Teenager and Duct Tape

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Describe the duct tape precisely. The image I have is 2 6 inch long peices the width of a normal roll of duct tape, taped sticky side to sticky side so that both sides are not sticky?

Anyway, duct tape can be used as an inhalant when burned. It also can be used to open doors like a credit card. It could be rolled into a tube shape to snort coke. It might be used to calibrate the weight of something. It of course can fit between your butt cheeks, or even inserted. Its probably too short to use as a tournicate for injections. It probably has ingredients which are soluble in methanol and could be involved in some form of meth production. I’ve got other ideas too, but I need a precise description.

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[quote]rwjnyc wrote:

I caught the tail end of the era of when you turned 18, you got out of your parents
home…SCHOOL…MILITARY…WORKFORCE, PICK one and keep it movin’ Not that easy any more… They don’t want to leave the nest…
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That is still the rule. 18 and out. See you at Xmas.

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Let it go. He was probably passing time. Ive got peices of tape, plastic, pvc, metal, lightbulbs, etc all tapped, soldered, welded and glued together in any possible structure you could think of. Laying all over the place. Small experiments with flasks, pumps, electrical circuits, etc. Its the nature of teenage boys.

Seriously, you guys worry to much. Wait till he gets his shit together and uses a trebache to fling packets of dog shit 4-5 blocks away. Then you can worry. =)

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[quote]Beatnik wrote:
Let it go. He was probably passing time. Ive got peices of tape, plastic, pvc, metal, lightbulbs, etc all tapped, soldered, welded and glued together in any possible structure you could think of. Laying all over the place. Small experiments with flasks, pumps, electrical circuits, etc. Its the nature of teenage boys.

Seriously, you guys worry to much. Wait till he gets his shit together and uses a trebache to fling packets of dog shit 4-5 blocks away. Then you can worry. =)

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Honestly I’d be happy to see if it were some sort of mad Scientist projects, but he’s to lazy to think of something like that…I personaly was one of those guys and to a certain extant I still am. But there’s nothing else going on in that pit of a room except dirty clothes on the floor and the tape…

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[quote]mertdawg wrote:
Describe the duct tape precisely. The image I have is 2 6 inch long peices the width of a normal roll of duct tape, taped sticky side to sticky side so that both sides are not sticky?

Anyway, duct tape can be used as an inhalant when burned. It also can be used to open doors like a credit card. It could be rolled into a tube shape to snort coke. It might be used to calibrate the weight of something. It of course can fit between your butt cheeks, or even inserted. Its probably too short to use as a tournicate for injections. It probably has ingredients which are soluble in methanol and could be involved in some form of meth production. I’ve got other ideas too, but I need a precise description.[/quote]

OK here ya go…two six inch strips overlapped by one inch to make one long piece again. Glue side both facing the same way. The roll I found had the the glue on the interior. Here’s an additional weird part…The roll was taken out of his room and put back in the old Kitchen junk drawer where we usually keep it. One day later in ended up back in his room…I am about to call the friendly guys in white coats from Belleview…

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MAYBE, just maybe, he’s testing you. I got bored, and interested in this topic, and decided to play with some tape (I’m 18). I rolled it like you said, and messed with them all day, didn’t find much to do without drugs. Eventually I left my room, an hour later my mom started accusing me of doing SOMETHING with drugs. Apparently she found the tape and was in the same situation as you :). I told her the truth but of course she doesn’t believe me, then I gave her a link to this forum and now she’s even MORE confused. With past drug abuse, I’d honestly sit down and talk to him about it. Tell him what you know, and ask him to fill in the blanks. Don’t let him leave untill the matter is resolved. That always seemed to get shit out of me. Good luck.

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Hey GriffinC,

Thanks for the dry run…That hilarious that your moms also found it extremely strange…

Thanks,

RWJNYC

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Your son could be a genius.

You said you had a scientific streak to you and that he is too “lazy”, his lazyness could be a result of being extremely bored. You said he was a school drop out. Genius doesn’t breed in school,the system is not challenging enough for them.
Hence he has no motivation since school is not stimulating enough.

Higher intelligence gets bored and does not do well in school or university, specially if the intelligence is combined with Creative or artistic intelligence. Seriously, there was a project here in England with “problem kids” who didn’t do well in school but where taken in a program to work with their intelligence and level of energy and showed “genius” results.

People of higher than average energy, physical or intellectual don’t do well intitutionalized. They get bored because they are well above the average and are forced to slow down to fit in. And in having to be less to belong they have to block their energy and drive and get “bored” easily and are then labelled as stupid or lazy - they are just trying to fit in with an enviroment that doesn’t accomodate their level of energy.

I say your son is more. A genius of some kind hidding behing lethargy.

Anyway, tell him to find an idea(market application) for that tape(like a teen trick to get your parents puzzeled) and market it and I will buy it. It has entertained me thoroughly.

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Maybe his girlfriend is tapeing her titties together.

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I’m assuming from your post this kid is about to, ahem, “graduate” from h.s.?

I caught the tail end of that whole get out of the house at 18 thing too. But I couldn’t wait to get out. Of course, I had ambition and goals, but that’s another story.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was 18 to pursue my goals. When I came out, I was given help by a friend of the family and I always said I’d pay that back to some future kid.

