"I just went to CVS in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The retail price of the vial [of insulin] is $340. When I went to London, Ontario to pick it up at Walmart pharmacy there, in US dollars the retail price was $26.
From the high cost of insulin, I've had to go into debt because of it. I've had to put it on credit card. I've had to reach out to family members to help me pay for it because it had gotten too expensive, and I can't cover it because of astronomical cost."
Alabama man says 'attack squirrel' not on meth, disputing officials' claim
The outlandish tale of a meth-fueled "attack squirrel" just got even nuttier.
The wanted Alabama man who police alleged fed a pet rodent methamphetamine to keep it aggressive has spoken out while on the lam — and he says his pet squirrel is no druggie.
Mickey Paulk, 35, released a Facebook video on Tuesday — alongside a squirrel — after the Limestone County Sheriff's Office said he was wanted on multiple charges including possession of a controlled substance.
Investigators raided a home in Athens on Monday looking for Paulk after they were told he'd been caring for an "attack squirrel." Paulk wasn't there, but police found another man, who they arrested on drug charges.
They also found the squirrel.
It's illegal to have a pet squirrel in Alabama. Officials said they released the critter into the wild, as "there was no safe way to test the squirrel for meth."
But in his video, Paulk appeared to suggest he was somehow reunited with his critter pal — and not because the squirrel came back looking for a fix.
"They said it was a trained attack squirrel in a residence that was on meth," Paulk is heard saying in the video. "You can't give squirrels meth, it would kill them. I'm pretty sure, but I've never tried it."
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The 35-year-old said the squirrel is just over 10 months old and described his personality as being "an a--hole, he's a mean motherf-----. No doubt."
"But he's not a trained attack squirrel, and he's not on meth, I'm pretty sure," Paulk said. "I better not find out he's on meth anyway. I don't think he likes that s---. The squirrel is safe. The public isn't in danger in any way from the methed-out squirrel in the neighborhood."
Paulk claimed police invented the story because they were "mad" he wasn't at the home and questioned how he could be charged if he wasn't in the house at the time of the raid, during which deputies said they seized meth, drug paraphernalia and body armor. Paulk said he no longer lived at the home, though, some of his belongings were still there.
He described the situation as a "joke," and assured "the animal lovers out there" the squirrel is doing well.
"Look at the camera, look at the camera, don't squeak at me," Paulk said at the end of his video as he talked to the supposedly sober squirrel.
USA Today's reporter Dawn Gilberston, offers a disturbing glimpse into the mass media's collusion with TSA-style checkpoints at public venues.Annabel Hess, right, signed up for PreCheck at an RV outside the gates of the Country LakeShake music festival in Chicago in late June at the urging of her roommate Catie Hjerpe, left.
Comment: Is this the incident that finally turns the tide on Antifa? The optics of beating an old man (Blum), the man who tried to defend him (Kelly), and a respected journalist (Ngo) are not good.
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Michael James, writing in American Thinker in October 2018: