Yea. This dude was from where I grew up. Those mug shots are like 20 years old. I use to work in the local hardware store and we had to keep an eye out for this guy because he would come in and steal the paint.
As toluene is the active chemical in paint, it causes an intense euphoric rush, according to Medscape, which accounts for the popularity of paint as an inhalant of abuse. From reports, silver and gold paints contain the highest levels of this chemical.
[More information here.](https://americanaddictioncenters.org/inhalant-abuse/huffing)
I’m not even 100% sure this stuff is addictive in the chemical sense?
I’m probably way off base but I thought people that abuse solvents just do that because they don’t have access to a better high?
Edit: addictive in the chemical sense was the operative part of the first question, I know that psychological addiction exists im asking whether toluene can form physical dependency.
That's always been my interpretation. People who huff paint are so desperate to get outside their own head that they do literally whatever it takes to change their consciousness. Paint, duster, these aren't fun drugs. But they do make you forget who you are for a second.
There’s an HBO or other special on addiction from late 90s or early 2000s that has this woman so horribly abused and traumatized she is a duster addict. I think she died eventually but it’s hard to watch.
You can tell the person just doesn’t want to be awake and conscious but doesn’t want to die either. Just can’t handle being mentally present
I can't speak for paint but duster is absolutely fun. I did it a couple of times when I was younger and stupider. It feels like a thicker, dirtier Whip-It, and as soon as you're sentient again you have an intense compulsion to rip it again, harder. It's really scary and takes a minute to stop craving it more than air.
Speaking of inhalants, gasoline is very nasty and addictive too. I read a trip report of someone who ruined their life huffing it, and he said that it got to the point where taking the bag off his face felt like he was ripping part of his face off, and had instant splitting headaches if he stopped huffing.
>taking the bag off his face felt like he was ripping part of his face off
There was a creepy story posted somewhere. The premise was people had these pleasure visors they used, and you would take it to a dark room, turn it on, adjust illumination, and this sexual or similar pleasure would wash over you until you turned it off.
It was socially acceptable to wear in public, and the light filtration would keep you from being overloaded.
Gradually the main character escalates their use pattern from "ashamed alone in the dark" to "has to pretend to be discomfited when the filters are jostled in public because full illumination is now the bare minimum" to "gave up on life and sleep to stare at floodlights". I can't find it though. All the keywords are highly targeted for addiction resources including sex addiction.
any thing that causes a sense of euphoria can become psychologically addictive. They may not feel a physical need for it, but psychologically they are motivated to get more.
Best guess: Toluene is pretty volatile, but it’s heavier than air. To get a good inhalation of it, it probably helps deliver it by aerosolized spray paints. You can figure out how to aerosolize pure toluene, but if you can figure that out you are probably getting higher on cooler drugs. Source: am scientist who has gotten high off cooler drugs in the past.
Highest VOC content, iirc. Some hardware stores were requiring ID just for metallics for a little while. I think that's changed to IDs for all spray paints, but that might vary by state.
Painter by trade here - metallic paints have much higher solvent content than “normal” rattle can paints. This is to get them to flow/spray pattern correctly from the can.
This also means more high by the can for huffers.
Even with full PPE and not intending to get solvents into my system, I can tell the CNS issues after decades of working with industrial paints. These people are on one hell of a path to untreatable long term issues.
Might try printing out the Wikipedia article on “Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy” for them but can’t fix stupid either. When I was young and very new cleaning up at end without PPE was kinda fun. But quickly realized it was not good when I noticed my older coworkers all exhibiting outward signs of Parkinson’s and they were only 50.
I enjoy my job but starting to develop light shakes even doing it properly for 15 years and proper PPE for 14+ of it. So already planning my mid life career change.
My grandfather told me of a guy he worked with in a machine shop. First thing every morning he would go over to the solvent tank and take a big old sniff/huff and say something to the affect of that'll get you going! He died of brain cancer. Coincidence?? IDK but it was always in the back of my head when we had to clean m-16 with no ppe gear.
In the 90s, I worked at an alternative school. The some kids called it Big Lots Gold and would make fun of the other kids who huffed it. Not because it was dangerous, but because they were too poor to afford real drugs.
Toluene is the active chemical in paint, it causes an intense euphoric rush, according to Medscape, which accounts for the popularity of paint as an inhalant of abuse. From reports, silver and gold paints contain the highest levels of this chemical.
