That somewere apparently was in my neighborhood of CA - had a few kids in my high school in Santa Barbara who huffed enough glue to totally destroy their short and longterm memories.
IIRC that this is part of a recipie for bathtub crank.
A Strange Wal Mart Experience
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No, it was one of those lame text file 'anarchy bombs' or whatever the heck. You were supposed to mix Drano with aluminum foil in a soda bottle or something to generate hydrogen, eventually overpressuring the bottle with a bang.
Apparently enough kids splashed frothing hydrochloric acid all over themselves that somebody got up in arms about it.
But yes, the 'drug synthesis' excuse gets thrown around a lot. You would not believe the sorts of things people will tell you with a straight face that they truly and honestly believe tweakers are using to make meth. It serves as a rationalization for just about anything, if you twist it hard enough.
Apparently enough kids splashed frothing hydrochloric acid all over themselves that somebody got up in arms about it.
But yes, the 'drug synthesis' excuse gets thrown around a lot. You would not believe the sorts of things people will tell you with a straight face that they truly and honestly believe tweakers are using to make meth. It serves as a rationalization for just about anything, if you twist it hard enough.
john1911
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It's amazing what we will put up with for "public safety". If people want to buy something then harm or kill themselves with it, let them. There are way too many idiots in this country wasting oxygen. Why not let them thin their own ranks. Any lawyer who brings a suit on behalf of these morons should be disbarred. The world would be a lot better if there were fewer dumbasses.
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jerkface11
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The walmart here only asks for ID on PISTOL ammo. So shotgun shells wouldn't require it. As for there being a federal law about it baloney. Walmart is the ONLY place i've ever bought ammo that asked for ID. It's simply store policy. They ask me if it's for a pistol I say no and that's that.
ACORN
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WallyWorld asked me for ID when I was buying toenail clippers. Not "assault toenail clippers" with folding stock, flash hider, and 30 round mag, just pain old clippers.
Why don't they just herd all of us up and put us in rubber padded rooms? Where is it going to end?
About a year ago, while out of town, I went into a WalMart to buy some camera batteries. I think I had three packs (there were two to a pack). These were the CR123A cells, the same that SureFire flashlights, as well as MANY other devices use. In other words, a common battery.
So, I try to buy a total of 6 batteries - (3) 2-packs. The register wouldn't let me. It said I wasn't allowed to buy that many. The customer service "lady" said they could be used to make bombs. So, I scanned two of them, it accepted that and then I paid for the third separately - with the same CC. (and no, they weren't on sale, with a special promotion or anything.)
Bombs? I'm not sure I even want to take the time to verbalize the insanity in all this. How many BILLIONS of dollars in the economy is being LOST, due to nanny-state retardedness? How many brain-cycles are being spent and lost, due to this foolishness? How many things are not being invented, discovered or problems being solved, due to a culture-in-charge that seeks to handcuff ANYONE that might do something outside of what that culture wants them to do.
What would ever happen if an individual actually did something and needed a bandaid??? A bandaid!? That culture can't bear the thought of people being free and free to make a mistake.
This is what happens when the government of a country becomes the sole focus of the country.
About a year ago, while out of town, I went into a WalMart to buy some camera batteries. I think I had three packs (there were two to a pack). These were the CR123A cells, the same that SureFire flashlights, as well as MANY other devices use. In other words, a common battery.
So, I try to buy a total of 6 batteries - (3) 2-packs. The register wouldn't let me. It said I wasn't allowed to buy that many. The customer service "lady" said they could be used to make bombs. So, I scanned two of them, it accepted that and then I paid for the third separately - with the same CC. (and no, they weren't on sale, with a special promotion or anything.)
Bombs? I'm not sure I even want to take the time to verbalize the insanity in all this. How many BILLIONS of dollars in the economy is being LOST, due to nanny-state retardedness? How many brain-cycles are being spent and lost, due to this foolishness? How many things are not being invented, discovered or problems being solved, due to a culture-in-charge that seeks to handcuff ANYONE that might do something outside of what that culture wants them to do.
What would ever happen if an individual actually did something and needed a bandaid??? A bandaid!? That culture can't bear the thought of people being free and free to make a mistake.
This is what happens when the government of a country becomes the sole focus of the country.
BigRobT
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Personally, I'm getting pretty sick and tired of the "Nanny State". I used to be able and run in and buy smokes for my mom and grandma at 6 years old. A person would have a heart attack should a youngster attempt that now.
mrmeval
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I used to buy .22lr ammo when a kid. So?
I got carded for a movie last month, and almost lost it, I could see if it was a R, or a PG13, but I am 40yrs old, and was buying "Snow white, and the Three Stooges". I didn't remember anything in that movie to provoke a carding, and told them so. I try not to buy things that cause ID check.
PS Lithium Batteries are used in making meth, along with cold meds containing psuedo-ephidrines, drano, and a lot of other things most of us would not knowingly ingest, possibly proving why it is called DOPE
PS Lithium Batteries are used in making meth, along with cold meds containing psuedo-ephidrines, drano, and a lot of other things most of us would not knowingly ingest, possibly proving why it is called DOPE
k_semler
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Wal-mart also IDs for fuel additives, (like Gum-Out). Apperently kids huff that. When the clerk asked for my ID, I asked him what idiot would drink this crap? That's when he told me that kids huff the crap.
Stainless Chili
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Five highschool girls were on the Bypass a few years ago, in the afternoon. The driver was whacked out big time. All five killed.
The coroner went to a stationary store, bought the stuff, and huffed it while parked in his economy car.
While his experiment was controversial to some, the "Not my daughter, no not her!" mother had not a leg to stand upon when he rendered his decision.
This was the Rt. 1 Media Bypass, a few miles west of Philadelphia, about five years ago.
another okie
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My late father bought his first gun through the mail when he was 13.
Recently I tried to buy a novel in an airport bookstore in Munich, Germany, and the clerk demanded to see and scan my passport and airline ticket.
I was so astonished I agreed, though I should have just walked out.
I hung around for a minute and watched and they were demanding it from everyone, so it wasn't that that novel I purchased was some sort of tactical, ninja novel.
Recently I tried to buy a novel in an airport bookstore in Munich, Germany, and the clerk demanded to see and scan my passport and airline ticket.
I was so astonished I agreed, though I should have just walked out.
I hung around for a minute and watched and they were demanding it from everyone, so it wasn't that that novel I purchased was some sort of tactical, ninja novel.
NewShooter
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I'm 35 and I was carded at Wallyworld for 3 and 1 oil a few weeks ago. Soon I think we'll just scan our licenses along with our credit cards for all purchases.
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