Posted on 03/04/2017 11:25:25 AM PST by EveningStar
It was the bet to end all bets, and ultimately a man's life.
A 23-year-old man died from alcohol poisoning after chugging an entire bottle of tequila in a Dominican nightclub.
Kelvin Rafael Mejía decided to down the lot as part of a friendly wager between friends.
The insane bet was all caught on camera and then posted online.
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Totally agree. When I was in college, people would always do these drinking games. I never did that, I never saw the point. If you want to get f***ed up doing shots, just step over to the counter and do it, why do you need a silly game directing you? I’d rather just enjoy the sunset or the night air or something.
The tragedy is you don’t remember being young.
Or maybe I was crazy and thought everybody was like that.
I don’t know.
When you do something stupid of your own choice and die, you are a Darwin Award winner. You have removed your genes from creating offspring in the future. Period..
I spent about 2/3 of my twenties stationed overseas. Drink was cheap and plentiful. The base club was on the way to/from work.
Now I have a 200ml bottle of Jim Beam (bottled 1997) on my desk and it’s still almost half full.
This article says he choked on his own vomit. He could have been a rock star.
news.mit.edu/1998/da-0923
Yeah, but why couldn’t he do something more prudent like juggling chainsaws or setting himself on fire?
And if you drink enough, you can become invisible....
Did the monetary loser of the bet retrieve his money?
When I got outta high school, some friends and I has several bottles of that high quality and super expensive...Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill. I drank over 1 bottle. I was sick all the next day. Never again! It took years before any wine didn’t smell like puke to me.
No tragedy. Any idiot should know that alcohol is a poison. Take too much and you die. No sympathy from me.
In my misspent youth I once woke up in an emergency room where, I was told, my blood alcohol level was 0.4. My eye was sewn shut, I was in a neck brace (precaution only) and I had no real memory of the night after challenging a clearly alcoholic guy at the bar to a drinking contest. I always assume I won but some might have a different interpretation.
Analysis: MIT students have big brains and each brain cell is super important so when they lose half, they die. In my case, losing half my brain cells in one night made no discernible difference except a cool scar next to my eye that I tell people I got in a duel.
Back around 1968 a fellow HS senior’s brother died of alcohol poisoning following an extremely heavy summer night’s drinking on the local beach.........
These cases are making me re-think my opposition to Darwin. Maybe the less fit really do weed themselves out of the genetic pool.
Not a TRAGEDY. More like STUPIDITY.
Prayers up for the deceased and his family & friends.
Most the pity.
Sound bet to make to a liberal or drink a gallon of A&W root beer in 1/2 hour.
Did 22 shots of Tequila in a money contest, maybe over an hour or less.
Played monopoly afterwords and wet to a nightclub later on.
I downed - I can't tell you how many - cans of Labatt's on a High School Senior trip to Montreal (can't tell you how many because I eventually passed out and don't remember much of that night). I do remember emptying out the ice maker in the motel and filling the tub and sink with beer. I think I threw up at some point.
Another time, a couple of my band buddies and I were polishing off a case of beer on the roof of the drummer's apartment building. They then dared me to drink a fifth of vodka. I did, and shortly thereafter passed out on the drummer's bed. His father ordered him to get rid of me. My older brother came to pick me up, and my Mom made me sleep it off in the bathtub.
Oh, this was 1971. The legal drinking age was younger then.
Those worms will get you every time!
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