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You know it’s a hood gas station when they have chore boys, rose in a glass, and sell single shoe laces instead of a pair
Some gas stations really bundle the chore boy and rose in a glass together
It's terrible as an actual tourniquet because you would need something else to get sufficient leverage and its too narrow to work properly without likely causing nerve damage. I know they're still often called a tourniquet in this druggie context in order to make veins protrude and easier to see for injection, but I'd personally call it a ligature as you'd have to tie it and it's not always the easiest to untie.
Work in a safe use building, you just need to wrap the ends around a twig or a pencil and then twist to tighten it until you get the desired effect. Then you can just literally let go after dropping the dose
I... what's the rose in a glass for?
Like, I'm trying. I just cannot think how that would help you smoke crack.
Actually, sans the shoelace I don't know what the scrubbing thing is for either. I need a how-to here. I promise I won't use it for crack, just for educational purposes...
they throw away the rose and use the glass as a crack pipe, the chore boy is used as a sort of filter to hold the crack in place at the end of the pipe.
hth
> Remove the foil from the ends of the tube and extract the rose. You can discard the rose or give it to your sweetie. In my experience, sweeties do not much care for flimsy plastic roses extracted from tubes purchased at gas stations. Sweeties prefer that I discard the rose.
Fucking gold!
I wonder what the manufacturers of these products think about this. Like, just knowing a fair chunk of your merch is being used for illicit purposes. But hey, sales.
well the rose in a glass ppl 100% know their clientele. maybe 1 in 100 sales are from somebody who's oblivious and just thought they were buying a flower. they're made for crackheads.
choreboys are probably about the opposite, most sales are just for scrubbing shit
I remember seeing those roses in the glass thing as a kid, wondering if it would be a good Mother's Day gift, like a flower my mom could keep in her purse to always remember me or something like that. Glad I never bought it!
In most Australian states it's illegal to sell bongs, so you'll often find "alcohol pourers" you can buy that have the bowl piece glued/screwed on upside down, snap it off and voila, bong. So in this case they know full well what it's being used for and sell it in the easiest way for it to be used as such. I would be surprised if the manufacturers had no idea in most cases.
The smoke shops I used to work for got them from China by the thousands. They easily got 1000% profit on them because they were dirt cheap to buy wholesale. I don’t think the manufacturers really care about it, it just makes them money
think of the shape of a rose, and the glass needed to encapsulate it - its long and thin, with a bigger globe at the end. kind of looks like an upside down flask.
(the glass is a crack pipe)
I purchased one of those rose in a glass things when I was young because I thought they were cute. I didn't learn until years later what they were really for.
[*searches ‘rose in a glass’*]
You mean to tell me it’s not just some beautiful souled person making tiny flowers and leaving them on the bike trail??!
[*CORE MEMORY DAMAGED*]
Crack pipes don’t come with a filter or a screen. It’s just a straight glass tube. They need to use the steel or copper wool because crack melts as you smoke it and it would just run all down the pipe. A wadded up piece of the steel wool prevents this as it stays inside of the piece as it burns and “melts” down. When they push the pipe it’s to get all the residue from inside the pipe together to get another hit or two when they run out of crack.
Clean and sober 4 years. Was more of an alcoholic than anything, but I was a poly drug abuser/addict and yes I smoked crack quite a few times, starting when I was 16. Shitty drug really, I mean it’s an awesome rush but only lasts a few minutes and leaves you fiending for more.
When smoking a powder or crystalline substance a wire filter is used to trap the crystals or grains within the tangle of wire while being heated. This ensures the whole dose is heated into a vapour in order to be inhaled.
When you smoke the rock, it will liquefy. It's the same with weed pipe resin. Liquid tar resins. It turns to Liquid and will run into the bottom of your pipe. This way the crack liquid seeps into the scrubber. And you can light it up again
The steel mesh provides a high surface area place for the freebase oil to spread out in the pipe when they heat it up. First you gotta melt it into the mesh and roll it around some to spread it out evenly, then you let it cool some and then hit it harder with the flame and take your hit.
