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marmar

(77,084 posts)
Sat Jun 23, 2012, 06:44 AM Jun 2012

Bath Salts Gone Wild !!!

from the NY Daily News:




A Denver woman caught on camera urinating on a $30 million Clyfford Still painting last December in now saying she was under the influence of bath salts when she had her museum meltdown.

Carmen Tisch, 36, told KDVR-TV that she doesn't remember the day she stumbled into the Clyfford Still Museum and was caught on security cameras pummeling a 10-foot-tall, 13-foot-wide painting by the noted Abstract Expressionist before urinating on the work.

"I was a pill popper, heroin addict. I was in the methadone clinic for while," Carmen Tisch said. "And when I got off the methadone that’s when I started drinking a lot. That’s when I was doing the bath salt."

Now sober, the heavily tattooed Tisch said she was in shock when police told her what she had done after she came down from her high a few hours later in a jail cell. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/woman-claims-bath-salts-fueled-destruction-30-million-painting-article-1.1100993#ixzz1yc0ChZs8




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