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[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago

I abused it a few times as a teenager, and it was really shitty every time. Someone told me that you can see the air by abusing Welbutrin as well, so naturally I tried that too. You can absolutely see the air, but it also makes you feel like you have a brain tumor.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Fun fact, Benadryl is actually a fairly powerful local anesthetic. You can pack it into a wound before applying sutures and it is almost as effective as lidocaine. So basically, shooting someone with a benadryl load is probably a bit counterproductive and might just make angry zombies.

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Careful with this info. Diphenhydramine can cause nerve damage if at too high a concentration: 5 parts whatever to 1 part Benadryl is the typical dilution for local anesthetics.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You say Benadryl, but do you mean one part diphenhydramine, or one part of the crushed tablets at presumed to concentration?

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 2 points 20 hours ago

The actual chemical. As for adding crushed Benadryl tablets I have zero clue about the concentration and the potential of that to cause damage to the nerves. I was just urging caution.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

This sounds like over-simplified information that is totally going to get someone in the ER.

[–] nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

I feel like if you're in a situation where you need to know how to improvise an anaesthetic for sutures, you probably should be in the ER anyway, but can't get to one.

[–] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Nah. Hold my beer.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Even though it makes no sense, all I could figure out for this was that they were hiding something valuable in a container of benedryl so burglars wouldn't find it, instead of hiding it in a box of rock salt or a box of nails.

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago

It's a shotgun shell. People sometimes load them up with rock salt and nails for home defense, even though bird and buckshot will do the trick.

This person loaded the shell up with benadryl, which will cause hallucinations when taken in higher quantities.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you need quite lot of benadryl to cause deleriant reaction.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You can get a magazine extension for a Benelli M4 that will increase capacity from 5 to 7 (plus one in the chamber.)

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That looks like a cool zombie-defense weapon and a terrible actual weapon for self-defense or war.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Ya. It's a range toy. Not all cars have to be useful on the track either.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

FUCK ALLERGIES *ratatatatata*

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

home intruder has severe allergies.

he says thanks

[–] mossberg590@lemmy.world 114 points 2 days ago (5 children)

That is a shotgun shell loaded with allergy medicine. In the US many people reload their own shotgun shells. If you put rock salt instead of lead shot it is less-than-lethal...sorta. Some put in weirder stuff like nails, etc. Americans are funny like that.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago
[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

There's multiple youtube channels that are devoted entirely to loading shotguns with weird shit.

And I get innovation is fun and all but I've shot a lot of shotguns, and it almost doesn't matter what you put in it, it will leave a similar sized hole in whatever you shoot it at.

[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 day ago

Thank you for explaining this. As a non-USian I had no idea what was going on.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 85 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Break into my home, you're gonna be crammed full of whatever I think is funny.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

🤣 you shoulda seen the look on his face when I blasted gummy bears into his ballsack after he broke into my house.

aka, "gunny bears"

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

just wait till you learn about cannons!

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Just jam a tampon in there...

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 159 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Benadryl Buck Shot is a fucking great band name.

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 101 points 2 days ago (30 children)

what do I need to know to understand this?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 69 points 2 days ago (8 children)
  1. Benadryl is a brand name of diphenhydramine, an antihistamine with a powerful side effect of drowsiness. Benadryl is labeled as an allergy relief medication but the same drug is sold under other brands such as Sominex as a sleep aid. Effects of overdosing on diphenhydramine include seizures, extreme drowsiness, excessive sleepiness, delirium, and hallucinations.

  2. The translucent object packed with several of the pills is a shotgun shell. The text refers to the practice of reloading shotgun shells with other objects in an attempt to alter their lethality and/or pain potential. A shell loaded with rock salt for example, salt is much lighter than lead so it should have less stopping/penetrating power, but any wounds caused are automatically salted.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The salt load has an added benefit of temporarily incorporeating ethereal beings.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

any wounds caused are automatically salted

I'm a little disappointed in myself that I didn't think it'd work like that.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The idea behind a rock salt shell is it would be less likely to kill and more likely to HURT. Also possibly less likely to damage anything behind. You might take a little paint off the fridge but not destroy it.

Whether that's actually how it works or not, call Adam and Jamie.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

...or Johnny Knoxville

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

It's okay...most folks are focused on the shotgun, the salt is definitely secondary in that moment

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[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 74 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

I think you need to be American. It is funny how the Americans are busy explaining the drug to you, but failing to understand that it is the underlying premise that most non-Americans won't get.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah I didn't get that that was a shotgun shell I thought it was a film canister.

Also every antihistamine I've ever seen has been a tiny little round thing, those are huge

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