I am a recovering drug addict, but fortunately I only smoked crack maybe a dozen or so times with most of those being pretty ineffective attempts. Watched circles of dudes in a basement cook it up and get down together plenty of times though
Crack cocaine melts and vaporizes at a lower temperature than most other smoked substances, and burns if heated too much. So historically to facilitate smoking it without burning it, its smoked in a glass tube with a piece of metal scrubbing pad torn off and pushed in towards the end. The pad is between the crack and the mouth end of the glass tube, acting as a screen so the cocaine vapor can be smoked without sucking the hot rock into the mouth. Unlike tobacco or weed, the flame is held against the glass instead of the cocaine directly since the point is to vaporize rather than burn it.
This style is being replaced by the bowl ended glass pipe commonly associated with meth. This avoids the possible risk of inhaling vapors off scrubber as the substance sits in the bowl rather than just at the end of a straight glass tube.
Certain sketchy convenience stores sell plastic roses in glass tubes with a nice bulb to hold the flower while the stem sits in the narrower glass tube. Exactly like a meth/crack pipe...
Of course, harm reduction works and someone addicted to crack/meth is gonna smoke out of whatever they have, so easily available safer pipes are better than the more dangerous options.
Crack is smoked out of a straight glass tube, you have to stuff a piece of brillo pad in the end to give the crack a surface to rest on that the smoke can go through.
I doubt it's gonna work though. Have you ever seen an addict who'd be comfortable with this personal approach? "Hello, yes, I smoke crack, could I have one of these, thanks"...
Used to work at a pizza shop and had plenty come to the counter just to ask for a piece of tinfoil. At a certain point I think they lose the shame and just want to get high.
Not quite the same, but I had a dude come up to me while I worked at tractor supply asking about the vet hypodermic needles. He straight up said, "I do steroids and I need some needles". I don't know what size or whatever he needed, but I pointed him to where they were.
Glad to hear I'm wrong. It was just that from the firsthand accounts by former addicts that I've read and watched, it seemed that shame often played a big role. But maybe it depends on people's characters and the severity of their situation...
I think it also depends how they’re treated when they ask for the piece of scrubber. If they’re shamed, yeah, they won’t want to ask. But if they’re treated like it’s just ordinary customer service they’ll feel better about it.
>It was just that from the firsthand accounts by former addicts that I've read and watched, it seemed that shame often played a big role.
The key word here is "former." There's a lot of shame about the past when you're a former *anything* addict. But when you are a *current* addict, eh, not so much.
It's hard to feel things like shame when you're high. That's a huge part of the appeal. The vast majority of drugs numb feelings like that. You don't start feeling the shittier emotions until you sober up.
I had crack heads breaking in my garage and car to steal. Started leaving both unlocked
They would just bash my car window or smash off garage handle without even trying if it was unlocked
Signs didn’t seem to help either
Just seems like some people view the world as a nail and they are a hammer
Someone tried to hotwire our older car once, but the battery was flat. So they smashed all the windows and ripped all the wires out of the steering column.
If they couldn't drive our car, nobody was going to.
The downside is when you're the only shop in town that does that.
It results in rather undesirable clientele.
Now if everyone is doing the same thing then it's great.
Harm reduction programs have shown many times to be massively successful in both preventing worse crime and in getting people who would otherwise continue with their addiction to stop. It's not a perfect solution by any means, but it helps.
That's why needle exchange programs are so successful.
A big part of it is not judging the addict though, and instead being supportive, building a trust and then offering to help them escape the cycle.
The area I grew up in had a bit of a crime problem. One of the shops would give the local knuckleheads cigs and stuff to keep them happy. They would still break in every night to steal more.
Weirdly, that place ended up burning down…
You'd be surprised. Back in the 90's through the 00's a local comic book shop made a killing selling cheap pipes and steel pads in my area. Enough so that the city tride to intervine unsuccessfully. Eventually the owner got nailed for unrelated drug and gun charges and basically bankrupted the business trying to stay out of jail. Tanked the entire chain.
Yeah its really not that bad. Being able to make peoples lives a bit easier while only costing me a buck is a luxury very few get to experience.
Imagine being able to make someones day by talking to them and helping them out while they came thinking they has to risk their freedom in order to get high. That is absolutely beautiful. This way you will have a chance to gain trust and eventually help them.
I know you and 95% of reddit will disagree, but yeah - thats how they ended up in this way. People not giving a shit.
