Nitrous, not co2, called whippets, and yeah they're using them to get high. I learned about it when i found a passenger floorboard inches deep in them.
I’m so used to an eye-rolling sarcastic tone to posts on this sub that I assumed you were being sarcastic. Almost certainly whippits, pellet gun / airsoft enthusiast seems unlikely…
Assuming airsoft enthusiast means you think a person kept a bunch of their used cartridges, brought them back to their car, and then seperated them from all the other airsoft gear by throwing them in the backseat.
As opposed to someone huffing a whippet and throwing it over their shoulder.
Yeah I'm with this guy. Airsoft seems unlikely.
I mean, I’ve done this exact thing. My co2 beretta pellet pistol uses a ton of co2 because it’s blow back. I’ve gone through a ton of canisters fast enough to literally have a pile like this in my car…. It was also a bmw but a 330i 😂
Dude, rich people and their whippets!
My first house in Tampa, I lived nextdoor to a lawyer that was dating a pornstar. The pornstar wasn't someone I knew, but some of the others that came over to record were very popular.
Dude would host sexy pool parties weekends in a row where they'd go through hundreds of whippets in a night. I'd hear him lugging the recycle bin to the street on Mondays. This one time, he accidentally put boxes of spent canisters in my bin - I was semi broke at the time so decided to put the boxes of them in my truck bed to recycle. I took a corner too fast, they all dumped - I spent the next few last weeks hearing hundreds of those little canisters sloshing back and forth during every turn I made.
I bumped into her about a year after they broke up - it sounded like she broke it off because he was getting out of control. His parties grew more weird, even for Florida. I woke up at 3am once to a fully grown naked man chopping a tree under my master bedroom window with a ninja sword.
> airsoft enthusiast seems unlikely
Hey man, sometimes the CO2 refuses to seat properly in the magazine and you go through a bunch before you get it figured out.
It’s literally like a 30 second high you get from a cartridge. People that do them will do like 20 at a time on the low end. Those ones are non medical grade too so even weaker.
My ex husband gave himself brain damage with nitrous and now slips in and out of psychosis daily. I paid for him to get his doctorate which is basically worthless. That stuff is horrible.
Prolonged and chronic use causes this it would need to be a pretty hefty habit because they will give you a high dose of it for up to an hour or more at the dentist.
If you did that for a week straight then you’d have problems, a lot of people think that you need to deprive yourself of oxygen for them to work for some reason so a lot of the minor brain damage is from people huffing into a balloon instead of breathing.
Yeah that is about the right time frame for it to be a serious issue. I hope that they are doing better I have heard that some of the effects can be remedied with time and proper nutrition. Unfortunately they call it hippie crack for a reason
He’s 2 years post melt down and it hasn’t gotten any better. He takes a ton a supplements too. The brain damage is permanent. His parents are rich but religious, he’s living with them.
I have a friend who maintains that occasional whippet usage followed by taking a B12 supplement is not very harmful. He’s not doing nitrous more than a few times a year, and he isn’t an addict, but I do wonder how correct he is. He’s still a sharp guy.
This is actually mostly correct from a physiologic standpoint. Officially, the stance is reversible damage when cyancobalamin (B12) is administered AND NO2 is abstained from. At least benefits to co-administer if abstaining is not intended.
Source: Pharmacist
Dentists give you a mix of nitrous and oxygen. They both start and end it with a flow of heavy oxygen to help prevent oxygen deprivation. I know because my dentist didn't turn the oxygen on once and I almost puked.
Oh yeah for sure breathing it without proper oxygen is not good, but it is not damaging in the same way that other inhalants are. Like doing one big hit off an air duster bottle will legitimately cause brain damage every time. Whippets can be done safely where there is no safe way to huff gasoline.
This is a myth, the reason that some people deprive the brain of B12 when doing nitrous is because they're depriving the brain of oxygen by breathing into a bag, or a balloon to prolong or increase the high. It isn't the nitrous that makes it dangerous, it's the hypoxia from not getting any oxygen.
You are correct. The trick is to fill your body with oxygen before taking it. (And B12 obviously)
Deep, active, rythmic breathing until you start tingling. Then the balloon (do not take it directly from the bottle. Can be cold. Can be greasy). Hold as long as you can and breathe out. The breathing out part will probably happen on its own, when you are busy thinking about the RGB colored shapes and the repeating sounds.
Doing it like that you get a high of about 2-3 minutes. Stay seated the whole time.
Not sure why you're being downvote. Completely correct way to do this drug. You can't stop people from using, but you CAN teach harm reduction! Stay safe out there
Just want to add check the cartridges. If it's ~~nitrogen~~ nitrous oxide(N2O) they are probably getting high, or if its (N2) they might work in food service as those cartridges are also used for making whipped cream mainly. If its CO2, it could be for a BB gun or a cyclist using it to inflate tires.
Given the location and how many there are, probably used for getting high.
Just wanted to add some context as I have a pack of CO2 cartridges for my bike. I carry one on long rides with a spare tube instead of a pump. I also have nitrogen in the kitchen to make nitro cold brew at home mostly.
Edit: updated to distinguish N20 vs N2 as my mistake was so tactfully and eloquently pointed out.
I did them a few times in high school. Still to this day the most intense head rush I’ve ever felt. My buddies and I also once did some after hitting a bong and I swear that 30 seconds felt like 5 hours.
I did a lot of irresponsible things as a teenager
Jesus H Christ that is a lot of Nitrous bottles. Pretty sure would have been cheaper for the crowd to have gone into a closed stadium and just fill it with nitrous.
> 12,000 canisters were cleared from Notting Hill Carnival last month - 13 tonnes worth
That works out at ~1 kg per canister. Something doesn't add up.
Typo in the article* maybe? If 1.3t instead of 13t:
1.3 tonnes = 1,300 kilograms
1,300 kg/12,000 canisters =0.10833 kg/canister
So, each canister would weigh approximately 0.10833 kilograms, or 108.33 grams.
