Jumpin' Jesus

Daniel Chong, a 24-year old student at UC San Diego, was taken into custody during a drug raid and abandoned in a holding cell for five days without food or water, according to NBC San Diego.

“They never came back, ignored all my cries and I still don’t know what happened,” he said. “I’m not sure how they could forget me.”

On April 21, Drug Enforcement Agents raided an apartment where Chong and his friends were smoking marijuana. Nine people were arrested and the agents reportedly seized ecstasy pills, marijuana, prescription medication, psychedelic mushrooms and weapons, according to CBS 8 News. Seven of those arrested were taken to jail and one was released.

Chong, however, was left handcuffed in a 5 ft. by 10 ft. holding cell.

  

Yeah. They didn't forget you, dude.

I wonder what the weapons were. Kitchen knives?  Beer bottles?

Oh, it gets better...

Chong said he screamed and kicked the door, but to no avail. Eventually, he began hallucinating and drank his own urine in hopes of staying hydrated. After days without any human contact, he tried to kill himself by breaking his glasses with his teeth, and using the glass to cut himself.

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The DEA has not apologized to Chong. He has not been charged with any crime.

No, but they will be.

Chong and lawyer on NBC San Diego...

Yo! NBC San Diego!  Terror alert?  Really?

UPDATE

He also said he bit into his glasses to break them and tried to use a shard to scratch "Sorry Mom" into his arm, according to the newspaper U-T San Diego.

  UK Guardian

And this:

Chong said federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents told him he would be let go. One agent even promised to drive him home from the DEA field office in Kearny Mesa, he said.

Instead, Chong was returned to a holding cell to await release. The DEA spokeswoman, Amy Roderick, said he was accidentally left there.

Accidentally left in a holding cell for five days. Right.

Chong said he could hear the muffled voices of agents outside his 1.5-by-three-metre (5ftx10ft) windowless cell and the door of the next cell being opened and closed. He kicked and screamed as loud as he could, but his cries for help apparently went unheard.

He could hear regular talking, but they couldn't hear him screaming.

When Chong was found on 25 April, he was taken to a hospital and treated for cramps, dehydration and a perforated lung – the result of ingesting the broken glass.

"When they opened the door, one of them said: 'Here's the water you've been asking for," Chong said. "But I was pretty out of it at the time."

I guess they didn't forget about him after all.

Chong's attorney, Eugene Iredale, said he planned to file a claim against the federal government, and if it was denied he will proceed with filing a federal lawsuit.

Well, I guess.