Boing Boing had a post today about two stupid kids getting high by inhaling fumes from and chewing on moth balls. Moth balls? There is a write up in the New England Journal of Medicine (you know you’ve really fucked up when a peer-reviewed article comes out about your moronic antics) and the BBC News is reporting the more stupider of the two with a penchant for eating the tasty treats continued her habit in the hospital, as she was unconvinced that the actions was related to her symptoms.
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Sounds like good candidates for a Darwin Award.
Kinda makes you wonder how people like this remember to keep breathing.
“YOU! Out of the gene pool….NOW!”
They should have “I eat mothballs” tattoo’d on their foreheads as a warning to others.
Which reminds me, I’ve got this cousin in Western Africa, and he asked me to collect some money to help him get back to Canada…
Are we sure these 2 are from our Planet?
LOL Kurt. Do you have an email where they can send all of their banking information?
I love this line in the BBC report.
“He said only three cases of getting high using mothballs.”
Becuase translating to English from British-ese is very difficult.
Kurt- I know that person too. I’m not an expert in this area, but is chewing mothballs have any relation to why people mess with enbalming fluid to get high as well?
How do they get the Moths to spread their legs?
whats wrong with kids today? Why cant they do normal drugs like we did?
Whats wrong with pot, cocaine, and LSD.. why do they have to be different?
Don’t forget glue sniffing. That’s still popular.
We’ve all done stupid things as teenagers. It’s no surprise that there should be a few who are further out on the bell curve than I was. The concern is that the mean might be moving out in that direction.
We can all come up with anecdotes describing how much worse this generation is than ours, whether we were born in the 1940s or the 1990s. But it’s hard to quantify what makes a generation bad and then to separate out and explain the factors involved. While anecdotal evidence and case studies are useful, it is dangerous to rely upon them for a final explanation.
Man Barry, you got all intellectual on us. Using fancy words like anecdotal evidence, and bell curves.
Big words bad. Beer good.
Oh shit, did I just get myself a one way ticket out of the gene pool? Dang. Ah well at least I never thought about chewing on moth balls.
*shucks* Those crazy kids.
This is high on my list of stupidest things I’ve ever heard, at least in the top 10. And just for reference, the #1 on that list is when I told a friend about ‘Snakes on a Plane’ and their response was “What’s that film about?”
*chew chew*
Cool!
*munch munch*
Wait…DONT do it???
*hic*
Moths don’t have nards!
Shit this beats out what I heard was the newest thing for the dumb little shits to be doing -sniffing canned air. I guess doing the hard core whippit fries the brain instead of the brief little high the old fashioned way. At the place I work at we’ve almost had to lock up the air, just like Sudafed is now a behind the counter drug.
Rhettro – bu-dump-CHING!
Bronzethumb – It’s legal to bludgeon that person with a shovel for five minutes. Really your civic duty, in fact.
And here I didn’t think you could get much lower than toad licking.
Hmm. Now I’m waiting for someone to post a recipe in his or her Myspace blog with recipes for fried mothballs.
I have one somewhere. I have not seen it in ages, I will have to take it out of mothballs.
Boom Tish
Apparently one of the more dire side effects of using moth balls to get high is all the puns it spawns amongst the general populace.
Well, actually, I can’t really quantify WI listeners as the general populace by any means now, can I?
sure you can…
the general populace of the psych ward.
and these girls are from my hometown. Jeez-o-Pete, as Mike is fond of saying.
That gene pool needs some chlorine, stat.
Can we please sterilize her before she has kids?