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

[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.

[Boredom]

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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.

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A 12 year-old, touchy-feely hysteric keying my car in plain view vs. the same hysteric drinking noxious chemicals and possibly hurting himself. Tough spot.

I'd probably just flip one of the coins of our imperialist, patriarchal, neoliberal OH YES AND LET'S NOT FORGET, racist, oligarchy of a society to make the decision.

[ilya]

They're just trying to cover their two favorite bases at once

[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.

[ematz]

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Nice work on the subtle racism, though.

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Huh?

[Quanah Parker]

So, drinking rubbing alcohol won't kill you (quickly) but drinking Visine will.

who'd of thunk

[tuq]

Can't believe Kitty Dukakis isn't getting much play in this thread. First thing I thought of when I saw the subject line. More proof that I am old and most of you are not. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

I was in high school when she did that and I had a really goofy chemistry teacher who was also my math teacher. But he was also really cool. We used to give each other crap in class and I would sign my tests "Richard Head" and he knew exactly who it was. I was on the golf team and one time to embarrass me he stopped class and asked me "do you interlock your hands when you grip your shaft?"

Anyway, this Dukakis thing happens and he made kind of a throwaway joke in class that I still remember, something like "I hope she didn't drink and rub". Dunno, made me laugh.

[IlliniLou]

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So, drinking rubbing alcohol won't kill you (quickly) but drinking Visine will.

who'd of thunk

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wait, what? drinking visine can kill you?