Posted on 12/02/2004 6:54:06 AM PST by stainlessbanner
ATHENS, Ga. -- A student was severely burned during a fraternity drinking ritual when an oil lantern ignited a bottle of nearly pure grain alcohol, police said.
William Flynn Miller IV, 21, a senior at the University of Georgia, was drinking with other students at the Lambda Chi Alpha frat house early Tuesday, police said.
The bottle of 190-proof alcohol ignited and set Miller's clothes on fire.
When officers arrived, the skin was hanging off his fingers, chest, abdomen, side and back, police said.
He was hospitalized with third-degree burns. His injuries did not appear to be life-threatening.
Fraternity members told authorities the incident was not part of a hazing.
"We're following up to make sure nothing criminal in nature took place and to make sure these types of accidents don't happen again," Capt. Mark Sizemore said.
The university said it was also investigating.
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Dumbass.
I was a Kappa Sig at UT in the mid-80's and the Lambdas were across the street from us. They were the "pink" frat., so to speak, at UT. One of their house residents fell asleep smoking something and burned their house down.
A friend of a friend allegedly burned off all his pubic hair while lighting farts. I'm thinking that the real cause of this fire may be something of the same sort....
That's always a "kicked off campus" offense, unless you quickly move the body to another fraternity house.
A few years back, the Dekes killed a goat and dumped it on the porch of the Chi Psi's across the street. The school went to kick them off campus and found they had already been kicked off. So they double-kicked them off.
So there, Dekes.
The PiKapps went on a road trip recently and duct-taped a pledge to a couch. They had to pay for the couch. $1600. For a couch. In a frat house.
TKE? Man, those guys knew how to party at UT. There was a similar deal with the Pikes at UT killing a pledge with booze. But, those were still in the hard hazing days and they didn't lose their status at UT, only suspended for a while.
Lava lamp.
Well, I know it wouldn't be particularly popular, but the University should just ban frats. It would solve a lot of the drinking problems on campus, and it would be pretty easy to do. It's been done at universities before, and it could be done again.
Oh yeah. And then ban football. You should see people drinking at football games.
Hey, you guys-hold my beer and watch this...
At college football games? I've been to a lot of college sporting events, but I don't remember too many that sold alcohol...of course, I really don't drink, so I don't pay a lot of attention, but I know, at the very least, my university did not sell alcohol at its sporting events.
Darwin award, fat, drunk and stupid assclown BUMP!
Fraternities don't sell alcohol either.
Administration: We'll kick em off campus, then we'll ban 'em, then kick 'em off again, then remove them.......
Well, not directly, at least. You do have to pay your buy-in fee.
My guess is that the author really means "real late into Monday night".
Oh, hell-leave them alone to learn (hopefully) on their own-stupid is as stupid does. We can't, and shouldn't protect people from themselves. We've all seen hazing, hell week, etc when we were in college-most of us lived through it and became wiser for it.
There's BS or bad reporting here.
A bottle of grain alcohol cannot ignite. Period.
A near-by oil lamp cannot therfore ignite a nearby bottle of grain alcohol.
SPILLED grain alcohol (fumes) can ignite, causing nearby liquid alcohol to also burn.
Flaming shots missed? ... a la the "drinking problem" in the movie AIRPLANE sounds like a culprit to me.
and FWIW, the behaviour would not go away if frats were banned, trust me. LOSE the PC-idea of banning frats.
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