ID Checking For The Weirdest Reasons...

[thelong1]

Vanilla essence - I can answer that one. The vanilla is usually held in a rather strong solution of alcohol. I don't know the exact proportions, but the bottle I have for cookie creation is listed in order of water, alcohol, vanilla bean extract - our ingredients have to list the greatest proportion ingredient first, and I suspect that's the same all around.


Rapscallion

What about mouthwash then? Its basically only alcohol and you're getting way more than you would with a small bottle of vanilla. I've had my ID checked for cold medicine before too, even though it didn't have pseudoephedrine and therefore didn't work very well.

[Rapscallion]

I've heard of alcoholics stealing mouthwash as well. Slightly more disgusting flavour, but someone addicted wouldn't really worry about that, I suspect.

Not sure about whether or not it requires ID - over here we don't have a national ID system (yet), and since I look well over eighteen they don't tend to worry about me buying such.

Rapscallion

[Greenday]

Rubbing alcohol? Doesn't require ID either and that stuff can get REALLY strong.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Nail polish remover. Tho you'd have to be desperate to drink that. O.o Some toners have alcohol in them, too.

[AFPheonix]

All states do the sudafed ledger thing now, it's federal law. Oregon (and maybe Oklahoma, I'm not really sure) is the only exception in that we require a prescription for sudafed products.
While I'd admire some meth cook in some way at their determination at getting to that many outlets to buy, unfortunately they're the ones more likely to have their chemical soup brewing in a neighborhood, where the potential for an explosion or toxic chemical spill would be dangerous for neighbors.

[Dreamstalker]

When the ex first moved to TX he was living in a former meth lab. Which, as he told me, was not properly cleaned (gee, thanks for telling me this when I'm already here)

[AdminAssistant]

Dreamstalker - ICK.

Dad used to be a volunteer fireman, and their rule was that if a meth lab (or suspected meth lab) caught fire - let it burn. Make sure the fire doesn't spread, of course, but it's far easier to just let the thing burn down than put the fire out and have the county pay $$$ to clean it all up. Of course, all the meth labs where I'm from are out in the middle of nowhere in abandoned shacks and trailer homes.

[Giggle Goose]

My goodness, people come up with all sorts of creative ways to get a high!

Now if they could only use that same ingenuity to better their lives and find a different hobby....

[AFPheonix]

It would be nice if people kept their cooking operations out in the boonies, but there are far too many instances where they find labs in close-packed living situations.
There was one not too far from the college I attended, well within city limits in an older, dense neighborhood. God people, just stick to growing weed please.

[BlaqueKatt]

However, if the customer was intending to use the ammo in a handgun, he had to be 21 to buy it. If he was planning on using it in another type of gun, he only had to be 18. <snip>
I don't know who thought up that rule.

um, that would be the federal government
"A person must be 21 years of age to purchase a handgun or handgun ammunition, and 18 years of age to buy a rifle or shotgun or ammunition, from a retail firearm dealer. (Gun Control Act, 1968)"

Rubbing alcohol? Doesn't require ID either and that stuff can get REALLY strong.

and can be fatal within 30 minutes of ingestion-

"Isopropanol Alcohol(rubbing alcohol) Ingestion can cause severe GI hemorrhage, refractory hypotension, and hemolytic anemia."

[Greenday]

and can be fatal within 30 minutes of ingestion-

"Isopropanol Alcohol(rubbing alcohol) Ingestion can cause severe GI hemorrhage, refractory hypotension, and hemolytic anemia."

I'd have to check the LD50 for it. I'm not sure how much it is. But since it's like 80% alcohol, you don't need to drink much.

[BuggedMei]

I've been carded buying allergy pills, and denied them even after showing ID (I'm 20) I can understand that it can be used to make other, nastier things, but I'm suffering from a wicked case of sniffles and if you don't want me to snot all over your counter please let me have my pills. ; ;


I used to work at Gamestop where I had to card for the obvious M rated games, but card for trade-ins now too.. I thought denying the poor 17 year old kids their trade-in money was mean.. but.. carded for a spoon? Yeesh.

[evillebee]

Hi......no longer just a lurker.

My daughter, who is over the age of consent, called me laughing last month. It seems the convience store worker asked to see her ID when she was purchasing condoms. My daughter, who is not shy, asked the clerk what age did she need to be to have safe sex. The clerk was nice about it and my daughter does look young for her age. No, she did not show her ID.

[AFPheonix]

You can still buy the allergy pills, just don't get the ones with sudafed. Zyrtec is probably the best OTC one, it just went off prescription last year.

[DesignFox]

You can still buy the allergy pills, just don't get the ones with sudafed. Zyrtec is probably the best OTC one, it just went off prescription last year.

Honestly, the other crap doesn't work for me. The only decongestants that actually do anything are the ones with psuedophedrine in them.

But anyway. Fortunately, for me, I don't require so much that the government looks at my records funny.