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1 posted on 12/10/2009 11:17:05 AM PST by kingattax
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To: kingattax

Bathtub Gin?


2 posted on 12/10/2009 11:20:35 AM PST by John.Galt2012 (I'll take Liberty and you can keep the "Change"!)
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To: kingattax

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy,..than Chicago.


3 posted on 12/10/2009 11:24:55 AM PST by redstateconfidential (`)
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To: kingattax
and doctors began to suspect he had been poisoned with some form of toxic grain alcohol.

Huh? Grain alcohol is ethanol. That's normal drinking alcohol. If he went blind then it wasn't from grain alcohol.

4 posted on 12/10/2009 11:25:31 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Obamalaise - the new mood for America.)
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Fan obsession to the point of violence, is ridiculous. Good natured ribbing back and forth can be fun, but it’s only a game folks. You’ve got to have a pretty empty soul, for team support to become so important that you would injure someone permanently for supporting another team.

I hope the person or persons who did this are caught and spend the rest of their days in prison.


5 posted on 12/10/2009 11:25:42 AM PST by DoughtyOne (A MELTING POT not a potters wheel. Join us. Don't try to turn this nation into the one you fled.)
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To: kingattax

Methanol is toxic, and is known to cause blindness when ingested, but it is wood alcohol, not a “toxic form of grain alcohol”.


7 posted on 12/10/2009 11:27:10 AM PST by oblomov
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Chicago huh? Wonder why they don’t suspect the bar owner trying to save some money


9 posted on 12/10/2009 11:28:54 AM PST by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: kingattax

What a despicable thing to do ... hope they
catch the animal and put bars in front of
his face for a long time.


10 posted on 12/10/2009 11:30:01 AM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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iT WAS PROBABLY METHYL ALCOHOL.............


11 posted on 12/10/2009 11:30:50 AM PST by Red Badger (Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
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To: Velveeta; retrokitten; Ann Archy

~~PING!


12 posted on 12/10/2009 11:31:11 AM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: kingattax

Off duty Chicago cops?


19 posted on 12/10/2009 11:48:29 AM PST by ozzymandus
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Yep Philly fans have the worst rap because they boo’d a drunk santa in ‘68? Didn’t TWO baseball coaches/umpires get assaulted on the field in Chicago as well?

Hmmmmmm, yes!!! Yes they did

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=230415104

But hey, blinding people and assaulting people is MUCH better than boo’ing a drunk santa, amirite?


20 posted on 12/10/2009 11:52:28 AM PST by SengirV
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To: kingattax

‘If it burns blue its ok to do.
Burns yellow, kill a fellow.


24 posted on 12/10/2009 11:59:24 AM PST by Leg Olam (Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: kingattax
All right, not to make light of this poor man's predicament but this isn't the most bizarre fan-on-fan act I've heard of. A couple of years ago in a bar near the Wisconsin-Illinois border a Packer backer was being obnoxious as only Packer fans can be so the Bears fans in the bar grabbed him, stripped him, and duct-taped him to a stop sign in sub-freezing weather.

Don't ask me how I know this I just do.

25 posted on 12/10/2009 12:05:36 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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Well, this year Bears fans are getting their comeuppance.


26 posted on 12/10/2009 12:07:41 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: kingattax
doctors began to suspect he had been poisoned with some form of toxic grain alcohol.

All alcohols are toxic to a degree, grain alcohol (ethyl alcohol) is relatively safe although something like a liter consumed in a couple of hours (BAL > 0.40) will kill most people who do not get treatment in time. The article goes on to talk about "antifreeze" (ethylene glycol w/ additives) which is much more toxic in that much smaller doses will prove fatal. It should be pointed that ethylene glycol is not grain alcohol, nor is methyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, or any of the glycol's.

The article also mentions going blind from drinking "moon shine". Such things can happen but not as a result of drinking ethyl alcohol. Rather contaminants are sometimes introduced into the alcohol by the illicit distiller because he unknowingly picked the wrong material with which to build his still. A condenser made from old car or truck radiators will have lead based solder used in it's construction and galvanized pipe is coated with zinc. The vaporized ethyl alcohol is an excellent solvent and will pick up either lead or zinc if it comes in contact with either of these metals. Lead causes long term brain damage and metallic zinc in solution can cause permanent blindness in short order (one sip will do it).

That begs the question as to how the Bears fan got a drink that was not poured at the bar?

Regards,
GtG

29 posted on 12/10/2009 1:21:38 PM PST by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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