linnz1330 Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 ok..so i go to college in about 2 weeks..its a scary thought..especially when i think i might have to leave my hookah behind.. Has anyone around the KY area (or anywhere where hookah is known for something other than tobacco) ever smoked outside..in public? I know that i'm not doing anything wrong..but the bastard University Police may think i'm doing something illegal if they drive by and i'm sitting outside with my hookah.. should i even risk it? Do you think that they'll take it for drug paraphenalia even if i've never used it for something illegal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 My friend was smoking in a park one day when the cops rolled up and asked him what he was doing. he showed them the ma'assel box and invited them for a smoke. 20 minutes later the cops were back on the streets and my friend was still in posession of his hookah and all accesories. I can't see a problem. They can't take your hookah unless they can proove that it has been used to smoke the unmentionable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molson Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 u should be fine, theres absolutly nothing illigal about smoking tobacco (unless ur under 16...well for canada atleased) i would take it...for all you know some people on your floor smoke. as for having it in your room most likely ur aloud...as long as theres no rule against possesing cigaretts or cigars then your good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR Bubble Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 My thought? Be careful! I don't know about Kentucky (I can only guess). Even though Kentucky really isn't a southern state geograohically speaking, it is still smack in the bible-belt. I may be wrong, and don't want to insult, but I'm under the impression they have the typical (what I call) "southern mentality.) You know: "If it ain't from around here, it's no good." I'm afraid you will get hassled pretty bad. The only way I can get away with it on my front porch (I live down in Louisiana in an area called "The Crossroads." Those names always imply, "we don't have any culture other than Walmart on Saturday night.") is because most of my neighbors already know I am straight. Before retirement, they saw me leave in the AM in uniform and return the same way. So they suspect I'm really a good ol' boy. So just be careful, and keep us posted. MR Bubble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmexx Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 I went to my friends college for an afternoon smoke once and everyone else with hookahs got into trouble except me and my friends. Only by the school security though, but I don't know how it works with dorm rooms in the states and whatever. Good luck and happy smoking!Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uselessdreamer1 Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 i live in kentucky, and your prolly talking about UK, and i would smoke. Just show the box. But its all up to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linnz1330 Posted August 17, 2005 Author Share Posted August 17, 2005 i'm actually in a smaller town, called Bowling Green...WKU is a lot smaller and a lot less..well..cultured... hardly anyone from this town knows what a hookah is really used for unless i have introduced them to it.. i'm so scared..i don't want my precious to get confiscated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother812 Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 as long as it has no residue from the unmentionable their is no way they can confiscate your hookah. oh they could try but a simple threat to call a lawyer and you should be fine. think of this as a way to inform the uninformed if anyone gives you a problem just keep your cool and explain what it is and how it works probably would not hurt to give them a little history lesson on your choice of smoking either. most important is keep your cool you may not respect the jackass in the uniform but show the position they hold some respect and you should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dikydave Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 *first post-awesome forum btw* anyway, i would be careful just using it inside the dorm. A bunch of stoners at my old school got busted when cops showed up at their room, only one guy got caught and luckily nothing more happened than the resident director made him do a bunch of community service around the dorm, but just becareful, cause hookahs are normally against the fire policy of dorms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahwahoo2006 Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 I go to school in a fairly small town, and since the cops have nothing better to they take even suspected drug use seriously. I have gotten them called on me like 3 times for smoking on my front porch (I live off grounds). Most of the problem you would have in dorms is from RAs, but most of them are pretty cool and/or at least know what a hookah is properly used for. Fire codes, however, are where the real problems lie - ours was so strict that we could only have a 10% of wallspace covered. My advice would be to bring it for sure (its a great way to meet people), but just be somewhat discrete on when and where you are using it, and of course never put anything it besides shisha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahwahoo2006 Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 btw, nice Os in you pic Linnz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uselessdreamer1 Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 yea very nice o's. I just went to WKU for band camp. its a very nice campus and the cafeteria is tha sh*t. back to topic. if it was me i would take it and smoke it somewhere descreet like in a small park way or something. maybe a friends house? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linnz1330 Posted August 17, 2005 Author Share Posted August 17, 2005 well i actually live in bowling green (where the school is) so leaving it at home is not a problem..i just want to be able to call a friend up that lives in my building or a building over and be like "wanna smoke" and they can come over and we can smoke on a bench outside or something... you think there will be a problem with that?? i'll be so sad if i have to leave it at home..as i just got back from california where i purchased $100+ on supplies to start school with! