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Teens Are Now Getting Drunk on Boiled Tampon Juice
By Hannah Sparks
Kids these days will try just about anything to catch a buzz,
from “boofing” beer to vaping vodka. Their lat- est cheap thrill? Feminine hygiene prod- ucts.
Teenagers in Indonesia
are collecting menstrual pads and tampons — often of the used variety — and boiling them, allowing the mix- ture to cool and then imbibing the resulting liquid.
Police have already arrested
several minors caught making this menstrual- pad moonshine.
One 14-year-old confessed that he and his buds swig it “morning, afternoon and evening,” the Daily Mail reports.
The National Narcotics Agency in Indonesia says it’s the chlorine used to sanitize menstrual prod- ucts that’s getting kids tipsy, giving them hallucina- tions and a feel- ing of “flying.”
As it turns out, this has been going on for at
least a couple of years, as this phenomenon was first reported by Indonesian authorities back in 2016.
“I don’t know who started it,” Jimy Ginting, an advocate for safe drinking in Indonesia, tells the Jakarta Post. “There is no law against it so far. There is no law against these kids using a mix- ture of mosquito repellent and [cold syrup] to get drunk.”
Please, Mr. Ginting, don’t give them any more ideas.
Japan's Cyber-
security Minister
Has “Never Used
a Computer”
Japan's new cyber-security minister has dumbfounded his country by saying he has never used a computer.
Yoshitaka Sakurada made the admission to a committee of lawmakers.
"Since I was 25 years old and independent I have instructed my staff and sec- retaries. I have never used a computer in my life," he said, according to a translation by the Kyodo news agency.
The 68-year-old was appointed to his post last month.
His duties include overseeing cyber-defense preparations for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
A politician from the opposition Democratic Party,
Masato Imai, whose question had prompted the admission, expressed sur- prise.
"I find it unbeliev- able that some- one who is responsible for cyber-security measures has never used a computer," he said.
But Mr Sakurada responded that other officials had the necessary experience and he was confident there would not be a problem.
However, his struggle to answer a follow- up question about whether USB drives were in use at the country's nuclear power stations caused further concern.
The disclosure has been much discussed on social media where the reac- tion has been a mix of astonish- ment and hilarity, with some noting that at least it should mean Mr Sakurada would be hard to hack.