How About a Little Jack There to Sanitize Those Hands

Leave it to the California teens to think of this: Distilling hand sanitizer to get the alcohol out of the gel.

Turns out the stuff we use to sanitize our hands from the filth that seems to be coated on everything we touch (never mind all that shit builds up our immune system) contains enough alcohol as a bottle of top shelf booze. 120 proof actually.

But teens being teens, while taking a cue from the science class that is “Breaking Bad” (or M*A*S*H, depending on your age), while smart enough to figure out how to take the gel and just leave the alcohol, don’t have the common sense to NOT over indulge. Associated Press is reporting that at least six teens have shown up in San Fernando Valley area ER’s in the past couple of months due to alcohol poisoning from drinking distilled hand sanitizer.

You know what this means, right? This means, since we live in the age of “save the children”, we are more than likely going to see hand sanitizer yanked from the shelves and either we are going to have to show an ID (like with spray paint) and they [the government] will want to it put behind the counter ie: the pharmacy.

Like cough syrup or bath salts, hand sanitizer looks to become the next cheap high for our teens. Cyrus Rangan, director of the toxicology bureau for the county public health department, states that: “All it takes is just a few swallows and you have a drunk teenager. There is no question that it is dangerous.”

But can we blame them looking for cheap ways to get wasted with the way we restrict every form of life lately? Heavens Forbid we actually let kids be kids and not sit on them every set of the way; telling them what to eat to watch to wear all the time, restricting growth and learning. No, lets not do any of that. Even though we all lived through it.

Whatever happen to the good-old-days of having to hang out in front of the liquor store asking people, in the hopes, of buying six or twelve packs?

That, and how long until networks like the Discovery Channel (with “MOONSHINERS” ) or A&E (“INTERVENTION”) pick up on this and glorifies it all for the bed dead society we are rapidly becoming.