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(Sun Sentinel)   It's time once again for your annual "Teenagers are getting drunk on hand sanitizer" article   (sun-sentinel.com) divider line 39
    More: Florida, hand sanitizer, injury prevention, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley  
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Grables'Daughter
2012-04-24 10:17:50 AM
Although there have been only a handful of cases, Rangan said the practice could easily become a larger problem.

Especially since the article tells what to do and how to do it.
 
davidphogan
2012-04-24 10:32:33 AM
Grables'Daughter: Although there have been only a handful of cases, Rangan said the practice could easily become a larger problem.

Especially since the article tells what to do and how to do it.

Yet if it didn't, people would comlain about that. Or they'd point out how easy it is to find directions online.
 
HotWingConspiracy
2012-04-24 10:32:37 AM
Does this town not have an ample supply of shady disheveled guys near convenience and liquor stores? That was always my preferred method of alcohol acquisition. Tip the good man with a plastic jug of vodka for his troubles.
 
The Irresponsible Captain [TotalFark]
2012-04-24 10:38:50 AM
Are they using it to soak tampons and shoving it up their arses too?
 
PsyLord [TotalFark]
2012-04-24 10:40:22 AM
I... I just don't understand kids these days... just go raid your parents' booze like everyone else did in the past.
 
Jake Havechek
2012-04-24 10:43:16 AM
Let me have a Three Musketeers, and a ball point pen, and one of those combs there, a pint of Old Harper, a couple of flash light batteries and some beef jerky
 
Scurvy Dog
2012-04-24 10:47:11 AM
HotWingConspiracy: Does this town not have an ample supply of shady disheveled guys near convenience and liquor stores? That was always my preferred method of alcohol acquisition. Tip the good man with a plastic jug of vodka for his troubles.

You tipped me far more than you realized. You didn't honestly believe that a fifth of Karkov was $17, did you?

On a more serious note, I briefly worked in a liquor store. One day, two 15-year-old girls came in to report someone they had paid to get them some wine coolers, but who took their money and gave them nothing. My coworker told them that it was illegal for them to try to find a buyer and if they didn't leave, he would call the police. I wanted to instead offer to call the police for them and let them tell the police their story, only to be hauled in a squad car to their parents.
 
hailin
2012-04-24 10:48:34 AM
PsyLord: I... I just don't understand kids these days... just go raid your parents' booze like everyone else did in the past.

This. Or buy a fake ID. Or bribe a college student. We'd always pool $60, give our list and tell them to keep the change. Now that I can buy booze I realize how ripped off we got (a bottle of vodka, a bottle a jack, and a bottle of rum is around $20 here).
 
Grables'Daughter
2012-04-24 10:50:08 AM
PsyLord: I... I just don't understand kids these days... just go raid your parents' booze like everyone else did in the past.

Hell I'm still doing that now.
 
ToastTheRabbit
2012-04-24 10:50:10 AM
back in HS kids were huffing fumes from gas cans and trying to drink paint thinner. that was 15 years ago. Its nice to see kids are getting smarter.

This is why we need to teach evolution in schools.
 
thatboyoverthere
2012-04-24 10:52:17 AM
Idiots. Wrong type of alcohol! Ethanol not isoburpal!
 
JackieRabbit
2012-04-24 10:53:07 AM
Subby gets -3 for not recognizing that the FA was a reprint from the A Times.

However, I am shocked, shocked I tell you to learn that teenagers are trying to get drunk.
 
Grables'Daughter
2012-04-24 10:54:11 AM
thatboyoverthere: Idiots. Wrong type of alcohol! Ethanol not isoburpal!

/puts down hand sanitizer and salt

Wait, what?
 
shaunmark
2012-04-24 11:05:18 AM
"Cough syrup had reached a very sexy point where young people were using it.... We want to be sure this doesn't take on the same trend."

SEXY
 
man metaphysical
2012-04-24 11:09:20 AM
i'm sexy and i know it
 
LeroyBourne
2012-04-24 11:11:02 AM
At least they're not dunking tampons in it, and shoving them up their asses.
 
jfivealive
2012-04-24 11:12:03 AM
shaunmark: "Cough syrup had reached a very sexy point where young people were using it.... We want to be sure this doesn't take on the same trend."

SEXY

I tapped a few nyquil bottles in my day
 
JackieRabbit
2012-04-24 11:13:16 AM
LeroyBourne: At least they're not dunking tampons in it, and shoving them up their asses.

