Sea shells and drug users

oppenheimer1

I happened to be in a crack den the other day. When I was there I noticed enormous amounts of sea shells scattered on the floor with some burnt and crushed. I'm no expert on drug paraphernalia and Google has been no help, so can any AHer tell me what the lads in the house were doing with the shells?

Mr.Crinklewood

Sea shells, sea shells before the seizure.

TheZohanS

Ashtrays.

Cill Dara Abu

Selling them by the sea shore of course.

Chris P. Bacon

You dont know how to use the shells, ha ha ha ha

o1s1n

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBI8uCKi2lI

El Weirdo

For wiping your hole.

Jaxxy

The calming sounds of the ocean obviously helps with the comedown.

vibe666

cheaper than a glass crack pipe maybe?

Wertz

Maybe they like listening to the sound of the sea when they're high? :pac:

Nah if they're spiral type shells prolly using em as a pipe...

oppenheimer1

El Weirdo wrote: »

For wiping your hole.

No I'm afraid I don't know how to use the shells :pac:


They weren't using them as ash trays, unless they were very tiny ash trays. These shells weren't the big old skool ash trays you'd see in the 70's. but little ones for mussels etc. The floors were covered in them, well in the rooms they hadn't shit in.

Chris P. Bacon

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

No I'm afraid I don't know how to use the shells :pac:


They weren't using them as ash trays, unless they were very tiny ash trays. These shells weren't the big old skool ash trays you'd see in the 70's. but little ones for mussels etc. The floors were covered in them, well in the rooms they hadn't shit in.

Why didnt you just ask them?

Arawn

And why exactly were you in a crack den??? It's not a place you just happen to end up in?

The Internet Explorer

Probably just some kind of artwork or collage or something. You know, making things with shells & sh*t. They're just expressing their feelings and emotions through shell based arts & crafts.

Pompey Magnus

Wild guess: They are used for heating heroin in when no spoons are available.

oppenheimer1

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

Why didnt you just ask them?

They weren't there. Probably should have said former crack den, but the place was still full on their shite (literally).

http://shenkitup.com/wp-content/uploads/shell.jpg these kind of shells, small ones.

strobe

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

I happened to be in a crack den the other day. When I was there I noticed enormous amounts of sea shells scattered on the floor with some burnt and crushed. I'm no expert on drug paraphernalia and Google has been no help, so can any AHer tell me what the lads in the house were doing with the shells?

Here's a hash pipe someone fashioned out of sea shells.

Maybe the same thing... although I wasn't aware crack heads had a reputation for being that creative.

Maybe it's a new thing they are getting into as possession of drug paraphernalia (glass crack pipes etc) is illegal in some US states but they could argue these were not necessarily crack pipes? Although I'm not sure crack heads would be that cautious or ingenious.

Which leads me back to Cill Dara's whole selling them by the seashore hypothesis...

Sinfonia

If they were all over the room, maybe it was so they could hear if anyone was walking through? An alarm system of sorts?
Also, they might be able to see if any were broken while they were out, so the alarm system works by sight and sound!

Think I'm gonna go sell some seashells to crackheads.

Jaxxy

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

No I'm afraid I don't know how to use the shells :pac:


They weren't using them as ash trays, unless they were very tiny ash trays. These shells weren't the big old skool ash trays you'd see in the 70's. but little ones for mussels etc. The floors were covered in them, well in the rooms they hadn't shit in.

To understand the mind of a junkie, one must become a junkie. Go back to the crack den and make some friends OP.

Seriously though, there can be any reason as to why the shells were there. They could have spent the day at the beach and suddenly decided that bringing back lots of shells would be a fabulous or entrepreneurial concept. I once saw a junkie try to eat his own runner. Logic does not exist in their magical world.

Wertz

Scallop shell is good for an ashtray but not a pipe...
Maybe they were scallop fishermen to pay for their habit? Scallops are extensive...

Arawn

Maybe the drugs were inside the shells! Genius....

oppenheimer1

Jaxxy wrote: »

To understand the mind of a junkie, one must become a junkie. Go back to the crack den and make some friends OP.

Seriously though, there can be any reason as to why the shells were there. They could have spent the day at the beach and suddenly decided that bringing back lots of shells would be a fabulous or entrepreneurial concept. I once saw a junkie try to eat his own runner. Logic does not exist in their magical world.

Maybe I was looking at it from too logical point of view. I thought they might grind them up and use the crushed shells for something, try and get the calcuim carbonate out of them? (Would they need calcium carbonate?) Some of them were crushed, but then again that might have been due to people walking on them.

Tesco Massacre

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

I happened to be in a crack den the other day. When I was there I noticed enormous amounts of sea shells scattered on the floor with some burnt and crushed. I'm no expert on drug paraphernalia and Google has been no help, so can any AHer tell me what the lads in the house were doing with the shells?

