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Rahodeb

Rahodeb

Los Angeles, CA
March 2006

NOV 21, 2007 04:02 PM





If you're looking for a new way to get high, word on the street is that it's not illegal to huff shit (yet). You better get to it, though, because law enforcement has apparently caught the scent of sinful sewage, and they're not pleased. Neither, I would imagine, are drug dealers, considering that this new narcotic is made from raw sewage, which means we can all get high off of our own, free crap. The more you crap, the more you can get high! Apparently, a few teenagers in Florida are already in deep shit.

Yes, you read that right: human waste. The county's Criminal Intelligence Bureau has issued a report that "several students at Palmetto Ridge High school are experimenting with a new drug called "Jenkem." The bulletin, dated Sept. 26, states that so-called "Jenkem" -- the etymology is unclear -- originated in Africa and other third world countries where there is an abundance of its main ingredient: "raw sewage."



Makers "harvest" the drug by fermenting the sewage in a container with a balloon on top, which fills with gas. (And you thought making crystal meth smelled bad.) That gas is then inhaled to achieve a hallucinogenic and reportedly euphoric high, though how one could remain euphoric with a mouth full of that is anyone's guess.

I really can't imagine being able to intentionally inhale a lungful of poop stank. As it is, when someone lets one go in public, say in a bar, or at an amusement park, it nearly knocks me out. And not in a good way. Anypoo, a bulletin was circulated in Florida that claimed Jenkem use was a "common" and "popular" drug in American schools. God bless Snopes for clearing the air and proving them wrong.

ORIGINS: Jenkem (or jekem) is the common name given to an inhalant made by fermenting raw sewage (i.e. fecal matter and urine), reportedly used as a cheap means of producing a dissociative or hallucinogenic high (particularly by children in third world countries).



A Collier County, Florida, police informational bulletin about Jenkem was widely circulated via e-mail in October 2007, but evidence that Jenkem use is a significant phenomenon in the U.S. (or indeed, anywhere in the world) or that the substance can even produce the effects described is scant. The informational bulletin was apparently issued merely on the basis of a few high school students' having mentioned hearing about Jenkem in schoolyard chat, and its contents originated with a source who said he had fabricated them.

While it may only be a handful of bored kids with no sense of smell indulging in American butt-hash (or "fruit from crack pipe," or "waste," depending on who you ask), it's more common among street kids in third world countries, such as Zambia.



For you American kids thinking of getting high as shit, Perez Hilton has a public service announcement:



Gillionaire

Gillionaire

Manchester, NH
February 2007

NOV 24, 2007 04:04 PM

Proof positive that you can never win the war on drugs. Ever.

defaultx

defaultx

I'm lost
February 2006

NOV 24, 2007 04:10 PM

thats some badass shit !

DeusExMachina

DeusExMachina

Berkeley, CA
August 2004

NOV 24, 2007 04:16 PM

Doesn't the second paragraph of the second quote basically make this entire article false?

knifeyspoony

knifeyspoony

Australia
November 2007

NOV 24, 2007 04:27 PM

I don't think I heard a word he said in the video .. tongue that little puppy is wayyy too distracting!! biggrin

Oh yeh... & kids - Shit is bad mmmkay...

g_whiz

g_whiz

Hollywood, FL
October 2004

NOV 24, 2007 04:37 PM

I wonder what kind of dog that is.

Jacob_Dodd

Jacob_Dodd

Cypress, TX
November 2007

NOV 24, 2007 04:38 PM

I heard a bit about 2 weeks back and nearly crapped myself laughing. But I restrained myself so that nobody could huff my soiled undies.

ardour

ardour

Ottawa, ON
March 2006

NOV 24, 2007 04:48 PM

Check it out.

I find it especially funny how they refer to Africa as a country.

Also, "Leroy Jenkems" is a supposed slang term for it. Haha.

Chainlink

Chainlink

Key West, FL
August 2005

NOV 24, 2007 05:04 PM


Confirmed Hoax. Could you please reference any actual sources ?

surreal

Lockeblade

Lockeblade

Australia
May 2007

NOV 24, 2007 05:07 PM

Has the whole world gone to shit? If I ever caught any of my students huffing their own crap I'm not sure I'd punish them... isn't inhaling poo vapour enough punishment?

We tried smoking some pretty far out things back in the day because we'd heard rumours it would get you high. We tried dried banana peels, peanut shells, cork, dried garden variety mushrooms... just to name a few. As stupid as all that sounds, NONE of us would have been stupid enough to involve our own feces.

Chainlink

Chainlink

Key West, FL
August 2005

NOV 24, 2007 05:14 PM

Chemical of the week : Methane

Methane is a colorless, odorless gas with a wide distribution in nature . . . It is the principal component of natural gas, a mixture containing about 75% CH4, 15% ethane (C2H6), and 5% other hydrocarbons, such as propane (C3H8) and butane (C4H10). Anaerobic bacterial decomposition of plant and animal matter, such as occurs under water, produces marsh gas, which is also methane.

