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

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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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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?

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http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/visine.asp

[recipro]

My first thought was hash oil as well. Although rubbing alcohol isn't the optimal fluid to be using to make hash oil, it will work.

[Homer]

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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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wtf are you talking about? seriously, i have no clue.

[FlyWf]

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Also the Hispanic clerk asked me before he rang them up, "Alcohol, iss okay to sell them?"

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It's not racist ban plz or anything, but people who aren't racist don't mention the race of the clerk nor do they transcribe what they said in amusing pidgin.

Mentioning race of someone in an anecdote when it's irrelevant is a really solid racism indicator.

[TheNoodleMan]

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Also the Hispanic clerk asked me before he rang them up, "Alcohol, iss okay to sell them?"

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It's not racist ban plz or anything, but people who aren't racist don't mention the race of the clerk nor do they transcribe what they said in amusing pidgin.

Mentioning race of someone in an anecdote when it's irrelevant is a really solid racism indicator.

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It is relevant to the story. It would be very unusual for a non-imigrant to ask such a question. The fact that the clerk was not US born makes his question much more understandable.

[SmokeyRidesAgain]

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in any case I guess I thought pointedly asking if they were going to would at least serve as somewhat of a warning.

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More like a really cool idea they had never thought of before.

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This many posts and nobody mentions the obvious? They're probably cleaning marijuana pipes. Easy clean method is to soak a resin-coated pipe in a ziplock bag with rubbing alcohol and some salt. Shake until everything is loose then clean under water.

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This many posts and nobody mentions the obvious? They're probably cleaning marijuana pipes. Easy clean method is to soak a resin-coated pipe in a ziplock bag with rubbing alcohol and some salt. Shake until everything is loose then clean under water.

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also to clean glass bongs/pipes.

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[Alobar]

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Also the Hispanic clerk asked me before he rang them up, "Alcohol, iss okay to sell them?"

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It's not racist ban plz or anything, but people who aren't racist don't mention the race of the clerk nor do they transcribe what they said in amusing pidgin.

Mentioning race of someone in an anecdote when it's irrelevant is a really solid racism indicator.

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It is relevant to the story. It would be very unusual for a non-imigrant to ask such a question. The fact that the clerk was not US born makes his question much more understandable.

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quoted to emphasize complete obviousness

man people are dumb