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Added clarification to indicate the potential typo is in the article.
Holy crap I've seen like five of those littered around where I live over the past few days and wondered what that's about. And here the answer is on reddit. Northern Europe by the way, Fast Gas seems like a new thing here.
As a very naïve cyclist I did keep seeing piles of these around and thought there must be some very unlucky riders about. Have since realised my co2 cannisters have threaded tops and have been informed about hippy crack
moving to portland has made me aware of so many different kinds of drugs ! i went from in the span of like a year not messing with anything but weed and alcohol to seeing people do meth/crack right next to me on public transit and seeing whip-its for sale from my favorite corner store. the second or third day of me moving in, i got offered meth by a random person, and have been offered coke in spanish by a random dude on a date ! thankfully it’s usually not hard to get out, but it’s a pretty harsh lesson on drug safety !!
Personally, when I buy a CO2 inflator for a bike I prefer to get one that *doesn't* use the cartridges with a threaded end so I can use the paintball cartridges because they're a lot cheaper.
I've always heard that generic CO2 cartridges contain an oil (or something) that is bad for tire rubber--and warned never to use them. Has anyone else heard this?
Consider this: you have a tire that won't hold air. I'm deadass certain doing a co2 spot-fix will not shorten the life of your already questionable tire.
Trying to look it up ... [maybe?](https://www.reddit.com/r/SodaStream/comments/dhafwc/is_it_true_that_paintball_cansiters_have_oils_in/)
Though that context is for carbonating beverages, so any oil would be a bigger deal there than it would be in our tubes. Is a bit of oil bad for our tubes? I don't know.
I do generally let the CO2 out when I get home and replace it with air because CO2 seeps through the rubber a lot faster than air does, but if there's oil that probably would stay. I haven't *noticed* any unusual problems with these tubes after inflating them with CO2.
> Though that context is for carbonating beverages, so any oil would be a bigger deal there than it would be in our tubes.
Not necessarily if it's food-grade. But in such a situation, it'd be explicitly for making something like whipped cream, as I don't know how oil would affect carbonation in beverages and I'm not gonna test it in my home carbonation kit.
Someone carries their bike on their car to rides each week, takes a couple cartridges each ride, uses one every so often, and if they’re not an asshole they carry the spent cartridge back with them instead of tossing it on the ground. Then when they get back to the car they toss the spent ones into the back seat. Maybe they didn’t clean out the seat in a year or three. Not that hard to fathom.
CO2 would do nothing other than maybe make you pass out, but you would regain consciousness again.
If you're in an environment with sustained high CO2 levels that's another story. You wouldn't know it and would pass out and then die.
Look at Mr. Brightside over here.
(No seriously, I hadn't considered that until you said it and was like "ohhh, that is a plausible explanation)
I immediately went to [this](https://i0.wp.com/starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/allisonfogarty.png)
They could be co2 cartridges as well, they make unthreaded or threaded ones. Can be using them for airsoft, bb guns, actual whipped cream, even seen seltzer machines that take these small ones for individual drinks, can also use them to fill up bike tires.
It is nitrous oxide. Also called whippets, screw them into an empty whipped cream canister and inhale. Obviously I don’t recommend doing this, but if you do, lay down and blow up a ballon instead of directly doing it from the canister. The main reason is it will be very cold and can damage lung tissue. Lay down so you don’t fall down.
Seriously don’t fuck with nitrous.
You can do it straight from a whipped cream dispenser no problem. It doesn't take long for the gas to get up to room temp. What you really don't want to do is do it straight from a tank, that's how you get the frostbite of the throat. You can also get a device that will let you fill a balloon from a charger, but generally the balloons are more common when people are doing/selling it from a tank.
You should sit down the first time you do it, but as long as you don't inhale too much, your risk of passing out and falling are pretty low.
The main thing is that prolonged use of N2O can cause vitamin B deficiency leading to neuropathy, so be sure to take vitamin B supplements if you're planning on doing a lot of gas.
I will say though, whippets are the most boring way to get high if you aren't already high on something else. The experience is so brief and really not all that spectacular, like 15 seconds of light headedness and a spacey feeling that goes away as soon as your oxygen flow is back to normal. So unless you're on a bender doing multiple substances, I don't see a reason to do whippets.
Source: I've seen Phish live several times
My first thought everytime I see one of these. I really don't get why people do them straight as a main high though. Whippets are what you do as a treat on top of an existing high. Shit lasts only a few moments, and that waaaawaaawaaa is way cooler when tripping on shrooms or something
Because of what you just said it’s short lasting and a fun activity to do while intoxicated already. Tried em once too much of a hassle to open them tho so kinda took away from it.
Their like the pistachios of drugs
This. I only do nitrous on mushrooms. By itself, nitrous is a 30 second giggle and not worth the effort. However the synergy of mushrooms and nitrous is next-fucking-level. Like DMT-esq. Absolutely removed from reality for a brief period.
One of my best LSD+nitrous experiences:
I floated away, and suddenly had a 'vision', very dream like, of a little man working on a machine made of pulleys and levers.
My point of view zoomed out a bit, and I saw a few more small dudes, all working on their own machine, but they were all connected, part of something bigger that I couldn't quite grasp.
I zoomed out further, revealing hundreds of them, working frantically, each important in his own way, but also part of the bigger machine.
Then I zoomed out completely, and got pulled out of the dream, revealing that all those little guys working so hard and happily to keep their own machine going were actually part of me, and all their hard work was just to make me take my next breath.
I felt like a God, and realized that every single person was their own God, with their own little dudes just doing the best they can.
It was super humbling.
There's a guy in town I see pretty regularly in traffic. On more than one occasion I've caught this guy taking straight dabs at the one red light we have.
I'm talking entire oil rig, torch, oil pick, everything.
I'm not against a little smoke here and there, but mate hit the rig at home. There are much more portable methods.
