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If you use that word again, we'll have to ask you to leave. They're water pipes.
by subway 7y ago
If you use that word again, we'll have to ask you to leave. They're water pipes.
- fuzz4lyfe 7y agoI like to consume my tobacco via a steamroller or gravity water pipe. So refreshing.
- vortico 7y agoTotally off-topic question to this thread, but what's the reason for being kicked out of those stores for saying "bong"? I would have guessed that as long as employees don't use the term, it's fine for the company for the customers to suggest what they'll actually be using it for.
- gduplessy 7y agoGoing to throw out a guess and say it's because selling you an item after you called it a bong is admitting that it's indeed a bong.
- vortico 7y agoAh, that makes sense, question answered. My second question is that if bongs and water pipes are the same thing, why does the law distinguish their purpose by their name? It seems like given "I want to buy a water pipe for smoking the marijuana" and "I want a bong to smoke tobacco", the second should be legal to request, not both.
- mrguyorama 7y agoI'm pretty sure it's CYA more than anything. The DEA is very aggressive and raids like it's going out of style
- vraivroo 7y ago_bong_ is considered drug slang, water pipe is not.
- hprotagonist 7y agointent determines if a thing is illegal. If you intend to use that bong for weed it’s pariphinalia and a felony, if you intend to use it for sheesha it’s fine. if you intend to use that power tool or crowbar to break into a house it’s “possession of burgular tools” and a felony, if you’re a contractor there to install some drywall it’s not.
- codedokode 7y agoBecause you might be a police agent trying to make them admit that they are knowingly selling something illegal.
- MisterTea 7y agoCan we get something a bit more technical to give it a more refined and scholarly name? Perhaps Hydrostatic glassware.
- vict00ms 7y agoHead shop I used to go to in the mid-90s kept their "water pipes" in a locked back room. You couldn't even buy one unless they'd deemed you "hip to it, man" or whatever.
- colpabar 7y agoMine sold wicker furniture in the front, but the back was water pipe city.