Party Vibe

I’d heard about the stuff since the 90s (it was regularly mentioned on alt.drugs on the Usenet) but always assumed it was near unobtanium in Blighty as I’ve only been aware of people getting it a handful of times (in comparison LSD would be plentiful even though its availability was always sporadic).

Then again I expect its not really the sort of stuff you want to do at a full on rave or a hectic squat (which was where the bulk of my drugs experiences during the 90s/00s occured)…

@smokemary 987572 wrote:

Pmsl loving the video clip

our modern appliances in Suffolk (those are older ones) still have the nee naws on the siren control but they are the electronic sort now rather than the original compressed air horns…

whatever these folk in London were making they didn’t take the correct precautions (there is no mains gas to flats like this, only electricity for safety reasons, so they were either using butagas and allowing gas to let by or some other low flashpoint solvent.

Unfortunately since the 80s and all the terrorist paranoia young people aren’t taught how to use these solvents correctly. A few years ago a fireman told me and my mates “we like a good fire too, as long as no one gets hurt (which is why most firefighters join up in the first place), so if you are going to start a (controlled) one do it properly and safely” :laugh_at:

Preparation of drug ‘possible cause’ of explosion at Hornchurch flats – News – Romford Recorder

I vaguely recall the butane explosion being in Scotland as the lads involved got charged with “culpable and reckless conduct leading to an explosion” which is one of those particularly Scottish legal things.

Metpol have announced they do not think it was a “cannabis factory”, TBH if these burn they are usually “slow burner” fires caused by overloaded wiring / attempts to bypass meters and insufficient protective devices or lamps setting alight combustible material (less common nowadays now glow lamps are rarely used).

Whatever was going on here, it is the sort of rank stupidity that keeps prohibition going; as there were loads of folk made temporarily homeless and the whole estate has got bad publicity. 10 years ago my postcode district was classed as a “bad/rough area” (it was never that bad and has improved loads in recent times) and the schools are still having to try and encourage kids to try and rise above the stereotypes (as even today employers here judge people on which areas they grew up in)