Crazy stories from around the world thread

General Discussion
#21

Bango I tell people at work during safety talks about the same thing, relating to both methanol and EG. That’s awesome I can actually say I know a doctor who’s done it!

Ever wonder how someone can accidentally drink EG? Well, what do you do with your yummy-looking coolant when you flush your rad at home…something big, like a 4L juice container perhaps? Bingo. Think about the pentosin, even looks like fruit punch if its not too old…

Anyway, it seems like BMW drivers are stealing the headlines again…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2242139/M1-Crash-The-140mph-death-race-killed-two.html

#22

You hear about 2 BMWs racing at 140+ MPH and you envision a nice M3 vs. an M5…but reality is it’s a couple of dorks in diesels probably. Always is.

#23

My grandmother once gave me an orange diluted bleach/cleaner mixture. The tenants in the basement had filled an orange juice jug with this cleaner/bleach mixture. Morons didn’t tell my grandmother AND chose an empty orange juice jug and used an orange coloured cleaner.
She thought it was orange juice (she was old and didn’t smell anything wrong). I drank a gulp and right after swallowing, realised it wasn’t orange juice (I was 5 years old). Luckily, the bleach was diluted enough not to cause serious damage but I still had to get rushed to the hospital. Fun times :slight_smile:

#24

A 5 series and a 7 series.

What the fuck is wrong with these people:

“But as the wreckage lay across the road, a third car pulled up on the hard shoulder and four passengers got out to begin fighting with survivors of the crash – accusing them of killing their friends.”

Also, the British highways have so many speed cameras I don’t get all the racing there.

#25

Axel - fuck!

jspazz - AFAIK EG tox doesn’t respond to ethanol. I had one of those about a year ago and the pharmacist doled out some fancy expensive drug. It worked but not without dialysis as well.

#26

The motorways are the one place speed cameras aren’t very common at all. For a speed camera to go up, there has to be a certain number of injuries/fatalities. Morbid, I know.

#27

There are WAY more than the average number of cops on North American highways. I used to live in the UK as well you know :slight_smile:

#28

That sucks axel, glad you’re here to tell the tale! Again puts it into perspective how easily it can happen…:frowning:

Yeah Bango, as far as I’ve been told EG metabolizes using the same enzyme as methanol, alcohol dehydrogenase, so ethanol can be used for EG too, to hog those sites preferentially. I’m sure some pharmaceutical company is claiming they can do it better than plain old booze, though…I know, I work for one…:slight_smile:

#29

True. Having just driven about 1000 miles in the UK in June/July, there are hardly any speed cameras. I was under the impression they were rampant as well, having watched Jeremy CLarkson rage out about them fortnightly on Top Gear.

#30

Speaking of drinking odd things…

We had a yellow pitcher in the fridge that we filled with either; home made iced-tea, home made lemon aid or fresh squeezed orange juice. I’d come home after school and chug from the thing. My mother, lol, had yelled at me constantly for chugging straight from the pitcher. I ignored her. Punk pre-teen/teen years. One day she got payback. She took the left over bacon drippings from heating bacon up in the microwave that we usually kept in a coffee can, heated it up so it was liquid and put it in the pitcher right before I walked in the door. I walked in, dropped my back pack on the floor and headed straight for th kitchen. Picked the pitcher up by the handle and put the edge to my lips. Luke warm, fatty oil sludge is what met my lips and tongue. One of the nastiest things I have ever tasted.

One piont mom, zero punk kid.

#31

Wow all that yellow pitcher talk didn’t seem to be headed to bacon grease… I was sure we were going to hear a possible piss guzzler story. I was thinking…"this guys mom is heavy metal! "

#32

NSFW!!!

This is one hell of a WTF!!!

http://www.drunkatthewheel.com/?p=106

#33

bora…I’m speechless…ever wish you could un-see something

#34

yeah nothing giid about that video

she’s ugly
its gross
its not funny

, 45 seconds wasted

#35

Yeah she’s not that brutal. The bacon grease when heated turns a light brown and is liquid. Probably looked like a dark iced-tea, I don’t remember. What I do remember is to look inside the pitcher and smell it first. Lesson learned, the hard and disgusting way.

#36

bacon grease?

I didnt even watch it all the way …

this is more of a WTF post than anything…

Only thing missing was another girl and a cup!

#37

:o Two chicks one cup is by far the most disturbing thing I have ever seen in my life and I still hope to this day that it was some type of special cinematography.

#38

I’ve never seen it. What happens?

#39

They eat shit.

#40

best cliff’s ever. Thanks!