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Based on Actual Events?


What event? When? Where? Anyone know?

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I remember seeing a story about the All-American couple who left a party...they did crystal Meth and got lost in the freezing cold They had a cell phone, but were so screwed up, they couldn't convey where they were. They were found dead less than a mile away from their home.

By the by, I went to school with Brian McNamara....great guy and VERY talented. If you read this Brian, write me...you'll know who I am by my name!

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So if they did crystal meth, that could explain the whole demon/shining thing?

Go MISCHA/Marrissa(2003-2006)

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I saw a documentary about the real case and the phone calls are exactly the same. That was really creepy because I remember the case and it was very shocking that they got themselves lost in that way...

By the way one big difference with the real case they both die freeze to death

"I live in the weak and the wounded..."

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Do you remember any more details? That sounds interesting. Unlike this movie lol

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It was pretty much the same thing until the end when they change the ending. They get to this party were someone puts an hallucinogen in their drinks so they think they crash in the way home, get out of the car and get lost in the snow. They did the calls to 911 and those calls registred were exactly the same. The part of the cows that they though were foreign workers was the same. At the end the only difference is that they were found freeze the next day and nobody else was killed.

"I live in the weak and the wounded..."

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That is really creepy!

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That would have to be the couple that supposedly thought cows in a field were talking to them.

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Just wondering as I'm looking forward to seeing this

HOW MUCH BLOOD WILL YOU SHED TO STAY ALIVE?

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Saw this last night, thought it wasn't bad. How sad that it is based on a true story. Did the person who drugged them ever face criminal charges?

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Dunno but doubt it. He would have had to actually confess to drugging them. In the movie he told Carl "someone could have" spiked the drinks. If he really felt bad about the situation, he might have confessed. If not, there is no proof or even witnesses -- remember in the beginning he was making his cocktails alone in the bathroom. Even if he did confess I doubt he got a hard sentence. From the looks of the home his family wasn't trailer trash -- possibly "pillars of the community." Probably got a probated sentence. Families of the two teens might have done better if they sued his (and his family's) asses.

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Actually, I saw the program about this, and there was never anything about someone drugging them, they took the drugs by choice.

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this happened right outside of where I live, omaha, nebraska..
here's the story..

http://www.wisn.com/news/4117544/detail.html

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Here's another article - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145128,00.html

(OK, it's Fox, but still !)

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Hornickel: "Hi, I'm in Omaha in the Mandalay Apartment complex, only right above them in the trees -- the wooded area. There are a lot of Mexicans and African-Americans and they're all dressed up in these (inaudible) costumes."

Hornickel told the 911 dispatcher that she was worried because a group of people were in her parking lot stringing vehicles into the trees.

Hornickel: "They're putting them in the trees."

911: "They're taking the cars apart and putting them in the trees?"

Hornickel: "Yes."


That cracked me the hell up. Someone's obviously scared of black and mexican people. They're stringing vehicles into trees.. Jesus!

"I see you as a dunce but I haven't said it once"

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I think if you watch National Geographic's "The World's Most Dangerous Drug" they go into more details about the real people that this film is based on.

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writetoAnne-2 is correct. The show aired today and will air again on July 18th.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/2592/Overview#tab-Overview

Meth can make people delusional and hallucinate but it's something that usually occurs after people have been up for days on the drug and sleep deprivation mixed with the drugs effects.

I heard those 911 calls and I think they were also on shrooms or LSD. They had been pulled over 5 hours before the 911 calls and although they admitted they were lost, the cop didn't see signs that they were on drugs. 5 hours later they
are hallucinating that cows are black and mexican people dressed in cult outfits disassembling vehicles and tying the car parts to trees. That's not just meth.
They were not tested for shrooms or LSD at their autopsies.
Wamsley had a methamphetamine level of 127 nanograms per milliliter in his blood (the equivilant of about 3 to 5 amphetamine pills)and Hornickel had 495 nanograms per milliliter. (That's like 10 to 20 amphetamine pills)

 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Primetime/story?id=549455&page=1

 http://www.emsworld.com/web/online/Top-EMS-News/911-Calls-Show-Disorientation-Of-Lost-Nebraska-Couple/1$1374


~ "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

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