Last 3 nights in a row, neighborhood assholes have been huffing nitrous oxide at side of my house

[Amerigo Vespucci]

I Googled "nitrous oxide cartidge" and found an exact photo of the empty box that was left there last night, with about TWENTY fucking empty cartridges.



Every night for the last three nights, empty cartridges along with fast food garbage...taco bell one night, Jack In The Box the next...when I get up in the morning and look out I can tell if there is new garbage because the crows gather to pick at it.

This is happening at the side of my house (not directly on my property) because where the fence runs along the side there are two trees and a little "enclave" at the edge of the fence where someone could hide out and get high.

I find beer cans, bottles, all kinds of shit there all the time, but this is the first time since I've lived here that the little fucks have partied three nights in a row.

Called the cops, told me to call when they're there.

I said "They're doing it some time between dark and first thing in the morning. If I'm asleep, how am I going to see them and call you?"

They said they'd step up the night patrol. They said they know this is a "bad neighborhood."

Told my neighbor across the street, who showed me the two foot long scrape where someone keyed her car last week, and the car of one of her family members, where they smashed in the driver's door window a week before that. Told her that's why I always keep my car locked up in the garage, even during the day. She said "I've owned this house for 45 years. I'm in the middle of fixing it up. I'm going to get the hell out of this neighborhood."

[JTG of the PRB]

1. We sell pretty much those exact things at the store where I work.

We've had a number of packages in the past ripped open and their contents stolen. We discussed locking them up or carding people buying them, but if they're locked up they don;t sell, and we weren't given the go-ahead to card people who were buying them.

It's a stupid product if you ask me. It's practically inviting people to steal them.

[GCP]

2. What's their normal use?

Are they used in something other than up peoples' noses?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Among other things, to propel whipped cream

Gases are substances that lack definite shape or volume such as refrigerants and medical anesthetics. Abusers frequently inhale gases found in butane lighters, air conditioning units, and propane tanks. Medical anesthetics such as ether, chloroform, and nitrous oxide are also abused. Nitrous oxide, commonly called laughing gas, is abused more frequently than any other gas. It can be obtained from whipped cream dispensers or products that boost octane levels in racing cars. It may also be purchased in balloons or in small, sealed vials called whippets, which are sold at raves or drug paraphernalia stores.

http://www.justice.gov/ndic/pubs07/708/index.htm

[Tobin S.]

4. That's a fun high for about 2 minutes

But for those 2 minutes you are totally fubar. That shit is really bad for you though.

Maybe you should take a night when you can afford to stay up and watch for them, then call the cops.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. I'm thinking about it...I keep odd hours anyway

Three nights in a row, it's almost a dare to anyone to catch them in the act. The 20 or so cartridges from last night tell me the little motherfuckers hung out for at LEAST a while.

The worst part of this, though, is when you're talking with the cops...I'll give them all due credit for being brutally honest, but when they all have the same thing to say..."this is a bad neighborhood"...it's just sad. This is basically a quiet, working-class neighborhood. The problems come from punk-ass, "gangsta" wannabe fucks who, for the most part, are still living with their parents, and who love do do neighbor-defiant things like blast shitty rap music through shitty earthshaker speakers as they drive by with their shades and shaved heads and bling and Oakland Raiders shit. And the cops also called them cowards, because the things they do...like keying that woman's car and breaking the window of the other one...are all done in the wee hours, when people are in bed.

If I had the money to move, I would in a heartbeat, but I don't. So I get to play games with these little sons of bitches. And they know that until someone loses a night's sleep in an effort to catch their worthless asses, they'e going to keep getting away with all of it...and whatever else they dream up.

[Bennyboy]

6. you can rip through 20 whippets in about an hour...

no problem. Or Drums/Space...

[Freetradesucks]

8. bad neighborhood

Was this a questionable neighborhood when you bought, or has it turned south since? Did you buy on the cheap hoping that the neighborhood would "turn around" and now you are thinking it's not such a great investment?

BTW, what makes it so "bad"? There is no "bad" neighborhoods or people, only bad circumstances that your neighbors don't have any control over.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. I rent

And if I were in a position to buy, I would never "buy on the cheap hoping that the neighborhood would turn around."

It is basically an OK neighborhood 95% of the time, with the other 5% involving the things I've described here. It's been that way since I moved here 3 years ago, but in the last 6 months or so, the 4% is now more like 10%.

