Exactly: This story sucks.
Rubbing alcohol and caramel Coloring would have people in the hospital.
They could be using grain alcohol, you can purchase that in most liquor stores, it is about 170 proof, water that down and add caramel coloring and you have a drink. Not good one, but a drink,
Rubbing alcohol is deliberately poisoned by the government.
Correct. Kitty Dukakis once tried chugging rubbing alcohol when her booze ran out, and it didn't go so well...
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1989-11-09/news/8902090013_1_kitty-dukakis-gerald-r-plotkin-dukakis-aide