blasting people for smoking help us find Haleigh?! IMO unless Misty stepped out to smoke and forgot to lock the door back, cigarettes have absolutely nothing to do with this case.

 

[Tom'sGirl]

I don't understand why this question has a thread?

It doesn't anymore

 

[petresq_algc]

It doesn't anymore

:clap:

 

[kaych]

A 5 year old is missing and possibly being abused right this minute.

Who really gives a crap about someone underage smoking?

 

[Egoslayer]

I believe haleigh does have Turner's syndrome

 

[melley]

I live in California, next to a high school. Kids smoke right in front of my house... I've never seen the police out there, so as far as I can tell, no they don't enforce it. When I was home on maternity leave I would have to ask them to move down the street because I didn't like the smell, but that's all

I, too, agree who cares if she's smoking. I'd be more concerned about her shacking up with an older man, but even that seems unimportant when a little girl is missing...

 

[kellync]

Hello everyone I actually got out of the house tonight and went to dinner. Now that I'm home, and have found a smoking thread. GMAB!! I, as a serious chain smoker can put my 2 cents in and say that I saw on the news tonight CNN, Misty is sure puffing with authority now...hahahahahah, for real, when she left the police station, she was tokin like she was large and in charge. I can give insight on her puffing habits because I am a smoker. She walked out of the station and she was sucking that thing like a newborn baby. Maybe she is in the clear now...puff.....puff....

 

[LFlorida]

It IS indeed unlawful for minors to smoke cigarettes here, but both the local police chief [Palatka] and the sheriff [Putnam County] responded to the law passed by saying that they had no intention of trying to enforce it. Their officers have enough work to begin with.
btw - it is also a violation of law, technically prosecutable, for your child to be truant or to ride a bicycle without a helmet

It is much like the seatbelt laws, IMO - a basis/excuse to pull you over in your car, turn you in to DCF for child neglect, etc.

Nancy Grace made much about Haleigh's truancy [remarked upon by Ronald to Crystal, re: why she couldn't see the child at some particular time.]

Truancy letters from the schools went out over the past few weeks. A friend of mine, whose son attends the same school as Haleigh, told me about receiving one re: her son's tardiness, threatening her with arrest and prosecution. Mind you, her son was only tardy by a few minutes, [announcements and pledge of allegiance had not finished], though it was more than a few times due to her work schedule. While not an admirable habit and a bit insulting to the teacher [I guess], threatening the parent - usually the mom btw, with prosecution is a bit much.

Yes, I received one, too, for my youngest son's undocumented absences. [Did not turn in Mom's written excuses and doctor's excuse, cried 1st week of school not wanting to be away from Mom who has no backbone, etc.] Both my son and my friend's son have straight A's, so what's the big deal.

So, truancy is not an indication of anything in Putnam County except the county's desire to maximize their federal and state funding.

My best guess at this point: Misty & Chad Reynolds [missing predator] hooked up while she and Ron were estranged, reportedly over her drug use. Misty had only recently been allowed to moved back in with Ron & kids. [This is from local source.]

Perhaps Chad Reynolds "groomed" her to get access to Haleigh - not unheard of. I have a relative whose mother was groomed [via reduced rent, etc] by the man who then began molesting her 10 yr old son. He didn't kidnap or murder the kid... he pimped him out to other molesters all over SE Georgia and North Fla, sold/traded photos & video of him over the 'net.

Kid is 18 now and completely F---ed up.

Crystal is not smart enough to murder anyone and succesfully cover it up, IMO. Nor is any other 17 yr old that I know.

Y'all send me a msg if I have posted too much/too often. Don't want to be an annoyance.

 

[LFlorida]

This is a main thing that bugs me about Misti. She tells way too many details about things that would not normally need to be so detailed. Why would she tell the names of the movies? I would think you'd just say, "the kids watched a couple of movies" without going into detail the titles.

Perhaps Misti is repeating the info the cops wanted from her when they questioned her, likely trying to get her to contradict her story. You know that they have drilled her about every little thing that happened that night and pinned her down for every little detail.

 

[kellync]

I'll tell you Kelly,I do hope she doesn't start to think she's cool,all the attention towards her,as KC thought.When the fear goes away,what's left?Wow,I'm getting all this attention,everyone knows me.Her environment before she got back to Florida was what you see in her cousin Brandon's myspace site,gangs,drugs,stealing,rap mentality,look at his page.She lived in Michigan around this,hope she wasn't swayed into something by the cousin.And he told her it would be okay,everyone will believe your story?IMO

She is playing right into their hands. LE is used to this type of person. Sheriff used to be a narcotics officer in this county, he doesnt believe ANYONE.

 

[kellync]

It IS indeed unlawful for minors to smoke cigarettes here, but both the local police chief [Palatka] and the sheriff [Putnam County] responded to the law passed by saying that they had no intention of trying to enforce it. Their officers have enough work to begin with.
btw - it is also a violation of law, technically prosecutable, for your child to be truant or to ride a bicycle without a helmet

It is much like the seatbelt laws, IMO - a basis/excuse to pull you over in your car, turn you in to DCF for child neglect, etc.

Nancy Grace made much about Haleigh's truancy [remarked upon by Ronald to Crystal, re: why she couldn't see the child at some particular time.]

Truancy letters from the schools went out over the past few weeks. A friend of mine, whose son attends the same school as Haleigh, told me about receiving one re: her son's tardiness, threatening her with arrest and prosecution. Mind you, her son was only tardy by a few minutes, [announcements and pledge of allegiance had not finished], though it was more than a few times due to her work schedule. While not an admirable habit and a bit insulting to the teacher [I guess], threatening the parent - usually the mom btw, with prosecution is a bit much.

Yes, I received one, too, for my youngest son's undocumented absences. [Did not turn in Mom's written excuses and doctor's excuse, cried 1st week of school not wanting to be away from Mom who has no backbone, etc.] Both my son and my friend's son have straight A's, so what's the big deal.

So, truancy is not an indication of anything in Putnam County except the county's desire to maximize their federal and state funding.

My best guess at this point: Misty & Chad Reynolds [missing predator] hooked up while she and Ron were estranged, reportedly over her drug use. Misty had only recently been allowed to moved back in with Ron & kids. [This is from local source.]

Perhaps Chad Reynolds "groomed" her to get access to Haleigh - not unheard of. I have a relative whose mother was groomed [via reduced rent, etc] by the man who then began molesting her 10 yr old son. He didn't kidnap or murder the kid... he pimped him out to other molesters all over SE Georgia and North Fla, sold/traded photos & video of him over the 'net.

Kid is 18 now and completely F---ed up.

Crystal is not smart enough to murder anyone and succesfully cover it up, IMO. Nor is any other 17 yr old that I know.

Y'all send me a msg if I have posted too much/too often. Don't want to be an annoyance.

If you are an annoyance, I am an STD...Thanks for your perspective.

 

[melley]

I used to smoke years ago... and I know when you have been somewhere for hours (airplane, classes for instance, and probably in a police station) first thing you do when you are able to get outside is smoke... just saying.

 

[kellync]

I used to smoke years ago... and I know when you have been somewhere for hours (airplane, classes for instance, and probably in a police station) first thing you do when you are able to get outside is smoke... just saying.

I agree, but I didnt make my thought/opinion very clear....She had her head UP, and walked out like she was saying Ha! smell me people, I'm clean. I haven't seen Mistys head up ever. I think it was on the same station as the press conference..She looked pretty confident to me. Remember the sheriff saying she would walk out of the station today?
Where is my fiddle...oh there it is:boohoo:. They are playing her like one