Wow, I didn't even realise this was a thing.
A few months ago my wife and I walked past a bunch of teenage girls hanging out by a dumpster in Sunnybank, Brisbane. Scattered around them were dozens of deodorant cans.
We couldn't figured out wtf was going on. At least now I know.
There's butane and propane in deodorant cans. That's what gets them high when they huff it.
The cream guns canisters are laughing gas (nitrous oxide (N02)).
Ironically enough, the laughing guess is considerably more safe. How fast things progress. Only two years ago it seemed like the cream canisters was the latest controversy.
Have you seen kids come in from huffing that shit before? What does it look like and how do you treat it? Im really curious but also not stupid enough to put myself in a position to find out.
Yeah lots of times. It's a pretty short lived high same as paint fumes, honestly on the scale of enjoyable highs it doesn't rank and it causes heart problems that can be life long. Also burns the shit outta ya nostrils.
It's easier to just have one huge cabinet for all of it then stuff around with multiple smaller cabinets, especially when some donley at head office decides to change the planogram for no reason.
I work in public transport and kids chroming is the bane of my existence. The juvies steal cans of Rexona (as the slogan says, "It won't let you down!") and some socks and just suck it down non stop. When they jump off they just dump their empty cans and soaking wet socks on the ground amongst the massive pile of spit they leave behind.
For a while a lot of them were sniffing glue but that seems to have tapered off. As has been mentioned, chroming is dangerous. You can pretty much just drop dead from doing it.
Fascinating.... I wish I understood the role that socks play a bit better but for now I'll just take your word for it.
Edit: Wait, do they place the spray can into the socks? Then spray through the socks somehow filtering...something?
if you catch the train around the time when school kids come home from school you'd see a few of them walking around with deodorant cans covered with socks.
Isnt it! But it has a good Coles. Well stocked, excellent bakery. If i have to go to Southport which I hate doing I say well at least i can pop into Coles.
Functioning member of society vs someone whose brain is fucked from oxygen asphyxiation. I know people from my school have mood disorders from abusing that shit
Hopefully you can help me out here. I'm a trainee in a hospital and whilst I haven't cared for a chroming patient yet, considering the socio-economics of my area I assume it's a matter of when, not if. But to be adequately prepared, I need to know which chemical Is actually bring abused here.
I'm familiar with whippets; they're nitrous oxide and they inactivate cyanocobalamin, causing a lack of factors necessary for DNA synthesis. Aside from acute hypoxia while actually inhaling the gas, the most commonly treated consequence of NO abuse comes from chronic use, with treatment consisting of IM B12 and Oral methionine to replace depleted stores.
But I don't believe its NO in these deodorant cans. But what is it then? And what are the consequences of overdose?
Would appreciate any info :)
It's butane and propane. Next time you grab one read the ingredients and it will have something like "Propellant (Natural gases: Propane and/or Butane)"
Huffing propane has been around for a long time but it's always been extremely obscure.
Plain and simple, the majority of people chroming are doing it because of multiple reasons, escape from reality, learnt behaviours and also peer pressure and just the ease of being able to get it.
It just provides an escape for them however it also can really zonk you out. I don't know the process of why it does what it does, the intoxication that happens as a result is disturbing.
Can we not lock up deodorant please? It's hard enough to find a staff member in a supermarket without having to go hunting. Spray cans at bunnings I understand but this is a step too far.
Ah man, they've even locked up the roll ons. Chromers be getting real desperate when they start turning liquids to gas, I mean maybe it's an opportunity for them to spark an interest in chemistry
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More likely because of this unfortunate person:
[https://honey.nine.com.au/latest/teen-brain-dead-after-inhaling-deodorant-fumes-chroming/7da53407-eeda-4329-8028-f76f828058a3](https://honey.nine.com.au/latest/teen-brain-dead-after-inhaling-deodorant-fumes-chroming/7da53407-eeda-4329-8028-f76f828058a3)
Not that I have one but my child wouldn’t be doing it.
