We've noticed many of these little containers lying around in the streets. We counted six in the corner of the Burnt Ash Lane car park by the passage leading to the main road. We suspect that they are being used by young people and not for their original purpose.
Can anyone tell us what they should be used for and why young people might be using them?
Michael Dobbs made a comment but it somehow did not register. I have now found it and here it is, Thank you for your thorough research, I had only counted six.
Further to the report, yesterday I found some 30 similar canisters in the car park behind the parade of shops and today I saw two of our local PCSOs and spoke to them about it.
On looking at an example I had they said that they were most likely to be gas canisters used as a “legal high” and that it was not illegal. People used them to fill balloons and then draw in the gas into their lungs to get a new feeling - a “legal high” as they referred to it. It is likely to be nitrous oxide - more commonly known as laughing gas.
See the news report below from the Daily Mail of 24 September 2010 and the kit shown further down the article with the canisters / cartridges / pellets (whatever you wish to call them). So not used with a dangerous equipment or intent but used (by presumably youngsters) as a means of getting a high - how sad. The said cartridges have now gone into my metals recycling box !
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