Young kids buying large amount of rubbing alcohol/wtf are they up to?

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Did you at least tell them that drinking it can kill them?

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This is exactly something that shouldn't be told to people. If they are stupid enough to drink it, they probably need to be removed from the gene pool.

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If for some odd reason one wanted them to do something drink it, the best way to do this would be to warn them.

I learned this from playing live and online poker.

[CommanderCorm]

They were probably being forced to remove some illegal grafitti they painted, and would never have contemplated to drink the stuff without you telling them not to do so.

In Russia, people drink stuff like that all the time, btw.
I guess it´s not that much more dangerous than regular alcohol, just higher concentrated, and with possibly more serious long-term damages. Saying 250 ml would be deadly is likely a mild exaggeration, comparable to saying a bottle of vodka would kill you.

[Nicholasp27]

in soviet russia, the isopropyl drinks you

[john voight]

prolly gunna be extracting drug from a plant. I mean you soak a plant of choice in it like wormwood, or opium poppy or whatever for a few days.

then you strain it in a filter.

then you simmer in stove to evaporate all the garbage.
then you are left w/ a very [censored] potent extract of the plant. Smoke it.

[KotOD]

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prolly gunna be extracting drug from a plant. I mean you soak a plant of choice in it like wormwood, or opium poppy or whatever for a few days.

then you strain it in a filter.

then you simmer in stove to evaporate all the garbage.
then you are left w/ a very [censored] potent extract of the plant. Smoke it.

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I still think it's chlorine bombs. All of the little suburban kids are making the chlorine bombs these days. They steal the tablets from the neighbor's pool house, make the bomb and throw them out into parking lots and such on the way by. $.99 for the Alcohol and the chlorine tablets are free -- it's a cheap way to give someone chemical burns in their throat!

[KotOD]

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I was at the convenience store near my house and 4 or 5 10-12 year-old kids carrying skateboards came up behind me and put three bottles of green-colored, "spearmint" rubbing alcohol (btw, rubbing alcohol comes in flavors now? news to me) on the counter.

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My guess is that they were about to make three Chlorine bombs

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I was at the convenience store near my house and 4 or 5 10-12 year-old kids carrying skateboards came up behind me and put three bottles of green-colored, "spearmint" rubbing alcohol (btw, rubbing alcohol comes in flavors now? news to me) on the counter.

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My guess is that they were about to make three Chlorine bombs

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If you are correct, it's possible I could have prevented a TERRORIST ATTACK, and yet I failed miserably due to general apathy and complacence.

However, on the bright side, at least the neighborhood will smell minty fresh soon.

[FlyWf]

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I was at the convenience store near my house and 4 or 5 10-12 year-old kids carrying skateboards came up behind me and put three bottles of green-colored, "spearmint" rubbing alcohol (btw, rubbing alcohol comes in flavors now? news to me) on the counter.

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My guess is that they were about to make three Chlorine bombs

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If you are correct, it's possible I could have prevented a TERRORIST ATTACK, and yet I failed miserably due to general apathy and complacence.

However, on the bright side, at least the neighborhood will smell minty fresh soon.

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Dude, real apathy is not even noticing what random people are buying, and certainly not talking to them about it. If I was one of those kids I'd have keyed your car for interrogating me about the product I was legally purchasing from someone else.

Nice work on the subtle racism, though.

[BigCummins]

Mind your own business old man, let these kids have their pyro fun.

[Los Feliz Slim]

A guy in my fraternity was Russian and his father once came to visit. They got really, really, drunk and then drank a bottle of Drakkar. True story.