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Child (2) served whiskey at diner

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  • #32
    Emeraldy Pebbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 787 ✭✭✭Emeraldy Pebbles


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I like how they just happened to get a picture of the kid drinking the stuff. Something to sell to the papers

    Well, it was his birthday party, photos would be being taken. Also, that's taken from the BBC News site.


  • #33
    Emeraldy Pebbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 787 ✭✭✭Emeraldy Pebbles


    My name is URL wrote: »
    There was a stag party on at the time and apparently the orders got mixed up. Obviously the perfect setting for a two year olds birthday party like!

    You've never been to Wales, have you? Mad place! :)


  • #34
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,109 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Sonny? I wonder what she'd call a daughter?


  • #35
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    That's gas :pac: best kids party ever!


  • #36
    Plazaman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    My name is URL wrote: »
    There was a stag party on at the time and apparently the orders got mixed up.

    They don't mention the other lad at the stag party who went into a rage and was crying his eyes out when he got Ribena instead of a double whiskey.


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  • #37
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,220 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Michael Weston wrote: »
    The mother is hot to be fair:)

    Had a few lime juice and waters, have we?


  • #38
    Guy:Incognito
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    Emeraldy Pebbles wrote: »
    Well, it was his birthday party, photos would be being taken. Also, that's taken from the BBC News site.

    At £4 a shot theres about £50 of whiskey in that glass.I call shenanigans.


  • #39
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    The BBC really has gone to fuck. That is the sort of bollocks non-story you used only read in The Sun.

    They took him to hospital after he had a couple of sips of whiskey and water?!

    I used to think that if we had universal free health care here, people wouldn't abuse it as much as others feared. Maybe I was wrong.


  • #40
    Emeraldy Pebbles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 787 ✭✭✭Emeraldy Pebbles


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    At £4 a shot theres about £50 of whiskey in that glass.I call shenanigans.

    This is Wales, no way would it be 4 pounds per shot.


  • #41
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    You have to admire his capacity to down that much whiskey.

    Salut!


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  • #42
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,011 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    The BBC really has gone to fuck. That is the sort of bollocks non-story you used only read in The Sun.

    They took him to hospital after he had a couple of sips of whiskey and water?!

    I used to think that if we had universal free health care here, people wouldn't abuse it as much as others feared. Maybe I was wrong.

    My thoughts exactly. My granny used to give everyone of her grandchildren a sip of brandy to cure any ailment ranging from teething pain to a chesty cough. Didn't do us any harm!


  • #43
    Kurz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 786 ✭✭✭Kurz


    My name is URL wrote: »
    I like how they just happened to get a picture of the kid drinking the stuff. Something to sell to the papers

    Looks like it should have "Our Whiskey Hell" captioned across it.


  • #44
    Sorcha16
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 343 ✭✭Sorcha16


    Maybe the poor kid just had a tough day at Playschool


  • #45
    Procasinator
    Registered Users Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭Procasinator


    I'd believe the story. Looking at the photo, it wasn't straight whiskey. More than likely the order came in for lime with water and the staff assumed Whiskey with lime and water. It'd be quite easy to not realise as a parent that whiskey was in the drink, especially as it would be the last thing you'd expect.

    Drunk and taken to hospital after his 2nd birthday. His 21st will be mental.


  • #46
    AllGunsBlazing
    Registered Users Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭AllGunsBlazing


    They're probably watering stuff down on the sly.


  • #47
    Martyn1989
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    I was in TGI Fridays when I was about 10 and ordered a coconut milkshake and got served a pina colada. Didn't like it and gave my mam a sip to see if it tasted bad. The waitress bolted back over when she realised what happened, didn't really mind, mistakes and all that. Don't know how she managed it though, it was in a martini glass and everything.


  • #48
    jmayo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,078 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    I always heard Swansea was tough, but starting them on the hard stuff at 2 is a bit much.

    Holy sh** just picture the playschool after a visit to the local restaurant.
    Toddlers past out, others piddling in the corner, puking in the corner, lamping each other out of it, staring manically at each other.

    Hey wait would anyone notice. :rolleyes:


  • #49
    token101
    Registered Users Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    He slept it off in the hospital. Should have got him a taxi home and billed him for it. ****ing drunks clogging up the emergency wards again


  • #50
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    BUNGLING Frankie & Benny’s staff gave a boy of three whisky — just weeks after the diner chain served booze to a two-year-old.

    Thomas Horne had to be taken to hospital by his parents after he was handed a Coke containing a double Jack Daniel’s.

    Mum Angela, 38, said: “We ordered a Coke and Thomas gulped down about a third of it. He then squirmed and said he didn’t like it.”

    Angela sniffed the drink and smelled alcohol — and when the waitress was summoned at the diner in Greenwich, South-East London, she admitted the lad had accidentally been given booze. Angela took Thomas to A&E where he was monitored by docs.

    Last month, little Sonny Rees was given whisky at a Frankie & Benny’s in Swansea.

    The chain yesterday blamed the latest mix-up on “human error”.

    yup they did it again :pac:


  • #51
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,435 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Ah here, someone's taking the p1ss in there now..


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  • #52
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,119 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    davet82 wrote: »
    yup they did it again :pac:


    It was less than a measure that he drank. hardly hospital worthy.


  • #53
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Maybe they should make it a no-kids restaurant... because just in case your kids get locked.


  • #54
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    dopey parents giving their toddlers coke to drink, prob doing way more harm than an accidental gulp of whiskey.


  • #55
    9959
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    Apparently on the continent of Europe, particularly in France, Spain and Italy, parents allow their kiddies to guzzle 'wine' from a very early age in order to inure them to the taste and prepare them for the onerous tasks of philosophising, bullfighting, and sculpting, later in life.

    This practice of 'force feeding' is often cited here and in the UK as the main reason why our friends on the continent are less likely to indulge in 'binge drinking' when they're much much older, say 14 or 15.

    Maybe it's not such a crazy idea after all, but let's hope that before the two year old was served the whiskey, the standard admonishment of 'please drink responsibly' was given, as it is always given to grown adults by the drinks industry who care not one whit for profits but only for our health and well being.


  • #56
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Whiskey instead of water?

    Jesus is losing his touch since he lost all his money and had take up a waiter job. Pfft, investing in pumpkins...............what was he thinking........


  • #57
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,119 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    krudler wrote: »
    dopey parents giving their toddlers coke to drink, prob doing way more harm than an accidental gulp of whiskey.

    Now I think about it, they're UK measures. They're kids measures anyway.


  • #58
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Their whisky must be well watered down if a 2 year old child didn't immediately gag on it.


  • #59
    Wompa1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,165 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    What kind of freak sips whiskey like that. F'kin kid should be sent to AA


  • #60
    Jarrod
    Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭Jarrod


    Is it standard practice for 2 year olds to be served their drinks in a glass rather than some style of sippy cup? Seems bizarre to me although not as bizarre as that 'boy' wearing some sort of beads in his hair.


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  • #61
    anncoates
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    Also can't picture a child being called Sonny Rees. Sounds like a cabaret singer in his 50s from the North f England.


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