Other - "R.I.P." Stories about broken implements

[Your Local DARE Officer]

OK, so recently swims group of friends experienced 2 tragic deaths of smoking implements. Holmes, a big clear glass bubbler, knocked over by the owners girlfriend in the bathroom, and Copernicus, a small blue bowl dropped when a ringing doorbell scared the crap out the person holding it (people don't usually ring abandoned houses doorbells at 2a.m.!)

Swim made this thread for other SWIMers to post stories about experiences with bongs/bowls breaking or even being confiscated, and for fellow stoners to share the grief.

Reputation Comments on this post:

	Great idea for a thread XD
	Nice concept for a thread.
	Nice, good thread! \^_^/

[leary]

this is a pretty cool thread idea!, but to get to it, a while ago, swims had a bong named Woody, it was a nice 17 incher he says with hand painted spiraling stripes going up the neck in three different shades of green, but the other day, some new kid swim doesnt really like as he is a VERY inexperienced smoker yet acts like hes tommy chong, was using Woody and while attempting to clear it after a very small hit none the less, yeanked out the slider and broke the part of the tube that sticks out taking the ruber gasket section with it, theres really no way to fix this and it makes it virtually unhittable as so much air gets in now, swim was very pissed ang kicked the kid out of his house

[Your Local DARE Officer]

Originally Posted by leary

some new kid swim doesnt really like as he is a VERY inexperienced smoker yet acts like hes tommy chong,

that's pretty funny man, swim knows a few people like that himself and they can get extremely annoying

[RedBaron]

Ahhhh I'm sure most potheads have a story they can tell in this thread haha.
For Swim and his friend this bong was a legend! It was a big glass bong with a double perc and ash catcher (very expensive) and it was named Norsefire.

This bong would get you to cloud 9 everytime and unleashed chaos like its name (Norsefire was taken from the fictional fascist group in England for the movie V for Vendetta.)

Anyways Swims friends girlfriend came over one day to test it out and thats when things went rotten. She is very inexperienced with weed or any kind of substance...

The water in the bong was getting pretty murky so Swim said he was going to fill it up with new water. The girlfriend attempting to be nice and do a favour said she would fill it up.

Swim was very stoned and lazy so of course he wouldn't turn down that offer lol. So she fills it up and within seconds you hear a crack and glass falling to the floor.

She filled up a GLASS bong with steaming hot water and that was the end of the legendary Norsefire....which by the way was a $600 bong that Swim and his friend went halfers on.

moral of the story fill up your own bong!

[Your Local DARE Officer]

oooooh, bro thats rough, $600, man...

Luckily swims never had any of his stuff broken (knock on weed lol), though he did have this nice red and orange elephant bowl as a teen that got taken away the one and only time his parents caught him! but on his 18th b-day they ended up giving it back, and it still gets used to this day!

[jgarlopa]

Originally Posted by RedBaron

She filled up a GLASS bong with steaming hot water and that was the end of the legendary Norsefire....which by the way was a $600 bong that Swim and his friend went halfers on.

moral of the story fill up your own bong!

Just like the old saying goes: if you want something done right, you've gotta do it yourself. Especially in this case, since there are things (if any) stronger than the love between a stoner and his glass.

As for the original thread topic, Cowboy can't really share a good story. Ever since he started smoking pot, he has been too afraid to buy anything made of glass, for obvious reasons such as the hypothetical situations stated in this thread and from many times seeing his brother's bong or pipe get broken because of his stupid friends. The worst thing that ever happened to Cowboy was when he was at a rave in San Bernardino (CA) and started packing the bowl of his friend's one-hitter and security took it away before they even got to smoke it. Not such a big deal as some of the losses incurred on this page, but the sad thing was that Homie had just bought it about ten minutes before from some guys who made it at their glass-blowing booth at the same party. Homie had it custom-made, too, telling the glass blowers what colours to put in it. Cowboy felt like shit for losing someone else's pipe like that, and even offered to buy him a new one, but Homie wasn't even mad and just let it go. It probably would have only cost Cowboy about $15 to replace it, but it was like a lot of weight lifted off his shoulders.

