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| töbias |
Drinking is a great source of national pride for our country.
Drinking game puts Perth man near death
A 21-year-old Perth man is lucky to be alive after having his stomach ripped open during a beer-skolling game using a home-made device powered by an electric pump.
The drinking game at a 21st birthday party in a southern suburb 10 days ago went badly wrong, rupturing the man's stomach and forcing beer straight into his abdomen.
The man, who is in St John of God Hospital in Murdoch and spent a week in intensive care fighting for his life, was among a group of friends at a private party who used the device.
It is believed to have consisted of a helmet fitted with a jug from which a hose was attached to a pump that was powered by a power drill.
Another hose from the pump was placed in his mouth and the pump was switched on, pushing beer from the jug down his throat.
The man, a mechanical drafter who did not want his name published, said yesterday that about six other party-goers had used the "jug helmet" before him.
"No one else had any problems and I didn't think it would be any different to other things like funnels that people use," he said.
"But I knew something wasn't right soon after I drank from it. I started spewing up red stuff and was in a lot of pain."
Although he has little memory of the next few days, friends took the man to the Murdoch hospital's emergency department where staff originally thought he was just drunk. When his friends told about the skolling device doctors suspected something was seriously wrong.
The man underwent urgent surgery to repair a 10cm tear and was then on life support for a week.
Surgeon David Cooke said the split in the wall of the man's stomach had pushed food and beer into his abdominal cavity, making him septic. His insides had to be "washed out" twice and he was put on heavy-duty antibiotics.
The man's mother said that for several days it was touch and go.
were told that if his oesophagus had torn as well he probably would have died," she said. "I know 21-year-olds are out to have some fun but I don't think any of them . . . realised what can happen when these sorts of drinking games get out of hand."
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She said she did not want to blame anyone for what happened but hoped the device had been destroyed.
Health experts yesterday warned people not to build gadgets that allowed the rapid consumption of large amounts of alcohol.
Australian Medical Association public health chairwoman Rosanna Capolingua said she was horrified that people would pump a liquid into themselves.
"This is a warning with Christmas and new year coming up to be a little careful and not try to up the ante," she said.
"You can have a great time and a lot of fun without putting yourself and each other in danger."
http://thewest.com.au/20041215/news...-sto130036.html |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by töbias
Health experts yesterday warned people not to build gadgets that allowed the rapid consumption of large amounts of alcohol. |
Well, glad to know the experts are on top of things. :stongue:
What a hilarious story. I know the guy got really hurt, but since he lived, I can laugh all I want. :haha:
Hey, Orbax doesn't live in Australia, does he? :p |
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| Dervish |
Yeah drinking games are fun, death ain't though. I've Ko'd myself a few times (not from the drink, like from being drunk and cracking my head off a low celling on a stair, getting concussion and then basicly running into a wall because of it).
But it would be a ty way to go, pissed out of your head. Not much reason for it all told. And it does happen. |
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| Bren-F |
pff f***ing Aussie lightweight :crazy:
I do that every night only with x10 power pump (there are a few on this forum that can vouch for me on that....Shep? Fundy? :p )
These amature beer drinkers, I really despair sometimes :stongue: |
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| töbias |
| quote: | Originally posted by Bren-F
pff f***ing Aussie lightweight :crazy:
I do that every night only with x10 power pump (there are a few on this forum that can vouch for me on that....Shep? Fundy? :p )
These amature beer drinkers, I really despair sometimes :stongue: |
Most Poms I drink with head home about 9pm.
Something about needing a Vindaloo or something... |
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| Dervish |
^^^^^^
lol
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| DannyO |
| quote: | Originally posted by töbias
Most Poms I drink with head home about 9pm.
Something about needing a Vindaloo or something... |
Ever thought its because you bored the out of them?
If you lived here I'd like to give you a competition with ANY drink. |
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| Orbax |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Well, glad to know the experts are on top of things. :stongue:
What a hilarious story. I know the guy got really hurt, but since he lived, I can laugh all I want. :haha:
Hey, Orbax doesn't live in Australia, does he? :p |
lol even i was horrified by that...cool idea though |
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| Rostros |
| Did he have a Hang Over ? |
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| töbias |
And another one:
Man on vodka binge blows .462
December 17, 2004
BY all accounts he should be dead, but somehow Rafer Wilson survived a two-week drinking binge to record a blood-alcohol reading more than nine times the legal .05 limit.
With an empty vodka bottle lying on the passenger seat of his beige Mazda 626, the 35-year-old crashed into a parked car on Caringbah Rd, not 200m from his Caringbah home in Sydney's south.
Police evidence tendered to court revealed a man so drunk he could not stand when ordered out of the car by police.
As Wilson made that first tentative step, his legs crumpled, he collapsed to his knees, lurched forward and smacked his head on the driver's side door, police stated.
His words were close to unintelligible but he allegedly managed to reveal he had been drinking for two weeks.
It was 4.15pm and on that day alone, October 24, 2003, he had managed to finish off one-and-a-half bottles, or 35 nips, of vodka to record a blood-alcohol reading of .462.
Experts are amazed he is alive.
Forensic toxicologist Allan Hodda from the State Government's Division of Analytical Laboratories, said it was an "incredible level" of alcohol in the blood.
"Based on a lot of medical books, he should not be alive," he said.
"There are people around who can tolerate these levels but that doesn't mean their livers are not shot."
Paul Dillon from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre said people could "die from a lot less alcohol than that".
"There are people who have died from a 10th of that amount," he said.
"This bloke had an awful lot of good luck."
Mr Dillon said it was "bizarre you could physically drink that much and not pass out".
Mr Hodda said he had seen higher readings but more often than not those people were dead.
"We've had young kids who accepted dares and have tried to swallow a bottle of rum and then collapsed and died," he said.
More than 12 months on, Wilson's case is still before the courts.
He had expected to be sentenced yesterday in Sutherland Court but the matter was held over to the Downing Centre Local Court for March 3.
Wilson pleaded guilty to the high-range drink driving charge - his second. He pleaded guilty to the same charge in 1997 and was fined $600 and was disqualified from driving for two years.
This time he faces a possible jail term.
Documents lodged with the court indicate he has put himself through an eight-week rehabilitation course since last year's crash.
NSW Police confirmed the highest recorded drink driving reading in the state was a woman who blew .572 - more than 11 times the legal .05 limit - in Orange in 2002.
She had just dropped her children at school.
The Daily Telegraph
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