Posted on 06/10/2019 11:52:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
'I Believe These People Were Poisoned. I Would've Been Poisoned Had I Not Held It In My Mouth... It Took Effect Really Fast.'
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A Brooklyn woman is claiming she vomited blood after drinking a beverage from her hotel room’s mini bar in the Dominican Republic.
She says it was at the same resort where three American tourists died last month, reports CBS2’s Reena Roy.
Awilda Montes believes her 7UP bottle was actually filled with bleach when she was on vacation.
She initially thought it might’ve been some kind of accident or mix up, but now with the recent news of three people dying at the same resort, this could be something criminal
It was supposed to be a romantic getaway with her boyfriend at the Luxury Bahia Principe Bouganville Resort last October.
Just a few hours into Montes’ vacation she was rushed to the hospital.
“You finally get those days off you look forward to and something like this will happen?” said Montes. “You just don’t expect this.”
She says it all started when she opened a bottle of 7UP from her hotel room’s mini bar. She noticed it didn’t have fizz and assumed it was simply flat, but quickly tasted what she believed was bleach.
“I was cautious when I took a gulp of it,” said Montes. “I immediately felt it burn me, burn my mouth, burn my tongue.
“My mouth was on fire,” she said. “When I spit it out in bathroom sink it was blood. I was just irrigating my mouth.”
The hotel staff brought her to a local clinic where doctors treated her for the pain and vomiting.
Montes says the resort apologized, offering upscale dinner reservations and a couples’ massage.
Luxury Bahia Principe Bouganville Resort (credit: CBS2)
The resort is where three American tourists were found dead last month: 41-year-old Miranda Schaup-Werner collapsed and died after also drinking a beverage from the mini bar, according to her family.
Five days later, a Maryland couple were found unresponsive in their room at a sister hotel in the same resort. They showed no signs of violence, and relatives say they were healthy.
“At the time I didn’t think it was done deliberately,” Montes said about her experience. “Until I saw the news and realized there has to be some kind of correlation with what happened to me and what happened to them.
“I believe these people were poisoned,” she said. “I would’ve been poisoned had I not held it in my mouth and spit it (out) because it took effect really fast.”
In a statement, the resort claims Miranda Schaup-Werner died of a heart attack. A family spokesman says she was treated for a heart issue years ago but was recently in good health.
“We don’t have any answers of what happened down there,” said neighbor Mike Saraceni.
The FBI confirms it is investigating the sudden deaths. Preliminary autopsies indicate all three had the same cause: fluid in the lungs and respiratory failure.
Resort officials tell CBS News the deaths are unrelated. CBS2 has reached out to them for information in Montes’ case and are waiting to hear back.
“Why do people go on vacation to Third World shit holes?”
They are cheap and the weather is good. Europeans have been doing this for decades.
Wasn’t there a story last year about people getting sick and blacking out at Mexican resorts? Some kind of tainted alcohol...
Yes, scary. The spring breakers and tourists in Cancun I think.
I went to Mexico.
I did not want to drink the water BUT
Ordered orange juice with breakfast.
Was served Tang orange drink.
Took one gulp, spit most of it out, gave the proprietor hell.
Spent next 2 days vomiting, passing out, writhing on the floor of hotel room.
The pain felt like being stabbed in the gut violently & repeatedly with rusty knives.
Fact is, even if you dont drink tap water, just eating off dishes washed in that water or bathing in it can make you sick as a dog.
You can’t be sure the bottled water they sell tourists isn’t just tap water.
I’ll never go to ANY 3rd world country ever again.
I went on a “bucket list” “dream moto tour” of the Baja Mexico. Supposed to be 6 days. After 2 days I made a bee line for home. Damn what a shit hole... I’ve been to Mexico a few times but....they HATE Americans, have no guilt in stealing from us, everything is FILTHY and polluted, and everything they do is half assed.
I always like your stories, wardaddy.
Your life sounds like a Bogart movie from times long gone.
Why would anyone want to vacation in a $hithole
I’ve never traveled much - I’m a homebody, and interested in ‘inner’ space. But there are plenty of paradisiacal places in the US to visit.
Especially these days, I don’t understand why Americans accept the risk of going to countries where the people obviously despise us and the standards are so sloppy.
“Researching Ricin were you?”
I’m up at 5:00. I’ll get them coffee.
And point them to this thread.
In seriousness, this sounds like ricin to me.
“Terrorism to stop Americans from traveling to the Caribbean.”
Nah. It would be a domestic in the hotel mad at whitey.
She just happened to get black Americans by accident.
“AFAIK, ricin doesn’t work that fast.”
“less than 10 hours” according to the CDC.
How fast was this?
It said the couple was found dead in their room, not sure how long it took to all go down from when they drank the bottle to when they were discovered, or how long before they had passed before they were found. I read it can take up to 3 days for ricin poisoning. Plus, the symptoms come on before hand - so they might have reported something was wrong when the sweating, fevers, cramps started to get severe. So if we take 10 hours maybe on the short end of the spectrum, 3 days on the long end - for 2 people to die in roughly the same time period, I would guess something known to be faster acting. Obviously I am no expert on this stuff just what I’ve seen and read online.
Thanks. I was trying to figure out how to word that very question.
I believe that some of the victims either in Santo Domingo or a similar resort who died after consuming their “mini bar” drinks were Black. Perhaps just someone just wanting to punish “rich people”....
My whole family.... kids ....grandkids are suppose to go to Jamaica in January. Beaches. Now I’m really concerned.
“The Dominican Republic:
Come for the Minibar, stay for the autopsy.”
LOL! That’s Don Rickles material.
More and more I stay home and cook my own damned food.
Tell me about it. A friend of mine recently went to Cancun with his wife and kids and I asked him point blank if he was insane. He had ZERO idea about the drug gangs down there that kidnap Americans for hostage money. Luckily he was only there for a short time.
I’ll be here all week.
Why are people not getting the hell out of there? At least stop drinking from the damned mini bars!
How about a lifetime of free stays? Dinner and a massage. You gotta be kidding me.
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