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahwahoo2006 Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 One thing I have learned is that as long as you act like youre allowed to do something, people generally leave you be. And since there is nothing illegal about hookah, even if someone tries to give you sh*t theres nothing they can do about it, especially if you are outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyBiz Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 Keep in mind that different dorms and colleges have different rules. I know, for example, Bloomington has an indoor smoking ban where you can't smoke within ten feet of a building. RAs can either be really cool about it or can flip out; you'll have to judge that for yourself. Your best bet is indoors at a friends place. The last thing you want to do is attract police attention, as they can confiscate it and test for residue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linnz1330 Posted August 17, 2005 Author Share Posted August 17, 2005 most definitely not what i want to hear..i know there is a ban on smoking in the dorms..but honestly, what's the difference in my roommate lighting up a cigarette outside the building and me sitting on the sidewalk with my hookah? i'm thinking it iwll be easy to get away with smoking indoors as the smoke doesn't smell like smoke and doesn't really stick to anything..but i will test itoutside and get my RAs hooked before i even try that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR Bubble Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 Hey, just take it easy. Relax for a minute. Here's what I'd do: Take it with you. You get there. just relax. Get a feel for the place and the people. Take a mental survey of who you can trust and who you can't. Who's cool and who sux. Within a week, you'll know what you can get awy with and what you can't. Then you'll be alright. You'll probably discover you can smoke at night if you surround yourself with cool people. You'll do fine. If someone makes a scene, justy take your machine home. It's not the Army: you can't be locked up on base sharing a barracks with 50 guys and 3/4 of em suck! You'll be alright. MR Bubble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sariél Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 And remember, as long as its not REALLY illegal, its usually easier to ask forgiveness than permission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yashman19 Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 I will be starting my 3rd year at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Ca. As for smoking outside on campus, there will be different rules depending on which campus you go to. My school is a private school, and in most cases with private schools they can make up any rule they please. But luckily, Pacific's campus police are very nice. The only rule they have regarding smoking anything out in public is that it must be 50 ft from a building. This is just a precaution because someone burnt part of a dorm down from smoking ciggs a while back. Like most people said above, bring your tobacco with you. A few times smoking outside with my buds, a cops rolled by and stopped, cam over and talked to us. He said right away he wasn't worried because he couldn't smell any ganja, but still thought he should talk to us. We offered to open up the foil for him to better inspect. As long as you are cooperative and not sassy, be friendly, most of the time they will be cool. And if he tells you to pack up, don't argue just be cool about it. Not the end of the world.. And if you want to get dangerous and smoke hookah inside, just let me know if you need any tips. This is all I did my first 2 years at school. I could give you some pointers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uselessdreamer1 Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 the old towel under the door trick? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molson Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 haha towel under the door and exhale into a paper towel tube with cotton and bounce in it hahahhaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dikydave Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 [quote name='Molson']haha towel under the door and exhale into a paper towel tube with cotton and bounce in it hahahhaha[/quote] hehe, that's how we got away with lots of fun in a no-smoking dorm. sure, we prolly spent as much on air freshener as we did on...anything else, but had a good time. (xcept we stuffed a 20oz coke bottle full of bounce and cut holes in the bottom, worked 100x better). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yashman19 Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 Well, yes with the towel under the door, but there are a few things in addition which can help a lot. 1. A wet towel will work better than a dry towel obviously. 2. Most dorms have windows. Place a flat fan right in the window seal blowing outwards. I used to do this, but it creates too much air circulation in my room, thus preventing me to blow Os so I only turn it on after a session to clear out the smoke, or crank it on full blast if the police are at my door (which have happeend a few times) 3. Most dorms will also have smoke detectors in each room. Now this can be tricky. Our smoke detectors can only detect "hot" smoke. Now I say hot smoke because hookah really doesn't have hot smoke. Ever notice how cigg smoke burns your eyes but hookah smoke doesn't? Theres not a direct flame burning anywhere. So because of this, I still cover the smoke detector with a plastic bag and tie it down, just to be safe. No sense in risking it. 4. Keep some form of a container filled with water. Just incase you have an RA or campus police knocking on your door and want to break down your hookah really quickly so you can hide it (once again, this has happened to me a few times), you can just grab the hot coals with tongs and dump them into the water, and then safely move your hookah without fear of droping hot coals on anything. 5. Carpet...Some dorms have carpet, some of hard tile. If your room has carpet and you want to avoid a hefty fine at the end of the year for burn marks (trust me, you WILL drop some coals, accidents happen), I suggest buying cheap 5'x8' sections of carpets at Target or Walmart. Or even a couple floor matts and just put them next to each other. My carpet at the end of the year looked like a burn victim. Our rooms came with tile but my roomie and I used a huge piece of old carpet from his house and it got toasted over the year. 6. Air fresheners arn't really neccesary, unless you plan on smoking anything else besides hookah in your room. Hookah smoke isn't as thick as cigg or cigar smoke, and it doesn't stain all your furniture with that smell. As long as you use your fan to flush out all the smoke after every session, you will be golden. Thats all I can think of at the moment. I will post more as they come to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yashman19 Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 Oh and I forgot to say, that if you do all these things, there will never be a need to blow the smoke into a tube with dryer sheets in them. I mean what the hell is the point of smoking hookah if you blow all the smoke into a tube 7. If you are really paranoid about getting caught, make sure you enforce this next rule very strictly. NO IN-N-OUT PRIVALIGES! The only reason I got caught that one time was at the begining of the year and I really didn't know the RAs to well, and I had a crew of like 10 people crammed in my room smoking, and people would be going in and out of my room every few minutes. What the hell is the point of toweling the door if someone lets all the smoke out anyways every few mintues? As long as you keep that door toweld and closed the entire time, you will be fine. P.S. I was in like flynn with the RAs by the end of my first semmester. All of them new what I did, and all of them didn't care. I treated them nicely, and they let me get away with murder. Hell, I smoked and drank with one of em Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahwahoo2006 Posted August 19, 2005 Share Posted August 19, 2005 Couldnt have said it better myself Yash. I'm just SO glad I live in my fraternity house and NOT in the dorms anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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