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I don't understand this
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:28 pm
by Angharrad
Inmate at UK jail drunk on Swine Flu hand gel
An inmate at a prison in Dorset, UK, allegedly drank anti-bacterial hand gel causing him to get drunk. The incident forced the prison to remove the hand gel while an investigation takes place.
HMP The Verne in Portland, Dorset had only distributed the hand gel on Monday in an effort to stop the spread of Swine Flu.
As BBC News reports, within hours of the alcohol gel being distributed, there was a reported incident of an intoxicated inmate, the Prison Officers Association said.
The hand gels have now been removed, say the Prison Service, as a precautionary measure while the investigation into the incident takes place.
A representative of the Prison Officers Association at The Verne said, "We were informed of an incident within hours of the gel being available. In one of the wings it is believed an inmate was using it inappropriately. When you get something called alcohol gel you can see what is going to happen. We had concerns when we heard these were being given to inmates. You don't want drunk prisoners running around the prison."
A spokesman for the Prison Service also added, "On Sept. 21, a prisoner at HMP The Verne showed signs of intoxication, the cause of which will be investigated. Anti-bacterial gel pumps have been removed from the prison as a precautionary measure."
It's believed the prisoner mixed the hand gel with another drink before consuming it.
In March, many hospitals including the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, also in Dorset, said they were removing hand gel from reception areas in an effort to stop visitors from drinking the hand gel.
Use of hand gels available in the ward areas were also being more closely supervised by staff.
I can understand an inmate in prison drinking hand gel, but a visitor to a hospital?
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Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:57 pm
by sunnyside
Well, especially there, no-one is turned away from the hospitals, and alcoholism can get ugly (and could be the reason they're there in the first place).
A bit of artwork I like and think speaks well to the human condition is:
http://digitum.washingtonhistory.org/cd ... OX=1&REC=6
Where they're drinking denatured alcohol which is traditionally lethal or at least quite deadly in the US as it was/is made by adding methanol, but that made it free from many taxes, regulations, prohibition, and such, so it was what was availible and people took their chances, often figuring they had a method so that it wouldn't kill them.
Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:23 pm
by Mikey
What's the matter, guys in English prisons can't get their hands on plastic bags, water, and some vegetable scraps?
Not that I know anything about making jailhouse rotgut...
Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:39 pm
by Tyyr
Some people don't mess around with their alcoholism, they're committed.
Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:45 pm
by Aaron
Man, I went through Basic with a guy that got drunk off of Scope. Now there is a dedicated alky.
Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:27 pm
by Tsukiyumi
Cpl Kendall wrote:Man, I went through Basic with a guy that got drunk off of Scope. Now there is a dedicated alky.
Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:49 pm
by Mark
I have a friend who's been battling his alcoholism for years. Some of the things he's done his horrible. He's drank vanilla extract, cough syrup, rubbing alcohol (diluted with water), and even his own aftershave before.
Not a far cry from ingesting hand sanitizer.
Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:56 pm
by Angharrad
This forum is sooo educational.
Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:02 pm
by Mark
Makes you crave a drink, ey?
Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:06 pm
by Mikey
Cough syrup actually came into vogue a few years back down in Tsu's neck of the woods as a club drug. Goes along with "twist," a sort of polyrhythmic, syncopated style of hip-hop.
Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:08 pm
by Mark
Are you serious? People were drinking that crap for FUN??? At least I did REAL drugs!
(what a thing to be proud of, huh?)
Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:55 pm
by sunnyside
Mark wrote:Are you serious? People were drinking that crap for FUN??? At least I did REAL drugs!
(what a thing to be proud of, huh?)
Well, that depends on what exactly they're drinking. A number of brands of cough syrup don't have much in the way of alcohol, but what they DO have are things like Dextromethorphan, which is a psychedelic drug, or Opoids, which are euphorics.
Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:40 pm
by Mikey
Mark wrote:Are you serious? People were drinking that crap for FUN??? At least I did REAL drugs!
(what a thing to be proud of, huh?)
*waves cane* "Back in MY day, sonny, we had doses, pills, ice, and tar! Not this cough syrup and huffing you young whippersnappers have today!"
Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 1:42 pm
by Tyyr
You don't wanna know what some kids are huffing today.
As for the cough syrup it's rarely drank straight. It's usually mixed with something else like fruit juice or even just water to dilute it. It's the alcohol substitute in a mixed drink
Re: I don't understand this
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:36 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Like a Flaming Moe?