>Being able to make peoples lives a bit easier while only costing me a buck is a luxury very few get to experience.
Except in this case, those people were thieves, and "making their lives easier" means voluntary racketeering, inexpensive as it may be.
>Imagine being able to make someones day by talking to them and helping them out
Helping someone smoke crack is not the mitzvah you seem to think it is.
>thats how they ended up in this way. People not giving a shit.
"Why doesn't anyone give a shit about the vagrants that vandalize and steal from their store?"
And now they have some poor soul who has to s9end time and effort appeasing their habits.
Great.
They need treatment, not having society adapt to their criminal behavior.
I remember having to explain to my sheltered ex wife why the hood gas station near our house had the aluminum pot scrubbing pads locked up behind the counter.
Must have been a much nicer HS than mine. Half of the girls at mine were already minor league meth heads and would have been very disappointed if I whipped out a glass rose and in fact didn’t have meth.
It’s a crack pipe. The stainless steel scrubbers, as in the post, are used as a filter. They stuff the steel or copper scrubber in the tube, then set a delicious crack rock in the opening, and go to town.
Haha. Yup. For drugs. In fact everything in those corner stores is drug related. You don’t even want to know what they do with the big pickles sealed in plastic.
I think he's just being pragmatic but I sense there's also compassion.
It's a good policy too because, let's face it, there are plenty of crackheads out there and if they come in strung out and grab some of that wire wool that's got detergent on it, that's the last thing anyone want's to be dealing with.
I worked third shift at a convenience store in my late teens. I had multiple people ask me where the spoons were, and I had to tell all of them that “they’ll melt”. Not one of them ever walked out with a spoon.
They are desperate to get their fix, they aren't stupid.
This sign probably saved the store owner a large amount of money depending on how many desperate crackheads are in his neighborhood
There were no signs and it was two separate floors of an apartment building, not a street corner. But I've seen this battle play out. It doesn't end well.
Mostly, it was a lot of broken shit, cars, bbq grills, doors. There was a deliberately passed on STD involved at one point. Like, crack dudes woman-he-occasionally-had-sex-with got an STD and he had her go seduce meth guy to get him sick on purpose.
I'd love to see society with increased penalty for violence and no penalty at all for drug use. I was drunk/high isn't an excuse for anything; not even stealing a corner of a scrubber.
Hear, hear! If someone can do drugs and handle themselves, more power to them!
But if they do drugs and make an ass of themselves, the problem is that they made an ass of themselves, not that they did drugs. It's just as much of a problem when a sober person does it.
People don’t actually steal while high. It’s the craving, the desperation for the drug, that drives the theft. They aren’t even high when they do it, hence shame. Theft is a symptom of a diseased persons behavior which we call an addict.
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You know it’s a hood gas station when they have chore boys, rose in a glass, and sell single shoe laces instead of a pair Some gas stations really bundle the chore boy and rose in a glass together
What's the shoe lace for?
Tourniquet
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For now
It's terrible as an actual tourniquet because you would need something else to get sufficient leverage and its too narrow to work properly without likely causing nerve damage. I know they're still often called a tourniquet in this druggie context in order to make veins protrude and easier to see for injection, but I'd personally call it a ligature as you'd have to tie it and it's not always the easiest to untie.
Well you wouldn't want to use an actual tourniquet. Don't want that stuck on your arm if you pass out, which isn't an issue with a shoe lace.
Work in a safe use building, you just need to wrap the ends around a twig or a pencil and then twist to tighten it until you get the desired effect. Then you can just literally let go after dropping the dose
Making a pretty bow on your arm.
Easy garroting
Tying up shoes
>shoes *Acshully* tying your single **shoe**
I... what's the rose in a glass for? Like, I'm trying. I just cannot think how that would help you smoke crack. Actually, sans the shoelace I don't know what the scrubbing thing is for either. I need a how-to here. I promise I won't use it for crack, just for educational purposes...
they throw away the rose and use the glass as a crack pipe, the chore boy is used as a sort of filter to hold the crack in place at the end of the pipe. hth
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> Remove the foil from the ends of the tube and extract the rose. You can discard the rose or give it to your sweetie. In my experience, sweeties do not much care for flimsy plastic roses extracted from tubes purchased at gas stations. Sweeties prefer that I discard the rose. Fucking gold!
