Fort Bliss says 11 hospitalized soldiers drank antifreeze they mistook for alcohol

KVIA ^ | 1/29/21 | Jim Parker

[Libloather]

Practice for protecting Nancy's freezer?

[the_individual2014]

Ft Bliss, man I remember that place, hot as heck, barracks were ok though.

[CrappieLuck]

They’ll soon be drinking Tranny Fluid

[Amberdawn]

Lol! Amusement aside, one has to wonder who gave them the drink which may have been spiked?

[littleharbour]

No way it’s a “mistake”:

[Pontiac]

Lol! Amusement aside, one has to wonder who gave them the drink which may have been spiked?

I wouldn’t want to be that person when these guys are back on their feet.

I half suspect it was a wife that wanted out of a bad marriage.

Poison is the most common means of premeditated murder for a woman.

[daniel1212]

The new army?

[1of10]

a wife that wanted out of a bad marriage.

That's a good bet, but with all the "mentally ill" that are joining up it's any ones guess.
I would not be surprised if we see more of this type of incident.Those "mentally ill" folks get really violent when they feel like someone has disrespected him/her/it.

[Amberdawn]

Yes, it’s largely a “woman thing”.

[pepsionice]

Wife thing? I’d put money down that Army CID will have this figured out in two weeks.

[NachOsten]

I guess, they forgot to filter it through layers of sliced bread.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I half suspect it was a wife that wanted out of a bad marriage."

As I understand the story, this took place on a field training exercise, so I'm not sure how a spurned wife would have been able to poison them in that environment. Not saying it's impossible, but would have had to have been planned out and executed with some difficulty.

That said, one never knows the lengths to which a spurned woman will go. When I was at Fort Riley, Kansas with the First Infantry Division, one summer we deployed to Fort Stewart, GA to support and evaluate some units from the South Carolina ARNG who were our round out brigade. One soldier in our unit had been having an affair with another soldier's wife at Ft. Riley. He had come to Ft. Riley from Ft. Stewart and had another woman waiting for him there when we deployed. The Ft. Riley wife drove all the way from Kansas to Georgia to track him down and confront him and it was not pretty.

I remember out Battalion commander musing about what this guy was packing that would inspire a woman to do that.

[Fresh Wind]

They’ll soon be drinking Tranny Fluid

I knew someone who was bleeding his brakes into a beer bottle while he was also drinking a beer of the same brand. He got the bottles mixed up and that mistake put him in the hospital for three days.

[Deaf Smith]

“Never Pick Up a Stranger”

[DownInFlames]

Even dumber than ever. Even the farm boys were smarter than this:

[maddog55]

👍👍

[TangoLimaSierra]

Ironically the antidote in animals is alcohol.
Don't know is it is for humans, too.

[Ouderkirk]

Ethylene glycol is technically alcohol...just not ethanol

[PAR35]

I guess, they forgot to filter it through layers of sliced bread.

That's Sterno, not ethylene glycol.

[deport]

Ethylene glycol is a clear, colorless and viscous liquid at room
temperature. When used in antifreeze, fluorescent coloring such
as yellow or green is typically added. The effects of ingesting the
compound can range from euphoria to headaches and nausea or
organ failure.

Not sure why they were drinking this or what their assumptions
were and who was offering the liquid to them.