Bucket Bongs on the Terrace

[Guest niall]

Perth's Adelaide Terrace (turns into St Georges Terrace past Victoria Ave) is home to many corporate cannabis users. Some duck out the back for a quiet joint after work, some smoke in the alleyways on the way to their Friday Beer'o'Clock local, some just toke openly while walking down the Terrace at lunchtime or on the way home. Nobody really cares, it's not uncommon and a quick glance around usually reveals smirks and winks as our favourite bouquet wafts on the air.

 

But this week, a bucket bong was found in the toilet cistern of the building where I work Building management aren't too happy (or knowledgeable) and sent out an email to all tenants asking for the activity to be stopped. Among those tenants are the Police's Special Crimes Squad and the Major Fraud Investigation Squad.

 

About a month ago I was leaving work late one night, and as I got in the lift a grin spread across my face. The entire lift shaft reeked! I laughed to myself and went on my way. With the bucket discovery in the outdoor toilet/shower facilities, it dawned on me that the industrial exhaust fans in the toilets (probably the main attraction of smoking in there, along with a locked door and constant use throughout the day by sports players) is probably extracting all of their air into the main venting system inside the building Apparently they've been having problems with some of the basement's fire alarms for a while now

 

I still can't stop laughing about this, just picturing one of our desperate friends doing buckets in a toilet cistern at lunchtime brings tears to my eyes. And no, it wasn't me but good on 'em I say, they're a welcome addition to the Terrace Smokers Guild and hopefully it's given a few people a reason to think about cannabis and how widespread its use is - even by corporate suits on the Terrace, right under the nose of some of WA Police's finest

 

Here's the original email sent to tenants, with a photo of their discovery, then the article from Wednesday's Inside Cover of The West Australian:

 

 

> From: eastptpl [mailto:eastptpl@amnet.net.au]

> Sent: Monday, 14 August 2006 10:19 AM

> Subject: "Bucket Bombing" in shower/tolet along driveway

>

>

> Please note that a "Bucket Bomber" has been discovered using the

> shower/toilet facility along the driveway. This person has been

> hiding the "bucket" in the toilet cistern tank. To use the device,

> the person must unscrew the lid cover bolt, lift off the lid, smoke

> the drug, exhale it into the "bucket" until the density is

> appropriate and the "bucket" is full, then shove the "bucket" into

> the water in the toilet tank which forces the smoke out into the

> users mouth, where it is inhaled again. It is called "bombing"

> because of the high concentration of the drug in the smoke.

>

> All of this is an illegal act, and if we catch the person, the police

> will be informed. Because these toilets are secured out of normal

> working hours, it appears someone from Eastpoint Plaza is using this

> device during normal working hours.

>

> The soft drink bottle has had the bottom cut away, and one can see by

> the large amount of smoke residue on the neck and bottle top that

> this has been used often.

>

> I would respectfully ask that all persons working in Eastpoint Plaza

> be notified of this type activity, and that it will not be condoned,

> and once found out, will be stopped immediately by lawful

> intervention.

 

 

Newshawk: Niall Young

Pubdate: Wed, 16th August 2006

Source: The West Australian (Australia)

Copyright: 2002 West Australian Newspapers Limited

Contact: letters@wanews.com.au

Website: http://www.thewest.com.au

 

Someone in Eastpoint Plaza in Adelaide Terrace can't get enough of the high life.

 

Not content with smoking dope at home, the pothead has taken to using a bong, right, to smoke dope in a toilet during work time using the bucket bong method.

 

An email copied to IC and supposedly sent to numerous staff in the building, claims the bong, a two-liter soft drink bottle with the bottom cut out, was discoverd in a

ground level "shower/toilet facility".

 

"This person has been hiding the bucket (sic) in the toilet cistern tank," it said.

 

It described how the pothead was using the cistern for the bucket part of the smoking process and why bucket bongs were so effective.

 

"All of this is an illegal act, and if we catch the person, the police will be informed," warned the email.

 

Which shouldn't be too hard because Eastpoint Plaza is home to the police special crime squad and the major fraud investigation squad.

 

The email's author suspects that because the toilet is locked after hours, "someone from Eastpoint Plaza is using this device during normal work hour (sic)".

 

"The soft drink bottle has had the bottom cut away, and one can see by the large amount of smoke residue on the neck and bottle top that this has been used often," it

said.

 

"I would respectfully ask that all persons working in Eastpoint Plaza be notified of this ... activity, and that it will not be condoned, and once found out, will be

stopped immediately by lawful intervention."

 

Perry Brown, from the building's manager Jones Lang LaSalle, said news of the dunny dope smoker was a mystery to him. "I'm the property manager and I've heard nothing

about it," Perry told IC.

 

Might be time to check the smoke alarms.

[two2time]

nice the dunny bomber strikers again

 

tt

[thc24]

funny as smoking buckets from the toilet dosent sound healthy.

 

I ll keep my eyes and nose open next visit down that way.

Edited August 19, 2006 by thc24

[HighRising]

lmao!

 

I love it, I bet whoever it is smoking is having a chuckle about this right now

[stonedstump]

!

 

What a cool story... that's something you don't hear about every day.

 

A friend of mine took a bong to work once and had cones in the toilet but not quite as elaborate as hiding it in the cistern !!

[WantDaChronic]

lmao!

 

I love it, I bet whoever it is smoking is having a chuckle about this right now

 

i bet they are shitting themselves, but LMFAO none the less

 

i found it even more funny that the email detailed how to smoke the bottle

[Luke Skywalker]

, I saw that. So cool.

 

Anyone else in W.A. know about the supreme court bongspot?

[HighRising]

I thought that Supreme Court gardens were there soley for homeless people to take drugs in?

[Luke Skywalker]

yeah, that was the original brief for the architects and landscapers, but they decided they may as well use it for courts as well.

 

What about the botanical pyramid/greenhouse in langley park? Anyone choofed down a few billy's when young in there?

[thc24]

prefure the moles myself watching a good storm roll in, locked in the comfort of a car Edited August 21, 2006 by thc24