That's next week.... It takes time for these things to recycle.
 
Salt Lick Steady
2012-04-24 11:14:24 AM
 
Generation_D
2012-04-24 11:15:07 AM
I would never let the neighbor kid near my top of the line Testors. Mine. Get your own you glue sniffer.
 
Grables'Daughter
2012-04-24 11:16:41 AM
LeroyBourne: At least they're not dunking tampons in it, and shoving them up their asses.

Yeah, I've heard of that, but I don't get why anyone would actually do that.
 
Citrate1007
2012-04-24 11:17:27 AM
Mouthwash tastes better.
 
Oafmeel
2012-04-24 11:17:54 AM
Why can't they just freebase bath salts like the rest of us?
 
Jack Kerouac
2012-04-24 11:21:32 AM
thatboyoverthere: Idiots. Wrong type of alcohol! Ethanol not isoburpal!

FTFA they contain ethyl alcohol, not isopropyl.
 
markfara
2012-04-24 11:22:33 AM
LeroyBourne: At least they're not dunking tampons in it, and shoving them up their asses.

Heh. Shows what YOU know. . . .
 
SlagginOff
2012-04-24 11:29:12 AM
FTFA:

"All it takes is just a few swallows and you have a drunk teenager."

I always thought that meant you had a slutty teenager.
 
natazha
2012-04-24 11:30:49 AM
Cheap imitation vanilla: ALCOHOL (26%) at $7/qt
 
elffster
2012-04-24 11:41:09 AM
This is clearly why we need harsh drug laws. To make the world safer.
 
smackdab
2012-04-24 11:41:36 AM
I formulated Germ-X hand sanitizer. It is made with 40B ethanol which is denatured with Bitrex, which is an ingestion deterrant and one of the most bitter substances known to man. We also put this in our nail polish remover for the same reason. Anyone who can actually get this down their throat without puking is not normal, for it causes an immediate gag reflex.
 
Huggermugger
2012-04-24 11:44:24 AM
A box of raisins, a packet of yeast, and a large plastic container.
 
Grables'Daughter
2012-04-24 11:56:42 AM
Huggermugger: A box of raisins, a packet of yeast, and a large plastic container.

wat
 
cryinoutloud
2012-04-24 12:02:30 PM
Huggermugger: A box of raisins, a packet of yeast, and a large plastic container.

Sugar. You need just a little to get it started. After all, that stuff needs to be done in a week.
 
MadMonk
2012-04-24 12:03:50 PM
What's more shocking is that all this time I thought San Fernando Valley was in California. I'm not exactly sure where I'll find a valley in FL but that's not going to keep me from looking for it! Also, I get to go around correcting people by letting them know that it is in fact in Florida and not in California as this is a common error made by most people.
 
ToastTheRabbit
2012-04-24 12:07:58 PM
I hear letting your friends knucklepunch you in the testicle gets you a high similar to shrooms
 
offmymeds
2012-04-24 12:29:49 PM
i1136.photobucket.com
 
Hawnkee
2012-04-24 12:38:54 PM
Sounds like nice, clean fun to me.
 
semiotix [TotalFark]
2012-04-24 12:47:24 PM
The problem isn't teenagers drinking hand sanitizer, the problem is that they're forced to do it on the sly, which is how you get in real trouble.

My kids have been having half a cup of Purell with dinner since they were 12. Not only is it civilized and sanitary, it takes the mystery away from it. They learn that a nice snifter of Germ-X is a reward you give yourself at the end of a hard day, not something you guzzle just to see if you can get away with it. I guarantee you, my kids will never be the ones being carried away on a stretcher with a belly full of store-brand sanitizer.

Also, this way, I can teach them the difference between the good stuff and swill. Call me a sanitizer snob if you want, but of all the things I miss about college, getting wasted on gallon bottles of piss-water Sam's Club stuff isn't one of them.
 
JackieRabbit
2012-04-24 01:50:10 PM
smackdab: I formulated Germ-X hand sanitizer. It is made with 40B ethanol which is denatured with Bitrex, which is an ingestion deterrant and one of the most bitter substances known to man. We also put this in our nail polish remover for the same reason. Anyone who can actually get this down their throat without puking is not normal, for it causes an immediate gag reflex.

Ah, a challenge for teenagers! It'll be all the rage now that you've told them about it.
 
smackdab
2012-04-24 02:22:20 PM
Jackie Rabbit: Yes a challenge for challenged teenagers. Darwin is alive and well.
 
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