Cut to a decade later and my kid brother comes out. I do everything I can to help him and he just sits on his ass in my apartment, doing fuck knows what day after day. I come home and the apartment’s a mess. His clothes are everywhere, dishes, etc. I ask him to clean up, he makes smart ass remarks. (This isn’t drug related, it’s about personal responsibility.)

Finally, he starts working temp jobs, saving money for an apartment (I assume). Then I come home and find out he’s spent 3K on an engagement ring for his crazy ass girlfriend cause she threated to break up with him. I was furious, but cool about it. Shit happens.

But I did tell him that that at the end of the month, he needed to be out of my apartment and have his own place. I didn’t care if he got one roommate or 10 or whatever, it was time to move out. He grumbles about how unfair it is, he calls Mom behind my back and cries about how can I do this to him (She was fed up with his shit too). But I threw his ass out.

Today, he’s a responsible man with a great job and a beautiful successful girlfriend, nice apartment. My mom says it was the biggest favor in the world I could have done for him.

Was it hard? Yeah, it was hard. I knew he thought I was a dick. But I knew I was right. Could he have floundered and ended up a bum? Yeah. He could have gone out and become a fulltime stoner (loved the weed). But I think everybody has to make that decision to sink or swim on their own.

It’s not up to you to make him responsible for himself anymore. He’s 18. He is responsible to himself whether he realizes it or not. You providing him free room and board just keeps him able to wander through life.

Time to kick that ass out. But do it in a loving way. I told my brother something like “I love you, but I can’t be responsible for you anymore. It’s time for you to make your own decisions and provide for yourself.”

Set a deadline and have a calm man to man conversation with him. And don’t get angry, no matter what stupid shit he says. Just let him be and let him know that he can make whatever choices he wants to make with his life, and the consequences/rewards of those choices are his alone.

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[quote]futuredave wrote:
Time to kick that ass out. But do it in a loving way. I told my brother something like “I love you, but I can’t be responsible for you anymore. It’s time for you to make your own decisions and provide for yourself.”

Set a deadline and have a calm man to man conversation with him. And don’t get angry, no matter what stupid shit he says. Just let him be and let him know that he can make whatever choices he wants to make with his life, and the consequences/rewards of those choices are his alone.[/quote]

(Excellent post. Good move for both of you too. We rarely learn something worthwhile when things are too easy.)

“But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.” – Nikita Khrushchev

“…relentlessly until you finally ‘get it’.” – my addition.

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[quote]mertdawg wrote:
Anyway, duct tape can be used as an inhalant when burned.[/quote]

Holy crap, duct tape really CAN be used for just about everything. This is actually scary – it seems that kids are smoking just about anything that will burn without exploding. Is there anything that can’t be smoked?

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What state do you live in?

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Mystery solved:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1467&item=5569171484&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

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Maybe he’s a cross-dresser and it taping his junk outta the way for tights or something?

Maybe he has a permanent boner and is taping it up so it doesn’t stick out in sweat pants?

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totally backs up futuredave^

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Talk to your kid… not about duct tape… not about drug use… just talk to him… he may be reluctant at first… but just keep trying… because there?s a much bigger issue here than some tape on the wall… now I may be wrong but it seems like you have no relationship with your son at all… do you know what his favorite movie is? Do you know what his favorite band is? Do you know what his friend?s names are? If you don?t you need to find out? It?s the only way he?ll be receptive to you, if you come off as a friend, and not just ?my f**ng dad?? This is not to say that not knowing these things makes you a bad father, some kids are, lets say, difficult? But you need to be the one to make the effort and become his friend, because without that, he?ll never listen to you?

A lot of people have said to go the tough love route? tough love is very important? but you need to have the love element for that to work? otherwise he?ll just hate you?

Also, I think your son may be crying for help… but he wants to be cool so he could never ask… I think he needs you… he needs you to step up and do the difficult jobs as a father… I may be way off base with that assumption, but a lot of times kids who do drugs and are overly lazy are just crying for help? get him to talk to you? find a way? if he likes videogames? its time to learn to play halo? he may resent this at first, but it may be a way in? either way you need to ask him what he wants in life and how he plans to get it? you need to guide him? you may want to check out therapy? extremely laziness and drug use are two big signs of teenage depression? and don?t just send him? go with him? and sit in the room with him? and talk to a professional about why you two can?t communicate and what concessions you both can make to have a father/son relationship? or one day it will be too late?

I hope this helps, and I hope you don?t take it as a personal attack? My father has said before that he would give up a year of his life just to be able to see his father one last time and tell him he loves him? don?t let this happen to your son.

Eric

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LOL, does he fuss over his skin? I mentioned this to a friend who gave on the spot demonstration of using tape as a exfoliant. Apply to skin, peel off, hold it upto the light and observe how effectively it pulls off dead skin :wink:

Im still thinking about this. lol. buy him a roll, unopened and give it to him as a gift and see what happens. Use in conjunction with miniture spy cameras… ok, now im getting out of hand, but experiement… i want to know what he knows that i dont.

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[quote]cbeefyt wrote:
Maybe his girlfriend is tapeing her titties together.[/quote]

LOL! IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE DOESN’T IT!

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This is kind of a stab in the dark but does he read T-Nation at all? There’s been a couple “cool tips” about using duct tape across your back to improve your posture.