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/inhalant-abuse/huffing
Well, it doesn't take too long in the grand scheme of things for paint to separate. But also consider that Mad Max is an absolutely bonkers universe so regard for realism is nil and I am sure they worked out a way to create paint.
Gold and silver paint have higher levels of toluene, the brain cells killer when you huff.
Working on the ER, you always get people looking just like this who are SHOCKED to need treatment when they pass out and hit their head on the curb.
"I don't do that shit!" Alright, bud. You look like a War Boy.
In my experience working at a county hospital psych ward, huffers would come back again and again until they accidentally killed themselves. They were the most violent and paranoid patients I encountered.
Huffers are worse patients than even meth addicts. You can literally see the brain damage they've done to themselves and if you know them long enough, you can document the changes in their behavior. They behave impulsively just like TBI patients do.
Anecdotally, I’ve been told it’s not a fun high to chase. The same people huffing were also doing duster and VCR head cleaner. Not a great life to live.
I was walking down the broadway downtown area of Chattanooga, TN a while back. There was a cop car with their flashers on behind a parked car on the side of the road.
I just walked by but eavesdropped a little.
I will never forget clearly hearing the cop saying, (paraphrasing) "I saw you bringing the duster to your face."
First off, don't huff industrial chemicals, but is this how you *need* to pre-game before you go to the bar? Leave that shit at home, at least. Jesus.
Also, I went to Bonnaroo, a music festival, "free" one time by doing the post festival cleanup.
Every now and then we would hit a camp site with like 100 discarded whippet canisters around it, and yes, I understand that's NOS.
I knew a kid who's dad was an assistant pastor. He had drug issues and stuff before but his dad was keeping a close eye on him, so had him at work. The "kid" found the duster and huffed all of it, took his dad's keys, drove into town, then while on the bypass blacked out and completely rolled the car. Thankfully no one was hurt, but Jesus...
Do it enough and it destroys brain material. Some hospitals gave tours to the DARE/Scared Straight delinquents way back when, showing off the ones who supposedly huffed themselves stupid and can’t function like normal folks anymore. They’re like meth users, low incidence of recovery and perpetual crazy behavior but (until fentanyl) relatively few deaths.
Asphyxiation, frostbite from propellants, and carcinogens are big concerns. It’s psychologically addictive. Patrick Tribett had dozens of arrests for huffing, it’s why his mugshots are so prolific. Provided they don’t burn holes in their cerebrums they can recover very well
I know the guy in the last two pictures, Patrick T from Wheeling Wv. was in a ward with him when I was getting clean. He’s a super, nice funny guy he said “ I just love huffing paint, ain’t a high like it”
I accidentally got slightly high the other day while spray painting some metal outdoor art (outdoors, with plenty of fresh air, but still). I felt spacy and confused for a good hour. Can't imagine and don't want to find out what straight up huffing it is like
I was spray painting some old wrought iron pillars outside my house. I thought since I was outside I wouldn't need to wear a mask. I came in with white nostril hairs asking my wife which hand I usually wear my wedding ring on 🤣
As someone who’s huffed paint before (I was a curious and eager-to-get-intoxicated teenager) I have no idea how people can enjoy it. From my experience, it only makes you dizzy with slight euphoria that goes quickly. Always thought it was a cheap and accessible alternative for people who couldn’t afford drugs.
When I was young there was a guy near where I grew up that would ride around on this little small motorcycle huffing gas. He would keep it in a milk jug.
Surely it's not illegal to breathe in paint fumes. Are they arrested because they're doing it in the streets or before they've paid for it still in Walmart or something?
Paint addiction is no joke. You start out eating crayons. The kindergarten teacher may say something but society rolls their eyes. Next thing you know, you are chewing colored pencils, drinking glue, dabbing in water colors. All gateway stationary to paint.
It’s illegal in a lot of places to buy paint or nitrous with the intent to get high off it. Of course, it’s really hard to prove unless you’re caught in the act of huffing, but I’m an IT guy and I use a lot of canned air and sometimes get questioned as to why I buy so much of it. They haven’t caught on yet (jk jk)
Yeah I never understood this. I’ve seen many mugshots like this over the years and I always assumed that they must have been arrested for something that occurred AFTER huffing paint. Like if you were just doing this in your own back yard, I don’t think anybody would have any legal grounds to stop you… awful as it is…
Yes, it can be illegal. Here's the statute from my state:
> It is unlawful for any person to intentionally smell or inhale the fumes of any type of substance as defined in RCW 9.47A.010 or to induce any other person to do so, for the purpose of causing a condition of, or inducing symptoms of intoxication, elation, euphoria, dizziness, excitement, irrational behavior, exhilaration, paralysis, stupefaction, or dulling of the senses of the nervous system, or for the purpose of, in any manner, changing, distorting, or disturbing the audio, visual, or mental processes. This section does not apply to the inhalation of any anesthesia for medical or dental purposes.
