I'm sick to death of hearing about this..... make alcohol and tobacco illegal, then come tell the public about some bath salts. It won't ever happen because why???? because it makes the govenment too much money... Ask a loved one about someone with cirrhosis, or COPD and then talk to me about how horrible something is.... it is a choice, such as buying bath crystals.....the goverment is just mad they can't make a dime off of it.... they will never make alcohol or tobacco illegal..........cmon people let's get real.....

I just finished watching the report on bath salts. First of all, I don't do bath salts or any drug for that matter. I do know about the devastating effects of alcohol and tabacco, and the fact is that more people die from the direct and indirect effects of these two drugs. Yet they are very legal, and well accepted in our society. Americans spend large amounts of money on these drugs yearly and the companies that make them make larger amounts of money selling them. The side effects of these drugs have caused deaths nationwide, it is a well known fact. It is hypocritical to go after some just because they are not socially acceptable. Social acceptance isn't always the right way to go.

My point is that Mr. Hansen should take his passion for reporting wrong doing and go for those who really pose a threat to the life americans. There are bigger fish he can go after!!!

On the bike story tonight? I honestly feel like you did try too hard (like he said) to get that last guy to buy the bike from you guys, and felt it was somewhat unfair to do what you did to that guy. He refused to buy the bike several times but you kept at him, sort of begging. I actually thought the guy felt sorry for you. This sort of thing really looked bad and made me very uncomfortable. I won't be watching that show again.

As the owner of a "real" bath & body store selling REAL bath salts, could you please call this drug by it's name and stop calling it by it's street nickname? Sheesh, next thing you know I'll have cops busting me for selling salts from the dead sea that you REALLY do BATHE with!

Did anyone get the email at the end of this show??? It says if you have been ripped off to email him and I have a story for him but I was not able to get the email address fast enough.

I do have a problem.I feel I have been ripped off.My wife and I bought a brand new trailer 5 years ago,and have had nothing but problems one after another.We live in China Maine and we found out just this past year,that this trailer was made for down south.I have started putting an addition on to our livingroom,and the wood they have used is not what it should be,there was no Typar(outside wrap for protection) on the walls and there is hardly any insulation.The place from the well to feed the water to the trailer won't accept it.There are no headers over the doors or windows.The roof trusses are made from 3x2's and I believe it is 3/8 sheathing for the roof.It is two feet on center so we were lucky the roof didn't cave in under the weight of the snow we get in the winters.From the plumbing to the electrical(thats a whole other story),we are just lucky the walls are still standing.You would have to see it to believe it.My wife feels it was a DEMO to start with,but we can't afford a lawyer to ask question.We did write and send paper work to the Maine Manufactured Housing Board,but never heard back from them.We are at our wits end,but thank goodness my husband knows enough to fix alot of the stuff to get us by.I don't know if we will ever hear from you,but it felt good to get this off my chest.Thank you,Sincerely Edward Tracy

Phone # 207-968-2247

Sorry none of these seller have done anything illegal and if I were them my conscience wouldn't be bothered one bit. I don't use drugs myself and its up to people to educate themselves on drugs and the Government to make drugs illegal. If the Government has not made something illegal what are these people doing wrong. I'm sure Alcohol and cigarettes kill a higher percentage of its users and the people involved don't feel ashamed of peddling their product so why should these guys. Bush sent innocent Americans to die and I don't see if Hansen asks him if he's ashamed. Actually Chris Hansen in my opinion is directly responsible for a law enforcement person committing suicide and I don't think it bothers him one bit.

What you did to the bicycle guy was disgusting and I hope you get your ass sued Chris Hansen. The guy said no and you guys kept goading him to buy it. Your responsible not him. This was clearly a pathetic setup and entrapment. I love how Chris Hansen goes after the little guys who are probably making 1/100th Hansen's salary. Its one thing to go after a bike thief and its another thing to keep trying to get an honest bike shop to buy a hot bike. I hope this guy sues you Chris Hansen. I actually have never understood how you are allowed to broadcast film of someone without their permission.

As someone who had a bike ripped off, I was ready for some justice. After watching the report, I was disgusted--but at Chris Hansen, not the bike shop.

This was the most sickening case of entrapment I've ever seen. Dominick, not the owner but a working stiff in Bikes By George, was asked not once but five times to buy the bike. He kept refusing, obviously disgusted with the actor playing the seller. But the "thief" kept aggressively pushing, begging, cajoling, I need the money, c'mon, $50 please, why not, man? Finally Dominick gave him $25 for it. And yes, heroic Chris sprang into action, catching the "horrible thief." When Dominick realized it was a set up, he lost his temper. Gee, what great TV! Of course, Chris had a security guy there to fight the guy he baited.

