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There are tons of ways to break a bong. Some lessons have to be learned the hard way. Like, don’t just toss your bong in a backpack with no bubble wrap and expect it to come out in one piece. Fortunately, we have the internet to help us learn from other peoples mistakes so we don’t have to make them ourselves. To illustrate how to avoid destroying your bong, we’ll be using examples from a few bong smoking fails we found on YouTube.
Trust No One
Friends can be a bongs worst nightmare. Novices and people that get too high too easily are not to be trusted with your beloved bong. Make sure they know how to use it so they don’t pull the entire down stem or ash catcher out. Down stems are literally the stems that go down from the joint of the bong into the water. An ash catcher is a glass attachment that catches ash instead of letting it fly through the bong. They usually have percolators built-in to cool smoke.
Also, make sure you watch them use it. Otherwise, they may leave your bong on the edge of a table only to watch it fall as they’re coughing a lung out like in the following video.
Remember Your Old Friend Gravity?
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Sometimes the short-term memory loss from a few good bong rips makes us forget about our old friend gravity. One weed smoker decided he was going to have the smoothest bong rip ever. That’s when he attached 7 consecutive ash catchers that extend far away from the joint of his bong.
To make matters