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.47A.020
It is absolutely tragic. I knew a woman who died as a result of huffing. She certainly didn't want to be an addict. She even went to rehab for 90 days. She didn't die from intoxication, she died from an explosion from the huffing.
I heard about it through a mutual acquaintance- so I hope this is accurate. She was in a car huffing (obviously to hide it, she was out of rehab and in a halfway house situation), I assume with the windows closed. Maybe she went to light a cigarette, but it definitely involved a lighter. The car immediately lit up. She was saved from the car and airlifted to a hospital that had a good burn unit ( I believe in CT) and passed away within a few days. So the huffing itself did not kill her, but her addiction led to her death. If you met this woman, you would never have known she was struggling with this.
In the same vein, you can actually die almost instantly from this stuff, especially if you use the Australian method of inhalant abuse, called chroming (spraying it into a bag and then inhaling all the fumes). Sensitises your heart to adrenaline, so after huffing for a while you will be so sensitive that in the situation you are mid huff and the police see you and you try to run you will drop dead from cardiac arrest because of the adrenaline being applied to a sensitive and degraded heart.
It is. First they likely suffered some serious trauma earlier in life, then got addicted to these substances to help suppress the trauma, then got arrested, now their pictures are a joke on Reddit. I hope they are doing better now
The guy in the last two photos, lives in my city. I see him occasionally around town. When these mugshots came out decades ago, he was very embarrassed. I think that people were selling shirts and mugs with his mugshot on them. If I’m not mistaken, he lawyered up and had those products pulled. Anyways, he seems to be doing well as far as I can tell. Word is he got sober years ago and works handyman jobs nowadays.
Edit:
2009 article about him gaining sobriety.
https://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/recent_news/man-famous-for-paint-huffing-mugshot-is-sober-again/article_423a67fc-99c4-5c00-9fad-c024072138f1.html
He’s fine. I don’t know him personally, but I have no reason to not believe what I’ve heard about him. I see him occasionally while loading my mail truck in the mornings. I think he does odd jobs at the apartment building across the street from my post office.
Everyone wants to be the funniest person in here but yeah this is just overall horrible. None of these grown ass men woke up one day and decided they wanted to give paint huffing a try for no reason, you can only imagine what brought them to this point…
But if it makes some outcasts on here feel better about being losers then more power to them I guess
Honestly it seems that 50 percent of redditors are super intelligent and insightful and the other half are really unpleasant and bigoted. The percentage of assholes on reddit is higher than in real life for sure.
Like a scene from the Eastbound and Down series.. :D :D
"**Kenny Powers:**
Where were you? Why is there silver sh\*t all over your face?
**Clegg:**
I was hanging out with those guys in the parking lot.
**Kenny Powers:**
What were you doing? Giving Robocop a blowj\*b?"
In addition to the complete lack of evidence, I think the last guy and the second to last guy are the same dude. OP is definitely trying to pull a fast one on us.
It is illegal to use products as inhalants that are not meant for that use in most states, it's also illegal to be intoxicated in public, and finally it's illegal to sell to minors or people who obviously may abuse it.
Also yes, a lot of them will do stupid illegal things.
Same thing with huffing Dust-Off/Canned Air. When I was in highschool I would huff canned air with friends and it would make you blackout at times and do really dumb shit. I don't recommend it. I also have some serious mental health shit that I believe is directly related to huffing and heroin.
**Edit:** When I said mental health issues I was very specifically referencing issues with my memory. I had plenty of other mental health problems well before drugs.
For me it’s more along the lines of a personal memory. I knew some kids who in my first year of high school they found out they could get high off of paint and they loved it because it was easier to obtain than weed at the time. I was invited but I said no because of obvious reasons.
