Congolese Getting High Off Powder Made Of Crushed Catalytic Converters – IOTW Report

Congolese Getting High Off Powder Made Of Crushed Catalytic Converters

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A new craze for a drug derived from crushed vehicle exhaust filters is rattling authorities in Kinshasa, triggering a campaign to stamp out the concoction and a related rash of car part thefts.

In August police rounded up and paraded nearly 100 alleged dealers and users of the drug “bombe,” which means powerful in the local Lingala language, following a call to action by Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi.

“This social phenomenon calls for collective responsibility by the whole nation,” Tshisekedi told ministers at a weekly meeting.

In an abandoned shack in a suburb of Kinshasa a young man seeking oblivion slits open a bag of brown powder, blending it with a couple of crushed pills using the back of a spoon, before snorting the “bombe” mixture, with his friends.

Within minutes the trio are swaying slowly, scratching themselves in a catatonic state that experts in Congo say can cause users to stand motionless for hours, or sleep for days. More

23 Comments on Congolese Getting High Off Powder Made Of Crushed Catalytic Converters

  1. How innovative & genius.
    The ChYnezze never would have figured that out but now that its out there I’m sure they will find a way to do it cheaper and spread it ALL OVER the world.

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  2. “Catalytic converters are made of a metal cylindrum containing a ceramic piece in its core. The ceramic monolith has a honeycomb structure which contains the valuable metals, including copper, nickel, cerium, iron and manganese. Small amounts of rhodium are also found within a catalytic converter. Rhodium, like platinum and palladium, is very rare and valuable.”

    What ingredient gets them high? O

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  3. @Cotton Pickin Cracker
    No – they are commonly stolen to sell on the black market, either for the raw materials in the core, or for replacements for the poor people whose were stolen in church parking lots…

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  4. On the drawing board;

    Acid infused powdered hemorrhoid nectar, guaranteed to deaden the olfactory senses, sneak up on you slicker than shit and knock you on your ass.

  5. Can I say it out loud?

    I don’t give a flying fuck about Congolese smoking stuff from my tailpipe.

    If I could help them get to the toxic carcinogens I certainly will help. It’s not like I hate Congolese. It’s that I dislike scumbags.

    See? Told ya. I am turning into Eastwood.

    Oh. Just never mind.

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  6. Platinum today $965.89 – down $22.47.
    There’s something like 1/10 0z. of platinum , used as a catalyst in each C. converter.
    So what they’re huffing is powdered concentrated chemicals of combustion.
    Ought to make for some interesting cremations…maybe like that stuff you put in fireplaces to make the flames different colors.

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