Great opening line for a thread.

Wertz

Arawn wrote: »

Maybe the drugs were inside the shells! Genius....

Nah I'm pretty sure it was just the shellfish...

Saila

Sinfonia wrote: »

If they were all over the room, maybe it was so they could hear if anyone was walking through? An alarm system of sorts?
Also, they might be able to see if any were broken while they were out, so the alarm system works by sight and sound!

I see you have seen mission impossible too

Pace2008

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Maybe I was looking at it from too logical point of view. I thought they might grind them up and use the crushed shells for something, try and get the calcuim carbonate out of them? (Would they need calcium carbonate?)

Calcium carbonate is trippy as ****, decent enough buzz but you'd be out of your biccy for hours.

Saila

she sells sea shells...in the crack den..... doesnt have the same ring though

oppenheimer1

Maybe they were using them as a primitive alarm system. Or maybe they were just avid shell collectors. Or probably as one poster pointed out, there is no reason.

I'd be disappointed if there was no reason though, I was thinking they could be entrepreneurial chemists, extracting some sort of high from the shells. Maybe my expectations were too high...

charlemont

I can imagine the headline in a week or two after some Guard reads this thread...



BEACH RUINED WITH DRUG PARAPHERNALIA
shocking sea shells left behind by teen drug users

Tesco Massacre

It says on another website that lime-rich materials such as burnt seashells can help separate the alkaloids in purer versions of cocaine.

Maybe that's the reason?

oppenheimer1

Tesco Massacre wrote: »

It says on another website that lime-rich materials such as burnt seashells can help separate the alkaloids in purer versions of cocaine.

Maybe that's the reason?

We might be getting closer to the answer, there were some burnt ones there. They must have been listening in chemistry class. No fools those Dublin junkies..

Wertz

Surely handier to go out and nick a big bag of baking soda than all that f*cking around with shells...

Logical Fallacy

Where was the crack den in relation to the sea?

Because if the sea is close it's as simple as some lad hitting the pipe, going for a stroll and finding tiny creature all over the beach. They were helpless but had deep thoughts, so he made many trips to and from the beach to bring home the little fellas.

ringadingding

My guess is the shells were there pre crack den, and they tried to light them for a fire/ heat.

Cant see junkies physically bringing shells anywhere to be honest, and certainly not for some of the suggestions involving alkaloids, calcium or pure cocaine.

It's gonna be one of them things that annoy you OP, I have millions of these unanswered questions in my mind.

ejmaztec

ringadingding wrote: »

My guess is the shells were there pre crack den, and they tried to light them for a fire/ heat.

Cant see junkies physically bringing shells anywhere to be honest, and certainly not for some of the suggestions involving alkaloids, calcium or pure cocaine.

It's gonna be one of them things that annoy you OP, I have millions of these unanswered questions in my mind.

If you asked them about it, they'd probably clam up.

The Scientician

Were they listening to that song from Trainspotting, you know the one, I think it was called "Mollusk for Life"?

Wertz

All these puns are un-conch-nable...

The Scientician

Welk, it was the best I could do at such short notice.

UglyBolloxFace

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

I happened to be in a crack den the other day. When I was there I noticed enormous amounts of sea shells scattered on the floor with some burnt and crushed. I'm no expert on drug paraphernalia and Google has been no help, so can any AHer tell me what the lads in the house were doing with the shells?

And you my friend are the winner of the inaugural 'Most Unexpected Opening Line To A Thread' Award. Congratulations.

The Scientician

You should hear his chat up lines.

ringadingding

ejmaztec wrote: »

If you asked them about it, they'd probably clam up.

I LOL'd so hard I pulled a mussel

HLecter

They probably figured if they already have crabs...

ringadingding

On a serious note, the junkies need to be put in their plaice

Wertz

^
A limpet effort

The Scientician

ringadingding wrote: »

On a serious note, the junkies need to be put in their plaice

Christ you'd make a lobster blush with that one.

Elliemental

I tried Google to get an answer to OP's question, and first on the results page was this very thread. Ah well, wonders will never cease. :P

Frynge

Was the crackden one they built themselves on a beach, perhaps.

TheUsual

Not saying that some of them were Chemistry graduates, but really junkies in Ireland are pretty useless and messed up all the time.
I worked a country where the junkies were all on Coke and they never used heroin. They were a lot more fast, dangerous and smarter than heroin junkies.
Bit of a shock for me.

Spunge

My bro tried to buy a spoon in tesco but they wouldnt let him coz it might have been for drugs.

Maybe they were refused spoons.

danniemcq

from reading through this i think the 2 most likely are

1. A Warning ala mission impossible

and

2. Lad was tweaking and carried them back to house one by one.