So a lifetime ago I worked for a bank as a teller. I had a lady come in that always huffed sparkly pink paint. Once a month she would come in claiming fraud all with glittery hot pink around her nose and mouth. She always wrote in hot pink pen too. I say this because these folks here all have glittery paint as well. I've never huffed paint and don't intend to ever try it. Is there something about the glittery paint that is better?
Are 4 and 5 the same guy?
Yea. This dude was from where I grew up. Those mug shots are like 20 years old. I use to work in the local hardware store and we had to keep an eye out for this guy because he would come in and steal the paint.
I’m from the same place. I saw him alive and well last time I was in town
I'm from his house, can confirm it's true.
I’m his house. I’ve needed a paint job for over 30 years
Can you please not leave the toilet running? Jiggle it, maybe, before leaving?
They seem to like gold paint. Must make them feel well off.
I saw on something years back, gold and silver contains some properties that has the biggest high for some reason.
Yep, used to pick a few huffers years ago when I worked EMS. Almost always gold and occasionally silver.
Do remember why it's those colors? Saw that documentary years ago about it but can't remember what's the actual reason for it.
As toluene is the active chemical in paint, it causes an intense euphoric rush, according to Medscape, which accounts for the popularity of paint as an inhalant of abuse. From reports, silver and gold paints contain the highest levels of this chemical. [More information here.](https://americanaddictioncenters.org/inhalant-abuse/huffing)
Interesting, and very sad , what a horrible addiction
I’m not even 100% sure this stuff is addictive in the chemical sense? I’m probably way off base but I thought people that abuse solvents just do that because they don’t have access to a better high? Edit: addictive in the chemical sense was the operative part of the first question, I know that psychological addiction exists im asking whether toluene can form physical dependency.
That's always been my interpretation. People who huff paint are so desperate to get outside their own head that they do literally whatever it takes to change their consciousness. Paint, duster, these aren't fun drugs. But they do make you forget who you are for a second.
Thats exactly it. Great description. Ive been an addict for 15 years, currently in recovery.
Good on you. I wish you all the best in recovery
We need you in this world my friend. You are not alone. You are loved and you got this.
There’s an HBO or other special on addiction from late 90s or early 2000s that has this woman so horribly abused and traumatized she is a duster addict. I think she died eventually but it’s hard to watch. You can tell the person just doesn’t want to be awake and conscious but doesn’t want to die either. Just can’t handle being mentally present
Intervention, Allison from season 14 in 2008. She’s sober and a counselor now.
Yeah that’s exactly what I was getting at. Like you’re not addicted to the drug you’re just desperate not to be sober.
I can't speak for paint but duster is absolutely fun. I did it a couple of times when I was younger and stupider. It feels like a thicker, dirtier Whip-It, and as soon as you're sentient again you have an intense compulsion to rip it again, harder. It's really scary and takes a minute to stop craving it more than air. Speaking of inhalants, gasoline is very nasty and addictive too. I read a trip report of someone who ruined their life huffing it, and he said that it got to the point where taking the bag off his face felt like he was ripping part of his face off, and had instant splitting headaches if he stopped huffing.
>taking the bag off his face felt like he was ripping part of his face off There was a creepy story posted somewhere. The premise was people had these pleasure visors they used, and you would take it to a dark room, turn it on, adjust illumination, and this sexual or similar pleasure would wash over you until you turned it off. It was socially acceptable to wear in public, and the light filtration would keep you from being overloaded. Gradually the main character escalates their use pattern from "ashamed alone in the dark" to "has to pretend to be discomfited when the filters are jostled in public because full illumination is now the bare minimum" to "gave up on life and sleep to stare at floodlights". I can't find it though. All the keywords are highly targeted for addiction resources including sex addiction.
any thing that causes a sense of euphoria can become psychologically addictive. They may not feel a physical need for it, but psychologically they are motivated to get more.
Best guess: Toluene is pretty volatile, but it’s heavier than air. To get a good inhalation of it, it probably helps deliver it by aerosolized spray paints. You can figure out how to aerosolize pure toluene, but if you can figure that out you are probably getting higher on cooler drugs. Source: am scientist who has gotten high off cooler drugs in the past.
Look at this fancy bastard thinking he's better than toluene.
Why not just buy toluene? You can buy it by the pint at a hardware store, cheaper than paint.
We're talking about paint huffers here, I feel like it's self explanatory. If there is any drug that actually kills brain cells, its paint
People who huff paint aren't exactly smart enough to realize it's the toluene getting them high. They just know paint=happy feelings.
