'Even though it hurts me, it makes me feel good': Girl who can't stop drinking GASOLINE

Daily Mail ^ | March 11, 2012 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Free ThinkerNY]

If smelling gasoline weren't a health hazard enough, meet the girl who drinks it.

Lifting a red gas canister before the cameras, a girl named Shannon demonstrates her claimed addiction of drinking gasoline for TLC'S television program My Strange Addiction.

'It tingles at first and then it, it burns the back of my throat,' Shannon says describing her toxic habit which reaches up to 12 teaspoons a day.

'Even though it hurts me, it makes me feel good,' she says, of either licking the cap or drinking it straight out of the canister which she says is her favorite way.

[Finatic]

I saw the TV commercial a little earlier and sure enough, this rather attractive young woman is sucking gas out of the vent end of a 1 gal red plastic gas container. She was also licking her fingers at the gas station. Too weird for me.

[a fool in paradise]

What did we “learn” today on TLC? That people will perform geek tricks to appear on a “look at me” My Strange Addiction program.

And they brand Rush Limbaugh’s program “dangerous”.

[Slings and Arrows]

If napalm smells like victory, does gasoline taste like realpolitik?

[MV=PY]

I think she’s only fueling herself. But the subject is truly exhausting.

[DannyTN]

We use food for fuel...so why not fuel for food.

I hope she’s drinking unleaded.

[Rennes Templar]

“I think she’s only fueling herself.”

Once they try to stop her, she’ll be fuming.

[Morgana]

Don’t strike a match after she farts.

[Slings and Arrows]

Good advice.

[meatloaf]

I’d like to know if she can tell the difference.

[beaversmom]

They had one on there a week or two ago that liked to eat/drink nail polish.