Posted on 10/24/2011 6:48:37 AM PDT by justlurking
You can watch the full video at the link, but I'll summarize:
Under-age teens have figured out that they can soak Gummi candy (bears, worms, LifeSavers, whatever) in vodka, and then carry the candy into school, sporting events, movies, etc. The knowledge is spreading quickly through social networking like Facebook.
Left overnight, the gelatin in the candy can soak up a lot of liquid. Since vodka doesn't have much of an odor, you have to eat the candy or smell it carefully to realize it has been soaked in liquor.
GMTA!
We would just get large coffees “to go” and poured an airline-size liquor bottle in with the coffee.
yes, sometimes getting a bit of booze in your system requires work... and work ain’t all bad...never have been a welfare boozer... unless I found an “unopened” in ditch or someplace...however I don’t get around much any more... I do appreciate “beer wars.” $15,00 a 30 pak of the REAL Coors...sets good..etc, etc, etc...
Good idea. Will try it as soon as possible.
It wasn’t like this when *I* was a youngster! When *WE* wanted to drink, we had to hike 20 miles up a mountainside in the Blue Ridge Mountains, without shoes, with no pathway, clearing the way by gnawing through the brush, till we got to a still. Then we had to hump a 100 gallon barrel back up another mountainside in the Alps, just so we could get one single drop of the liquid on our dry, parched, bleeding lips.
I do know the kids have been drinking Red Bull with their alcohol of choice for years - Party On!
Funny thing is I was a pretty creative drinker during those days too.
According to scientific data, my frontal lobes weren’t fully developed!
That was always the problem with coke - it would keep you up to PROVE what an ass you were - rather than slowing down your “ass demonstration rate”
We used to take speedto keep partying. A lot cheaper than coke.
The key to any of these is prevalence. We were pretty hard core. But not so uncommon. Nowadays - demographics are different. More abstainers - and maybe more hard core partiers, who don’t know what they are doing. Also - more “99% abstain, go wild one weekend types” to try to ear stree tcred as a partier. We partied 3-4 nights a week. These kids - are good for three weeks - then try to “let loose” - not a good mix. (As if my mix were better!)
We were awesome hard core - but no one ever got hurt. Maybe just luck. But some of these modern kids - are like amateurs on St Pat’s day.
A friend and I installed a seperate windshield washer system in his car and had a hidden spigot under the dash. Get a softdrink at the drive in,hold it under the dash and push the button!
“Who spiked the punch?”
We were injecting watermelons with Vodka and Everclear a long time ago its Gumibears now.. who woulda thunk it?
Good trick -
We used to just put vodka in oranges with a syringe. Bu tit is hard to carry 30 oranges and not be obvious.
Very health conscious.
None of these techniques allow for much real volume. 5 oz of Vodka is one thing - but by the time you are done sharing with your friends, and giving a few to cute girls - inventory gets crushed - and you are back in the parking lot. Real partier needs about 6-8 ozes - EACH - for a football game - just to keep the buzz from tailgating, and not get a headache.
Just sayin.
Injecting oranges with alcohol goes back at least to when Rutherford P. Hayes was President. First Lady Lucy Hayes was known as “Lemonade Lucy” after she decreed that no alcoholic beverages would be served in the White House during her husband’s administration.
For four years there was a steady traffic in rum-filled oranges smuggled into the WH during official functions.
Anyway, I enjoy a drink as much as anyone but I wait until the day is over and survival instincts don’t need to be at their sharpest. Drinking during the day? Yuk!!
We would just smoke pot with our shop teacher in the parking lot. Never did alcohol at school.
Used to do the Red Bull and vodka to keep going.
Sleeping is more fun than the party these days, so no need anymore.
Heh, that's outstanding. I had a '73 Pontiac Grand Prix that had a large, deep spare tire well in the trunk. We'd move the spare and pull the rubber drain plug down there, then set a pony keg in the well with several sacks of ice. The tap hose was passed forward through the rear seat's folding armrest cutout.
Reminds me of my former father-in-law. A relative always gave him a bottle of Rebel Yell for Christmas every year. Real rotgut whiskey. He would use it as antifreeze in the windshield washer of his car. It reeked terribly; you wouldn't want to use it around a cop.
Did you happen to see the new Ken Burns documentary on Prohibition? There was an interesting bit about illicit liquor deliveries to the U.S. Capitol Building.
(insert Captain Renault pic here)
My father was a bricklayer and every morning before he left for work he would put a shot in his coffee!
Kids have been doing such things for a long time. I knew a high school boy who always sported a plastic canteen with water in it on a web belt. When asked about it, he complained that the water at school tasted “metallic”.
It soon became unnoticed, and soon was filled with vodka. And for many lunch periods thereafter, he would sit out by himself, drinking screwdrivers with cafeteria orange juice.
When his friends pointed out to him that this probably wasn’t good for him, he pointed to a group of students sitting by themselves and noted that they spent their lunch hour sniffing butyl nitrite poppers and drooling on themselves.
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