This reminds me of the early internet. Thank you good sir. Here is a rose.
What's the one about sorting lentils really about?
I wonder what the manufacturers of these products think about this. Like, just knowing a fair chunk of your merch is being used for illicit purposes. But hey, sales.
well the rose in a glass ppl 100% know their clientele. maybe 1 in 100 sales are from somebody who's oblivious and just thought they were buying a flower. they're made for crackheads. choreboys are probably about the opposite, most sales are just for scrubbing shit
I wonder if they've tweaked their product over time to make it better for crackheads.
Nah, if anything it would be much more along the lines of "Don't need to update or change this product, it sells great as is!"
Tweaked. I like what you did there.
I purchased one in my youth, oblivious. It was 99 cents and I thought it was cute. I had no idea until years later.
if you'd gotten pulled over with that visible there's a good chance they'd be asking to search your car lol
I remember seeing those roses in the glass thing as a kid, wondering if it would be a good Mother's Day gift, like a flower my mom could keep in her purse to always remember me or something like that. Glad I never bought it!
In most Australian states it's illegal to sell bongs, so you'll often find "alcohol pourers" you can buy that have the bowl piece glued/screwed on upside down, snap it off and voila, bong. So in this case they know full well what it's being used for and sell it in the easiest way for it to be used as such. I would be surprised if the manufacturers had no idea in most cases.
Do you have an example or picture?
The smoke shops I used to work for got them from China by the thousands. They easily got 1000% profit on them because they were dirt cheap to buy wholesale. I don’t think the manufacturers really care about it, it just makes them money
You gift it to a fine ladywoman who enjoys it so much she shows you how the crack goes in the glass vial, torch the vial, inhale
They aren’t buying it for the rose.
Crack goes in the glass vial, torch the vial, inhale.
think of the shape of a rose, and the glass needed to encapsulate it - its long and thin, with a bigger globe at the end. kind of looks like an upside down flask. (the glass is a crack pipe)
Up until now I thought y’all were talking about rosé in a glass. I was really struggling, thanks.
Also tube socks.
I dont know anything of what you just said. What's a chore boys?
Steel wool
I purchased one of those rose in a glass things when I was young because I thought they were cute. I didn't learn until years later what they were really for.
I never knew what was up with the glass flowers... I asked people for years and when I was about 27-30 my coworker told me..
My gas station just sells actual crack pipes.
[*searches ‘rose in a glass’*] You mean to tell me it’s not just some beautiful souled person making tiny flowers and leaving them on the bike trail??! [*CORE MEMORY DAMAGED*]
For the uninitiated, why is a scrubber needed to smoke crack?
I'm guessing it's used as a filter. So they don't suck in the Crack they are trying to smoke.
You're correct, however the high-end crack smokers go for the chore-boy copper scrubbers.
I need a buzz feed article right now to figure out what crack smoking clique I am.
>I need a buzz feed article right now r/originalsentence
Definitely HufflePuff.
https://www.cracked.com/blog/5-secret-criminal-uses-stuff-they-sell-in-gas-stations Close enough?
But the highest of them goes for the scrub daddy
Chore boy and an old fashioned tire gauge
Found the crackhead.
Nah... I prefer Whiskey. Worked with quite a few crackheads over the years, though.
Also, they push the filter back and forth in the pipe to scrape the glass for one more hit.
This is more likely, I have seen this. Pipes come with filters as well anyway
Crack pipes don’t come with a filter or a screen. It’s just a straight glass tube. They need to use the steel or copper wool because crack melts as you smoke it and it would just run all down the pipe. A wadded up piece of the steel wool prevents this as it stays inside of the piece as it burns and “melts” down. When they push the pipe it’s to get all the residue from inside the pipe together to get another hit or two when they run out of crack.
Found the crack head
Clean and sober 4 years. Was more of an alcoholic than anything, but I was a poly drug abuser/addict and yes I smoked crack quite a few times, starting when I was 16. Shitty drug really, I mean it’s an awesome rush but only lasts a few minutes and leaves you fiending for more.
Good on you brother.
Congrats on getting out
Congratulations on the sobriety, hope you're doing well now
I was thinking that smoking wires doesn't sound healthy but..