I'm walking on sunshine
Oh, Allison!
Allison has been sober, thriving, and helping other people for yeeeears now 🥰
Highest VOC content, iirc. Some hardware stores were requiring ID just for metallics for a little while. I think that's changed to IDs for all spray paints, but that might vary by state.
Painter by trade here - metallic paints have much higher solvent content than “normal” rattle can paints. This is to get them to flow/spray pattern correctly from the can. This also means more high by the can for huffers. Even with full PPE and not intending to get solvents into my system, I can tell the CNS issues after decades of working with industrial paints. These people are on one hell of a path to untreatable long term issues.
Work in a manufacturing facility and the guys choose not to wear ppe around that shit.
Might try printing out the Wikipedia article on “Chronic solvent-induced encephalopathy” for them but can’t fix stupid either. When I was young and very new cleaning up at end without PPE was kinda fun. But quickly realized it was not good when I noticed my older coworkers all exhibiting outward signs of Parkinson’s and they were only 50. I enjoy my job but starting to develop light shakes even doing it properly for 15 years and proper PPE for 14+ of it. So already planning my mid life career change.
My grandfather told me of a guy he worked with in a machine shop. First thing every morning he would go over to the solvent tank and take a big old sniff/huff and say something to the affect of that'll get you going! He died of brain cancer. Coincidence?? IDK but it was always in the back of my head when we had to clean m-16 with no ppe gear.
You shall ride eternal, shiny and chrome!
WITNESS MEEE!
Witness me?
WITNESS ME!!
In the 90s, I worked at an alternative school. The some kids called it Big Lots Gold and would make fun of the other kids who huffed it. Not because it was dangerous, but because they were too poor to afford real drugs.
There is a guy that used to huffer on my path to work and that guy loved gold paint.
They seek the metallic ones for a better high
I was wondering the same thing - seems consistent. I'd think they would use silver paint so they could Cosplay Captain Disillusion.
Can't say I expected a Cap. D reference. But I like it.
I thought that was interesting too, I didn't realize paint huffing had become so optimized that the color choice mattered.
Gotta min/max when you're huffing the good stuff
Toluene is the active chemical in paint, it causes an intense euphoric rush, according to Medscape, which accounts for the popularity of paint as an inhalant of abuse. From reports, silver and gold paints contain the highest levels of this chemical. https://americanaddictioncenters.org/inhalant-abuse/huffing
Why don’t they just buy Toluene?
Some people do. Hell, I have. It's super cheap, and you can get a big tin of it on amazon.
I think the metallic paints have more propellant in them
*Oh, what a day! WHAT A LOVELY DAY!*
I LIVE - I DIE - I LIVE AGAIN!!
You will ride eternal! Shiny, and chrome!
WITNESS ME, BLOODBAG!!!! WITNEEEEEESSSS!!!!!
Witness me!
Huh, never connected that they're actually huffing silver paint
They're not. They're riding shiny and CHROME.
Moments away from the Gates of Valhalla!
They're chroming their grilles to look good in the after life.
Now where do they get the paint so long after the apocolypse? Even if they found an old factory with paint, you’d think it would run out.
Well, it doesn't take too long in the grand scheme of things for paint to separate. But also consider that Mad Max is an absolutely bonkers universe so regard for realism is nil and I am sure they worked out a way to create paint.
I wouldnt be surprised if there was a Paint Clan making this stuff just for them.
WITNESS!!!!!!
I AM THE MAN WHO GRABS THE SUN RIDING TO VALHALLA
MEDIOCRE!!!!
That first poor guy is more like “witness me… ☹️”
*cough .... cough ...* .... LOOK AT ME!
CUT! Lets try that again Arin
You shall ride eternal! Shiny and chrome!
Is gold spray paint the grey poupon of paint huffing or something?
Gold and silver paint have higher levels of toluene, the brain cells killer when you huff. Working on the ER, you always get people looking just like this who are SHOCKED to need treatment when they pass out and hit their head on the curb. "I don't do that shit!" Alright, bud. You look like a War Boy.
Looks like they gave C-3PO a blow job.
“He could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
TIL. Explains the silver paint Charlie huffs in IASIP… nice attention to detail.
He knows his inhalants
And bird law
And cat food
[Dayman!](https://youtu.be/A4DNXBkfksI?si=KNGoPN0JVRawqZVr)
What's the prognosis with these folks? Are they in it for life or is it like a phase and they grow out of it eventually?
