KINSHASA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - A new craze for a drug derived from crushed vehicle exhaust enhancements 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.
"We used to drink very strong whiskey… we were restless and we would hurt people," said Cedrick, a 26-year-old gang leader in a white designer shirt.
"But with bombe, it calms you down, you get tired, you stay somewhere standing up or sitting down for a very long time. When you're done, you go home without bothering anyone."
Man shows a substance known as "bombe", a mix of catalytic converters' crushed honeycomb and pills, in Kinshasa
Car owners, police, and drug experts aren't so sanguine.
The brown powder is obtained from crushing the ceramic honeycomb core of automotive catalytic converters, the device that cuts the emission of toxic gases in vehicle exhaust pipes.
Mechanics blame rising demand for the drug on a rash of thefts of catalytic converters, which are coated with metals such as platinum, palladium and rhodium.
Kinshasa-based mechanic Tresore Kadogo says between five and 10 clients come to him every day with the same problem.
"We check underneath the car and the catalytic converter is gone already, it's been cut off," Kadogo said. "This drug bombe is hurting our clients, especially recently."
Users mix the crushed honeycomb with vitamin pills and typically add sleeping tablets, sedatives or smoke it with tobacco, but nothing is known about how it works, or its long-term effects, said Dandy Yela Y'Olemba, country director of the World Federation against Drugs.
In Belgorod, about 3,000 people are being evacuated from 17 apartment buildings within a radius of 200 meters from the explosion crater. Subscribers from Belgorod specify: “There were originally 2 “incidents” in Belgorod. Just one air bomb exploded, and the second fell 250 meters from the first and did not detonate. She broke the balcony and several apartments and got stuck in the foundation of the house. Then 1 entrance was evacuated and began to search. And now - found at a depth of 7 meters. Now 17 adjacent houses are being evacuated in order to get the bomb and take it to the test site.”
The Daily Mail on Thursday exclusively revealed the motivations behind Louisville bank shooter Connor Sturgeon’s April 10 massacre where he killed five people.
Sturgeon reportedly left a 13-page manifesto detailing his reasons for murdering innocent people.
According to the shooter’s writings, he wanted to bring attention to mental health issues, “how easy it is to buy a gun in Kentucky,” and ultimately to kill himself.
The 25-year-old shooter’s parents say he had mental health problems and confirmed he was taking medication, a common theme among mass murderers.
bonus: she's screaming in Russian, the cops are responding in Ukrainian because they legally have to
Showed GG this today. Had fun making duck lips and claw gestures at each other.
GG is nothing like her, but I feel like this is the sort of girl she always aspired to be, a useless ugly cunt who is so nasty and moody and bitchy she always gets her way. The platonic ideal of Ukrainian womanhood. They were discussing this on Ukrainian news (which we have on most days here), her hubby is apparently a deputat, I assume in the Rada, he's apparently in the passengers seat (which is hard to believe, yet not unbelievable). Member of Zelensky's jedi-run crook party, the servant of the people party.
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Anytime you have thousands of young men and heavy military equipment in one place you have guys getting splat. I remember in 2003 watching the news from the Invasion of Iraq and before they even crossed the border Bushes big dumb jedi invasion army was taking casualties from guys getting caught in tank tracks and guys killing themselves.
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Everything is rotting, everything is corroding, everything is breaking down, moving from a high energy state into a lower. Entropy is constantly increasing and is always going to win, and cold disorder will consume everything we know.
And some people can't accept that, which is pathetic.
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I thought everyone knew about Hate Day. Me and some fellow neo-nazis were going to meet up later on today for Hate Day dinner, followed by which we'll be going out to harass some gays and ethnic minorities and spread some far right misinformation. Later on we're going to be doing a Hate Stream where we'll be sharing anti-semitic canards and talking about how we hate various groups of people for no reason whatsoever, you are all welcome to join.
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Yeah, get out of the habit of using alcohol to relax with pills and pot. Most alcohol overuse is due to anxiety disorders. Valium, xanax, phenergan, marijuana, etc can replace alcohol to relax you.
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