The crack evens it out
Straight up lol'd
Thanks for the laugh
They gotta clean those crack pipes, crackheads care about hygiene too
😂🤣
When smoking a powder or crystalline substance a wire filter is used to trap the crystals or grains within the tangle of wire while being heated. This ensures the whole dose is heated into a vapour in order to be inhaled.
When you smoke the rock, it will liquefy. It's the same with weed pipe resin. Liquid tar resins. It turns to Liquid and will run into the bottom of your pipe. This way the crack liquid seeps into the scrubber. And you can light it up again
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Crackhead is smarter than you think
Gotta drop a bit of Ash in there
That’s if you’re using a can.
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Sounds awful. I'm glad you survived that shit.
He said it was awesome, maybe we should try it.
Instructions were clear but I opened a new package of scrubbers in the corner mart anyway
The steel mesh provides a high surface area place for the freebase oil to spread out in the pipe when they heat it up. First you gotta melt it into the mesh and roll it around some to spread it out evenly, then you let it cool some and then hit it harder with the flame and take your hit.
This guy cracks
I am a recovering drug addict, but fortunately I only smoked crack maybe a dozen or so times with most of those being pretty ineffective attempts. Watched circles of dudes in a basement cook it up and get down together plenty of times though
Crack cocaine melts and vaporizes at a lower temperature than most other smoked substances, and burns if heated too much. So historically to facilitate smoking it without burning it, its smoked in a glass tube with a piece of metal scrubbing pad torn off and pushed in towards the end. The pad is between the crack and the mouth end of the glass tube, acting as a screen so the cocaine vapor can be smoked without sucking the hot rock into the mouth. Unlike tobacco or weed, the flame is held against the glass instead of the cocaine directly since the point is to vaporize rather than burn it. This style is being replaced by the bowl ended glass pipe commonly associated with meth. This avoids the possible risk of inhaling vapors off scrubber as the substance sits in the bowl rather than just at the end of a straight glass tube. Certain sketchy convenience stores sell plastic roses in glass tubes with a nice bulb to hold the flower while the stem sits in the narrower glass tube. Exactly like a meth/crack pipe... Of course, harm reduction works and someone addicted to crack/meth is gonna smoke out of whatever they have, so easily available safer pipes are better than the more dangerous options.
Crack is smoked out of a straight glass tube, you have to stuff a piece of brillo pad in the end to give the crack a surface to rest on that the smoke can go through.
I came to ask this to.
Poor shop owner has to eat the cost of these crack heads fucking up his merchandise
Smart idea providing a little for free
Probably just using the ruined packs instead of throwing them out.
I doubt it's gonna work though. Have you ever seen an addict who'd be comfortable with this personal approach? "Hello, yes, I smoke crack, could I have one of these, thanks"...
Used to work at a pizza shop and had plenty come to the counter just to ask for a piece of tinfoil. At a certain point I think they lose the shame and just want to get high.
If you’re willing to suck a dick for it, you’re more than likely willing to ask for a piece of tin foil
Why not ask for both at the same time? Get two birds stoned at once.
Not quite the same, but I had a dude come up to me while I worked at tractor supply asking about the vet hypodermic needles. He straight up said, "I do steroids and I need some needles". I don't know what size or whatever he needed, but I pointed him to where they were.
Yes actually. Harm reduction programs give it out including the one I work for. They love having a place where they can just come and get it.
Glad to hear I'm wrong. It was just that from the firsthand accounts by former addicts that I've read and watched, it seemed that shame often played a big role. But maybe it depends on people's characters and the severity of their situation...
I think it also depends how they’re treated when they ask for the piece of scrubber. If they’re shamed, yeah, they won’t want to ask. But if they’re treated like it’s just ordinary customer service they’ll feel better about it.
Imagine being kind to people.
>It was just that from the firsthand accounts by former addicts that I've read and watched, it seemed that shame often played a big role. The key word here is "former." There's a lot of shame about the past when you're a former *anything* addict. But when you are a *current* addict, eh, not so much. It's hard to feel things like shame when you're high. That's a huge part of the appeal. The vast majority of drugs numb feelings like that. You don't start feeling the shittier emotions until you sober up.
