Posted on 01/02/2007 10:54:51 AM PST by frogjerk
From animal studies scientists have learned that antifreeze tastes good. Dogs lap it up like it was sugar water.
Another Home Brew related death. How's that War on Drugs going? ;-)
I know a few people (term used loosely) who've left antifreeze out for stray dogs and cats. I would hardly call them "scientists" or what they were doing, "studies."
It is. I can say from personal experience that it's very sweet. I've tasted tiny amounts here and there from splashes, etc.
Store in original containers and this would not be a problem.
I know a woman here in Georgia who strongly believes her ex-husband's girlfriend killed him with anti-freeze mixed in ice cream. The man had a drinking problem, so the girl called the police after she found him passed out cold and dead after a weekend of drinking.
What makes it so suspect is 2 days before, he changed his will and left everything to her.
ANYHOW,
Anti-freeze is the new arsenic.
No, it wasn't for an "unknown reason." The reason is in the very next paragraph.
Emmonak is a dry community, meaning sales and possession of alcohol are banned. The village is about 480 miles northwest of Anchorage.
Since posession of alcohol is banned, it's natural that it would be store in a bottle which wouldn't have any indication of the actual contents. My question would be why would you store ANTI-FREEZE like that.
This might have been a set up for murder.
And it is a hell of a lot faster!
Someplace in the 1980's was cutting their wine with anti-freeze or something like that. I forget the details but when I was in AIT the system I was learning used glycol for cooling which is anti-freeze and the instructor told us how it tasted sweet and was the same thing that was used in the wine scandal, which I was only vaguely aware of then, being much wiser and hardly following the news and current events.
It might have been France because one of the early Simpsons episodes, Bart gets sent to France as a foreign exchange student and is used as slave labor by an unscrupulous winery. He finds a police officer who could care less about his condition but jumps into action when he hears wine is being tampered with by adding anti-freeze to it.
The whole story is a bit suspicious.
What "Home Brew" tastes like anti-freeze?
*sad homebrew ping*
Prestone Pilsener.
There was a fairly recent case of mass diethylene glycol poisoning in Panama. It tastes really nice (I am given to understand) but it's not a good idea to put it in cough syrup.
Since anti-freeze is said to taste sweet, could the Alaskans have been making this:
Found on the Internet:
Old brown (Dutch style) refers to a very sweet beer with a very low alcohol level (between 3% and 5% ) similar to Belgian table beers.
Is Alaskan homebrew typically flourescent yellow? I could see mistaking it for Mt. Dew, but corn squeezins?
I remember something about Spanish olive oil.
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