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Police in the United Kingdom are warning about a dangerous new trend of teens lighting plastic garbage cans on fire and inhaling their fumes.
Authorities were prompted to speak out about the bizarre new craze after several "extremely dangerous" incidents were reported in the Greater Manchester area, the Mirror reports.
Dyes used to make the trash cans - more commonly known as wheelie bins in the U.K. - emit a fume when lit on fire that can produce a high when inhaled, much like other solvents such as glue or gas. Fumes from the plastic bins, however, are "highly toxic" and reportedly more dangerous than other solvents.
Also at The Sun and Manchester Evening News.
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Dangerous New Teen Trend: Burning Plastic Trash Cans, Inhaling Fumes
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday March 01 2019, @08:16PM (10 children)
Teenagers have gotten together to do really stupid and dangerous things since, well, forever. But now, they're getting together to do really stupid and dangerous things on the Internet, which makes the situation somehow completely different.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Friday March 01 2019, @08:28PM (7 children)
I'm not so sure. In my time, you were considered an extreme fucking idiot for huffing anything. Whipits or sucking on a whipped cream can to get high was rather pathetic, and those kids were barely above Beavis and Butthead levels of intelligence and not taken seriously by other kids. The idiots that would huff compressed air cans had a really good chance of dying by freezing their alveoli, which meant their friends got to watch them suffocate while still breathing. Those filtered themselves out by Darwin Awards and sad stories told in assembly about how "Billy" just died from huffing compressed air.
If you wanted to get high, there was weed and alcohol, and neither were especially hard to come by.
Don't even get me started on Tide Pods. Nobody in my generation thought it was cool to ingest random cleaning chemicals from your house. I think you needed to add the Internet plus 20 years of devolution to get to that point. In other words, I think kids today are quantifiably stupider than my generation.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Farkus888 on Friday March 01 2019, @08:43PM (5 children)
Nah, it is just a math problem. About half the worlds population on the internet, skewing young. Say 1/3 under 20 so roughly a billion of them. Maybe one kid dumb enough to huff in a school of 2k, basically no one to you. 1 out of 2k is 500k YouTube videos today. The difference is only that instead of seeing just one Beavis at your school the internet means you see the shenanigans of all 500k Beavi globally.
This same illusion is why you think violence is rising when it is down. Don't even get me started on generalizing men because of one sexist tweet a day.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday March 01 2019, @08:51PM (3 children)
The best part of your post is where you claim that plural of Beavis is Beavi :)
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Farkus888 on Friday March 01 2019, @09:07PM (1 child)
I thought about writing around it but it made me chuckle so I left it in. As a grouchy old man I intend to use that much more often now that I've thought of it.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday March 01 2019, @11:19PM
I'm definitely going to be looking for an excuse to use "Beavi" now.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday March 01 2019, @09:31PM
Beavers?
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(Score: 4, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday March 01 2019, @11:57PM
The "Beavis". One thousand of them is a "KiloBeavi".
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @11:33PM
you were supposed to use the empty cream maker to fill a balloon. no risk of freezing burn that way. n2o is a nice NDMA antagonist, when used properly. not every nitrous huffer are drooling morons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @10:03PM
I seem to remember a show called Jackass. I don't think it's on The Youtube.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 02 2019, @12:38AM
I still see this regularly at concerts at a certain venue. Up in the amphitheater (grass) when the mosh pits happen, people will make huge pits of trash (they don't serve beers in glass out there) and light them on fire, and then mosh around them and jump across them and shit.
It's not huffing it directly straight to the face but it is inhaling some and getting the nasty smoke all over your clothes, food, and drinks.