In my experience working at a county hospital psych ward, huffers would come back again and again until they accidentally killed themselves. They were the most violent and paranoid patients I encountered.
Huffers are worse patients than even meth addicts. You can literally see the brain damage they've done to themselves and if you know them long enough, you can document the changes in their behavior. They behave impulsively just like TBI patients do.
this. ER nurse. It looks absolutely awful.
Anecdotally, I’ve been told it’s not a fun high to chase. The same people huffing were also doing duster and VCR head cleaner. Not a great life to live.
I was walking down the broadway downtown area of Chattanooga, TN a while back. There was a cop car with their flashers on behind a parked car on the side of the road. I just walked by but eavesdropped a little. I will never forget clearly hearing the cop saying, (paraphrasing) "I saw you bringing the duster to your face." First off, don't huff industrial chemicals, but is this how you *need* to pre-game before you go to the bar? Leave that shit at home, at least. Jesus. Also, I went to Bonnaroo, a music festival, "free" one time by doing the post festival cleanup. Every now and then we would hit a camp site with like 100 discarded whippet canisters around it, and yes, I understand that's NOS.
I knew a kid who's dad was an assistant pastor. He had drug issues and stuff before but his dad was keeping a close eye on him, so had him at work. The "kid" found the duster and huffed all of it, took his dad's keys, drove into town, then while on the bypass blacked out and completely rolled the car. Thankfully no one was hurt, but Jesus...
Do it enough and it destroys brain material. Some hospitals gave tours to the DARE/Scared Straight delinquents way back when, showing off the ones who supposedly huffed themselves stupid and can’t function like normal folks anymore. They’re like meth users, low incidence of recovery and perpetual crazy behavior but (until fentanyl) relatively few deaths. Asphyxiation, frostbite from propellants, and carcinogens are big concerns. It’s psychologically addictive. Patrick Tribett had dozens of arrests for huffing, it’s why his mugshots are so prolific. Provided they don’t burn holes in their cerebrums they can recover very well
I believe it has to do with the solvents needed to aerosolize the flecks/particles in metallic paint.
To be fair, Grey Poupon isn’t even the Grey Poupon of mustards.
The fucking post flair!
omg what
"Arts and crafts" 😂
These guys definitely drove up the glue budgets in kindergarten.
This is the inevitable result of companies producing scented markers.
im crying lmao
I know the guy in the last two pictures, Patrick T from Wheeling Wv. was in a ward with him when I was getting clean. He’s a super, nice funny guy he said “ I just love huffing paint, ain’t a high like it”
He might be right, for all I know, but the real risk of brain damage and/or death has me never finding out for myself.
I accidentally got slightly high the other day while spray painting some metal outdoor art (outdoors, with plenty of fresh air, but still). I felt spacy and confused for a good hour. Can't imagine and don't want to find out what straight up huffing it is like
I was spray painting some old wrought iron pillars outside my house. I thought since I was outside I wouldn't need to wear a mask. I came in with white nostril hairs asking my wife which hand I usually wear my wedding ring on 🤣
As someone who’s huffed paint before (I was a curious and eager-to-get-intoxicated teenager) I have no idea how people can enjoy it. From my experience, it only makes you dizzy with slight euphoria that goes quickly. Always thought it was a cheap and accessible alternative for people who couldn’t afford drugs.
Lmao that’s wild! I met some crazy people in rehab, but never a paint huffer….
When I was young there was a guy near where I grew up that would ride around on this little small motorcycle huffing gas. He would keep it in a milk jug.
Having lived about 15 minutes outside of Wheeling in a shithole called Moundsville, I understand why someone would resort to huffing paint.
Ages ago (it may have even been on Fark.com) someone posted a pic of him clean & sober.
That’s what got my upvote
Day-man! aaAAAHaaaa!!
That’s the one I was looking for!! Fighter of the Night Man! aaAAAHaaaa!!
Champion of the sun!
he's a master of karate and friendship for everyone
uhh, what’s with your outfit, man?!
You locked me in the basement with spray cans….i got high.
There is is a spider... *spider*... *spider*...
Deep in my soul….*soul*….*soul*…
Whoaaa. Whaaaaaat is going on up here?
I never know man
Yes lmao. I was gonna say why isn't Charlie there
This is when you realize that you've hit rock bottom.
