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

Boredom · #1 08-27-2007, 11:04 PM

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.

They were not buying any other items, and were sort of speaking to each other in hushed tones that indicated they might be up to something. I looked at one of them and said, 'what are you doing with that? is it in case you guys get cuts from falling down skateboarding?' (a joke, and a mistake of one i realized a second later), the kid replies, 'YEP, it's in case we get cut.' LOL. 3 bottles? GTFOOH.

I asked if they were drinking it but honestly they didn't look like druggies and I don't think they were lying when they said 'no'.

Is my drug-user radar busted and they're making meth or something?

Also the Hispanic clerk asked me before he rang them up, "Alcohol, iss okay to sell them?" I couldn't put these kids on a hand so I didn't really see fit to interfere so I told him to go ahead and sell it. But wtf man.

TiK · #2 08-27-2007, 11:09 PM

Setting something on fire, maybe? You can't huff rubbing alcohol can you (well, I'm sure you can, but does it do anything)?

RiverFenix · #3 08-27-2007, 11:14 PM

Gotta be in their pyro phases.

RivaLiva · #4 08-27-2007, 11:14 PM

Probably going to blow something up

....and WTF, Making rubbing alcohol in flavors only encourages drinking it

TiK · #5 08-27-2007, 11:16 PM

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Well, it not really a flavor, just a scent that masks the pungent alcohol odor with mint.

TheNoodleMan · #6 08-27-2007, 11:16 PM

My guess is some sort of petty vandalism.

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

Boredom · #7 08-27-2007, 11:21 PM

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

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My read was that they were telling the truth about their intention not to drink it, and in any case I guess I thought pointedly asking if they were going to would at least serve as somewhat of a warning. Still though, maybe I should have intervened, I could have told the clerk I didn't think selling it was a good idea. I think the fact that I was setting [censored] on fire in the same neighborhood ten years ago may have subconsciously steered me away from dissuading them. Ah the good old days...

kyleb · #8 08-27-2007, 11:24 PM

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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.

TheNoodleMan · #9 08-27-2007, 11:27 PM

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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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They are 10-12 years old. There are literally hundreds of things that a 10-12 year old might think is a good idea that could kill them. You are a real [censored] if you think that a kid being naive means they should die.

KotOD · #10 08-27-2007, 11:27 PM

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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