At the same hospital, a guy who got pneumonia getting caught in the rain and two cases of intimate sand abrasion from the dunes by the cape.
Key point is this was a five-star resort: you wonder what the one-star, two-star, three-star and four-star resorts are like.
I hope they’re all able to escape and get back to their respective holmes.
Some go to Sherlock, some go to Enola.
Or their cousin Rupert.
And their insurers can cut through all the red tape.
Well, for starters, they don’t have yoga…or champagne
I’m not much into health foods. Having half a brain will do that.
No problem. My croft is ready to take me there.
I just wanna tell everybody that the first time I (mis)heard the song, I wondered why somebody was singing “if you like green enchiladas”.
(yeah, it’s possible that I may have recently smoked something.
Ah…to be a student again)
Fiji has nothing on the USA - we have a daily average of over 6 deaths per day from alcohol poisoning. Tourists, keep away!
(From Googling “stats on alcohol poisoning in the usa”).
I guess I’m curious about what struck the OP as interesting about this story - maybe it’s simply the amusing the Pina Colada music angle?
It’s not so much they got alcohol poisoning, the one article hints there may have been poison in the alcohol. Maybe methanol.
Maybe someone put the lime in the coconut.
Lots of opportunity for confusion between “alcohol poisoning” as in “I drank waay too much perfectly normal booze and hurt myself for real.” versus “alcohol poisoning” as in “I drank something that had dangerous adulterating chemicals in it beyond what’s in normal alcoholic drinks.”
If the latter is the case here, whether the adulterant is methyl alcohol or something totally different is sorta immaterial to the story. Although important for treatment and prognosis. And for tracking back how it got into the drinks in the first place.
I realize that kicking around stories like this is more or less the point of MPSMS since we’ve all got too much time on our hands, but folks getting sick from stuff they consume, malevolent or coincident, is (to me) a strange thing to speculate on from any further than the nearest roadside bar & grill.
My need to threadshit here and now is just as troublesome, I recognize. I apologize.
But if you have a brain worm, you will be into health foods, and only health foods.
Evidently the worms demand a better diet than the standard American host human does. Perhaps the worms are smarter?
Did he leave his cake there?
Maybe they were using raw coconut milk? That stuff can be full of nasties.
Tourists hell! I’m accountable for two of those a week!
I drank myself to death 5 times last month!
According to the article, 7 people got sick at the same time. (Given that Fiji has a much smaller population than the US) That argues for an adulterant of some kind