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Israeli Gas Masks Help Get You High(er)
The Jewish Daily Forward ^ | April 22, 2012 | Josh Nathan-Kazis

Posted on 04/22/2012 3:19:45 PM PDT by pavlova

Israel has a shortage of civilian gas masks, but you wouldn’t know it from walking down Manhattan’s St. Mark’s Place, where the masks are on sale in half a dozen stores for a mere $25 each.

The Israeli model 4A1 gas masks on display in the East Village — where storefront noodle shops bump up against vintage clothing stores — might not protect you from a chemical weapons attack. That’s because their protective filters have been removed and replaced with foot-long acrylic bongs meant for smoking marijuana.

Gas mask bongs, used by pot aficionados to intensify the drug’s impact, started flooding American head shops about a decade ago, some insiders say. That is roughly around the same time that the Israeli government recalled millions of masks it had distributed to civilians during the 2003 invasion of Iraq that the United States led.

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TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Religion; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: gasmask; israel; marijuana; newyork
Weird . . .
1 posted on 04/22/2012 3:19:53 PM PDT by pavlova
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To: pavlova
Not really. In the service during 'Nam these were all the rage. We just used a plumbing fitting on the end of the hose.

Didn't last though, you soon ran out of O2 and had to pull it off. Was a great laugh though.

2 posted on 04/22/2012 3:27:22 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Typed using <FONT STYLE=SARCASM> unless otherwise noted)
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To: pavlova
Looks like it (4A1) is made to accept the standard NATO 40mm fitting.

The thing about the Israeli masks is that you can get them for children and dogs, too, iirc.

Of course, you probably wouldn't want to use a recalled mask for its intended use...

... and I hope it goes without saying that you wouldn't want to use recalled/non-recalled for children and/or dogs for the unintended "after-market" use, either.

3 posted on 04/22/2012 3:33:38 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Aevery_Freeman

“Not really. In the service during ‘Nam these were all the rage. We just used a plumbing fitting on the end of the hose.”

Yep. I made my own in college in the early 1970s using a mask from an Army-Navy store and plumbing fittings. Didn’t occur to us the galvanized plumbing fittings might not be the best thing to use. We used to hold it on co-eds faces until they almost passed thinking it was hilarious. They were much more malleable after a couple of sessions in the mask.


4 posted on 04/22/2012 4:42:02 PM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: pavlova

Stoners have the been using these for years..


5 posted on 04/22/2012 4:51:21 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: goseminoles

Yep. Had a hookah rigged with three M-17 series masks, back in the 70’s. Been there, done that. Had a lot of fun though....:)


6 posted on 04/22/2012 6:41:09 PM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: Aevery_Freeman
+ 1


heh heh heh...
7 posted on 04/22/2012 6:57:26 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: pavlova

Do NOT try this at home. Unless you want to bleed to death from the eyeballs for the next three days. (voice of experience, unfortunately...)


8 posted on 04/22/2012 8:42:33 PM PDT by redhead (Alaska: Step out of the bus and into the food chain.)
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To: pavlova

9 posted on 04/22/2012 10:11:50 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: pavlova

Wow....portable hotboxing!


10 posted on 04/22/2012 10:17:03 PM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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