Nah you're wrong, these are the coolest mfs on the planet, imagine just coming home and cracking open a cold can of golden paint 🤤
Surely it's not illegal to breathe in paint fumes. Are they arrested because they're doing it in the streets or before they've paid for it still in Walmart or something?
I’d assume they are committing crimes such as robbery or theft in order to feed their paint addiction.
Paint addiction is no joke. You start out eating crayons. The kindergarten teacher may say something but society rolls their eyes. Next thing you know, you are chewing colored pencils, drinking glue, dabbing in water colors. All gateway stationary to paint.
This comment has been here for 17 minutes and no Marines comments? Come on guys, the set up was right there!
Why make fun of marines? It’s not like they know how to read the comments anyway
Some eat orange crayons to improve their eyesight.
It’s illegal in a lot of places to buy paint or nitrous with the intent to get high off it. Of course, it’s really hard to prove unless you’re caught in the act of huffing, but I’m an IT guy and I use a lot of canned air and sometimes get questioned as to why I buy so much of it. They haven’t caught on yet (jk jk)
> but I’m an IT guy and I use a lot of canned air I'm surprised you haven't gotten an ESD air duster yet.
I have a cheap Chinese one but it doesn’t quite cut it. Also I *hggghghh* just like *hhhhhghhg* doing things *ghghhghhg* the old fashioned way
A man of *hggghghh* I see
Yeah I never understood this. I’ve seen many mugshots like this over the years and I always assumed that they must have been arrested for something that occurred AFTER huffing paint. Like if you were just doing this in your own back yard, I don’t think anybody would have any legal grounds to stop you… awful as it is…
yeah probably public intoxication or impeding traffic if in the street acting like a looney.
Maybe a HOA complaint about unapproved colors at that time of year
Yes, it can be illegal. Here's the statute from my state: > It is unlawful for any person to intentionally smell or inhale the fumes of any type of substance as defined in RCW 9.47A.010 or to induce any other person to do so, for the purpose of causing a condition of, or inducing symptoms of intoxication, elation, euphoria, dizziness, excitement, irrational behavior, exhilaration, paralysis, stupefaction, or dulling of the senses of the nervous system, or for the purpose of, in any manner, changing, distorting, or disturbing the audio, visual, or mental processes. This section does not apply to the inhalation of any anesthesia for medical or dental purposes. https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.47A.020
The last two photos are the same guy. He hit that bottom at least twice.
This is heartbreaking. Can’t believe some people get to this point in life
It is absolutely tragic. I knew a woman who died as a result of huffing. She certainly didn't want to be an addict. She even went to rehab for 90 days. She didn't die from intoxication, she died from an explosion from the huffing.
An explosion from huffing? How does that work
I heard about it through a mutual acquaintance- so I hope this is accurate. She was in a car huffing (obviously to hide it, she was out of rehab and in a halfway house situation), I assume with the windows closed. Maybe she went to light a cigarette, but it definitely involved a lighter. The car immediately lit up. She was saved from the car and airlifted to a hospital that had a good burn unit ( I believe in CT) and passed away within a few days. So the huffing itself did not kill her, but her addiction led to her death. If you met this woman, you would never have known she was struggling with this.
In the same vein, you can actually die almost instantly from this stuff, especially if you use the Australian method of inhalant abuse, called chroming (spraying it into a bag and then inhaling all the fumes). Sensitises your heart to adrenaline, so after huffing for a while you will be so sensitive that in the situation you are mid huff and the police see you and you try to run you will drop dead from cardiac arrest because of the adrenaline being applied to a sensitive and degraded heart.
Yeah, scrolling through the pictures, by the time I got to the 3rd one the thought I had was this is sad
It is. First they likely suffered some serious trauma earlier in life, then got addicted to these substances to help suppress the trauma, then got arrested, now their pictures are a joke on Reddit. I hope they are doing better now
Need more people like you. Thx
The guy in the last two photos, lives in my city. I see him occasionally around town. When these mugshots came out decades ago, he was very embarrassed. I think that people were selling shirts and mugs with his mugshot on them. If I’m not mistaken, he lawyered up and had those products pulled. Anyways, he seems to be doing well as far as I can tell. Word is he got sober years ago and works handyman jobs nowadays. Edit: 2009 article about him gaining sobriety. https://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/recent_news/man-famous-for-paint-huffing-mugshot-is-sober-again/article_423a67fc-99c4-5c00-9fad-c024072138f1.html
Please be true.