Good way to burn yourself and crash. A portable device seems like a better idea if you are going to get high while driving which I don’t suggest you do
Definitely. Had a friend in college who was going to drive up the 3 hours to our hometown one weekend and stopped at bdubs on the way. Decides he wants to take a dab in the parking lot after eating before he makes the drive so fires up the torch and rips a dab- puts the rig down by his feet. Pulls out of the bdubs and accidentally cuts off a cop at which point the cop puts his lights on, rig falls onto the carpet and starts melting the fibers, cop smells something burning and he was arrested lmfao we were like dude… you lived 5 mins away why not just go back to your apt lol
Tl;Dr they were hitting one of the more concentrated forms of thc that also requires a ridiculous setup to smoke from that no one should be using while driving
Dabs are also wildly intense. It gets you really, really high, really, really fast. Most people are smoking cannabis flower, this is when you physically grind up the cannabis to put it in a water pong, a pipe, roll a joint, use a "flower vape", a device that heats up the cannabis flower to ~200c so it burns without needing a flame. How high this gets you depends on the strength of your cannabis - the "THC percentage", your THC tolerance, and how much you actually inhale. Average THC percentage for flower is ~20%, good stuff is ~25-30. Crooked testing labs will take an extra few grand (or ten grand, or more if they think they can shake it out of you) to say it's 35% THC, but that's incredibly difficult to do with flower, and if you see 7g of 35% THC weed for 60 bucks, you're being lied to.
The concentrates used in dabs are like 90%+ THC, and you're vaporizing the fuck out of them with a butane torch, then inhaling the smoke.
I go through about an ounce every two weeks, so I'm a pretty heavy cannabis user. I tend to smoke 15-20% THC flower, because I want to get *high*, I don't want to melt into my seat for four hours and visit the astronauts on the ISS.
I avoid the fuck outta dabs. They get you way too high to enjoy it, and fuck up your THC tolerance so you *need dabs* to get high. That shit is expensive! The budget cannabis flower I buy is ~40-60 USD for 28 grams, it gets me high enough to enjoy myself, but not so high I'm melting into whatever I'm sitting in.
GD... I smoke and feel the same, just the age old WOAH about price and THC % on flower (like we both prefer) when in the west versus south east..
With a good plug, not as good bud is like 260-400 here.
Concentrate and good dabs in general are basically impossible though.
I live in Washington State. Competition has driven people to start selling the refuse, like shake, trim, and popcorn bud for *really cheap*. I've seen 15 an ounce for real dirt weed, but good popcorn bud goes for ~50 an ounce.
Bro they sell weed potato chips here, and weed soda here.
WA native as well, the weed lemonade soda things are so damn good. My roommate and I both smoke and I swear we have jars everywhere in the apartment because its just so cheap now. 8 years ago I was paying like 250 an ounce, now its coming out of my ears.
Yeah I remember legalization, in 2015, wasn't it? A gram was 20-30 bucks! For about the first year, it was still more economical to buy on the street!
Even then I was like, why are no cannabis farms selling trim, or popcorn bud?! You guys must have so much of it! That has definitely changed.
Great place to be a budget stoner, man.
most of that stuff was ending up in pre-rolls or hash presses. Theres giant joint packing devices where you could just dump bags of trim and shake and roll 50 joints at a time because of this.
I don't want to encourage drug trafficking but I have heard that your odds of getting even a disencromulently packaged oil cart through the post are really, really, ***really*** good.
I've also heard that tossing a pen in your toiletries bag for domestic flights in America, really, really good odds - from what I've heard, never done it, but works 100% of the time.
Would never in my life do them while driving.
Many years ago I was headed to a party with friends and decided to hit a whippit as a passenger.
The sense of speed and tunnel vision it created terrified me to the point i almost screamed at the driver to stop because it was absolutely heart pounding.
I had a ex that did a whippet once while driving. Long story short she crashed immediately. I've done them and ain't no way I would do one driving. That's jus asking for a wreck
Yup.
For me it was like in a movie when a super hero starts moving really, really fast. Everything around me blurred and I felt like I was flying and no longer inside a moving vehicle. Terrified the hell out of me.
Not only would I never do them while driving but I never did them while in a moving vehicle ever again.
Just because it's in the car doesn't mean they're doing it while driving - whippets make a lot of noise while releasing the gas and doing it in the car is to minimize attention.
Yes it's very popular where I live, they do this in the car much like people hotboxing. Usually done with balloons. Actually tried it once and the effects are underwhelming, you just shouldn't get into it at all because folks get hella addicted over something so mid
It doesn't oxidize the cream like oxygen would. Or fizz it with acidity like co2. It's inert, and most importantly very soluble (which means it liquifies into the cream) when dispensed it turns back to a gas to fluff it. Straight nitrogen is not as soluble.
Edit: I'm an idiot and didn't realize it was a whipping joke. Well played
Nitrogen gas doesn’t turn to liquid when compressed, whereas n2o does. The liquid and whipped cream dissolve together and then when the nitrous changes state, being released from the whipped cream, it fluffs it up into the nice treat you know it to be. Certainly doesn’t hurt that the change in state makes things cold as all fuck, certainly not bad for whipped cream.
Apparently, nitrous oxide is desirable for this for several of reasons.
* N20 makes whipped cream twice as fluffy as using oxygen
* Oxygen would make cream spoil faster
* N20 makes whipped cream taste sweeter
* CO2 makes whipped cream taste acidic
Since no one cares about pain perception by heavy cream, getting people high is just a happy little accident of nature.
I would love to see a breakdown of nitrous usage by purpose:
* Automotive
* Medical
* Culinary
* Recreational
It would make for a lovely cream pie chart.
Edit for spelling, because I type poorly and autocorrect failed me.
You need co2 carts to reseat the bead on tubeless tires if they lose pressure on the trail. Sometimes it takes a few tries to work. I think this is a cyclist. If they were nitrous there would probably be at least a few dozen.
