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Feedback: The Scary Effects Of 'Bath Salts' & 'Glass Cleaner'

Story Published: Jun 19, 2012 at 5:05 PM EDT

Story Updated: Jun 19, 2012 at 8:49 PM EDT

"Bath salts" and "glass cleaner" - police can't charge you for using or selling them, but the synthetic drugs are still creating problems.

Watertown City Police Officer Dennis Lawlee is seeing more and more of these problems.

"Every day they're getting them off the internet. Local stores are selling them," said Lawlee.

Last week Lawlee responded to an incident behind a house on Jefferson Street involving a man he says was on glass cleaner

"He was reacting as if he was seeing things or hearing things that weren't there. At one point he demonstrated the ability to scale a tall wall in a single bound, so to speak - that would be unusual for anybody to do," said Lawlee.

And the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department has seen its fair share of users as well.

"A man who thought he was Santa Clause, a man who thought he was attacked by a wild minx, one was stabbing his air conditioner with a knife," said Lieutenant Michael Peterson of the sheriff's department.

7 News covered an incident in Brownville two weeks ago, when a man using bath salts thought he had been shot through his front door.

He had not. 

And it's even worse elsewhere. 

In Munnsville, a village in central New York, a woman on bath salts took off her clothes and allegedly choked her dog and three year old child.

She was then tasered by police, went into cardiac arrest and died. 

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