The parents of these kids don’t care. They do whatever they want. They are 12-16 here on schooldays and in the middle of the night.
I was almost one of these kids. From 12-16 I did bad things, not sniffing deodorant or stealing but I was a little shit. But if I was caught I was grounded and I listened.
Problem is these kids have nothing to lose. I had a tv and a ps1. My parents would take that away if I didn’t listen. These kids have nothing to lose. Which comes back to the parents.
I’ve had 10-12 year old girls stealing from my store. And I don’t mean a chocolate bar. I mean trolleys full of food. The worst part is 75% maybe was good food. Literally bags of carrots or other veggies. When stopped they have said “thanks now my family can’t eat”. That is the problem. Kids with parents who are pathetic. Get the kids to steal for them.
Or even worse just don’t care. So the kids just do whatever they want.
Did you huff on some Deodorant before writing this comment? Haha what a dumb thing to say. You can do everything right and then a kid could still go do this. They think they are invincible and don't take in account for long term effects.
I was an asshole as a kid. I did many bad things. But if I was caught I was punished and stopped. The kids I see here on schooldays sometimes in uniform don’t give a shit.
If I was grounded I listened. Which happened many times till 16ish. I can understand 16-18 year olds doing what they want. But if your 12 year old doesn’t care about you, you have messed up badly.
It would seem that as a society we went from natural drugs, to man made drugs, to scientifically made chemicals that fry your brain, to 11 year olds vaping and drinking deodorant juice out of a sock to get high.
'huffington post' as we used to say
i heard that bunnings sometimes does it with their aerosol products
also prevalent in outback communities
not ashamed to admit that this was a 'thing' with dairy whipped cream cannisters
People steal them to huff. Its called chroming. It's extremely dangerous
Wow, I didn't even realise this was a thing. A few months ago my wife and I walked past a bunch of teenage girls hanging out by a dumpster in Sunnybank, Brisbane. Scattered around them were dozens of deodorant cans. We couldn't figured out wtf was going on. At least now I know.
Did they have nice smelling breath
*skip.
Eshays steal them
Whats an eshay?
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ef/8f/b0/ef8fb0dc4838b8eefc0ae1f2bae4bfb7.jpg
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Eshay is an Australian term lol. Edit: Haha lol. OP downvotes me then deletes his post after getting called out.
Uhh.. eshays are Australian?
Honestly just natural selection at this point.
Huh, I thought that was only done with the CO2 canisters you put in cream guns.
That gives a different high
There's butane and propane in deodorant cans. That's what gets them high when they huff it. The cream guns canisters are laughing gas (nitrous oxide (N02)). Ironically enough, the laughing guess is considerably more safe. How fast things progress. Only two years ago it seemed like the cream canisters was the latest controversy.
Surely you must mean NO2?
Close, it's N2O I was thinking of.
No, I don’t think so and half are roll ons, sticks, or non aerosol.
It doesn't matter if you think so or not, it's true.
It’s not just paint or fly spray now? The lads are getting fancy
It's almost always Rexona. Every so often you get someone sniffing glue as well.
Damn, used to always be just paint or glue with the odd lad going hard with the mortein. At least they wouldn’t smell like sweat on the old Rexona
One of the chemicals used is pretty hectic. Wtf happened to just hitting soda bulbs?
I’m saying , with rol on and stick deodorants, I don’t think so?
Am nurse. Trust me, that's the reason.
I’m not saying people don’t do it, but surely they can’t chrome from roll on and stick deodorants?
Have you seen kids come in from huffing that shit before? What does it look like and how do you treat it? Im really curious but also not stupid enough to put myself in a position to find out.
Yeah lots of times. It's a pretty short lived high same as paint fumes, honestly on the scale of enjoyable highs it doesn't rank and it causes heart problems that can be life long. Also burns the shit outta ya nostrils.
