What kind of twisted mind do you need to spike a stranger's drink?

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Picture this…

It’s Friday night, you have to work early on Saturday, so you offer to be designated driver for your friend’s birthday night out. You arrive at the club, and spend a couple of hours dancing with your girl-friends and sipping blackcurrant cordial. About midnight, you start to feel sick, so you reluctantly decide to leave early. Your friends assure you that they’ll get a taxi home and you decide to drive over to your boyfriend’s house, since he only lives 10 minutes away.

You’ve been in the car for 5 minutes, when your vision blurs and you start to see monsters chasing the car. Afraid to stop, you call your boyfriend, and tell him that they’re after you, and you’re on your way to him. You just manage to get to his house before you pass out, crashing into the lampost outside the house as you park.

He takes you straight to the hospital, where they tell him it was probably ecstasy, since you’ve bitten through your lip (3 stitches to close it up). Apparently this happens regularly at that club, and you’re not the first girl it’s happened to. The police tell you that there’s nothing they can do, since there’s no proof you didn’t take the pill willingly yourself, and no evidence left to pin it on the perpetrator.

That’s how our neighbour’s 18-year old daughter spent last weekend.
I don’t understand how anyone could possibly find it amusing to put dangerous chemicals in complete strangers’ drinks. Would it have been funny if she’d crashed the car and died? She was the designated driver, she could easily have had passengers with her. Would it have been hilarious if they died too?

And that’s assuming the scum who did this wasn’t planning to rape her while she was off her face on E.

And that hers was the only drink he spiked that night.

It’s not beyond reason to suspect that this is how the creep gets his jollies on a regular basis.

The callous disregard that this fucknuggest displayed towards his victim is mind-boggling. I don’t get how you could care so little about other people that you would use them as puppets for your amusement.

Sick, twisted motherfucker.

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There are testing kits for drinks being developed. News article.

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I doubt anyone will drop the $10 or so to buy one, for each drink.

I didn’t RTFA though. :smiley:

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I don’t want to be able to test my drink, I want those goat-felching mutants to stop spiking them.

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Ecstasy is not a hallucinogen. If she was seeing monsters chasing her car, it either wasn’t ecstasy, or she might have gotten a pill laced with acid (which is fairly uncommon, but it does happen).

I don’t get what goes through these assholes’ minds! It’s FUNNY to spike someone’s drink with what might be a life-threatening substance? Motherfuckers.

Ava

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Dosing someone unawares is Not A Done Thing, and I hope whoever is responsible is caught out and punished to the full extent of the law.

I wonder what the mystery substance was, though.

Definitely not MDMA – whoever told her that is way off base.

I doubt it was LSD, too.

Sick feeling at onset, blurry vision, followed by true hallucinations? Sounds a lot like the effects of belladonna alkaloids, but that seems like an unlikely choice for a mickey. I imagine it would be hard to hide in a drink – unless someone had atropine stolen from a pharmacy/optomotrist? A blackcurrent cocktail might be enough to hide the taste, especially if it weren’t the first.

Feeling generally sick and having blurry vision would make sense if someone slipped her GHB – and that’s certainly something that’s a more common risk in clubs. Doesn’t seem to explain the “monsters,” though. Unless of course, there really were monsters following her, which is pretty plausible in its own way. :mad:

Anyway. Agreed-- what a shit, whoever did it.

And glad it didn’t turn out worse, which it might easily have.

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I’ve had it happen to me three times, all when I was at work. (I’m a dancer in a gentlemen’s club). Twice it was customers that did it (liquid acid both times…even though I haven’t tripped for damn near 12 years, I can remember what it felt like), and amazingly enough, once was an fellow dancer who when later questioned about it (since she was the last person I was sitting around, I’d asked her if she saw anything) “thought everyone did X, and figured I’d like the 2 hits she put in my champagne as a surprise”

She then mentioned how I didn’t even owe her anything for em, since someone had given them to her for nothing. You can’t go wrong underestimating how really clueless some dancers can be, honestly.

It was a good thing my friend was there, because she was really the only thing that stopped me from attempting to beat some modicum of common sense into her.

But, I digress.

The important lesson to be learned here, is NEVER accept a drink or shot from anyone who isn’t your waitress or bartender, and never, ever, EVER leave your drink sitting anywhere unattended. Not even for a second.