Methane is not toxic when inhaled, but it can produce suffocation by reducing the concentration of oxygen inhaled. A trace amount of smelly organic sulfur compounds (tertiary-butyl mercaptan, (CH3)3CSH and dimethyl sulfide, CH3%u2013S%u2013CH3) is added to give commercial natural gas a detectable odor.



emphasis added.

Please, tell me more about how our good American children are not involved in huffin butt hash, just little Zambian children like to get high on sniffing sewage.
whatever

mrmagwitch

mrmagwitch

New York, NY
June 2006

NOV 24, 2007 05:30 PM

this is an old joke, an internet meme
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Jenkem

MrCrisp

MrCrisp

Charleston, SC
August 2004

NOV 24, 2007 05:34 PM

not even a painfully adorable puppy could make me stand watching perez hilton. seriously, that dog broke my heart as much as i want to break perez' face.

Tinyhobo

Tinyhobo

Boulder City, NV
December 2006

NOV 24, 2007 05:36 PM

MrCrisp said:
not even a painfully adorable puppy could make me stand watching perez hilton. seriously, that dog broke my heart as much as i want to break perez' face.



I want to save that puppy from that douche bag.

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

NOV 24, 2007 05:39 PM

Normally, when I'm referring someone to snopes to dispel a tired old internet hoax, I'm forwarding the links on to my barely internet-literate father who actually believes that cooking things in plastic will kill you or that a verse of the Quran talks about the "Eagle cleansing the lands of Allah."

So citing it to the SG Newswire is an interesting change of pace!

MrCrisp

MrCrisp

Charleston, SC
August 2004

NOV 24, 2007 05:46 PM

Tinyhobo said:

MrCrisp said:
not even a painfully adorable puppy could make me stand watching perez hilton. seriously, that dog broke my heart as much as i want to break perez' face.



I want to save that puppy from that douche bag.



let's do it. together!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
and then go save the puppy.

Tinyhobo

Tinyhobo

Boulder City, NV
December 2006

NOV 24, 2007 05:47 PM

MrCrisp said:

Tinyhobo said:

MrCrisp said:
not even a painfully adorable puppy could make me stand watching perez hilton. seriously, that dog broke my heart as much as i want to break perez' face.



I want to save that puppy from that douche bag.



let's do it. together!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
and then go save the puppy.



We must do it.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

The puppy can totally wait a little while longer.

MrCrisp

MrCrisp

Charleston, SC
August 2004

NOV 24, 2007 05:49 PM

Tinyhobo said:

MrCrisp said:

Tinyhobo said:

MrCrisp said:
not even a painfully adorable puppy could make me stand watching perez hilton. seriously, that dog broke my heart as much as i want to break perez' face.



I want to save that puppy from that douche bag.



let's do it. together!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
and then go save the puppy.



We must do it.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

The puppy can totally wait a little while longer.



agreed.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
heh heh, longer.

Tinyhobo

Tinyhobo

Boulder City, NV
December 2006

NOV 24, 2007 05:53 PM

MrCrisp said:

Tinyhobo said:

MrCrisp said:

Tinyhobo said:

MrCrisp said:
not even a painfully adorable puppy could make me stand watching perez hilton. seriously, that dog broke my heart as much as i want to break perez' face.



I want to save that puppy from that douche bag.



let's do it. together!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
and then go save the puppy.



We must do it.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

The puppy can totally wait a little while longer.



agreed.

SPOILERS! (Click to view)
heh heh, longer.



For the puppy!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

hehe I did totally say longer...

lowroller

lowroller

Australia
May 2008

NOV 24, 2007 05:54 PM

I've tried that dried banana peel thing once .... didn't work ... If I ever decide to smoke something again I'll stick to ganga ...


clovesbud

clovesbud

Los Angeles, CA
September 2002

NOV 24, 2007 10:43 PM

People, it's an organic high. It's realy smooth...like 'shrooms or weed. I've done it tons of times in Kentucky. And it doesn't even smell as bad as you would think. Kind of like a Tobelrone mixed with a dead deer. Don't judge!! Alize' is way worse!!

scylis

scylis

Anchorage, AK
November 2004

NOV 24, 2007 10:55 PM

a drug that's cheap as shit. literally.

if it wasn't for stories from the villages up here in AK, i'd have been utterly shocked at the lengths people will go to to get fucked up when warrenellis first mentioned it.

but when a guy tells you about a friend of his and someone else spraying out the entire contents of a black can of Raid into a 5 gal. bucket, letting it separate, then skimming of the top and drinking it because they didn't sell beer in the village they lived in, fermented shit gas doesn't seem that far-fetched. the next thing the guy remembered after taking a drink was regaining consciousness two miles down river and three days later.

trocc

trocc

Chicago, IL
March 2003

NOV 24, 2007 11:44 PM

Chainlink said:

Confirmed Hoax. Could you please reference any actual sources ?

surreal


for real. this was debunked on Salon like 3 weeks ago.

Heathen_Dave

Heathen_Dave

Birmingham, AL
July 2005

NOV 24, 2007 11:50 PM

Good god. Sometimes I hate Youtube.

Maybe if it was just more tube, and less you.

traceelement

traceelement

Australia
March 2005

NOV 24, 2007 11:56 PM

hey man that's good shit. tongue biggrin

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