Huffing Shit and the danger it poses to your children (none)
The news – the puppet theater – is enough to scare the bejuzus out of me. I can hardly bear to watch TV news. Half the time, I watch them say the most absurd things as though they were legitimate and the other half, I strongly suspect them of trying to sell me something. Someone once said about televised media that ‘it’s a campaign of fear and consumption.’
Consumption used to mean something bad. It meant tuberculosis. It meant your lungs filling with bacteria. To consume used to mean “use up” not “support”. To stimulate this new kind of consumption, the media pulls out all of the stops, and most of the results are ham handed and irritating.
But then there are these jems that strain the imagination. Apparently, via Disinfocon, some local news company picked up a rumor about kids literally huffing shit to get high. The whole thing was mostly (I hate to say mostly) hoax and rumor. I don’t know what is worse: the content of the subject, or the fact that the communication-major flunkies believed it.
The recipe goes like this: Take your own feces. Put it in a bottle with some other bodily fluids (plus other magic ingredients? I don’t know.). Cover the bottle with a balloon and let it ferment. It will release gasses (no kidding!) which will be trapped in the balloon. Breathe the gasses – called butt hash, I am not making this up – and you will experience a high not unlike cocaine.
Did the newscasters go to a doctor, a chemist or anyone with a shred of common sense to check this out? Did they check to see if there was even one case of this ever actually happening? No. They warned the community about the danger to their children. Apparently, people will believe that teenagers will do anything to get high.
Unbelievable? Watch for yourself:
Some kid is going to see that news report and say, “I gotta give that shit a try.”
-The Jester
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