Show Time wrote: » Yes and it is that sort of attitude which has every 2nd person who can't hold a drink claiming to be spikes.
No1J wrote: » Look, I'm not trying to be a smart arse, just telling you that this does happen and to men. Like Azureus has said I also know my limits very well, I'm in my forty's, years of experience of going out to pubs/clubs, Have often been drunk but never anything like this. I could not stand up, both my shoes were in bits from my mate having to drag me arms around his neck style on his back all the way home. The next morning I fell over in the toilet. I have never fallen before, saying that this was anything like not being able to hold my drink is completely wrong, and I'm not claiming to have been drugged, I'm telling you I was.
MoodeRator wrote: » Just a little note of warning to people here. Not in Ireland but a bar in London was having a lot of drinks reported as being spiked by loacl hospital staff. The bar was monitored by the owner and police, the sick individual caught on CCTV was a barman that was dropping the tabs into the bottle as he de-capped them. He thought it was a "laugh". So sadly you even need to watch your drink at the point of being served:mad:
Apart from disappointed audiences stabbing themselves in the eye with shivs made from popcorn containers, it is hard to imagine how Wedding Crashers, an irreverent comedy, could possibly influence criminal behavior. Olga Louniakova, a student at the Oxford School of Hair Design in Connecticut, found out the hard way that spiking a drink with Visine (as demonstrated by Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers) not only causes diarrhea but can cause severe poisoning. In a mistake capable of being in a movie, Olga poisoned the wrong bottle, which turned out to be her supervisor’s. She was found guilty of second degree reckless endangerment and sentenced to 2 years probation. Similar incidents have occurred at several high schools by student pranksters
MoodeRator wrote: » Sadly I do not know the result as I left the area very shortly after. But it sadly proves how careful you need to be in some bars. It was only by luck that the women he had targeted were lucky to have found help in some passing decent human beings. It was mostly kind strangers that had escorted these young women safely to the hospital. It happened over a 6-7 week period as it was never suspected that it would have been the bar staff. Sorry I should have explained how he did it so that you can keep an eye out; The barman had the tablet pushed into the soft part of his thumb, so that as he then took the top off the bottle he would swipe his thumb over the now open top to make the tab drop off into the bottle. Simple but hard to spot if you are now aware!
seanmc1980 wrote: » why hasn't anyone here who has been "spiked" been raped on this thrend? Seems loads have been spiked and spent the next day in bed sick but nobody has actually been raped.
seanmc1980 wrote: » why hasn't anyone here who has been "spiked" been raped on this thrend? Seems loads have been spiked and spent the next day in bed sick but nobody has actually been raped...
Biggins wrote: » To be fair, I don't think anyone is going to post that such a thing has happened to them on any public forum - and quite understandable too if they don't choose to.
midlandsmissus wrote: » Believe me, girls tend not to lie about as serious a topic as rape. "No one is going to question the subject of rape?" Do you think a girl who had a one night stand and regretted it would really say she was raped/assaulted? Why the hell would she do that?
seanmc1980 wrote: » My point being seems everyone has had a "near miss" or "been so lucky" just very coincidental in my opinion.
revell wrote: » lucky you didn't lose any part of your body.
midlandsmissus wrote: » Believe me, girls tend not to lie about as serious a topic as rape. "No one is going to question the subject of rape?" Do you think a girl who had a one night stand and regretted it would really say she was raped/assaulted? Why the hell would she do that? More girls are raped and assaulted than you think...it takes huge courage to come forward, most say nothing, why would they when this is the attitude that is out there: she's only making it up because she regretted a one night stand. Imagine how absolutely HORRENDOUS it is to be sexually assaulted, and then to be told a you're a liar on top of that, mainly because people would rather believe it didn't happened. It is so huge and serious a topic that people stick their head in the sand. Girls are getting raped and sexually assaulted out there, things need to change, not calling girls liars would be a start.
msg11 wrote: » It was on the FM104 phone show,
catreyn wrote: » Anyone remember when Halo opened in Galway? There was a barman in CPs who was spiking people's drinks for fun. I had arranged to meet my boyfriend & friends in the Skeff after I finished work at 11pm. I had one drink there before we left for the nightclub. The plan was to go to Halo but one of the girls was under 21 & they wouldn't let her in so we headed down the street to CPs. I went to the bar & ordered a bottle of bud for himself & a vodka & coke for me. I'm not a big drinker at all (no, seriously. I drink Smirnoff Ice ) so I poured half the bottle of coke in. It tasted strange so I poured the rest of the coke in. After a couple of mouthfuls, I said to the boyf that it must be rank, cheap-a$$ vodka so I left it down, went back to the bar & ordered a coke. We went to the table the girls were all sitting at. About 5 minutes later, I started slurring my words. Then I couldn't hold my head up. My eyes were rolling in my head & I kept saying I was going to be sick. Two of the girls tried to pick me up to bring me to the loo but I vomited all over the floor before I could be moved. A bouncer came over, saying I'd have to leave, I was too drunk to be in there. Boyf started shouting "WTF?! She's had one drink all night, that's the drink she ordered here but didn't finish there on the table!" At this point, one of my friends was in tears, I was coming around a bit, saying "I just want to go home". Boyf & crying friend left with me, spent the following day on the couch with worst headache ever, felt like I was coming down with the flu, aches & pains everywhere. Turned out the barman thought it was a cool joke to play. At the same time I got done, there was about a period of 4-6 weeks where there seemed to be someone every week who had had their drink spiked. It all stopped after a girl drowned. CCTV from the club showed her heading to the loo (she was feeling sick she told her boyf) then heading out past him, straight out the door of the club. Boyf got worried when he didn't see her come out, asked a girl to look for her then asked bouncers to check for her when she wasn't in the loo. It was all over the papers at the time as she was missing for the weekend & she was captured on CCTV wandering all around the town that night, from cameras on NUIG campus to cameras outside a hotel down by the docks,before her body washed up. Toxicology reports found traces of ecstasy & rat poison in her system. So OP, your friend in A&E claims it's all a myth. The reason is most people don't go & get checked out because they know full well that they're not going to be believed. I was a student, out on a Saturday night with a bunch of friends, some of whom were drunk when I was saying I was sober? Yet every one of them will stand beside me & dare you to call me a liar.
hondasam wrote: » Have you a link for this? Toxicology reports. Heard all the stories about barman,spiking drink, rat poison and water but never seen any evidence it was true.
Biggins wrote: » I wouldn't in any way consider it proof - far from it - but still interesting reading here: http://www.weddingsonline.ie/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=43670&start=0
Liam Byrne wrote: » An absolute stunner spiked my drink one night when I was on holidays abroad ! Not as rosy as it seems, because the gang I was out with managed to get me out of there pretty quickly and reckoned she was "working" and probably had a few mates outside that would have mugged me.
