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Police mistake climbing chalk for drugs
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Police mistake climbing chalk for drugs
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Tornadoman
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Re: Police mistake climbing chalk for drugs
This story made my morning! Thanks for sharing!
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Shaolin
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Very Cool!
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RBski
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This is hilarious, but I am more intrigued about the 'low oxygen environment'. Do people really use calcium sulfate to reduce oxygen in their homes to train for high peaks?
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Back in high school I was in the patdown line to get into floor level GA for a concert. The out-of-shape guard stopped when he grabbed my hip and said with a gotcha tone "What's this?" Curtly I replied "my pelvis" at which point he promptly stepped back and waived me through.
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spiderman
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Calcium sulfate (gypsum) won't absorb oxygen. Perhaps it was a different material and the police had the story wrong. Regardless I am doubtful that the oxygen level in the house was any lower than normal atmospheric concentration. A nitrogen generator would be way to proceed if you want to significantly change the home's %O2. Maybe the climber had purchased large amounts of mold-covered Chinese drywall figuring if he could survive inhaling that stuff, he could survive anything that Everest through his way. The police might have felt sick from inhaling massive amounts of mold and small particles.
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giarcd
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Training for Everest---hmm !
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One time in a high school photography class the instructor is lecturing us and suddenly looks down in front of our tables and says "what's on the floor". Reaches down and grabs what looked to be a dime bag of pot. Then he gets a stern face, holds it up, and asks " WHO DROPPED THIS"?
Our eyes got big around as saucers. Some of the long hairs were petrified. Then a big smiles emerges on his face and he says its just parsley, chuckles, puts it on his desk and continues lecturing. Funny guy.
Our eyes got big around as saucers. Some of the long hairs were petrified. Then a big smiles emerges on his face and he says its just parsley, chuckles, puts it on his desk and continues lecturing. Funny guy.
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MountainHiker
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It sounds like the cops talked themselves into being sick because they "knew" the place was loaded with drugs.
But knowing long haired individuals get profiled by border agents looking for drugs, I made it a point to throw away anything that was a powder on my return from climbing trips to Mexico or South America - coffee, sugar, creamer, GatorAid etc all got left behind. Even if my innocence would eventually be discovered, that wouldn't recover the time held hostage while missing the next flight or kept even longer.
But knowing long haired individuals get profiled by border agents looking for drugs, I made it a point to throw away anything that was a powder on my return from climbing trips to Mexico or South America - coffee, sugar, creamer, GatorAid etc all got left behind. Even if my innocence would eventually be discovered, that wouldn't recover the time held hostage while missing the next flight or kept even longer.
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Re: Police mistake climbing chalk for drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUzoYoWk4QATallGrass wrote:Back in high school I was in the patdown line to get into floor level GA for a concert. The out-of-shape guard stopped when he grabbed my hip and said with a gotcha tone "What's this?" Curtly I replied "my pelvis" at which point he promptly stepped back and waived me through.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. -Nelson Mandela
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego. -Nietzsche
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego. -Nietzsche
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edhaman
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"Do people really use calcium sulfate to reduce oxygen in their homes to train for high peaks?"
Maybe those who fall for some pseudoscience B.S. they find on the internet.
Maybe those who fall for some pseudoscience B.S. they find on the internet.
