Liquid nitrogen in a drink?
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I think there is merit to this. As yet, we are not aware of the full facts surrounding the incident and as such, cannot verify if the girl in question did not do as she was supposed to with the drink. It seems improbable that she was the only person to have the drink and suffer such a fundamental and predictable reaction from LNO2 ingestion.
To blame the bar for that is akin to blaming a doctor or pharmaceutical company for the death of somebody who overdosed because they didn't do as they were told with the meds they were prescribed.
But the bar needs to have told her not to drink it until it stopped smoking. Otherwise its their fault. Like vegetables that contain cyanide need to have the cooking instructions written where they are sold. I cant remember the name of it now, but its some big yam like veggie that needs to be cooked for a certain amount of time to destroy the cyanide and Asda were selling it once with the cooking instructions clearly written on a label attached to the shelf.
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How do you prove that though? If it isn't written down, it didn't happen.
Yea if it wasnt written on a notice anywhere then the bar gets the blame.
its the bar that has to prove they made all sensible precautions while selling this drink.
Absolutely, however we don't know the exact circumstances of the situation. All I'm saying is that presumably this bar has sold this particular drink before and this is the first time that such a horrendous outcome has been brought to the public's attention. That suggests one of two likely outcomes - either the bar staff failed to adequately prepare the girl for the drink or she ignored what she was told.
I'm not saying that it was the fault of one or the other, just that there is significant room for possible blame on both parts.
You should probably read up on the case before you call her a "dopey bitch".
Ah, I hate those articles where it gives you almost no details of actually what happened.
She could have easily been just told by her friends to drink even though warned not to drink it before certain time or she might have been drunk and not followed instructions etc etc,
She could have easily been just told by her friends to drink even though warned not to drink it before certain time or she might have been drunk and not followed instructions etc etc,
100% of people exposed to oxygen die!
She might have even been bought it by a friend with no idea what it was and told to drink it.
British pub / club culture = drink till you either pass out or die, and then you are cool and make friends. Bonus coolness points for class A drugs.
This might well be the case but considering that people in bars tend not to be at their best it's probably not the wisest of places to be selling drinks that can have serious consequences if not consumed properly.
If this is all just for show and doesn't make the drink taste any better or anything like that, what is the advantage of using liquid nitrogen over just a small bit of dry ice? and if dry ice was used, would it still be as dangerous when ingested?
They both expand massively as they change from liquid/solid to gas, swallowing either wouldn't be good and obviously you've got the temperatures as well.
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Just to clarify, I don't think the girl is stupid for drinking it so much as I think it's ridiculous that the bar was ever licensed to sell it knowing the culture surrounding drink in the UK. It may well work as a novel cocktail in a quiet, classy bar in the Bellagio, but it's not for the typical UK night out crowd.
Just to clarify, I don't think the girl is stupid for drinking it so much as I think it's ridiculous that the bar was ever licensed to sell it knowing the culture surrounding drink in the UK. It may well work as a novel cocktail in a quiet, classy bar in the Bellagio, but it's not for the typical UK night out crowd.
Not sure I agree with that analogy.
Prescribed and Over-The-Counter drugs are all regulated and come with sufficient and multiple warnings about how to take them, the dangers and the dosage.
Buying a drink in a bar that might, or might not have come with a warning that it shouldn't be drunk until its stopped 'smoking' is totally different.
The whole story makes me LOL.
Utter rubbish start to finish.
There is NO WAY you could accidentally drink liquid nitrogen. If you tried to drink liquid nitrogen it'd be immediately obvious in your mouth / throat!
Liquid nitrogen boils instantly in contract with your skin.
And i speak from experience working with the stuff! I did numerous experiments using it during my post grad research at university. As stated nitrogen gas is also harmless.
What HAS happened is they used liquid nitogen to cool something else down too much. They then did not let it warm up enough. This she drank and it damaged her stomach. The damage was due to the temperature. Its a bit like drinking boiling water and blaming the kettle!
Pseudo science rubbish!
Utter rubbish start to finish.
There is NO WAY you could accidentally drink liquid nitrogen. If you tried to drink liquid nitrogen it'd be immediately obvious in your mouth / throat!
Liquid nitrogen boils instantly in contract with your skin.
And i speak from experience working with the stuff! I did numerous experiments using it during my post grad research at university. As stated nitrogen gas is also harmless.
What HAS happened is they used liquid nitogen to cool something else down too much. They then did not let it warm up enough. This she drank and it damaged her stomach. The damage was due to the temperature. Its a bit like drinking boiling water and blaming the kettle!
Pseudo science rubbish!
That's probably because you quoted it out of context, which was crucial to the analogy, i.e. if instructions were given then the analogy holds.
