I wonder if they like buffer when smoking this.
 
So if we catch or can trap one of these addicts/criminals can we use them as an ONT or exchange? Fibre wire up the butt and one out the ear or something?
 
They are not smoking Glass, they are smoking the melted plastic in which the glass is encased - The Plastic is seriously toxic, and if there is glass in it, death will follow soon... so I'm not sure what the point is of smoking it.
 
For goodness sake lets hope they dont get it in their heads that the cables are nutritious or that it has resale value!!!
It is so sad to see that our society has become so feral most of which is self inflicted by corrupt government and politicians.
We had it all and threw it away and the poor and hungry must pay. SAD!
 
For goodness sake lets hope they dont get it in their heads that the cables are nutritious or that it has resale value!!!
It is so sad to see that our society has become so feral most of which is self inflicted by corrupt government and politicians.
We had it all and threw it away and the poor and hungry must pay. SAD!

Fck em, hopefully they get poison by this and die. Will teach these dmb cnt voting for ANC / EFF.
 
That is nuts. That said, I know a lot of high functioning druggies from the party scene and many of them are open to trying anything at least once.

I don't have the balls though
People take drugs all the time without thinking twice because a Doctor says they should. They're addicted too but have no idea that they are, let alone admit they have an addiction/dependency. Most have zero ambition to wean themselves or make the required lifestyle changes as to not be dependant on the drug.

Examples:
Antidepressants
Antianxiety meds
Painkillers
Ritalin
Statins
 
People take drugs all the time without thinking twice because a Doctor says they should. They're addicted too but have no idea that they are, let alone admit they have an addiction/dependency. Most have zero ambition to wean themselves or make the required lifestyle changes as to not be dependant on the drug.

Examples:
Antidepressants
Antianxiety meds
Painkillers

Ritalin
Statins

I used to guzzle Xanax and Opiates washed down with beers like it was smarties in the past. It messed up my personality and health after a few years - took damn long to withdraw and get off it.

We have too easy availability of stuff here, and the temptation is there all the time.
 
I used to guzzle Xanax and Opiates washed down with beers like it was smarties in the past. It messed up my personality and health after a few years - took damn long to withdraw and get off it.

We have too easy availability of stuff here, and the temptation is there all the time.
I gleefully watch hypocrites looking down on these "scum" drug users whilst diligently popping their chronic pharmaceuticals on the daily.
 
Criminals stealing fibre cables and "smoking" them

At least one major fibre network operator (FNO) in South Africa has learnt that criminals are stealing parts of its fibre cabling and smoking them.

MyBroadband recently asked the country's biggest FNOs how their rollouts and network uptime were impacted by crime.
Not a single sector of the SA economy is safe from criminals and their "blessers". We are heading to failed state status faster than ever. Haiti, here we come!
 
Booysen also raised an interesting issue that emerged post-rollouts — thieves stealing the strength member of the fibre core for its glass. This is then crushed and smoked.

While he did not elaborate further, there have been numerous instances where analyses of illegal drugs found around the world contained pieces of crushed glass, including in the popular South African township drug Nyaope, a mix of low-grade heroin, cannabis products, antiretroviral drugs, and bulking agents.
Calling bullshit on the smoking thing.

There's also very little on the internet about crushed glass found in other drugs. Only thing I saw was a bried paragraph on a site warning parents on the dangers of drugs.
https://parentguides.com.au/scary-drug-ingredients/
 
I had a group of builders over and asked them about Nyaope and how it is made for smoking.
One of them offered me a whole blister pack of his ARVs (12 tablets) and I cut myself 2. I paid him R50 + 2 heads of weed I had.

He explained that they crush 1 tablet per blunt!
Expensive smoke.

As long as it's not something intravenous, I'll consider trying any drug.

I curious to see how Fentanyl feels as well but I don't know of any of it being available in tablet form locally; it looks like one can only get it intravenously.
The no.1 killer by users. Only way it ends is overdose even secondhand.
 
Actually this whole story reeks of the misinformation doing the rounds with thieves stealing plasma TVs to smoke the powder inside them. I mean seriously. Why dig up fibre when there's broken glass all around.
They probably heard about "crystal" meth and 1+1 became 3. Doesn't even really surprise me. Combine a belief system based on on the spot improv superstition, with habitual drug use, and the placebo effect... Not that you even need the latter. A great many poisons can have "mind altering" effects. They can add a wide variety of substances, and end up claiming it gives a high. Not in the sense of what one would call an actual psychotropic drug - Rather simply plain old brain cells dying en masse, the brain struggling to function, and the mind spazzing out as a result.

Sad really.
Fibre(glass) reinforced plastic. Used in order to make the cable stronger so not the actual fibre optic. Apparently depending on the plastic used it can give you a high.

Yep, just like I have been saying for years that Rhino horns need to be poisoned as well.
They do with radio active poisons. Completely safe for the rhino but gives you radiation poisoning if you ingest it. Funny how the poachers know which ones are poisoned.
 
Fibre(glass) reinforced plastic. Used in order to make the cable stronger so not the actual fibre optic. Apparently depending on the plastic used it can give you a high.
Again. It'd unlikely be an actual psychotropic mechanism. Much more likely just outright poisoning of the brain inducing an altered state of the mind.
 
Again. It'd unlikely be an actual psychotropic mechanism. Much more likely just outright poisoning of the brain inducing an altered state of the mind.
Not everything is psychotropic. Most drugs are just poisons affecting how the brain works. It's the amount of something that determines if it's poisonous or not.
 
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