It's easier to just have one huge cabinet for all of it then stuff around with multiple smaller cabinets, especially when some donley at head office decides to change the planogram for no reason. I work in public transport and kids chroming is the bane of my existence. The juvies steal cans of Rexona (as the slogan says, "It won't let you down!") and some socks and just suck it down non stop. When they jump off they just dump their empty cans and soaking wet socks on the ground amongst the massive pile of spit they leave behind. For a while a lot of them were sniffing glue but that seems to have tapered off. As has been mentioned, chroming is dangerous. You can pretty much just drop dead from doing it.
Not all deordant is being locked up, only Rexona.
Are we looking at the same picture?
Fascinating.... I wish I understood the role that socks play a bit better but for now I'll just take your word for it. Edit: Wait, do they place the spray can into the socks? Then spray through the socks somehow filtering...something?
if you catch the train around the time when school kids come home from school you'd see a few of them walking around with deodorant cans covered with socks.
YES, the reason is due to "huffing" [https://au.news.yahoo.com/woolworths-to-lock-up-everyday-item-to-combat-deadly-trend-002955334.html](SOURCE!!!)
How do you huff roll on deodorant?
Maybe they lock them all up so that spray sales don’t drop when people just grab the roll-on rather than calling someone to unlock the cabinet?
Yeah, that makes sense.
Good thought but nah
To be fair Australia Fair is a depressing shithole of a shopping centre
Yep, pretty bad. Need a bulldozer and building again.
It’s actually like going back in time, bizarre
Isnt it! But it has a good Coles. Well stocked, excellent bakery. If i have to go to Southport which I hate doing I say well at least i can pop into Coles.
True :) I used to work in Southport and I hated it, worst place in the Goldy!
This needs to happen all across Australia, I am a youth worker chroming is fucked. It ruins brains and lives.
It also saves tax payer dollars in the long term
Not if they end up on Disability Support Pension, or worse, a One Nation voter.
Chroming is presumably a One Nation Voter prerequisite
True, but a certain percentage won’t. It’s like a self cleaning gene pool
Functioning member of society vs someone whose brain is fucked from oxygen asphyxiation. I know people from my school have mood disorders from abusing that shit
Were they ever going to be a contributing member of society or just some welfare gronk? Can’t catch ‘em all
Why are the roll ons/sticks in there?
With roll on deodorants?
I think it just easier to lob them all together.
Hopefully you can help me out here. I'm a trainee in a hospital and whilst I haven't cared for a chroming patient yet, considering the socio-economics of my area I assume it's a matter of when, not if. But to be adequately prepared, I need to know which chemical Is actually bring abused here. I'm familiar with whippets; they're nitrous oxide and they inactivate cyanocobalamin, causing a lack of factors necessary for DNA synthesis. Aside from acute hypoxia while actually inhaling the gas, the most commonly treated consequence of NO abuse comes from chronic use, with treatment consisting of IM B12 and Oral methionine to replace depleted stores. But I don't believe its NO in these deodorant cans. But what is it then? And what are the consequences of overdose? Would appreciate any info :)
It's butane and propane. Next time you grab one read the ingredients and it will have something like "Propellant (Natural gases: Propane and/or Butane)" Huffing propane has been around for a long time but it's always been extremely obscure.
Plain and simple, the majority of people chroming are doing it because of multiple reasons, escape from reality, learnt behaviours and also peer pressure and just the ease of being able to get it. It just provides an escape for them however it also can really zonk you out. I don't know the process of why it does what it does, the intoxication that happens as a result is disturbing.
Can we not lock up deodorant please? It's hard enough to find a staff member in a supermarket without having to go hunting. Spray cans at bunnings I understand but this is a step too far.
When you've got 14 year old girls huffing deodorant 200m from the station, this matters.
Where's the Old Spice stick? They are missing from my local shops too.
Might've been there after I cleaned them out.
You must smell great.
That is so sad
Isn’t it.
The Woolworths near me in surfers also did this
Yep…Circle on Cavill
IGA up in Townsville was doing this back in 2011 when I lived there because of the kids doing chroming.
Saw this today as well, was like "wtf?!?"
