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If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands.
It was no laughing matter for Bend police who stopped a pickup and arrested two men early Friday on charges of stealing a large canister of nitrous oxide -- the anesthetic known as "laughing gas" -- from a nearby dental office.
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Nitrous oxide is commonly known as "laughing gas" due to the euphoric effects of inhaling it. Used in surgery and dentistry as an anesthetic, it also can be used as an oxidizer in internal combustion engines, Ritchie said.
Looking at their mug shots, it looks like they're having a good time.