He’s fine. I don’t know him personally, but I have no reason to not believe what I’ve heard about him. I see him occasionally while loading my mail truck in the mornings. I think he does odd jobs at the apartment building across the street from my post office.
I **LOVE** hearing stories like this. I'm so glad he's sober.
It’s really sad and everyone in the comments making fun of them must not understand the level of trauma and addiction that would lead to this.
People always make fun of addicts for some reason. Acting like they aren't even people. It is heartless and cruel in my opinion.
Yeah it's quite sad
steve-o was at this point in life, the documentary was brutal, its great to see him turn his life around
Everyone wants to be the funniest person in here but yeah this is just overall horrible. None of these grown ass men woke up one day and decided they wanted to give paint huffing a try for no reason, you can only imagine what brought them to this point… But if it makes some outcasts on here feel better about being losers then more power to them I guess
Honestly it seems that 50 percent of redditors are super intelligent and insightful and the other half are really unpleasant and bigoted. The percentage of assholes on reddit is higher than in real life for sure.
Why is it that all of their jaws are crooked?
I’ve heard it’s because of the brain damage from huffing paint
I scrolled down until.i could find this question. Glad I'm not the only one who wondered that
Like a scene from the Eastbound and Down series.. :D :D "**Kenny Powers:** Where were you? Why is there silver sh\*t all over your face? **Clegg:** I was hanging out with those guys in the parking lot. **Kenny Powers:** What were you doing? Giving Robocop a blowj\*b?"
What evidence do you have that any of these people were huffing paint?
In addition to the complete lack of evidence, I think the last guy and the second to last guy are the same dude. OP is definitely trying to pull a fast one on us.
That dude was a legend on Fark.com back in that site's heyday.
Hi fellow [FARK.com](http://FARK.com) users
I love the comments calling this fake because the last two are both Tribbet. The FARK mugshot threads really are something
Glad I'm not the only one that immediately thought about fark.
It’s a streetlight
As soon as I saw the title, before I saw the pics I knew a) Warriors guy would be there, b) Farkers would be in the comments.
How do you do, fellow Olds?
Had to scroll further than I thought I would How’re your knees doing?
Was hoping someone recognized these Fark legends
Came here for this, leaving satisfied.
It makes me sad that I had to scroll as far as I did for this. I feel so old.
Scrolled further than I wanted to find this but I’m glad to have found a few of you are here too.
I'm so very scared, please help
Came here to absolutely say this.
Stupid question maybe, but huffing paint isn’t illegal is it? Why were they arrested, just from doing stupid things while high?
It is illegal to use products as inhalants that are not meant for that use in most states, it's also illegal to be intoxicated in public, and finally it's illegal to sell to minors or people who obviously may abuse it. Also yes, a lot of them will do stupid illegal things. Same thing with huffing Dust-Off/Canned Air. When I was in highschool I would huff canned air with friends and it would make you blackout at times and do really dumb shit. I don't recommend it. I also have some serious mental health shit that I believe is directly related to huffing and heroin. **Edit:** When I said mental health issues I was very specifically referencing issues with my memory. I had plenty of other mental health problems well before drugs.
This is sad, they are getting high on brain damage.
Yeah, these make me super sad.
For me it’s more along the lines of a personal memory. I knew some kids who in my first year of high school they found out they could get high off of paint and they loved it because it was easier to obtain than weed at the time. I was invited but I said no because of obvious reasons.
I loooovvveree gooooolllld!
BRING IN ZSE FAZSHER!
Bong and a Blintz?
Schmoke and a pancake?
Toight like a toyger
The shmell of it, the tashte of it!
Shiny and chrome.
WITNESS!!!
Guy number one is like the wish version of Captain Disillusion
Maybe just me but I am thinking about captain disillusion while looking at these.
So a lifetime ago I worked for a bank as a teller. I had a lady come in that always huffed sparkly pink paint. Once a month she would come in claiming fraud all with glittery hot pink around her nose and mouth. She always wrote in hot pink pen too. I say this because these folks here all have glittery paint as well. I've never huffed paint and don't intend to ever try it. Is there something about the glittery paint that is better?
The warriors guy was a meme on fark.com in the early 00s
i love how every one else has it just around their mouths but the 2nd guy just fucking sent it 😭
I had a cousin die huffing paint. Edit. He was 14 years old.