Autoblog
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
Coming to a US neighborhood near you
Florida man gives it a try.
Recycling
I was thinking of starting the rumor that it would make you even higher if you snorted the powder while sitting in a closed garage with a motor vehicle idling.
“But that would be wrong.” — R. M. Nixon
Wife number 5 wants a Coupe de Willy so I bough some of this magic powder from a Cadillac converter!
Hunter is on it! Yeah, how I love the sweet smell of 10% in the morning. Honey, what time is the Girl Scout interview?
Well at least they’re being environmentally friendly.
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.
Last night, someone stole the catalytic converter from my daughter’s car in a church parking lot. Is this trend already here?
“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
@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…
TIA
Great. Another reason for them to steal a CC.
It’s a fact. I’ve officially turned into Clint Eastwood, somewhere between Gran Torino and Dirty Harry.
Not sure how this is going to turn out.
“experts in Congo say can cause users to stand motionless for hours, or sleep for days. ”
We call it welfare in these parts.
In my little county catalytic convertors have been stolen from my church’s van and the nursing home recently. Makes me wonder…
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.
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.
@PHenry
Go the the “Unforgiven” Clint.
Mean Bastage!
Personally I think that was a Masterpeice.
Ya gotta wonder about the first guy to dream this up and try it out. There are simpler, faster ways of playing Russian Roulette.
And for a while Rhodium was way past 20K an ounce. The refiners I use won’t touch the cores from the convertors…
Getting them processed is no longer an easy deal.
https://www.kitco.com/market/
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.
If you see your car with a jack under it and you hear a sawing noises simply remove the jack that somebody accidentally left there, easy pz.