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Boy racers are thought to have been stealing pain relief gas from ambulance stations to use as ‘rocket fuel’ that boosts the performance of their cars. The thrill seekers have been blamed for repeatedly breaking into storage areas to steal the cylinders of entonox gas which contains nitrous oxide and oxygen. The gas can be used as a fuel to improve the performance of cars and produce far higher speeds than normal petrol or diesel. Five cylinders of the gas were stolen in the latest incident from a storage area at the ambulance station in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Cylinders have also been stolen at other stations in Newmarket, Haverhill and Stowmarket in Suffolk as well as Cambridgeshire. Another cylinder was taken in June last year from an empty ambulance after paramedics left it parked outside Ipswich Hospital. The use of nitrous oxide has been previously highlighted in car chase films such as Mad Max starring Mel Gibson and The Fast And The Furious starring Vin Diesel. East of England Ambulance Service spokeswoman Adrienne Watts said: ‘It is like rocket fuel and is sometimes used to boost engine performance. ‘This is the second time in a month that ambulance staff in Suffolk have arrived for work to find that cylinders of Entonox had been stolen from their stores. More