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Shockeye
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Contaminated Liquor Kills 14 In IndiaOct 1, 2005 1:13 pm US/Central (AP) GAUHATI, India At least 14 people died after drinking illegal home-brewed liquor sold at unauthorized shops in India's remote northeast, police said Saturday. The death toll was likely to rise because 61 others were hospitalized after drinking the noxious brew Friday night in Tezpur, a town 110 miles north of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state, police officer L. Bora said by telephone. Many of those hospitalized were in critical condition, a doctor said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters. The liquor deaths triggered violence, with angry residents attacking government offices and torching half a dozen motorbikes and some shops, Bora said. The residents also tried to burn down the state excise tax office, which regulates the liquor trade. Bora said samples of the home-brew liquor have been sent to a lab for tests. Such incidents are common in rural India, where cheap, homemade brew is sometimes mixed with methyl alcohol, which can cause blindness or death. The victims usually are poor people who cannot afford more expensive alcohol. |
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« Last Edit: October 01, 2005, 01:38:27 PM by Shockeye »
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Llava
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Man. Talk about desperate. I could go across the street and buy booze, I just don't think that alcohol is really that important of a facet of life.
(btw, typo in your title)
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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. -Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
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Pococurante
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Welcome to your grandmother's tea party.. ;)
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SnotBag
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Pathogenetic entities cannot survive in home brewed beer. You can get some pretty nasty flavors from some bacterial infections, but nothing to make you sick.
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Strazos
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Years ago, two janitors at a local school killed themselves by doing something similar.....Methanol or Ethanol, I forget which one is deadly.
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WindupAtheist
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So did they, apparently.
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HaemishM
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Why would the citizens burn down the state excise office? The liquor was sold in UNAUTHORIZED shops. You'd think they might burn down the places that actually, you know, sold the liquor.
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voodoolily
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Years ago, two janitors at a local school killed themselves by doing something similar.....Methanol or Ethanol, I forget which one is deadly.
Ahh, what a difference a single carbon atom makes. Ethyl alcohol (ethanol) is what gets you drunk. But you can't just drink it out of the fucking chem labs, shit-fer-brains! |
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Furiously
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Years ago, two janitors at a local school killed themselves by doing something similar.....Methanol or Ethanol, I forget which one is deadly.
Sure it wasn't isopropyl? Man - there is some great light reading here http://www.inchem.org/ |
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