Punk Teens Suck

[Apallo]

It's been a while since I last posted, so here's a new story about a group of SC's. I was working as a rides operator at Knott's Berry Farm on a ride called Kingdom of the Dinosaurs. For those who don't know about this ride, it is basically a kiddie ride that takes you back in time to the time of the dinosaurs, filled with large, crappy animatronic dinosaurs in various states of disrepair. The ride consists of 30 cars, arranged in 3 trains of 10. The trains stop inside the ride to load and unload. I was working the On Ride position, where I basically sat in the back of the train and slept. This night was special though, because I was working Halloween haunt, which is a promotion Knott's runs where the park stays open extra late (2 or 4am) and where the patrons are mostly jerk-off teens. So, it's about 1:30 am and I am sitting in the back of the train, trying to catch a nap, when I smell the unmistakable and very strong, spicy aroma of marijuana. I stop the train and get out to investigate, taking deep breaths through my nose to try and pinpoint the location of the miscreant. I make my choice, and hike up to the load/unload area to tell my boss what's going on. He calls security and tells me to go on break. I ask him why, and he told me that when I came up into the dock area, I was weaving like I was drunk. That's right everyone, some punk teenager got me high on the job. That was probably my best moment at work ever, having my boss know that I'm high as a kite, and can't really bust me for it because it was a contact high. After I came back from break, the ride was closed down to find the roach as evidence against the teens. There were more of them than I thought, 6 in all, all lined up against the wall with park cops guarding them. They were waiting for the real cops to come and arrest them. I found out later that the one that flicked the roach into the ride actually went to jail for attempted arson. Yay for stoner guests!

[Hempress]

I really doubt that you got a contact buzz from smelling the aroma of marijuana. I have a hard time believing that.

And since I used to work at an amusement park, I think it was very irresponsible of you to fall asleep while you were working as a ride operator.

[cheese]

Yeah your story does sound pretty fishy..a few sniffs of weed smoke isn't going to get you high enough to not be able to walk. You'd need prolonged exposure in an enclosed area. Not that I'd know.

Are your rules really that strict in america? That you can get arrested just with evidence of a roach? I love that here you can basically only get proscuted for dealing..not smoking (although it can be confiscated, or you can be arrested if the amount is more than reasonable for personal use.)

[KuzcoLlama]

I don't know about all areas of the U.S., but depending on how much weed/pot/maryjane/maryjuana? they're carrying, they can be arrested for either possession or dealing. A roach is enough to get arrested for, though I think it's a misdemeanour, whereas possession's a felony.

[Tria]

I really doubt that you got a contact buzz from smelling the aroma of marijuana. I have a hard time believing that.

Um, personal experience, never touched the stuff, the smell is enough to make me calm....

[Dreamstalker]

Ditto...although I've never gotten loopy enough from a contact high to result in anybody noticing anything "off" (I once went to class mildly buzzed and nobody noticed).

[ArenaBoy]

I've been to numerous concerts that have reeked of weed and the theory is somewhat true that you can get high off the smell alone. You won't get completely high but just like halfway there but there was a time when I did get a complete high just off the smell of weed alone. I attended a reggae concert over the summer with a few friends of mine and I swear there were joints everywhere.

Now working at an arena, I've caught the smell of weed so many times that I've become tolerant to it. The worst though was a guy who actually had a joint in his hand and indirect view of the cops no less and they happened to be 30 feet away from me.

[Greenday]

Mmm, nothing like the strong smell of weed. The first half of the semester, whenever I was hanging out with two of my friends down the hall, the smell of weed always seemed to rise up and into their room. We'd just be sitting there and all of a sudden we'd get the strong smell of weed. Then for a couple days we noticed the cops walking the halls a lot. Then the weed smell stopped. Upsetting. And now their neighbor, who yells a lot of loud obsceneties, is going to try to keep it down. Apparently, he professionally plays video games and gets too into it.

