Father of son who overdosed: 'If you're big enough for drugs, you're big enough to call 9-1-1'
Posted: August 18, 2014
By Joe Lamb
Just about everybody in town has seen or heard of Ken Ashley-Pauley standing on the corner of College and Donaghey holding his sign.
His son overdosed earlier this year on a mixture of drugs including Xanax and cough syrup in the old, blue rent house across the street. By the time one of the college students who rented the house thought to take him a few hundred yards down the street to the hospital it was too late.
Twenty-year-old Josh Ashley-Pauley was unconscious on the couch for hours, “snoring funny,” his dad said. Ken knows what happened based what the renters of the house — ostensibly his son’s friends — told him about the last hours of his son’s life.
The renters of the house knew what he’d taken. He’d eaten lunch with them at the barbeque restaurant across the street, and it was obvious from his behavior at the restaurant that he was in trouble, Ken said. After an uncomfortable last meal, his son passed out on a couch in the blue rent house. While he was unconscious, one of his friends drew a crude shape on his face and put a video on the internet.
“His words to me were, ‘That’s what we do. It’s funny,’” Ken said on Monday.
But Josh wasn’t sleeping one off; he was dying. It was all fun and games until he stopped breathing.
One of the renters eventually took Josh to the hospital, but the damage was irreversible.
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Posted: August 18, 2014
By Joe Lamb
Just about everybody in town has seen or heard of Ken Ashley-Pauley standing on the corner of College and Donaghey holding his sign.
His son overdosed earlier this year on a mixture of drugs including Xanax and cough syrup in the old, blue rent house across the street. By the time one of the college students who rented the house thought to take him a few hundred yards down the street to the hospital it was too late.
Twenty-year-old Josh Ashley-Pauley was unconscious on the couch for hours, “snoring funny,” his dad said. Ken knows what happened based what the renters of the house — ostensibly his son’s friends — told him about the last hours of his son’s life.
The renters of the house knew what he’d taken. He’d eaten lunch with them at the barbeque restaurant across the street, and it was obvious from his behavior at the restaurant that he was in trouble, Ken said. After an uncomfortable last meal, his son passed out on a couch in the blue rent house. While he was unconscious, one of his friends drew a crude shape on his face and put a video on the internet.
“His words to me were, ‘That’s what we do. It’s funny,’” Ken said on Monday.
But Josh wasn’t sleeping one off; he was dying. It was all fun and games until he stopped breathing.
One of the renters eventually took Josh to the hospital, but the damage was irreversible.
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