Jeez. I thought it was a joke. And morbidly funny.
I’m going to be the contrarian and say that no drugs were involved.
Just so I can go “Nyah Nyah” if I’m right.
Are you high, or what?
ISTR hearing of such dope, but was personally familiar only with pipe dope (joint sealant).
I’m very familiar with both smoking dope from a pipe and smoking joints.
Or canny like a fox.
You’re going to feel real silly when we find out that this is all the result of some one in a million scientific phenomenon, and not sinful conduct.
These were good men who loved their mamas, and were victims of the polar vortex. Or maybe the monkeypox got them. Perhaps some fatal fungus lurked amongst the suburban shrubbery.
But you see fit to besmirch their good names. Nay! I, for one, proclaim these men heroes!
(OK, maybe a little high.)
Whatever the story turns out to be, the best we can hope for is that it will be puzzling and pitiable.
And here I thought my dad was the only person who referred to that stuff as pipe dope!
The wisest of men can’t see a fentanyl train coming at them at 100 mph.
Since they went outside in freezing weather I would guess they took something like meth that can generate feelings of being too hot and then died from fentanyl lased into it.
Hypothermia by itself has been known to do this.
(I think this may have been mentioned earlier.)
Yes but you don’t leave a warm house and stand out in the cold until you freeze to death. What you’re describing is what happens to someone who can’t get out of the cold. . Nobody in their right mind stands around freezing to death. If they had to they would break into the house.
The first indication this was drug induced will be an unlocked back door.
Are we in fact certain that they ultimately died from exposure or hypothermia?
Or, they (perhaps) OD’d, and their bodies simply froze? Admittedly I haven’t been following this story exceptionally closely. I knew a fellow in college, a little older going to school on the GI Bill. He was an admitted alcoholic who abstained from drinking alcohol. Some years later I got a phone call from his wife. While he wasn’t drinking alcohol, he was shooting up heroin and OD’d right on the couch after shooting up the works. Or more likely, one of the more synthetic derivatives. I think they were new then, as far as wide availability. I guess he was an “early adopter” of the modern day drug scourge.
I’ve no trouble imagining these guys “scored” some drugs of unknown quantity or quality and died within seconds or minutes. Apparently a few synthetics that were invented decades ago but considered unsuitable for licensing or production are being made. Veterinary tranquilizers and similar, extremely powerful. When someone thinks they are buying “Heroin”, it probably isn’t. Ya pays yer money and takes yer chances, I guess.
So this is actually the bit that I don’t get. Even if (as seems to be a possible/likely) drugs are involved, who wants to take drugs in a freezing backyard? Even if the house owner said “you can’t take drugs in my house”, their car was right there, right?
The cars were on the street. You’d do drugs in the backyard out of sight.
I believe it was in the 30s, while a week prior was truly frigid. I’ve hung out passing a pipe and drinking some beers in 30 degree weather.
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I’d completely forgotten about this use of the term dope. I built some of the balsa planes during grade school and used the stuff. I remember finding out I could use a thin layer of regular old Elmer’s on the paper instead of the expensive, harder to acquire, and harder to handle & apply (thinner fluid) dope. I used this technique for 7th grade science fair so I was first playing with this at age 11 or 12?
People can’t fly without an airplane seat but if they’re doped up they think they can.
Under the influence of bad dope these folks aren’t real smart or make good decisions.
That was what I was wondering. Something along those lines. So, if you end up with three dead guys in your backyard, people start asking questions. Inconvenient as hell, I betcha.
As I said before, dope that is not bad can be problematic WRT making good choices.
Sometimes people unexpectedly get a pure dose of something that wasn’t cut. That’ll kill you, too.