I'm not sure I agree on the no bad neighborhoods and no bad people, because the circumstances are created by people. Some of these things, like driving down the street with the rap music full blast at 2 AM, is a 100% "fuck you" if there ever was one.

The two assholes who bought their weed from the house around the corner and then parked in front of my house while they rolled their blunt and tossed the tobacco from the cigar in a twisted-up baggie on my front lawn weren't bad people, unless bad people means fucking assholes.

[Richardo]

17. No bad people? How long does it take to travel to your home planet?

Because on this one, there are millions of them. Jesus.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

20. These little fucks are bad...

...they spend their days with middle finger raised, car windows rolled down, their message of motherfuckers and bitches and hos shoved up the ass of their next door neighbors.

There are bad people, and there are weak people. The parents of these sons of birches either condone the behavior or are too weak or stupid to speak up about it. I grew up in a middle-to-lower class town in Massachusetts. There were several families in my neighborhood that included many of the worst kids I knew. In a few of these situations the parents were flat-out alcoholics who spent their days in a haze, a stupor.

One kid, who was one of the worst bullies in the school, had a full-scale breakdown / meltdown one day. We were all waiting for the school bus one morning. Out of nowhere, he started crying and yelling at his mother. He sat down in the middle of the road
My neighborhood is filled with bad people. And they all think they are bad-assed and they all get extreme pleasure from spending their days as an irritant for people who are just trying to live a peaceful life.

[era veteran]

18. Buy a cheap driveway alert beam. They are on sale now at

Harbor Freight for under $20 bucks. Both my cars were broken into last night. After over 20 years at the end of a dead end road We have thieves. A month ago I had 3 ladders stolen so no more Mr Nice Guy. I may call the police but WTF will they do?

[ChoralScholar]

11. It takes so many to get there, it seems.

It's a pretty cheap high, but a pain in the ass.

[Kali]

13. nah - nitrous is ok

its what dentists use for "twilight" anesthesia
are you maybe thinking of freon? - now that shit is dangerous and will fuck you up

[mitchum]

7. Did they have a tremolo amp out there also?

Those things go great with whippets

[snailly]

9. Get out of there

Believe me. I used to live in St. Louis city. There is definitely a generational thug thing going on. It is nasty and I wouldn't let my tree live down there. People gotta get their shit together!

I'm happily placed in the "wilderness" these days. I like to take my child to school, sit out on my deck and admire my trees without having the decay of western society following us. I've worked hard too. I would like to be left alone.

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. My original rhythm guitarist and I closed up a bar and were...

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...out of EVERYTHING recreational that we may or may not have been doing that night.
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He says, "COME WITH ME!!" We walk two blocks to the 7-11.
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He takes me back to the refrigerated section and says, "Hold your arms out in front
of you like this."
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I do, and he loads them up with all 17 or 18 Redi-Whip cans on the shelves.
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We approach the counter, very possibly looking like Hunter S. Thompson and his
attorney. The 17-year-old clerk spots us and the Redi-Whip and starts laughing
her ass off.
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"NONONONONONONO," said my friend, trying unsuccessfully to downplay the
maniacal quality of his protest, "You don't understand!!! Out in the car(?), we
got the BIGGEST goddam strawberry shortcake you've ever seen in your life."
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I was laughing so hard that I was impressed when I only dropped all but ONE of
the cans.
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He was DEFINITELY a fungi!!!!!
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[AmyDeLune]

14. Sprinkle a few of *these* in your enclave...

http://www.stink-bomb.net/

once they step on a few of those they'll find somewhere else to party...

[slay]

15. Nitrous is fun

but yeah, they should find a spot indoor - or at least clean up their trash!!! :)

[MajorChode]

16. Find a road kill skunk and relocate it to their party spot

You won't be able to open your windows for a week or two, but it will keep the fucksticks away.

[LeftinOH]

19. Got a dog? Know anybody with a dog?... I don't mean for security purposes, either-

Get a shovel and take all the available piles of dog shit to the 'huffing zone'. The dog-shit-revenge scenario; I've done it.

[mikeytherat]

21. I did this, too - my buddy had four English Mastiffs

The lady who used to let her Pekingese crap on my lawn stopped when I visited her lawn with a few of the Mastiffs.

mikey_the_rat