Hearing so many sad stories makes Cowboy still reluctant to buy anything made of glass, but if he ever does, he will buy the Hurricane bong. He hasn't even used it yet, but one of his German friends (who used to work at a smart shop) showed it to him the other day. It looks pretty damn cool and supposedly hits super hard due to the the bubbles in the neck that cause the smoke to swirl. The glass of which it is made is advertised as virtually unbreakable, but Cowboy has read many testimonials from customers saying that it survived many horrible drops. One website says that the company will repair the glass free of charge if it does break, although Cowboy couldn't confirm this from the company's website, so he will e-mail them about it before he buys one. Free repairs are God's gift from heaven for any stoner who prefers glass but dreads the thought of his beloved piece ever breaking.



jgarlopa added 863 Minutes and 8 Seconds later...

Originally Posted by porchy

Well SWIM feels stupid. This isn't exactly a story about a broken implement, just a dissolved implement! Infact this is more of a warning (for those who don't already know).

So SWIM decided to clean his acrylic bong today. First of all he soaked it in a warm de-greaser solution. This did nothing except wash the top layer of crap off and make it smell worse. SWIM then thought "hmmm I remember reading that acetone will do a good job of getting the oils out". Bad idea. Im sure alot of you are already cursing this idea. Anyway in goes the acetone, and the bong get shaken, and within seconds all of the crap inside is washed away. A second load of acetone is added and shaken. This time some drips onto the plastic base of the bong. It suddenly goes very rough. This is when he notices the acetone evaporating and leaving a white crust over the whole bong. The bong is now frosted too! Because (excuse the bad grammar) of the acetone dissolving some of the plastic the inside of the bong is very rough, and now within a few days the tar is gonna accumulate loads!!

I know this isn't exactly a broken bong story but its pretty fucked now.

Actually that is a pretty good story, because although it's not broken, the bong is essentially dead. RIP...

[shogun875]

SWIM had both of his first two pieces stolen at house parties he was throwing, they were both just little bowls, but it still sucked.

the he got this nice little bubbler once he got to college, but one night he was quite drunk and ran into one of his friends who was even drunker and they decided it was a good idea to smoke. So swim was packing the bubbler at his desk, which has a bookcase sitting on it like a typical college desk and all full of books and other stuff. While SWIM was packing his friend leaned against the bookcase, which pushed one end of it off the desk and caused the whole thing to fall forward onto swim and sending broken glass, weed and water everywhere. it was quite a mess

[SullyGuy]

R.I.P many, many lightbulb vaps... all met a similar fate.

[Your Local DARE Officer]

Ahh, swim remembers the days of swishing salt around that closet light that his mom could NEVER figure out why it was always blowing

But, the Volcano Vape currently sitting atop his closet shelf has taken the place of the wonderful 60watt of his childhood

[Your Local DARE Officer]

apparently swims group of friends is on a bad luck streak, over the past hour, swim and co. pooled some money and got an ounce of some fire ass krip from a new dealer, they bought a few dutchys and sat down to roll em up, swim went to sit down and star breakin down the first blunt and did that fine but than while getting it ready to put the pot it, it ripped! alright, one blunt gone, they have 3 more, slap on the hand and keep going, well someone else was cracking the second gar, and it to ripped to the point beyone use!! DAMN! half the blunts, gone. alright now, 3rd times the charm.... FOR HARM! another ripped dutchy!!! they are now freaking out, a different person, all expereinced rollers each time. With one blunt remaining the trio decided to forget blunts and are now rushing home to get Samhain, swims beloved halloween bong

[hatstands]

Originally Posted by Your Local DARE Officer

alright now, 3rd times the charm.... FOR HARM!

Chortle! Love it!

[Mystopia2000]

Swim broke another slide tonight.... this is getting embarrassing

[throwaway]

My old sherlock fell from 3 feet onto the hard square edge of a chair. Im glad it did though, because it was a bitch to clean and always tasted bad, but toooo beautiful not to smoke out of.

[Your Local DARE Officer]

ooooh three feet? well if swiy was standing thats not a stretch,yeah sorry to hear that man, but swim always loved sherlocks, specially the wooden ones, a bitch to clean like swiy said but again, very beautiful

[kckool]

SWIM has somehow only had one death of glass in his life, but it was a rough one.

It was SWIM's first pipe. He had gotten it in woodstock and had paid a what was a lot of money for a high school student for it. It served SWIM well for about a year when it was taken out at a party. It was passed around, and eventually placed down across the table from SWIM on the edge. It was then that one of SWIM's friends girlfriends knocked into the table. It was like slow motion when he saw Wart die. Good-bye big fella, you had a great life.