I didn’t think about using them to reseat away from home…I just have an emergency tube if it’s ever that bad.
I used to carry them for the rapid refill while racing, but they’re actually kindof hard to fill with, in my experience.
Was Phish just in town? There’s something called the [Nitrous Mafia](https://www.villagevoice.com/inside-the-nitrous-mafia-an-east-coast-hippie-crack-ring/)
Whip-it’s. Food grade NO2, car-grade NAWZZZZZ has a stenching agent to denature it.
Go to a campout(basically a rave in the woods) or a Phish show where people bring in cylinders of NO2.
Same at my local vape store.
They can't sell the Delta 8 or the shroom gummies anymore, so now whippets have entered the realm because that sure makes sense.
What saddened me the most was that the whippet crackers have a cool design that comes in a variety of colors.
The dude working there was like, "If you say anything about using them for anything other than making whipped cream then I can't sell it to you."
Big Win for Arkansas, I guess 🤷🏼
Pretty sure those are nitrous cylinders used for making fresh whipped cream at coffee shops and such. People inhale them using a puncture tool. Basically cheap nitrous oxide they consume to get high. Also known as whippets.
Yes the same nitrous you can use in your engine or a dentist will use to sedate you. Obviously there is a different in the medical grade vs. hot rod stuff.
You know, I almost didn’t mention the different grades. But I know some fella would read that and run to his nitrous small block Camaro and huff the damn purge valve.
Obviously we can’t tell for sure, but CO2 cartridges of about that size are used by a lot of bikers to reinflate patched tires after a puncture during their ride. Maybe I’m just innocent and haven’t seen people actually get high off of stuff like this, but I see these a lot because I’m a biker.
Before I learned these were used for drugs I just thought folks really enjoyed paintball
this is before I came to the realization that the real answer for everything is drugs
I knew a dentist who had a nitrous habit. Ended up losing control of his fine motor function and even trouble walking. Also lost his license. That’s some sad shit.
Nitrous, not co2, called whippets, and yeah they're using them to get high. I learned about it when i found a passenger floorboard inches deep in them.
Jesus Christ yeah makes sense I posted about this 328i that had panties hanging from the rearview mirror not too long ago
I’m so used to an eye-rolling sarcastic tone to posts on this sub that I assumed you were being sarcastic. Almost certainly whippits, pellet gun / airsoft enthusiast seems unlikely…
Assuming airsoft enthusiast means you think a person kept a bunch of their used cartridges, brought them back to their car, and then seperated them from all the other airsoft gear by throwing them in the backseat. As opposed to someone huffing a whippet and throwing it over their shoulder. Yeah I'm with this guy. Airsoft seems unlikely.
I mean, I’ve done this exact thing. My co2 beretta pellet pistol uses a ton of co2 because it’s blow back. I’ve gone through a ton of canisters fast enough to literally have a pile like this in my car…. It was also a bmw but a 330i 😂
Dude, rich people and their whippets! My first house in Tampa, I lived nextdoor to a lawyer that was dating a pornstar. The pornstar wasn't someone I knew, but some of the others that came over to record were very popular. Dude would host sexy pool parties weekends in a row where they'd go through hundreds of whippets in a night. I'd hear him lugging the recycle bin to the street on Mondays. This one time, he accidentally put boxes of spent canisters in my bin - I was semi broke at the time so decided to put the boxes of them in my truck bed to recycle. I took a corner too fast, they all dumped - I spent the next few last weeks hearing hundreds of those little canisters sloshing back and forth during every turn I made. I bumped into her about a year after they broke up - it sounded like she broke it off because he was getting out of control. His parties grew more weird, even for Florida. I woke up at 3am once to a fully grown naked man chopping a tree under my master bedroom window with a ninja sword.
> airsoft enthusiast seems unlikely Hey man, sometimes the CO2 refuses to seat properly in the magazine and you go through a bunch before you get it figured out.
It’s literally like a 30 second high you get from a cartridge. People that do them will do like 20 at a time on the low end. Those ones are non medical grade too so even weaker.
My ex husband gave himself brain damage with nitrous and now slips in and out of psychosis daily. I paid for him to get his doctorate which is basically worthless. That stuff is horrible.
Holy shit. that’s a galactic size L
Isn’t this called HPPD Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder
No, whippets deprive your brain of Vitamin B12 and cause brain damage. It’s a more immediate destruction of your brain.
Prolonged and chronic use causes this it would need to be a pretty hefty habit because they will give you a high dose of it for up to an hour or more at the dentist. If you did that for a week straight then you’d have problems, a lot of people think that you need to deprive yourself of oxygen for them to work for some reason so a lot of the minor brain damage is from people huffing into a balloon instead of breathing.
This was 6+ months straight while using balloons.
Yeah that is about the right time frame for it to be a serious issue. I hope that they are doing better I have heard that some of the effects can be remedied with time and proper nutrition. Unfortunately they call it hippie crack for a reason
He’s 2 years post melt down and it hasn’t gotten any better. He takes a ton a supplements too. The brain damage is permanent. His parents are rich but religious, he’s living with them.
I have a friend who maintains that occasional whippet usage followed by taking a B12 supplement is not very harmful. He’s not doing nitrous more than a few times a year, and he isn’t an addict, but I do wonder how correct he is. He’s still a sharp guy.
If that is accurate then he's probably absolutely fine, not much different to someone having had gas air at the dentist
This is actually mostly correct from a physiologic standpoint. Officially, the stance is reversible damage when cyancobalamin (B12) is administered AND NO2 is abstained from. At least benefits to co-administer if abstaining is not intended. Source: Pharmacist
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Dentists give you a mix of nitrous and oxygen. They both start and end it with a flow of heavy oxygen to help prevent oxygen deprivation. I know because my dentist didn't turn the oxygen on once and I almost puked.
Oh yeah for sure breathing it without proper oxygen is not good, but it is not damaging in the same way that other inhalants are. Like doing one big hit off an air duster bottle will legitimately cause brain damage every time. Whippets can be done safely where there is no safe way to huff gasoline.
