Man arrested in bra, panties, accused of stabbing goat

[Sheepherder]

A roommate I had in college used to love whippets, this is ~15 years ago so they aren't new at all.  Anyway, at a party he huffed a big balloon, turned a dark shade of blue, passed out for 30 seconds, had a couple of convulsions and then came too and seemed fine.  I took one look at that production and decided that whippets weren't in the cards for me.

Time to party like it's 1799.

[Ingmar]

They're definitely a bad deal on the cost/length of high front, but probably just about the easiest thing to buy.

[Lantyssa]

All these quick-fix highs bother me, despite my being okay with legalizing drugs in general.  But then I had a crush on a girl that got nudged when doing freon and inhaled too much.  It was a slow death.

[Merusk]

My parents sat me down when I was 12 (I'm 36) and asked if I was doing Whippits because I'd gone through the last 2 cans of whipped cream they'd bought for some party in about 3 days.  My confused response was something along the lines of, "what's that? I just really like whipped cream."  Whippits are ancient, as sheepherder implies.

[Pennilenko]

I went through a phase about 10 years ago, a few guys i used to know always had a tank of medical grade nitrous at their parties. watching people pass out and go blue repeatedly while desperately hanging onto a balloon always kept me away from the stuff. Just a shame i didn't have any such deterrent for the other party favors that were around.

[Minvaren]

Having had nitrous so many times at the dentist's office, the "novelty factor" is generally gone for me for whippets.  These days I'm more of a fan of using them in small amounts to potentiate other substances, and the somewhat-regular exploding balloon from cold damage is enough to remind me to be mindful of what I'm doing.

Reading stories about people huffing freon, paint, or glue (or straight nitrous in large amounts) freaks me out a bit - I'm not into permanent damage or death for a brief high.  Heck, the story of Townes Van Zandt losing his teeth due to sniffing glue gives me the willies to this day.

[Sheepherder]

Nitrous oxide is pretty harmless unless you happen to be asphyxiating yourself, aspirating vegetable oil or whipped cream, breathing the gas cold, or inhaling (dirty) gas not meant for human use.  Cold gasses damaging your lungs isn't too much of a concern if you're decanting it into a balloon, and your airways after that actually do a pretty good job of heating the gas to the point where it won't damage your lungs.  Don't count on heavy breathing to indicate that you need oxygen, your body doesn't work that way.

All these quick-fix highs bother me, despite my being okay with legalizing drugs in general.  But then I had a crush on a girl that got nudged when doing freon and inhaled too much.  It was a slow death.

As far as I know the only property that Freon has that could possibly be construed as a method of getting high is it's capacity to inhibit the bonding of oxygen, if I'm recalling the ~science~ correctly.  This is probably more damage than you were/are equipped to handle unless you happened to have a Psych doctorate at the time.


Yes, legalize some of this shit.  It's fucking hateful knowing that in the process of making a motherfucking grow op (weed doesn't hurt anyone, right?) that the asshats doing so will willfully bypass the electricity, install boobytraps, compromise the structure of the building so that once they've grown a bit their plants get sunlight, and until then will hide their horseshit by throwing plywood over the gaping motherfucking holes in the floor so that the first firefighter into the building when your DIY electrical job shorts the fuck out will hit the compromised plywood, immediately collapse through it, and be hanging fucking headfirst into a basement that looks like a motherfucking hellmouth with the only thing saving him being a deathgrip on the hose line and the guy behind him holding his feet.

EDIT: Fuck it, read my bile.

[Paelos]

If it's legal, they would grow it fields. Not houses.

[Hawkbit]

Your top end stuff would still come from greenhouses, though that's miles safer than growops.  It's really hard to control variables outside.  Not that I know anything about this topic, though.

[Sheepherder]

If it's legal, they would grow it fields. Not houses.

That wasn't sarcastic, they should legalize growing pot.  I just have a lot of hate for the people constructing drug labs because they're usually the most retarded inbred redneck cocksuckers you can find in the area.  Seriously, who in their right mind would booby trap an old derelict house in a town of 20k people?  Who are they in a gang war with, the fucking Royal Canadian Legion?

[Paelos]

I'm not in favor of legalizing meth or bath salts, or whatever the fuck our rednecks down in South Georgia decide is a good idea instead of gainful employment or cruising the DQ for fat chicks.

[K9]

What happens if you actually put bath salts in your bath?

Also, Jimbo, I hope you are writing down all this stuff, and all the other crazy shit you have told us about over the years. There's definitely a book in there asking to be written. I'd buy it if you ever wrote it.

[NowhereMan]

What happens if you actually put bath salts in your bath?

If it's just mephedrone then pretty much the same as pouring a load of cocaine into your bathtub. Fun fact, according to the press over here it's popular street name was 'Meow Meow'. I feel pretty certain this was someone trolling a journalist.

[Jimbo]

Working title is "you can't make this shit up, tales from the night shift."

[IainC]