Full Moon Party vendor arrested for selling laughing gas
published : 22 Aug 2024 at 11:26
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Wassayos Ngamkham
A shop owner on Koh Phangan, where the Full Moon Party is held, was arrested for selling balloons filled with nitrous oxide, or laughing gas.
Police arrested the vendor at his shop on Haad Rin early Thursday morning for selling laughing gas-filled balloons to beachgoers.
Officers found two cylinders of laughing gas and several balloons in his shop.
The vendor, who reportedly confessed to the crime, said that he had profited from the rising price of the gas as authorities intensified their crackdown on the illegal sale of nitrous oxide.
Nitrous oxide gas is used in surgery and dentistry for its anaesthetic effects. Better known as laughing gas, it has long been used by partygoers.
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Vocabulary
- anaesthetic: a substance that makes you unable to feel pain or makes you fall alseep - ยาชา,ยาสลบ
- confessed (verb): admitted to having committed a crime - สารภาพผิด
- crackdown: strong action that someone in authority takes to stop a particular activity - การใช้กำลังเข้าปราบปรามของเจ้าหน้าที่
- cylinder: an object shaped like a wide tube; a metal container for gas or liquid - กระบอก
- laughing gas (noun): the chemical nitrous oxide used by dentists to reduce pain and also used by some as recreational drug that makes you feel happy and laugh - ก๊าซชนิดหนึ่งใช้เป็นยาสลบ, แก๊สหัวเราะ
- vendor: someone who sells something, but often not in a shop - พ่อค้าแม่ค้าแผงลอย