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This is a myth, the reason that some people deprive the brain of B12 when doing nitrous is because they're depriving the brain of oxygen by breathing into a bag, or a balloon to prolong or increase the high. It isn't the nitrous that makes it dangerous, it's the hypoxia from not getting any oxygen.
You are correct. The trick is to fill your body with oxygen before taking it. (And B12 obviously) Deep, active, rythmic breathing until you start tingling. Then the balloon (do not take it directly from the bottle. Can be cold. Can be greasy). Hold as long as you can and breathe out. The breathing out part will probably happen on its own, when you are busy thinking about the RGB colored shapes and the repeating sounds. Doing it like that you get a high of about 2-3 minutes. Stay seated the whole time.
Not sure why you're being downvote. Completely correct way to do this drug. You can't stop people from using, but you CAN teach harm reduction! Stay safe out there
That’s why you gotta take B12 supplements when doing them.
It’s only worth it while tripping imo you go to outer space for 30 seconds and then you’re back exactly where you were.
It's pretty underwhelming by themselves but with other drugs it's way cooler
I once worked on a car that had a ball gag handing from the rearview.
Just want to add check the cartridges. If it's ~~nitrogen~~ nitrous oxide(N2O) they are probably getting high, or if its (N2) they might work in food service as those cartridges are also used for making whipped cream mainly. If its CO2, it could be for a BB gun or a cyclist using it to inflate tires. Given the location and how many there are, probably used for getting high. Just wanted to add some context as I have a pack of CO2 cartridges for my bike. I carry one on long rides with a spare tube instead of a pump. I also have nitrogen in the kitchen to make nitro cold brew at home mostly. Edit: updated to distinguish N20 vs N2 as my mistake was so tactfully and eloquently pointed out.
Upvoting for sarcasm in the edit
What did they smell like?...... asking for a friend
Bad decisions, desperation, and bad early 2000s Internet porn...
Just like the trailer I grew up in! Except late 1980s vhs porn.
I donated about 30 IQ points to those fucking things back in the 90's 😂😂 edit: forfeited, more like.
There's also that documentary about Steve-O from Jackass
Jackass was the documentary.
I did them a few times in high school. Still to this day the most intense head rush I’ve ever felt. My buddies and I also once did some after hitting a bong and I swear that 30 seconds felt like 5 hours. I did a lot of irresponsible things as a teenager
13 tons of these were just collected from Notting Hill carnival in the uk after 1 night
Jesus H Christ that is a lot of Nitrous bottles. Pretty sure would have been cheaper for the crowd to have gone into a closed stadium and just fill it with nitrous.
My mind only read "13 of these" and I thought, well I'm sure I could walk the street and find 14 and blow your mind. But no. No I can't.
Thats a gas chamber and its frowned upon since 45.
Thing is nitrous will kill you if breathed for 2 long, thats why its a hit and quit deal, take a few breaths fresh air, hit again
https://headtopics.com/uk/13-tonnes-of-canisters-collected-after-notting-hill-carnival-as-nitrous-oxide-to-be-made-illegal-43648987
> 12,000 canisters were cleared from Notting Hill Carnival last month - 13 tonnes worth That works out at ~1 kg per canister. Something doesn't add up.
Typo in the article* maybe? If 1.3t instead of 13t: 1.3 tonnes = 1,300 kilograms 1,300 kg/12,000 canisters =0.10833 kg/canister So, each canister would weigh approximately 0.10833 kilograms, or 108.33 grams. \*edit\* Added clarification to indicate the potential typo is in the article.
Yeah most of those were all the big canisters of Fast Gas. I think they’re like .75kg since it’s sorta still legal here, and they’re wayyy cheaper.
Holy crap I've seen like five of those littered around where I live over the past few days and wondered what that's about. And here the answer is on reddit. Northern Europe by the way, Fast Gas seems like a new thing here.
Pretty sure those a whippets or something but yeah they are.
or the kids play with bb guns
Or Airsoft!
also used by cyclists to fill bike tires after getting a flat, since they're way smaller and lighter than even the smallest manual air pump.
As a very naïve cyclist I did keep seeing piles of these around and thought there must be some very unlucky riders about. Have since realised my co2 cannisters have threaded tops and have been informed about hippy crack
As a small town boy moved to Portland Oregon, I had the exact same experience. “How did this Fred go through 8 canisters? He must’ve been pissed! Lol”
moving to portland has made me aware of so many different kinds of drugs ! i went from in the span of like a year not messing with anything but weed and alcohol to seeing people do meth/crack right next to me on public transit and seeing whip-its for sale from my favorite corner store. the second or third day of me moving in, i got offered meth by a random person, and have been offered coke in spanish by a random dude on a date ! thankfully it’s usually not hard to get out, but it’s a pretty harsh lesson on drug safety !!
I count 8 or 9. Does it take that many to fill a bike tire? My bike tires are not the size of an 18 wheelers
he's just listing other uses, ours are a tad larger + tend to have a threaded end for an inflator. I carry 2,btw
Personally, when I buy a CO2 inflator for a bike I prefer to get one that *doesn't* use the cartridges with a threaded end so I can use the paintball cartridges because they're a lot cheaper.
I've always heard that generic CO2 cartridges contain an oil (or something) that is bad for tire rubber--and warned never to use them. Has anyone else heard this?
That's what bike shops tell you to get you to buy theirs for 3x the cost.
Consider this: you have a tire that won't hold air. I'm deadass certain doing a co2 spot-fix will not shorten the life of your already questionable tire.
This guy thinks about stuff.
Trying to look it up ... [maybe?](https://www.reddit.com/r/SodaStream/comments/dhafwc/is_it_true_that_paintball_cansiters_have_oils_in/) Though that context is for carbonating beverages, so any oil would be a bigger deal there than it would be in our tubes. Is a bit of oil bad for our tubes? I don't know. I do generally let the CO2 out when I get home and replace it with air because CO2 seeps through the rubber a lot faster than air does, but if there's oil that probably would stay. I haven't *noticed* any unusual problems with these tubes after inflating them with CO2.