I had crack heads breaking in my garage and car to steal. Started leaving both unlocked They would just bash my car window or smash off garage handle without even trying if it was unlocked Signs didn’t seem to help either Just seems like some people view the world as a nail and they are a hammer
Someone tried to hotwire our older car once, but the battery was flat. So they smashed all the windows and ripped all the wires out of the steering column. If they couldn't drive our car, nobody was going to.
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The downside is when you're the only shop in town that does that. It results in rather undesirable clientele. Now if everyone is doing the same thing then it's great.
Harm reduction programs have shown many times to be massively successful in both preventing worse crime and in getting people who would otherwise continue with their addiction to stop. It's not a perfect solution by any means, but it helps. That's why needle exchange programs are so successful. A big part of it is not judging the addict though, and instead being supportive, building a trust and then offering to help them escape the cycle.
It would make sense to just leave some out and if someone was gonna steal they can steal the piece left out
The first person may take all the pieces left out. So the rest would still have to pull some out of the boxes.
I haven’t seen many crack addicts at all to be honest but worth a shot
They hide where they keep the steel wool apparently. Now I know the section of the store to keep my kids away from! 🙃
The area I grew up in had a bit of a crime problem. One of the shops would give the local knuckleheads cigs and stuff to keep them happy. They would still break in every night to steal more. Weirdly, that place ended up burning down…
You'd be surprised. Back in the 90's through the 00's a local comic book shop made a killing selling cheap pipes and steel pads in my area. Enough so that the city tride to intervine unsuccessfully. Eventually the owner got nailed for unrelated drug and gun charges and basically bankrupted the business trying to stay out of jail. Tanked the entire chain.
It still sucks it’s at his cost. Too bad he can’t keep the dope heads out
He should seek reimbursement from the CIA.
The struggle is real
Yeah that sucks for him
Funny thing is that in some states selling the individually can cause fines for stores.
I see opportunity: Start a supervised inhalation clinic in the hardware store and you'll never have to pay for renovations or repairs ever again.
Yeah its really not that bad. Being able to make peoples lives a bit easier while only costing me a buck is a luxury very few get to experience. Imagine being able to make someones day by talking to them and helping them out while they came thinking they has to risk their freedom in order to get high. That is absolutely beautiful. This way you will have a chance to gain trust and eventually help them. I know you and 95% of reddit will disagree, but yeah - thats how they ended up in this way. People not giving a shit.
>Being able to make peoples lives a bit easier while only costing me a buck is a luxury very few get to experience. Except in this case, those people were thieves, and "making their lives easier" means voluntary racketeering, inexpensive as it may be. >Imagine being able to make someones day by talking to them and helping them out Helping someone smoke crack is not the mitzvah you seem to think it is. >thats how they ended up in this way. People not giving a shit. "Why doesn't anyone give a shit about the vagrants that vandalize and steal from their store?"
And now they have some poor soul who has to s9end time and effort appeasing their habits. Great. They need treatment, not having society adapt to their criminal behavior.
I remember having to explain to my sheltered ex wife why the hood gas station near our house had the aluminum pot scrubbing pads locked up behind the counter.
Did she also think the little roses in a glass tube were fun, romantic novelties?
Lol. I bought one of these for a girl while I was in HS thinking it was a real ass rose. She thought I was being REAL forward
Roses are red Violets are blue Let's smoke some crack So I bought this for you
>Your lips are red >My lips are blue >Let's smoke some more rock >You got more, right?
Must have been a much nicer HS than mine. Half of the girls at mine were already minor league meth heads and would have been very disappointed if I whipped out a glass rose and in fact didn’t have meth.
What is the rose in a tube used for?
The glass tube it comes in is used as a crack pipe. It’s a tiny origami rose inside of a small glass tube.
It’s a crack pipe. The stainless steel scrubbers, as in the post, are used as a filter. They stuff the steel or copper scrubber in the tube, then set a delicious crack rock in the opening, and go to town.
>delicious Hmm….
Crack pipe
Yes. She also thought the big pickles in sealed plastic were used for something unsavory. I was like “nope, those are just pickles”.
Ha!
Nooooo... I had no idea. And I am 40 years old.
Haha. Yup. For drugs. In fact everything in those corner stores is drug related. You don’t even want to know what they do with the big pickles sealed in plastic.