If I have to go to the bathroom, I bring it with me. If I need to run to the dressing room, it goes with me. If I have to go on stage, the drink comes with me. If I get from a table and move 2 feet away for a minute, my drink comes with me.

If I forget and leave a drink at a table for any reason, I get a new one one when I go back to the table, period. That will NEVER happen to me again, if I have anything to do with it.

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Could it have been more than one substance, then?

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PCP affects some folks that way, but I don’t know if you could add PCP to a person’s drink. (Isn’t it smoked, usually?)

I’ve heard of something called ketamine which was described as having almost exactly the effects the OP describes, except that it tends to keep you up instead of making you pass out. (Anyone know anything about ketamine?)

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Gentlemen, you should be paying attention to this discussion, too. This is not a “ladies-only” topic.

A male friend of ours was travelling alone in South Africa a few years back and stopped into a reputable-looking place for a couple of beers. Probably while he was pissing, his drink was spiked. He woke up in an alley, robbed and beaten, and pretty grateful that some cash and his pride were all he lost…

It is a very scary thing, and just one more reason to be happy I don’t drink anymore! Although I do follow the “don’t abandon your drink at any cost” when I am out somewhere. Of course, as an alcoholic, I wonder if the “don’t touch my drink” reflex isn’t just greed! :wink:

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Ketamine is a horse tranq. Not very good for you, but people do take it.

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Hell, isn’t that how Jeffrey Dahmer started out? Drugging guy’s drinks and then shagging them after they passed out?

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I have to agree with Larry Mudd, I doubt very much it’s MDMA (or solely that, quite possible it was mixed with something else as well as added to the drink)

Info on Ketamine
Effects of Ketamine

I’m sorry to hear about that happening to her. I hope nothing worse happens, I’ve heard some horror stories… some of which came from my own family. My aunt had her drink spiked by her boyfriend and ended up in the hospital overdosing… she’s not been quite right since (this happened probably a couple decades ago), my Grandpa had something happen like EJsGirl’s friend. He ended up just beaten up as well.

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Agreed. My male cousin had his drink spiked with heroin a few months ago. There are some sick fucks out there.

I always keep my drink with me at all times. It’s the only way to be sure it’s not been spiked.

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K can produce visual hallucinations and blurred vision.

Interestingly, police in my home state last year tested urine taken from victims complaining of drink-spinking. Not one of the samples tested showed any trace of drugs, leading to the conclusion that young men and women often claim that their drinks must have been spiked, when instead they’ve simply consumed too much alcohol or had an unexpected reaction to alcohol. This is NOT to say drink-spiking doesn’t occur–or in any way to detract from the OP–but clearly the bigger risk to drinkers is when they overestimate our ability to safely consume alcohol and fall prey to unscrupulous types.

Incidentally, those drink-testing kits are next to useless. They don’t test for a full range of drugs, and they don’t work on wine, fruit juice-based and milk-based cocktails–i.e. nearly all the popular drinks young women consume. And really, how many people are going to accept a drink from some hottie, then whip out a testing strip in front of them? I feel the testing kits only prey on the fears of parents, whipped up by media attention on drink-spiking. It’s much simpler to (i) stick with a group of friends who’ll look after you should you feel sick; (ii) keep your eyes on your drink at all times; and (iii) if someone offers to buy you a drink, watch them order it over the bar.

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Here’s a quote from a SMH article which references the study I alluded to:

Again, I’m NOT saying it doesn’t occur, just that overconsumption of alcohol is the real danger.

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Just one reason why I actively dislike going to popular, trendy bars and pubs.

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Why didn’t the hospital run a test to determine exactly what was put in her drink? It’s rather irresponsible to take a guess at what it was. It certainly didn’t sound like X to me…something heavier if she was hallucinating.

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Hmm…

While I think that spiking a stranger’s drink is a dispicable thing worthy of getting your ass kicked 'til you bleed, I can’t help but wonder if this is really what happened. I mean, who would actually do this?

An off reaction to alcohol has already been mentioned. I’m also thinking some odd form of food poisoning. And I wouldn’t rule out some sort of self-inflicted malady that she won’t own up to. Or, maybe her drink was really spiked by a nefarious stranger. Or friend. Since we’re hearing of this third hand, it’s hard to determine what really happened.

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I am sorry to say that your customers were not gentlemen at all.