Posted on 12/08/2025 2:04:00 PM PST by DFG
The death of a Royal Caribbean passenger has been ruled a homicide after crew members allegedly served him nearly three-dozen drinks at the ship’s bar before he died, according to a new lawsuit.
Michael Virgil, 35, was served 33 drinks at one of the ship’s bars on the day he died in custody in December 2024, according to a wrongful death lawsuit recently filed by his fiancé and obtained by TMZ.
Virgil was detained during a drunken rage, in which he allegedly attacked and threatened to kill crew members and passengers.
But he died within hours after being restrained and taken into custody by cruise ship security, according to the lawsuit — with Virgil’s family initially alleging they injected him with a sedative which killed him.
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It was during that time he was allegedly served the booze — and he broke into a rage when he left the bar extremely inebriated and couldn’t find his room.
Footage from the cruise caught Virgil attempting to batter down a door after he’d allegedly attacked crew members and threatened to kill passengers.
When he was eventually detained, his fiancé alleged “the excessive force and fatal actions taken by crew members including security and medical personnel” who “administered an injection of a sedative medication, Haloperidol, and used multiple cans of pepper spray” led to his death, according to the lawsuit.
Virgil died of “significant hypoxia and impaired ventilation, respiratory failure, cardiovascular instability and ultimately cardiopulmonary arrest, leading to his death which has been ruled a homicide,” the lawsuit read.
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He basically drank himself to death. Chances are he was already an alcoholic and I am sure a lot of things will come out in discovery, especially his medical records.
I can’t imagine how he could drink 3 dozen cocktails, shades of Jon Bonham.
One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer. Times eleven.
Haloperidol is an antipsychotic, not a sedative. It is at times administered with a sedative for combative patients.
DING DING DING DING There's your first clue Sherlock. Obviously the cruise company was plotting against him simply because he was an asshole. Man! I should have went to law school...
A limit enforced by some Filipino wage slave bartender making $10 a day.
Well, he wasn’t going to drive home.
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Did he happen to ‘come back’ as a raccoon?
They’re never actually unlimited. RC was, I believe, 13 drinks max per day on the unlimited package when I cruised with them in 2024
Not the ships fault or the bartenders. Customer is always right...you get what you ask for.
No such thing, correct. They all have limits - 13-15 per day. Works through your cruise card, its programmed that way. You have to swipe your card at the bar even when you have the drink packages, go for an extra and it will block the transaction.
Never underestimate the power of the Pure Bright White Light Of Stupidity my friend. It will propel you into acts of spectacularly pointless and self destructive behavior to your eternal hearts content. This is an eternal truth. Just sayin...
He probably bought the drink package and wanted to get his money’s worth.
Cruise drinks are very, very weak.
I weigh 116 and have a glass of Chardonnay every night. Two average size wine glasses make me woozy. More than that? I’d be on the floor.
But my old friend in San Francisco, a small woman who escaped Berlin right after the Nazis came in, could drink beer all night and never get drunk. She told me, “Your problem is, you just don’t drink enough”.
Many years ago in the Bahamas (1984) I purchased a ticket to a beach party where they took the opposite approach. They took you out to a little island, and you couldn’t bring any refreshments with you.
Hard liquor drinks were free, and you paid out the nose for beers or soda.
Well.
I thought that would be fine, but when I ordered a rum and coke, they filled the entire cup up with rum and put some of that coke “syrup” in it. It was completely undrinkable. But, since I didn’t have much money, I tried.
That was a mistake, I can tell you.
But I look back on it and thought that was a fascinating approach to the “all you can drink” part of a ticket...
33 drinks...over a few hours, or a couple of continuous days? The timing must be after the “snip” and before the continuation.
“”””I’m pretty sure Carnival and MSC Cruises impose a limit of 15 alcoholic drinks per person, per day on the alcohol packages.””””
What you say is correct. But that does not stop his wife from ordering drinks on her account and giving the drinks to her alcoholic husband.
“and he broke into a rage when he left the bar extremely inebriated and couldn’t find his room.” I couldn’t either, but it was after I fell over backwards on the escalator at a casino.
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