Quote Originally Posted by oh right View Post
I knew a couple of guys in the '60s who were sniffing a lot of glue. They wound up in an institution in a vegetative state, permanently. Glue-sniffing kills brain cells.

http://www.sacsheriff.com/crime_prev...e_abuse_08.cfm



Treatment for schizophrenia back then may have included shock treatments and/or Thorazine. I don't think there was enough published information for him to be able to fake mental illness.

Maybe after 30 years, he'll be able to retire.
This piece of the puzzle baffles me as well. If he was huffing glue in his teenager years, when his brain is still forming there would have been significant brain damage done. His IQ and social functioning is pretty high for a huffer.