[Barefootgirl]

Fishy? A little exaggerated perhaps, but there are plenty of fishier stories on this site if you want to accuse people of making things up !

Personally, I have got woozy (not high, but enough to throw up) from the time I worked in a police property office and was told to go and tidy the drugs evidence cupboard. You know how people like to wind up the new employee? In this particular office, the wind-up was tidying the drugs cupboard.

The drugs cupboard was a large wire-mesh enclosure, with open drawers filled with little plastic evidence bags. You had to crawl right into the cupboard, leaning over the open drawers, to reach the bags at the back. Since most of the bags were filled with various-sized lumps of marijuana resin, the smell was pretty potent.

After about fifteen minutes, I reeled out of the property store and made it out into the car park before throwing up. A kindly detective wandered part, watched me retching for a while and said cheerfully, "New girl in the property store, right?"

So, the long and short of it is, I absolutely believe that Apallo could have been made woozy by the fumes, especially if he/she isn't a smoker and it was a particularly strong type of grass. However I have to agree with those who say as a ride operator you shouldn't have been napping.

*slaps Apallo on the wrist*

[NightAngel]

Why would it be so hard to believe if they were, as I gather, smoking it on the train with him and he's inhaling deeply? Ever "shotgun"? It gets you just as high as if you were the one smoking the joint.

And I agree with BFG:
How can people possibly jump this tale as being fishy when there are a couple of much taller and more outrageous tales that everyone seems to believe without question?

[Hempress]

Well, of course a shotgun is going to get you high, but I don't think just smelling it in the air (especially since I doubt this ride is a closed one like a monorail) is going to get him high. Disagree with me if you want, but I still call shenanegans.

[trunks2k]

Why would it be so hard to believe if they were, as I gather, smoking it on the train with him and he's inhaling deeply? Ever "shotgun"? It gets you just as high as if you were the one smoking the joint.

But if you are shotgunning, you are right next to the person, inhaling everything they exhale. This is different from being the person being several feet away in a ride that is moving, and probably a pretty open space.

I've never smoked weed before, but have gotten a contact high. It took 6 people smoking in a small room with almost no ventilation to do that (there was a nice haze of smoke in the room). I also find it hard to believe that the OP had gotten high to the point that he was staggering some from this. I'm not one to call shenanigans on posts, but since somebody else did, I agree, at least with that aspect of the story.

[Dreamstalker]

Mmm, nothing like the strong smell of weed. The first half of the semester, whenever I was hanging out with two of my friends down the hall, the smell of weed always seemed to rise up and into their room.

When I was living in a substance-free freshman dorm (I and the RA were the only two in the hall over 21), the girl across the hall from me did weed. A lot of it. Of course, somehow the smoke wafted from under her door right into my room (it was worse when I had my door open in the spring for cross-ventilation).

She had the cojones to try and pin it on me during a room inspection (bad idea as both the RA and head of security knew me, and she was the one refusing the inspection).

[KuzcoLlama]

Well, of course a shotgun is going to get you high, but I don't think just smelling it in the air (especially since I doubt this ride is a closed one like a monorail) is going to get him high. Disagree with me if you want, but I still call shenanegans.

It's not exactly closed, but the entire ride is indoors, and some areas are quite tight.

[digilight]

Could it have happened? sure, they are in front of him on the train, the smoke blows backwards and poof. Notice, however, he doesn't claim to be totally f###ed up or anything, I would think that its more of a precautionary measure by his boss. His boss heard about the weed and that he could smell it, first thought thru a lot of peoples heads is always going to be contact high, will i/he piss dirty. He has no choice but to pull him off of ride duty now that he knows about the exposure. Its simply a liability issue, and his mind might have seen him stumbling, plus if he just woke up then he could have been sleepy and having a hard time moving.

Searching on line, it was a dark ride so a contact high is quite possible if they were smoking good weed on a tunnel type area of the ride.