‘The Walking Dead’: 33 Sickened in Apparent Mass Drug Overdose in Streets of NYC
NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — More than two dozen people were sickened in an apparent mass drug overdose on a New York City street corner, sparking warnings from police and health officials about the dangers of using K2, also known as synthetic marijuana.
FILE – This Feb. 15, 2010, file photo shows a package of K2, a concoction of dried herbs sprayed with chemicals. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 signed bills banning so-called synthetic marijuana. The substance, sold under trade names like Spice and K2, has been available in stores as a mix of dried herbs and spices sprayed with chemicals. It has been blamed for health problems and violent behavior, especially among young people. (AP Photo/Kelley McCall, File)
Calls started coming in Tuesday morning that numerous people appeared to be overdosing in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Witnesses reported seeing victims lying on the sidewalk, shaking and leaning against trees and fire hydrants.
Thirty-three people were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. It was not immediately clear what drugs the victims had ingested, but police said some of the victims had been smoking K2.
Dennis Gonzalez of Bushwick told WNBC-TV that K2 use in that part of Brooklyn is out of control.
“It’s gotten out of hand,” Gonzalez said. “They even sleep in the street, we have to walk around them. It’s just too much to keep under control.”
The New York Post described the scene as zombie-like and a Brooklyn resident echoed the assessment.
“It looked like a scene out of ‘The Walking Dead,’” Brian Arthur said, recalling seeing people mindlessly wandering the streets.
Arthur posted video footage of the scary incident on Facebook:
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