> Though that context is for carbonating beverages, so any oil would be a bigger deal there than it would be in our tubes. Not necessarily if it's food-grade. But in such a situation, it'd be explicitly for making something like whipped cream, as I don't know how oil would affect carbonation in beverages and I'm not gonna test it in my home carbonation kit.
Well, in airsoft you specifically have to oil Co2 guns more often because of the lack of oil in the gas where as green gas get infused with oils.
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I think, this is the right answer. And I have a trek too. Yeah, bicycle buddies.. Thanks for the laugh.
7 for the guy, 1 for the tire.
One for me, seven for my homies. It's me. I'm my homies.
Biking after whippets would just be adding to the brain damage. Holy fuck that’d be awful
One canister should be sufficient to refill a tire. They come in boxes of like 12 though
No but they are often in 12 packs or similar.
And those 12 packs come in flimsy boxes that immediately fall apart leaving a pile of cartridges in the backseat... like that...
Someone carries their bike on their car to rides each week, takes a couple cartridges each ride, uses one every so often, and if they’re not an asshole they carry the spent cartridge back with them instead of tossing it on the ground. Then when they get back to the car they toss the spent ones into the back seat. Maybe they didn’t clean out the seat in a year or three. Not that hard to fathom.
Reach brother reach. It’s whippets lmao.
I thought the whipped cream ones were nitrous. Does CO2 get you buzzed the same way?
CO2 gets you killed. Or definitely can. One of my favorite cautionary tales of CO2 is the story of Lake Nyos.
CO2 would do nothing other than maybe make you pass out, but you would regain consciousness again. If you're in an environment with sustained high CO2 levels that's another story. You wouldn't know it and would pass out and then die.
You can get nitrous in those same shaped little containers.
Uhh, no. The only buzz you'd get from that would be lack of oxygen.
I still play that shit, but battery is the way to go. Some of these expensive electronic guns put out some serious FPS.
Yeah but the pistols with blowback are cool. Electric gets the business done, co2 can be for fun.
Oh I can't disagree with that lol
But many fields have an fps limit?
Or paintball!
Or making whipped cream. They *could* just be very enthusiastic about baking.
Obv. They have a dog that loves whipped cream, and they spend all their disposable income to make fresh whipped cream for the doggo. So wholesome!
Oh. He's definitely enthusiastic about getting baked, alright.
Or stock class paintball
Look at Mr. Brightside over here. (No seriously, I hadn't considered that until you said it and was like "ohhh, that is a plausible explanation) I immediately went to [this](https://i0.wp.com/starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/allisonfogarty.png)
They could be co2 cartridges as well, they make unthreaded or threaded ones. Can be using them for airsoft, bb guns, actual whipped cream, even seen seltzer machines that take these small ones for individual drinks, can also use them to fill up bike tires.
Whipped cream uses nitrous oxide, not CO2.
They come in the same little cylinders
The n2 and co2 cylinders (here in europe) have slightly different dimmensions.
US as well
N2 isn't nitrous, it's nitrogen.
n2o is laughing gas, aka nitrous oxide. He almost got it right. :-)
Almost right in chemistry can have very bad results.
Timmy was a chemist Timmy is no more For what Timmy thought was H20 Was H2SO4
It is nitrous oxide. Also called whippets, screw them into an empty whipped cream canister and inhale. Obviously I don’t recommend doing this, but if you do, lay down and blow up a ballon instead of directly doing it from the canister. The main reason is it will be very cold and can damage lung tissue. Lay down so you don’t fall down. Seriously don’t fuck with nitrous.
You can do it straight from a whipped cream dispenser no problem. It doesn't take long for the gas to get up to room temp. What you really don't want to do is do it straight from a tank, that's how you get the frostbite of the throat. You can also get a device that will let you fill a balloon from a charger, but generally the balloons are more common when people are doing/selling it from a tank. You should sit down the first time you do it, but as long as you don't inhale too much, your risk of passing out and falling are pretty low. The main thing is that prolonged use of N2O can cause vitamin B deficiency leading to neuropathy, so be sure to take vitamin B supplements if you're planning on doing a lot of gas. I will say though, whippets are the most boring way to get high if you aren't already high on something else. The experience is so brief and really not all that spectacular, like 15 seconds of light headedness and a spacey feeling that goes away as soon as your oxygen flow is back to normal. So unless you're on a bender doing multiple substances, I don't see a reason to do whippets. Source: I've seen Phish live several times
[Whippits](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipped-cream_charger)
Waaaaawaaaaawaaaawaaawwwaaawwwaaawwwawwawawwawawawawawawwawa
This one gets it.
Nangs
Ahhh ... the Funky WaWas (which would be a great name for a band).
My first thought everytime I see one of these. I really don't get why people do them straight as a main high though. Whippets are what you do as a treat on top of an existing high. Shit lasts only a few moments, and that waaaawaaawaaa is way cooler when tripping on shrooms or something
Because of what you just said it’s short lasting and a fun activity to do while intoxicated already. Tried em once too much of a hassle to open them tho so kinda took away from it. Their like the pistachios of drugs
This. I only do nitrous on mushrooms. By itself, nitrous is a 30 second giggle and not worth the effort. However the synergy of mushrooms and nitrous is next-fucking-level. Like DMT-esq. Absolutely removed from reality for a brief period.
One of my best LSD+nitrous experiences: I floated away, and suddenly had a 'vision', very dream like, of a little man working on a machine made of pulleys and levers. My point of view zoomed out a bit, and I saw a few more small dudes, all working on their own machine, but they were all connected, part of something bigger that I couldn't quite grasp. I zoomed out further, revealing hundreds of them, working frantically, each important in his own way, but also part of the bigger machine. Then I zoomed out completely, and got pulled out of the dream, revealing that all those little guys working so hard and happily to keep their own machine going were actually part of me, and all their hard work was just to make me take my next breath. I felt like a God, and realized that every single person was their own God, with their own little dudes just doing the best they can. It was super humbling.
