Posted on 02/17/2014 12:34:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
Bradley Eames mixed gin with tea bags, bragging 'This is how you drink' before consuming the concoction that was the equivalent of taking 30 shots. He died a few days later, after complaining of having stomach pains. The show was part of a NekNominate challenge — a dare in which one person drinks alcohol in an extreme way and dares friends to outdo them within 24 hours.
A British student who drank two pints of gin as part of an online drinking craze died just days later. Bradley Eames mixed the gin with tea bags and bragged, "This is how you drink."
Despite warnings from friends, he said he had to go through with the challenge to show "who is boss," reports The Mirror,
The stunt was recorded, according to a friend of Eames, who said halfway through drinking he gags, then finishes the drink before turning to the camera and giving a thumbs up, then saying, "Have fun!"
The 20-year-old was drinking as part of a NekNominate challenge.
Officials are fearful about the dangers of the craze and it is thought Eames' is the fifth death attributed to NekNominate, even though the cause of death has yet to be determined.
After he uploaded the film, he wrote "haha belly is hurting," reports The Mirror. Rugby-playing Eames was found dead at his home in Nottingham, central England, a few days later. It is thought he drank the equivalent of 30 shots during his dare.
Police say the postmortem was inconclusive and are carrying out further tests.
The NekNominate craze, which involves someone downing a drink in an extreme manner and then challenging others to do something similar within 24 hours, is thought to have begun in Australia and is now sweeping the UK and Ireland.
Alcohol kills?
Who knew?
My ex could beat that.
Wish she’d try.
I recall an old Ripley’s Believe it Or Not cartoon about a notable British boxer (probably early nineteenth century) who drank something like 30 shots of whiskey. He followed that with a glass of ice water. When he keeled over, his death was attributed to drinking ice water on a hot day — the experts at the time considered this to be an unhealthy practice.
He wins!!
Perhaps we should bring back prohibition. Oh wait a minute, a ban doesn’t work.
Officials are fearful about the dangers of the craze”
...why? Other then drunk driving.
Drinking games and drinking challenges are like nuclear war. There are no winners. It’s only a question of how much you lose.
I’ve got to tell my tequila drinking buddies about this one!
When I was in high school, a couple of my “friends” had a little fun by breaking into one of their dad’s liquor cabinet and seeing how much I could drink. Not wanting to appear cowardly, I took this as a challenge and proceeded to down two large glasses of vodka and rum. My parents found me that night passed out in the rain.
Actually I think it as simple as stupidity kills. All hail Darwin!
Sometime back two of my neighbors drank like college students on the 4th and they began firing bottle rockets back and forth at each others homes. Middle of the night I wake up and my house is full of smoke - because a bottle rocket landed inside this guy’s house smouldered in a couch and then his house lit up. I step outside and as the fire trucks arrive he’s standing in the street in the rain (it had begun to pour) in his pajamas holding the only thing he was able to save - his golf clubs. Later that morning the other neighbor involved was found beside his house dead from a broken neck - he’d gone to the edge of second floor balcony during his bottle rocket war and pitched over the rail. Everyone else attending were too drunk to miss him. These guys were old enough to know better. I avoid big drinking days like New Years Eve and The 4th because so many amateur drinkers get involved they ruin it. Everyone I’ve known drink themselves to death took decades - except one joker who passed out straddling a picket fence - he messed up his organs so badly that he was gone in about 7 months following.
Those Brits do love their tea, don’t they?
British boxer (probably early nineteenth century) who drank something like 30 shots of whiskey. He followed that with a glass of ice water.
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You know it wasn’t an Irishman...
Irishman wouldn’t allow water in the same room as his whiskey....
“Despite warnings from friends, he said he had to go through with the challenge to show “who is boss,” “
HERE LIES “ THE BOSS”.
And now he's showing them who is moss.
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