It depends on the person, what they might have in their stomach, how much they’ve already consumed, etc.
Saw a guy go into a coma in college from drinking 27 shots of cheap nasty vodka in quick succession (within 30 minutes or so) one night on an empty stomach. Upperclassmen who had a little more experience with booze were counseling him to not do this, but he would not be dissuaded. I’d guess his weight at about 150, and he was an experienced drinker of hard liquor. He’d been getting progressively deeper into the bottle from the second day of his first semester, and this was week 12 out of 16. He had gotten to a point where he was sneaking liquor into classrooms and drinking most all of his waking moments, and with all of that, he still had alcohol poisoning.
We never saw him again. Never got a straight story on whether or not he died. His room mate came back from the library, found him passed out and barely breathing and called the EMT’s. The EMT’s came, took him away and that was the last we saw or heard of him. No one in a position to know would answer any of our questions. That, we found really odd.
Another guy decided to drink a 12oz cup of Everclear in two big slugs at a dorm party. About two minutes after he finished, he fell to his knees, wobbled a bit, fell over backwards. It was as if he fainted in slow-mo. This time, we had a guy in the crowd who was a volunteer EMT in his hometown - and he stuck his finger down the guy’s throat, got him to puke up at least some of the booze and (again) we called the EMT’s. This guy pulled out of it that night, probably in large part to the quick thinking of the EMT classmate.
Last case was a girl from South Dakota who came east, who had been raised in a very strict household - no booze, no boys, etc. Well, she’s in her fourth week as a freshman and already going more than a little wild. She downs a fifth of schnapps while in an outdoors class that is out in the Adirondaks on a camping trip. This was after she ate dinner, such as it was on a camping trip. I think she took about 10 minutes to down the whole bottle, and she proceeds to start hitting on any guy with a pulse in the group, and then passed out in 10 minutes, quickly going hypothermic.
She was OK the next morning, but had us really worried there for about three hours.
Some people can handle booze. Some can’t. Regardless, it isn’t an especially well-advised move to chug liquor.
We never saw him again. Never got a straight story on whether or not he died. His room mate came back from the library, found him passed out and barely breathing and called the EMT’s. The EMT’s came, took him away and that was the last we saw or heard of him. No one in a position to know would answer any of our questions. That, we found really odd.
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If he had died, there would have been a police investigation. Most likely parents or other family came and got him, and the school hushed the incident.
I saw this at a trade school with a student who gradually went insane. It so happened that I saw his parents bundling him into their car during classes. The physical resemblances were such that these were clearly his parents. That evening, the dorm resident adviser packed out his stuff in cartons and drove off with them, the next day his workbench was cleared and that was that.
Anyway, after a night of particularly hard drinking on base, his stash ran out and the PX was closed. So he decided he was going to steal a jeep from the motor pool and drive it into town to get some more.
Well there was a barbed wire fence surrounding it and in climbing that fence, he slipped at the top and (at least in the biological sense) he was a man no more. He ripped his testicles and penis clean off. Now maybe there was some urban myth there but suffice to say, after his medical treatment, whatever actually happened to him, he was quickly discharged out of the Marines.