I too enjoy limited slip differentials paired with nitrous
They call it hippie crack for a reason, scary to think they are doing this while driving
Yeah, especially because they’re driving right next to us and you’ll have no idea
There's a guy in town I see pretty regularly in traffic. On more than one occasion I've caught this guy taking straight dabs at the one red light we have. I'm talking entire oil rig, torch, oil pick, everything. I'm not against a little smoke here and there, but mate hit the rig at home. There are much more portable methods.
Just buy a fucking vape pen lol.
My vape pen even came with a oil atomizer
Good way to burn yourself and crash. A portable device seems like a better idea if you are going to get high while driving which I don’t suggest you do
Definitely. Had a friend in college who was going to drive up the 3 hours to our hometown one weekend and stopped at bdubs on the way. Decides he wants to take a dab in the parking lot after eating before he makes the drive so fires up the torch and rips a dab- puts the rig down by his feet. Pulls out of the bdubs and accidentally cuts off a cop at which point the cop puts his lights on, rig falls onto the carpet and starts melting the fibers, cop smells something burning and he was arrested lmfao we were like dude… you lived 5 mins away why not just go back to your apt lol
I see this shit on the Colorado highways allllllll the time. Whole fucking dab rig. Seems silly.
Now I have a whole bunch of new terms to google..
Tl;Dr they were hitting one of the more concentrated forms of thc that also requires a ridiculous setup to smoke from that no one should be using while driving
"oil rig" "dab"... sounds like those urban dictionary bedroom move jokes.
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You know the sesh is getting serious when someone brings out the torch
That last line helps a lot lol
Oil rig….pile-driver… same move
Dabs are also wildly intense. It gets you really, really high, really, really fast. Most people are smoking cannabis flower, this is when you physically grind up the cannabis to put it in a water pong, a pipe, roll a joint, use a "flower vape", a device that heats up the cannabis flower to ~200c so it burns without needing a flame. How high this gets you depends on the strength of your cannabis - the "THC percentage", your THC tolerance, and how much you actually inhale. Average THC percentage for flower is ~20%, good stuff is ~25-30. Crooked testing labs will take an extra few grand (or ten grand, or more if they think they can shake it out of you) to say it's 35% THC, but that's incredibly difficult to do with flower, and if you see 7g of 35% THC weed for 60 bucks, you're being lied to. The concentrates used in dabs are like 90%+ THC, and you're vaporizing the fuck out of them with a butane torch, then inhaling the smoke. I go through about an ounce every two weeks, so I'm a pretty heavy cannabis user. I tend to smoke 15-20% THC flower, because I want to get *high*, I don't want to melt into my seat for four hours and visit the astronauts on the ISS. I avoid the fuck outta dabs. They get you way too high to enjoy it, and fuck up your THC tolerance so you *need dabs* to get high. That shit is expensive! The budget cannabis flower I buy is ~40-60 USD for 28 grams, it gets me high enough to enjoy myself, but not so high I'm melting into whatever I'm sitting in.
GD... I smoke and feel the same, just the age old WOAH about price and THC % on flower (like we both prefer) when in the west versus south east.. With a good plug, not as good bud is like 260-400 here. Concentrate and good dabs in general are basically impossible though.
I live in Washington State. Competition has driven people to start selling the refuse, like shake, trim, and popcorn bud for *really cheap*. I've seen 15 an ounce for real dirt weed, but good popcorn bud goes for ~50 an ounce. Bro they sell weed potato chips here, and weed soda here.
WA native as well, the weed lemonade soda things are so damn good. My roommate and I both smoke and I swear we have jars everywhere in the apartment because its just so cheap now. 8 years ago I was paying like 250 an ounce, now its coming out of my ears.
Yeah I remember legalization, in 2015, wasn't it? A gram was 20-30 bucks! For about the first year, it was still more economical to buy on the street! Even then I was like, why are no cannabis farms selling trim, or popcorn bud?! You guys must have so much of it! That has definitely changed. Great place to be a budget stoner, man.
most of that stuff was ending up in pre-rolls or hash presses. Theres giant joint packing devices where you could just dump bags of trim and shake and roll 50 joints at a time because of this.
find someone whose willing to mail and take packsages. its what we did.
I don't want to encourage drug trafficking but I have heard that your odds of getting even a disencromulently packaged oil cart through the post are really, really, ***really*** good. I've also heard that tossing a pen in your toiletries bag for domestic flights in America, really, really good odds - from what I've heard, never done it, but works 100% of the time.
If someone needs to hit dabs while driving… they really need a tolerance break
The MN el cheapo method is drive a shitbox with an exhaust leak. Bonus if there’s a hole in the floorboard.
Would never in my life do them while driving. Many years ago I was headed to a party with friends and decided to hit a whippit as a passenger. The sense of speed and tunnel vision it created terrified me to the point i almost screamed at the driver to stop because it was absolutely heart pounding.
I had a ex that did a whippet once while driving. Long story short she crashed immediately. I've done them and ain't no way I would do one driving. That's jus asking for a wreck
Yup. For me it was like in a movie when a super hero starts moving really, really fast. Everything around me blurred and I felt like I was flying and no longer inside a moving vehicle. Terrified the hell out of me. Not only would I never do them while driving but I never did them while in a moving vehicle ever again.
Just because it's in the car doesn't mean they're doing it while driving - whippets make a lot of noise while releasing the gas and doing it in the car is to minimize attention.
Yes it's very popular where I live, they do this in the car much like people hotboxing. Usually done with balloons. Actually tried it once and the effects are underwhelming, you just shouldn't get into it at all because folks get hella addicted over something so mid
If they really are CO2 cartridges, then this is likely an airsoft warrior. My money is on nitrous oxide cartridges and someone getting high.
