Posted on 05/28/2023 10:31:11 AM PDT by grundle
A man in Seattle was hospitalized after drinking an entire bottle of NOS Octane Booster Racing Formula, confusing it for the NOS energy drink.
Octane booster is basically high-octane gas.
But there's also a NOS energy drink, with very similar packaging, that's meant to give people a caffeine boost.
But how bad do energy drinks have to taste for you to drink an entire bottle of octane booster and not realize it?
This took place back in 2020 but was recently published in the American Medical Journal.
The man went to the hospital after suffering a seizure and then stayed in the hospital with seizures 4 more days.
"Manganese can cause irreversible Parkinsonian symptoms due to oxidative damage in the mitochondria of the basal ganglia. Significantly less is known about acute manganese toxicity, but no seizures or neurotoxicity were associated with either of the two reported cases of acute manganese poisoning in humans," the team explained. "MMT itself or its metabolites have been postulated as the cause of neurotoxicity in animal studies."
Far from giving him the extra horsepower promised by the packaging, the man continued to have seizures and was sedated and intubated. After four days, and a few more seizures, he was extubated once more.
This is the first man the medical community knows of who has made this mistake and ingested methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl (MMT).
He's fortunate that he was able to walk out of the hospital just a few days later.
He hasn't suffered any long-term consequences since the event either, according to the journal.
I assume he probably suffers from permanent paranoia and double-checks ANYTHING he puts in his body now.
You’d think he’d know the difference between an internal combustion engine and his own body. Darwin Award winner?
Drank an entire bottle of gasoline? Never suspected that it might not be good to drink? I’d say he was trying to set up a lawsuit and gets some bucks.
It’s got electrolytes!
I don’t think that was the first thing he had to drink that day.
After all, taste is highly integrated with smell.
Yet, apparently he held his NOS.
Reminds me of the time I was at the checkout line at a WallyMart and the guy ahead of me had two bottles of Heineken and two bottles of Pennzoil motor oil. I told him “don’t get those confused”.
That was back in the day when you probably weren’t going to get shivved by someone who took offense.
They need to change the logo. At least make the bathground yellow or something
This is probably what the guy drank. They have changed the bottle.
To be fair, the ‘energy drink’ is nearly as bad for him as the Octane Booster.
The packaging is not very similar. It’s more obvious when the full image is shown, as in Google-Images.
The NOS + arrow parts are the same. The rest is different. One has a can like other drinks. The other doesn’t.
How much will the jury award him for his mistake? A few million?
Aren’t the drink can tiny next to a Nitrous bottle?
On the positive side, he has stopped knocking on hills..
Or snorted…..
But, but, but, but...choosing the energy drink over octane booster is DISCRIMINATION and discrimination is “bad...”
*GROAN!*
LOL!
They had paint and not octane booster, but even the Three Stooges knew better:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iVw4yM-MxUU
Those wackyyy Millies and Zeros and their “energy” drinks. LOL.
Social lubricants.
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