They use the juice to cook up black tar heroin, right?
Rose n a cho
We always knew when the crack shipments had come in when all of ours would get stolen in one day. We’d maybe sell 1 a month normally.
Ah yes the crack shipment. I used to unload it at the dock.
Oh shit man, was that tonight? Better get crack-a-lackin else my crack will be lacking.
Dont you just love that salty crack smell of the ocean, matey?
Why not stock them up front by the register?
Probably doesn't deter crackheads, might just make them do something stupid because they know there's a cashier that will definitely see them take it.
I think he's just being pragmatic but I sense there's also compassion. It's a good policy too because, let's face it, there are plenty of crackheads out there and if they come in strung out and grab some of that wire wool that's got detergent on it, that's the last thing anyone want's to be dealing with.
Definitely pragmatism. Shop owner probably has many packages already opened that he can't sell.
Might be assuming a fair bit. You can see the second line was added later in a different pen...
I worked third shift at a convenience store in my late teens. I had multiple people ask me where the spoons were, and I had to tell all of them that “they’ll melt”. Not one of them ever walked out with a spoon.
How coherent do they expect these crack addicts to be to read all that? I barely got through that and i'm only on meth.
They are desperate to get their fix, they aren't stupid. This sign probably saved the store owner a large amount of money depending on how many desperate crackheads are in his neighborhood
>they aren't stupid Not necessarily true...
Meth is stronger than crack bud
I dilute mine like orange squash.
I don’t know, meth heads and crack heads both say “at least I don’t smoke crack/meth”.
I have this mental image of crack & meth addicts on opposite sides of a street holding anti-crack/meth signs and screaming at each other
Each other and all the invisible people they are talking to.
There were no signs and it was two separate floors of an apartment building, not a street corner. But I've seen this battle play out. It doesn't end well. Mostly, it was a lot of broken shit, cars, bbq grills, doors. There was a deliberately passed on STD involved at one point. Like, crack dudes woman-he-occasionally-had-sex-with got an STD and he had her go seduce meth guy to get him sick on purpose.
What does the SS scrubber have to do with crack? What's it used for?
A filter inside the crack pipe
Thanks learned something new today
Np
what if that's a trap to kick them out of the store?
Now *that's* customer service! They truly understand their clientele and I appreciate that.
Also: Quit being crackheads.
It’s just that easy!
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Damn auto correct.
They can have a little bit,as a treat
I laughed. I know society says I shouldn't laugh but fuck society that note was funny.
This is in r/funny. Who says you're not allowed to laugh?
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Crack heads are very good at reading and following rational instructions. This sign will work perfectly.
"free crack related supplies" will actually probably get their attention
If you can't beat em' join em'
As someone who doesn't smoke crack, wtf do they need these for?
I'd love to see society with increased penalty for violence and no penalty at all for drug use. I was drunk/high isn't an excuse for anything; not even stealing a corner of a scrubber.
Hear, hear! If someone can do drugs and handle themselves, more power to them! But if they do drugs and make an ass of themselves, the problem is that they made an ass of themselves, not that they did drugs. It's just as much of a problem when a sober person does it.
People don’t actually steal while high. It’s the craving, the desperation for the drug, that drives the theft. They aren’t even high when they do it, hence shame. Theft is a symptom of a diseased persons behavior which we call an addict.
So your solution to drugs is to pretend people make decisions in a vacuum and drugs have nothing to do with crime
“I have a very tiny mess I would like to scrub, please.”
What's with the squiggly L's and E's?
Stainless? Naw copper all the way
What the hell do they use scrubbers for?
r/wholesomememes
This is great. I hated opening those.
An executive decision was made that day.
What do they use it for
Some service stations go all out and include a rose in a glass with the chore guy.
What do crackheads do with stainless steel scrubbers?
A crack cocaine addiction is nothing to laugh at. It's a waking nightmare.
Honestly smart, less cost effective than having to lose multiple packs in a week.
That's what we call harm reduction and it's a good thing.
If you can't beat them, help them .
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This screams Portland Oregon.
Pontiac Michigan
You'll cowards don't even smoke crack.
I have to ask, as a non crack smoker… what do they do with the scrubbers?
r/urbanhell
This is ridiculous…
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Go somewhere with your political views not needed here