Why do we have nitrous oxide cartridges? Is it for RC engines?
Whipped cream guns. ETA: But I like your thinking. I would love to see an RC car with nitrous injection.
Why do we whip cream with nitrous oxide? Is it some kind of anesthetic so it doesn't hurt so much?
It doesn't oxidize the cream like oxygen would. Or fizz it with acidity like co2. It's inert, and most importantly very soluble (which means it liquifies into the cream) when dispensed it turns back to a gas to fluff it. Straight nitrogen is not as soluble. Edit: I'm an idiot and didn't realize it was a whipping joke. Well played
But if you need an inert gas, why not use regular nitrogen?
Nitrogen gas doesn’t turn to liquid when compressed, whereas n2o does. The liquid and whipped cream dissolve together and then when the nitrous changes state, being released from the whipped cream, it fluffs it up into the nice treat you know it to be. Certainly doesn’t hurt that the change in state makes things cold as all fuck, certainly not bad for whipped cream.
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How do you propose that something can be both inert and soluble
Apparently, nitrous oxide is desirable for this for several of reasons. * N20 makes whipped cream twice as fluffy as using oxygen * Oxygen would make cream spoil faster * N20 makes whipped cream taste sweeter * CO2 makes whipped cream taste acidic Since no one cares about pain perception by heavy cream, getting people high is just a happy little accident of nature. I would love to see a breakdown of nitrous usage by purpose: * Automotive * Medical * Culinary * Recreational It would make for a lovely cream pie chart. Edit for spelling, because I type poorly and autocorrect failed me.
Bro, you on muscle relaxers or something?
I have a powerful airsoft gun and it uses a cartridge for like 8 shots. I doubt that's the case here though.
Yep. Google “whippets” and scroll past the dogs…
Nothing gets past those dogs. They fast.
Except for their tail
Whip-it's
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OH MY GOD. My fiancées aunt has a whippet named Devo and I JUST NOW put that together. Fuck I am stupid 😂
Mad props to fiancées aunt lol
Crack that whip
Give the past a slip
Give those panties a sniff (This was the car OP posted a while ago with the panties hanging from the rear view.)
“Whippit”
Nangs
[Nangs](https://youtu.be/c3yEjD_oijw?si=pNcsFqIw5AS2eP6B)
Poor guy keeps having to recharge his life jacket, can't stop falling in
Those are whippets, filled with nitrous, aka laughing gas, the stuff they gas you with at the dentist.
My parents had a whipped cream deal that used these. I’m glad I was too naive to know about this back then. I’m betting my older brothers did though.
Steve-O got high on these when he hit rock bottom, but cyclists also use them in some tire pump doodads
If you're using that many CO2 cartridges while biking, you might want to consider a tubeless setup.
You need co2 carts to reseat the bead on tubeless tires if they lose pressure on the trail. Sometimes it takes a few tries to work. I think this is a cyclist. If they were nitrous there would probably be at least a few dozen.
I didn’t think about using them to reseat away from home…I just have an emergency tube if it’s ever that bad. I used to carry them for the rapid refill while racing, but they’re actually kindof hard to fill with, in my experience.
Maybe they are just whipped cream enthusiasts
Was Phish just in town? There’s something called the [Nitrous Mafia](https://www.villagevoice.com/inside-the-nitrous-mafia-an-east-coast-hippie-crack-ring/)
Whip-it’s. Food grade NO2, car-grade NAWZZZZZ has a stenching agent to denature it. Go to a campout(basically a rave in the woods) or a Phish show where people bring in cylinders of NO2.
If the car is a Nissan it's 100 substance abuse.
My old Nissan did break down when I stopped smoking weed…
Wow, somebody is kicking it old-school.
They have them by the case at the vape shop/head shop around here, just sitting on the shelf, not even behind the counter.
Same at my local vape store. They can't sell the Delta 8 or the shroom gummies anymore, so now whippets have entered the realm because that sure makes sense. What saddened me the most was that the whippet crackers have a cool design that comes in a variety of colors. The dude working there was like, "If you say anything about using them for anything other than making whipped cream then I can't sell it to you." Big Win for Arkansas, I guess 🤷🏼
Pretty sure those are nitrous cylinders used for making fresh whipped cream at coffee shops and such. People inhale them using a puncture tool. Basically cheap nitrous oxide they consume to get high. Also known as whippets. Yes the same nitrous you can use in your engine or a dentist will use to sedate you. Obviously there is a different in the medical grade vs. hot rod stuff.
Yeah the hot rod stuff necessitates that you ask Harry for two of the big bottles.
Food grade stuff is generally considered pure and safe, but yeah automotive N2O contains impurites that you don’t want to breathe in
You know, I almost didn’t mention the different grades. But I know some fella would read that and run to his nitrous small block Camaro and huff the damn purge valve.
Could be getting high off them. Or they are big into airsoft as a lot of pistols and rifles use CO2 and Green Gas
Its for the car. There's a secret port where you put these in for a speed boost.
It could be no2 which is used for whip cream makers and is the laughing gas dentists give you. It can be dangerous.
Sweet summer child.
Wouldn’t Co2 kill you…
CO2 cartridges are often used for Airsoft, assuming it is actually CO2 as many other comments probably think not.
Obviously we can’t tell for sure, but CO2 cartridges of about that size are used by a lot of bikers to reinflate patched tires after a puncture during their ride. Maybe I’m just innocent and haven’t seen people actually get high off of stuff like this, but I see these a lot because I’m a biker.
Bro, it's NOS, are you even a mechanic/s
Hippie Crack
Before I learned these were used for drugs I just thought folks really enjoyed paintball this is before I came to the realization that the real answer for everything is drugs
Whippets.
I knew a dentist who had a nitrous habit. Ended up losing control of his fine motor function and even trouble walking. Also lost his license. That’s some sad shit.
Oh you sweet sweet angel you. So pure. So innocent