Now Dominick is out of a job, a good bike store will probably go out of business, and all because of clear entrapment by any definition. If Dominick was the guy with the designer clothes and Hansen the working stiff, why do I get the feeling it wouldn't have taken five tries and entrapment to get slick Chris to agree? A

A sickening episode. Someone please get Dominick a good lawyer. .

Chris,

Your report on bike theft brought back memories of our family vacation to Key West. Not only was one of our rented bikes stolen during the day right across from the Hemmingway house it became obvious to us that the people who rented us the bikes were in on this money making scheme. The police were non chalant about it and we ended up having to pay $300.00 dollars to the bike rental place. We have pictures of our experience and we can easily show you them. Key West was a night mare vacation. We were ripped off big time.

The guy Chris Hansen confronted on East 4th Street for buying a stolen bike was arrested in the Ninth Precinct for cutting down a tree and stealing a bike

If you're referring to Dominick which I'm not sure you do or not what you're saying is totally irrelevant to what happened at the store when Hansen harassed and goaded the poor guy to buy the bike after he repeatedly said no. If this was an episode of rape and Hanson were reporting he would have said the victim had said no and no means no except apparently when it comes to Chris Hansen

In a country that purports to be a "free country" that embraces freedom of choice and individual liberty, it is astonishing to see the hysteria surrounding the drug issue. Alcohol is still the most destructive drug of all and no one would want to go back to prohibition days. Everyone needs to be educated about the effects and dangers of all the various drugs, but if an adult wants to put something into his own body, whether it's alcohol, arsenic, bath salts, or amphetamine, then it's no one's business but his own. And he who ingests the drug must be willing to accept the consequences of so doing. Those consequences are medical in nature, and should not be criminal. If he commits a crime or operates dangerous machinery while on that drug, then he should be charged accordingly. Perhaps there needs to be regulatory measures, but the "war on drug" mentality is clearly a loser.

I thought Chris Hansen’s report on bath salts was very informative and necessary to get the word out about this danger new drug. Although the story focused on death by suicide as a result of using bath salts, people need to know that this drug kills and the death is not always self-inflicted. My cousin died two months ago – he was healthy and in his 30′s, but unfortunately used bath salts believing he was safe – after all, he bought them legally. The coroner ruled he died of cardiac arrest – perhaps doctors or news reporters are not at liberty yet to state that a person died as a DIRECT result of using bath salts, but our family knows that without this dangerous drug, my cousin would still be alive. Death by bath salts needs to be actively investigated and reported...and our Federal government needs to take immediate and aggressive action so that bath salts (and any other mix ready to take its place) is banned in EVERY State.

The problem is that the government wont allow these chemicals to be sold for human consumption, so they work around it by calling them bath salts.  This of course makes it so the companies selling these products do not have to put them through purity testing to make sure the customer knows what they're getting, and they CANNOT describe effects, CANNOT suggest proper dosage and use ANYWHERE (label, online, instruction booklet, etc.), and CANNOT issue warnings of possible side effects that lie outside the intended ones.  Stores don't have to ID kids because there's no age limit for "non-consumable bath salts".  The answer is not more restrictions, it's ending the absurd, money-sucking failure that is the War on Drugs.  Most problems with drugs are related to their prohibition, not their availability.  Legalize, require accurate labeling, and test for purity.  Then HONESTLY educate people about these things, don't make them have to turn to hardcore junkies for advice on how to use a drug properly.  No more of the "Reefer Madness" hyperbole about everything.  And yeah, alcohol and cigarettes kill more people than any other drug out there, so it's a valid comparison.  This is far from "epidemic" proportions compared to legal inebriants, you just don't hear about every alcohol OD or lung cancer/emphysema death in the media because you'd just be bored with the repetition.  Right now you're hearing about EVERY little lunatic who binges on an unknown substance and does something crazy because they're predisposed to it then stayed awake for 4 days straight, which is actually what causes the hallucinations/psychosis, not the drug itself.  If people were educated honestly about these chemicals before trying them, perhaps they'd know that without practicing moderation and going to sleep every night, they're likely to go a little nuts--but even that's only until they finally go to sleep.  Prohibition doesn't work.  Ever.

Your site is terrible.  I just want to watch the bike thing.  I started the episode.  There is a commercial between every couple minutes of video, which is fine, except after 2-3 times, the player doesn't work anymore, and I need to refresh the browser.  Worse, navigation is really tough.  Now, I've watched the whole drug thing, and it looped back.  No bike theft.

Ads are fine.  If your site doesn't work, though, what's the point?  I'm starting to think the bike thing isn't online.  that's impossible to find out without watching the whole episode.

In summary, nobody is going to watch online if the experience is terrible.  You can figure this out.  I believe in you, nbc.