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A heartbreaking tale! RIP Wart

[psyche]

SWIM had a big hookah as a Christmas present from his mother. Unfortunately the poor thing was left in a cellar with a water in it over the winter; the water froze and broke the thing

[mbarnes0]

Got a few for youzguys.

Worst/funniest broken piece Swim has was a small festival in the Shenandoah valley. Late night, people were in the pavilion/picnic covering with a fire going in the fire place, let Swim mention that everything around was concrete or stone. Swim was trying to mack on this girl cause she kept giving Swim her bourbon so he said he'd pack one up with some heads. Had the thing on his lap and was packing and knocked that bitch right off onto the concrete ground. There was a loud groan from the crowd and then of course someone was like 'hey, Swiy need a piece to pack?'. Haha never got anywhere with the chick and it was a nice piece from out of state, oh well.

Another one was when Swim's buddy at Bisco just bought a brand new chillum and not even ten minutes later he dropped it and it broke.

Finally, the good ole VA state police raided Swim's old apartment taking lots of things including his awesome Lux, and a nice steam roller type piece.

[Your Local DARE Officer]

Kc: swim gets the same thing whenever a piece is falling around him, it just seems to slow down, luckily this has actually help swim catch many a tipping bong

Not to boast here but swim is rather happy where his first thread has gone, and is glad he has been accepted by some of DFs older swimmers

[Mystopia2000]

Swim just keeps breaking slides. Swim has lost count of how many damn slides he's gone through. Swim always drops 'em into the sink when cleaning them.

[cannabis-sam]

SWIM got really baked with his favorite glass pipe, fell asleep with it in his hand, and woke up in the night to find his bed full of broken glass.

Now SWIM has many accidents involving bongwater, as most of SWIY's friends, SWIM included just use acrylic bongs (I guess to avoid above tales). The funnest of which was when SWIM and his friends were all fucked on MDMA and because of lack of space one of the girls sat down underneath the window, which had SWIM's mate's three week old bon water in it. One of the friends on MDMA (who was also quite drunk) managed to knock it off the windowsill right onto her head, lol, fortunatly the bong was fine, she wasn't.

[Your Local DARE Officer]

"Ouch", Bong to the dome, not something you want to happen!
And acrylic bongs are hard to find around swims area, plus he likes glass better!, but they are slowly coming about in the stoner community around there. Though the classic Dutchy remains the standard way to smoke anything, a nice firm blunt, a car, a full tank of gas, and a really big neighborhood devoid of police can send 4 people on a great time!

[flayer]

Swim has experienced tons of broken glass.
Never been myself tho. I am always careful around glass kits, but sadly my friends are not.. I got one glass now but think an acrylic is not a bad idea for a "public" bong...
Mostly my pieces have fallen from the table onto the floor.. r.i.p

[danichan]

Ah yes, breaking bowl. It sucks. My first bowl swim ever broke was this one I like to call "the green one", swim had it for about a year (that seems to be the max lifespan for his bowls). Anyway, he was sitting in the kitchen of his old apartment, just chilling out at the table, and he had just smoked a ton of kind bud. He got kind of spacy as he always does, and was in really deep thought, when all of a sudden, he was awoken by CRASH(!) and there went his bowl, all over the tile floor. So of course he made a makeshift one and also went out for some papers. And of course he scraped all the resin out.

Then, just last week, his really nice black and yellow piece, some friends called the bumblebee, but swim didn't have a name for her. So he was just sitting talking to the neighbor he had just smoked with. He got up and had forgotten that the bowl was in his lap, and all of a sudden, it just crashed and broke. He was really surprised over that because this bowl had seem much worse falls, but he guesses, it's always the unexpected ones. He needed a new one anyway, this one must have been getting worn out from use. He got a shitload of resin from it too. That's the only good part about breaking a bowl.

[psychs]

SWIM has never broken a complete piece before thankfully, but he did break the slide that came with his favorite bong He was perfectly sober at the time and decided it needed to be cleaned so he started to take it out of the bong when it slipped out of his hand and he watched in slow motion as it shattered into a thousand pieces on his tile floor, leaving glass shards and resin all over the entire room.

[cubenisdreaming27]

SWIM got his first bowl when he was a young jit, only 13. it was a little blue single blown that hit pretty well. one day swim and one of his friends were smoking a couple bowls before school, it was very flame dro so swim was pretty baked. after we were done swim began to tap the bowl out on a dumpster and it just shattered into like 50 pieces. swim felt like an idiot but swim would of felt even more stupid if he had done that while sober.