Posted on 09/25/2009 5:41:19 AM PDT by Daffynition
Alcohol hand gel meant to combat swine flu has been banned from a prison after inmates became embroiled in a drunken brawl after drinking it.
Hand gels supplied to a prison to combat the risk of swine flu have been removed after inmates realised it contained alcohol and began drinking it to try to get drunk.
At least one prisoner at HMP The Verne on Portland, Dorset, was found intoxicated. The Prison Service confirmed that this case was being investigated but meanwhile antibacterial gel pumps had been removed as a "precautionary measure".
Andy Fear, a member of the Verne's Prison Officers Association (POA) committee, said the canisters had been ordered because of the swine flu threat.
"It was subsequently reported by some association members working here that the inmates had been incorrectly using them, for want of a better phrase," he said.
"The suspicion that was reported to us was that some of the inmates had drunk them. Of course some of the officers expressed concerns over potentially having to deal with prisoners who have had a drink."
The Guardian reported in August that the NHS was aware of a rising number of cases of patients with drink or drug problems stealing the £10-a-litre gel and mixing it with orange juice, Lucozade or cola to create powerful cocktails, including one suspected death.
Tim Roberts, branch chairman of the POA, said the association had raised concerns when it was first announced that the gel dispensers were being placed in the prison, because of the alcohol content.
A Prison Service spokesman said: "On 21 September a prisoner at HMP The Verne showed signs of intoxication, the cause of which will be investigated. Antibacterial gel pumps have been removed from the prison as a precautionary measure."
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The prisoners read the label, the staff did not.
Is gel a sustance that they really want to introduce into prisons?
It’s Methyl Alcohol, or denatured alcohol, isn’t it? That will cause blindness.
That has to be worse that drinking listerine
as will several other prison activities...
Well, at least maybe we’ll find out if the pig flu virus is designed to kill us off. I heard yesterday that 99% of providers are refusing to take pig flu shots. Now that there, that otta tell ya somethin ...
Then again, if prisoners start dropping from swine flu gel, I’m sure the authorities are not gonna pass that cause of death on to us peasants.
A school here in Texas has banned the alcohol based hand gel because they’re afraid the ‘children’ will drink it and it has enough alcohol to be considered a risk for alcohol poisoning.
What are the chances of that? I would say the risk of catching the flu is 100’s of times more.
Mmmmm Gello shots...
I was surprised to find that people drink rubbing alcohol when it goes on sale.
Some of the kooks around here chased off Michael L King. He would have something like this on his “Just Damn” ping list.
Just “Damn”.
It’s amazing what hard-core alcholics will drink. I worked as a volunteer at a residential place that dealt with (sort of) recovered alcoholics, and every so often the less recovered ones would go off the rails, break into the pantry, and drink the flavoring extracts.
One of them drank the peppermint extract and nearly burned out his throat. It must have been like drinking Absorbine.
“I was surprised to find that people drink rubbing alcohol when it goes on sale.”
Kitty Dukakis:
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/11/us/kitty-dukakis-recovering.html
I thought they had astringent rules against this sort of thing.
The urinals were probably the cleanest they had ever been.
What kind of mentality does it take? These folks are beyond stupid, Insanity!
Apparently someone in the prison system doesn’t understand alcoholics/addicts.
That stuff is nasty. A friend worked in a factory that dealt with a lot of peppermint. One day they had a spill, and had to evac the area around the building.
Prisoners found drinking anti-swine flu hand gel to get drunk .
New swine flu article thread
Ping ....
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