HELL'S KITCHEN — This concert must have been a real gas.
Four people were arrested for selling balloons filled with laughing gas outside the popular concert venue Terminal 5 early Sunday morning after a show by rock band Ween, police said.
The dealers — a 52-year-old woman, a 48-year-old man, a 42-year-old man and a 22-year-old man — were standing at the southeast corner of 56th Street and 11th Avenue just after midnight when a police officer saw them filling balloons with nitrous oxide, the NYPD said.
The group was ticketed but not taken into custody, police said.
Fat Lenny #WeenNYC @omgthatguyayfkm @Georganne72 @mraaronmichael pic.twitter.com/V30nI2Bwph
— Crash Campbell (@Boognish12) April 17, 2016
Users breathe in nitrous oxide — also known as laughing gas or "whippets" — from balloons to experience the drug’s euphoria and dizzying side effects.
A representative for Terminal 5 did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.
