On Thu, 13 May 2021 09:32:39 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2021-05-13 4:17 a.m., Sqwertz wrote:

>> But putting gas in plastic bags is practically a way of life in rural
>> Alaska (they huff it).

> It seems to be very popular in some communities.
> [...] there were people passed out on the sidewalk.

In their defence I need to point out a tangential situation wherein I
called an ambulance for a kid that had passed out and hit his head on the
sidewalk from being drunk & sleep-deprived in a below-freezing line-up
for tickets to see The Boss. All his friends could not wake him up. I had
one of those at-the-time ostentatious cell phones, and offered to call an
ambulance. His only friend who said anything was not to call, that they
knew he was passed-out just because of how much alcohol he had consumed.

So I asked her how long they were planning to leave him lying on the
sidewalk before dying of hypothermia / exposure, especially considering
how much alcohol he had consumed.

While she was coming up with an estimate, I dialed 911.

He woke while they were picking him up, but so drunk he couldn't
understand anything. They checked his head for marks / bumps but they
still needed him to sign a waiver. It was on a clipboard, so they just
stuck a pen in his hand and then moved the clipboard around like spinning
a cat's-cradle to make him sign a perfectly neat "X" on the form.