Posted on 10/27/2021 10:14:05 AM PDT by RandFan
Women across the UK are boycotting nightclubs this week for a so-called "Girls Night In" to highlight the issue of drink spiking - and many say they know change is needed through personal experience.
Earlier this month, Mia Davson, a second-year student at Loughborough University, attended her first sports social event of the new term with her cheerleading squad.
The 20-year-old had decided not to drink a lot and was enjoying her night out when she suddenly felt unwell.
She turned to her friend for help before collapsing on him.
Mia is only able to piece together what happened next from her friends, but she knows she became unresponsive.
"I was out cold and completely unresponsive for about an hour and they said they were taking me to hospital," she tells BBC News. Mia believes she was spiked and has felt unsafe going out since.
Mia is now one of hundreds of women across the UK preparing to boycott nightclubs on Wednesday night in a bid to raise awareness about spiking and sexual harassment at venues.
Across September and October, there have been 198 confirmed reports of drink spiking and 24 reports of spiking by injection, the National Police Chiefs' Council said.
The incidents took place at both licensed premises and private parties and included male and female victims.
Spiking is a criminal offence carrying a maximum 10-year prison sentence but most of the women who spoke to the BBC said they did not report it to police.
For those who said they did report it, no further action was taken.
Michael Kill, CEO of the Night Time Industries Association, says the organisation is "very concerned" about the reported increase in spiking incidents.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
I got in so much trouble on a local news website some years ago because there were many stories of this nature - and also stories about “mother’s boyfriend kills child” and “mother neglects child in the car/tub/stranger’s home to go clubbing” - and I started commenting, “You know, if you are single and you have a kid, the last thing you should be looking for is a boyfriend, and men who want to get close to you should be screened with great discrimination. And let’s face it, why go looking for a boyfriend right now? There are a lot of freaks out there.” They got upset and I was trolled relentlessly over it; they finally started making it so you had to have faceberg to comment. (Then they became a CNN affiliate.)
You might want to check what's in your drink first.
I never understood drugging a girl to have sex with an unconscious girl?? What fun is that and you can’t watch when she squeals?
They still have clubs in the UK? Club scene in New York died thanks to Giuliani enforcing cabaret laws and Bloomberg changing zoning laws.
Sadly, this is really nothing new. It’s been happening in college bars for years.
“You might want to check what’s in your drink first.”
How do you do that and do it between each sip?
Ladies:
1. Don’t leave your drink unattended.
2. Don’t get so hammered you don’t know what your drinking or who gave it to you.
3. Don’t go to a nightclub alone, or with friends who can’t remain sober enough to watch out for each other.
4. It is the hook-up / binge drinking / drug acceptance culture that opens the door to becoming a victim. If you willingly play in the zoo, sooner or later you’re likely to get bit.
5. Get off your damn phone and swiping for dates. Meet a real man face to face, that can carry on conversation, has a job, and comes from a stable family [and, if you’re lucky, can change a tire, too]. They don’t, and don’t need to, ‘spike’ anyone. If you can’t attract one of those and only get ‘men’ who see you as a plaything, maybe you need to change your lifestyle.
Yes they’ve opened after 18 months I believe...
No idea how they remained in business probably government loans
The smoker you drink the player you get.......................
Would a wise woman go to a bar to find a safe lasting relationship?
Isn’t this the same country that imports hundreds of thousands of ‘fighting age men’ from countries that treat women as property that is also now upset that their women aren’t treated well? Even if its a ‘native Englishman’ your upset about, doesn’t he also see his government flooded the country with a culture that has no respect for women, so why not him too?
Choose one. Either one. But every choice has its own consequences.
Wait, what? Injection?
The decline of the West continues.
“Would a wise woman go to a bar to find a safe lasting relationship?”
The best woman I have ever dated..and known, I met at bar and we went home and did the dirty later that night.
We dated for 2 years ..should have married her but I was young and immature and she was pushing to get married an have kids which I never wanted kids.
Biggest regret of my life not marrying her.
They guy she dated after me she married and they have 4 kids and still together.
This was 39 years ago.
Yeah Tony but those people don’t go out/drink do they...
They DO drive the taxi’s though. That’s a whole other problem!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59008000
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