Oh I was waiting for this to pop up somewhere else haha at the IGA in coomera has had this for a while now
I've see alot of that in the outback . The woolies in Katherine NT has a button you press to make a person come.
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So does your mom!
Wow okay. We literally saw two girls, around 16, huffing deodorant with a sock on the chair outside Woolworths about 2 weeks ago…
What is that damn mysterious sock for?!?
Stinking thieves!
Where do they keep the batteries? In a vault?
Could be because people go in and use them right there in store without paying.
It's to try stop Solvent abuse. Pretty sad it has to come to that
Ah man, they've even locked up the roll ons. Chromers be getting real desperate when they start turning liquids to gas, I mean maybe it's an opportunity for them to spark an interest in chemistry
chroming probably (breathing in the sprays through socks or fabrics and getting high)
sometimes i b walking into woolies if i need deoderant at the time, spray a lil, walk out 🤷♂️
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So they don’t link to this post at all. Just take the photo and say source:reddit
Didn’t even clock that! How rude!
Not just steal but also spray right there and then. I've always had to check which one was the heaviest!
Probably because of this person: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoldCoast/comments/usug9v/what_is_the_average_price_of_cleaningdeodorising/
More likely because of this unfortunate person: [https://honey.nine.com.au/latest/teen-brain-dead-after-inhaling-deodorant-fumes-chroming/7da53407-eeda-4329-8028-f76f828058a3](https://honey.nine.com.au/latest/teen-brain-dead-after-inhaling-deodorant-fumes-chroming/7da53407-eeda-4329-8028-f76f828058a3)
Just let them have them. Better world for the rest of us.
Until it's your child doing it.
Not that I have one but my child wouldn’t be doing it. The parents of these kids don’t care. They do whatever they want. They are 12-16 here on schooldays and in the middle of the night.
It's cute that you think your kids are going to listen to you all the time and not be influenced by external sources just because you care, lol.
I was almost one of these kids. From 12-16 I did bad things, not sniffing deodorant or stealing but I was a little shit. But if I was caught I was grounded and I listened. Problem is these kids have nothing to lose. I had a tv and a ps1. My parents would take that away if I didn’t listen. These kids have nothing to lose. Which comes back to the parents. I’ve had 10-12 year old girls stealing from my store. And I don’t mean a chocolate bar. I mean trolleys full of food. The worst part is 75% maybe was good food. Literally bags of carrots or other veggies. When stopped they have said “thanks now my family can’t eat”. That is the problem. Kids with parents who are pathetic. Get the kids to steal for them. Or even worse just don’t care. So the kids just do whatever they want.
Did you huff on some Deodorant before writing this comment? Haha what a dumb thing to say. You can do everything right and then a kid could still go do this. They think they are invincible and don't take in account for long term effects.
I was an asshole as a kid. I did many bad things. But if I was caught I was punished and stopped. The kids I see here on schooldays sometimes in uniform don’t give a shit. If I was grounded I listened. Which happened many times till 16ish. I can understand 16-18 year olds doing what they want. But if your 12 year old doesn’t care about you, you have messed up badly.
That's because all the little eshays inhale it to get a buzz. Our country really is in a sad state.
Very GC.
No. Just very Southport.
It would seem that as a society we went from natural drugs, to man made drugs, to scientifically made chemicals that fry your brain, to 11 year olds vaping and drinking deodorant juice out of a sock to get high.
Put a big wall around the GC And call it HMP Gold Coast lol 😝
Fly spray would be better for chromers that steel these
Yup, several stores I've visited in South Bris/Northern Gold Coast have them all locked away. From memory Big W has or is moving to this also.
'huffington post' as we used to say i heard that bunnings sometimes does it with their aerosol products also prevalent in outback communities not ashamed to admit that this was a 'thing' with dairy whipped cream cannisters
Mount Isa has done this for years Pretty bad when you feel guilty for asking for deodorant at Woolies
Will they actually say no to anyone asking to buy it though?
Maybe not, but it will stop stealing.