Posted on 04/11/2018 9:27:04 PM PDT by Rebelbase
{snip} On Tuesday, authorities said at least 90 people have died over the past two weeks in Jakarta, West Java province and easternmost Papua, while dozens more are in critical condition in hospital from drinking tainted booze.
At least nine people have been arrested as of Tuesday, but authorities are still looking for major distributors of the bootleg booze which is usually sold under the table by street vendors, who sometimes make the toxic concoction themselves.
One suspect admitted having mixed mosquito repellent, pure alcohol and cough medicine into his homemade brew, police said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bangkokpost.com ...
I wanna party with them!
Somebody in Indonesia woke up one morning, and thought it would be a really nifty idea to mix mosquito repellent into the grain alcohol.
I guess he ran out of rubbing alcohol.
I’ve thought of the same thing except with suntan lotion, for people who want to get drunk on the beach.
When intoxicants and drugs are banned or taxed beyond a reasonable price, a black market, criminal and unethical, develops to fill the demand. While there is no doubt some sympathy for those individuals who voluntarily ingested these illegal intoxicants and wound up suffering and dying, there are economists and government planners who will argue that the death and disability rate would be far higher if these intoxicants and drugs were marketed freely at their true price.
People died in the U.S. in the 20s from tainted hooch.
Any Mohammeds involved here? That’s a van plowing death toll right there.
Some 10,000 people died because the hooch was intentionally tainted with deadly methanol by the US federal government. Needless to say, zero convictions, zero days in jail, and zero dollars in fines were assessed against said federal agents. For killing 10,000 people.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html
The Volstead Act included a few interesting exceptions to the ban on distributing alcohol. Sacramental wine was still permitted for religious purposes (the number of questionable rabbis and priests soon skyrocketed), and drug stores were allowed to sell “medicinal whiskey” to treat everything from toothaches to the flu. With a physician’s prescription, “patients” could legally buy a pint of hard liquor every ten days. This pharmaceutical booze often came with seemingly laughable doctor’s orders such as “Take three ounces every hour for stimulant until stimulated.” Many speakeasies eventually operated under the guise of being pharmacies, and legitimate chains flourished. According to Prohibition historian Daniel Okrent, windfalls from legal alcohol sales helped the drug store chain Walgreens grow from around 20 locations to more than 500 during the 1920s.
Papua province is 83% Christian. It could be a new way for the muzzies to kill Christians.
I used to know a gal with a tainted hooch. ‘Bout killed me, too!
What IS the case is that the government has huge taxes on alochol, so people look for cheaper stuff, like this moonshine.
Did the victims twitch violently?
It bears repeating that government is force. If you are a person looking for love from any government there is something very wrong with you.
I recall from back in the 50’s and 60’s, stories of people dying from drinking “scrap iron,” moonshine distilled in galvanized trash cans instead of copper stills.
I also recall, from documentaries on moonshiners and bootleggers, that the first quarter of the output of a typical amateur distilling setup, usually contains dangerous amounts of methanol, and should be discarded, or used for other purposes, but that many bootleggers just blend it back in with the rest of the batch.
Back in the 20’s, raw moonshine would sometimes be filtered through other organics, to hide the taste. My Grandfather got really sick from some ‘shine that had been strained through dried peaches to flavor it. He blamed the peaches! Couldn’t have been the hootch! (s/)
My Dad was an organic chemist, and informed my brother and me about all the toxins that could be, and were, formed by amateur fermentation and distillation, starting with ethyl alcohol itself.
Videos show the dogs crying as they open their mouths with the hook through the upper part of their jaw.
And that's just what they do to dogs.
I hope they all die from whatever they create. I hope the entire continent is submerged by a giant earthquake.
Aaand here come the “legalize drugs” crew.
Almost 40 years ago while living in North Carolina there was a rash of incidents where people were going blind drinking some moonshine. The moonshiner was mixing the Moonshine or storing the Moonshine in galvanized and zinc garbage cans which leaches into the alcohol causing temporary and I think sometimes permanent blindness.
So anyway, I have this friend up in Virginia Beach who kept bugging me to bring him some of that “real Carolina moonshine.” Well, there ain’t no way I’m going to go buy some moonshine that’s going to kill him so one day while I was in the class-6 store on the base that I was stationed at I noticed they had legal moonshine in quart jars (guaranteed to be less than 30 days old), so I picked up a couple of Jars for him, went home and cracked the tops open and took the labels off, and I brought them up on my next trip north, and he was delighted to have it real moonshine!
There used to be this Shiner show on one of the subscription channels that I watched a couple of installments and it was quite interesting. Some of those shiners are literally professionals without a license. However, the revenuers (state police) in Kentucky would stop by there farms (because they were known to be professional Moonshiners) and convince them it would be in their best interest to get a license for a couple hundred bucks and producing legally rather than try to skirt the law and end up in a jail house someplace. It was an interesting show.
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