Bar Owner on Trial for 'Killing' Customer Who Drank 56 Shots

Express ^ | Tue, May 5, 2015 | Ian Sparks

[Ken H]

It WAS GREAT being 18. Built like a Greek God (now I’m bloated like the Greek debt)

LOL!

[napscoordinator]

A friend and I did peach schnapps and Peppermint schnapps taking shot after shot until both bottles were empty. I honored the porcelain god for hours and hours after. I will never forget that (26 years ago) nor will I touch either one ever again after.

[dp0622]

:)

[dp0622]

lol. I only threw up once at 16. I drank a ton of JD and beers. lol. What a night.

I was a drummer and used to have parties and there were like four or five guitarists there ready to jam all night.’

Well i was the only drummer and i was usually SHOT on vodka or JD after an hour. so no drummer!!

oh well :)

Always had trouble with the beginning of Rock n Roll oh well.

Flirtin with disaster, radar love, WE will rock you fast version, a million motley crue and scorpion an Dio songs, lol...those wre the days

[napscoordinator]

Sounds like a lot of fun. I have to admit I did throw up more then once but it has not been as vicious as that one time. Weird thing is I can drink Red Bull and Vodka back in the day....all night long with little affect. Not really a proud thing but just facts.

[dp0622]

I was proud of that 22 shot victory lol. but not till later. I’m very proud of it today lol
Didn’t think about it twice then we both had some good times, sounds like.

[napscoordinator]

That is awesome! I am glad that I had some crazy times back in the day. I had enough to not miss it today.

[Polynikes]

““I’ve had 18 straight whiskies; I think that’s the record.”

- Last words of Dylan Thomas.”

That's supposedly how golf was invented and why it has 18 holes. It was a glorified drinking game. Play a hole take a shot. Modern 5ths of whiskey have about 16.6 shots but earlier times the sizes were less standardized. If you could play 18 holes and still stand up you were a “Bonny Laddy and a real man ( said with a Scottish accent)

[dp0622]

I miss it sometimes lol. What can you do. Time stands still for no man. Have a good one!

[PLMerite]

“Hope he doesn’t have a Viking funeral. It could take a while...”

With that much alcohol it’d be visible from space.

[Bigg Red]

How does one reach the age of 57 and still have no more sense than this man had?

[Polynikes]

If they were standard shots they would be about 45cc that makes a total of around 2.475 liters. He must have had an enormous tolerance or had an large body volume. I am surprised he didn't die of alcohol poisoning or respiratory arrest.

[Charles Martel]

I drank a shipload of 151 rum on my 18th birthday, after downing a whole bunch of other drinks. The smell of rum gives me the shivers to this day.

For me, it was peppermint schnapps. Haven't been able to touch the stuff for thirty years. Heck, I even pass on the red and white candy mints.

[luvbach1]

He must have been a very experienced drinker. Novices would have regurgitated the booze long before the record shots.

[KosmicKitty]

I could do, maybe 6, total. And I would be on the floor

What are they drinking??

I guess personal responsibility doesn’t play a part here

[MacMattico]

I went to a party at 19 and they brought out several bottles of Everclear. I had never heard of it or had it. I was with a group of friends and we had a few that weren't drinking and promised to make sure we got home safely so I tried to out drink the guys! Yes, I am a female. I don't remember much except the getting sick and the hangover. Several years later I was married and pregnant and was being released from the hospital after getting IV fluids for dehydration. The doctors recommended I drink some Gatorade when I got home. We got home and I was so tired my husband said go lie down and I'll go get the Gatorade. He forgot to ask me what flavor so he got three or four different bottles. I got up to go and get a drink, and I don't even know if they still sell it, but he had a bottle of clear Gatorade. Thoughts of that Everclear rushed back into my head (after nearly 10 years) and I barely made it to the sink before getting sick! Which was the whole reason I was dehydrated— I couldn't keep anything down while pregnant. I remember begging him to get rid of the clear Gatorade!

[onedoug]

“Hold muh beer and watch this....”

[Larry381]

and I thought my ex-wife held the record with 5 cases of Budweiser and a pint of Gallo Port on our honeymoon.

[equaviator]

Absolut-ly

[trebb]

I guess it could come down to, at what point did the guy become incapacitated to the point of not being rational (not that he was rational in the first place, but even that state deteriorated). It is very possible that without goading, he may have just fell asleep at the bar - 12 more shots is significant.

If an idiot decided to become an idiot, it doesn't make it OK for someone to exploit the incapacitated state later on in the day - like getting someone all drunked up and then talking them into sex while you're still sober - disgusting all the way around and many who say he got what he deserved would kick a guy's ass for taking such advantage of a woman who got stupid and drunk.