Drinks spiking is one thing, but now needle spiking too!
Drinks spiking is one thing, but now needle spiking too!
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rjfp1962

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9,076 posts

96 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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Putting drugs into someone drink is one thing, but now spiking people with needles...!? This is very dangerous, what is society coming to?

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-10-20/student-feels-...



Edited by rjfp1962 on Wednesday 20th October 18:55

BoRED S2upid

20,977 posts

263 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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Very dangerous. You can kill someone injecting air.

frisbee

5,481 posts

133 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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BoRED S2upid said:
Very dangerous. You can kill someone injecting air.
The article is horrendously badly written but I'm guessing they are being injected with some sort of drug.

rjfp1962

Original Poster:

9,076 posts

96 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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frisbee said:
The article is horrendously badly written but I'm guessing they are being injected with some sort of drug.
FTFY - Changed it from BBC to ITV News.

BoRED S2upid

20,977 posts

263 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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frisbee said:
BoRED S2upid said:
Very dangerous. You can kill someone injecting air.
The article is horrendously badly written but I'm guessing they are being injected with some sort of drug.
Yes of course but I’m saying you can easily kill someone injecting them if you aren’t trained. Which I’m guessing these scumbags aren’t.

stevep944

401 posts

241 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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It's becoming quite common because girls cover their drinks now to avoid spiking. Cases in Liverpool and Manchester too apparently.
My daughter is at Exeter Uni and a girl there was injected last weekend, taken to hospital unconscious, not heard the final outcome yet.
Obviously very concerning for parents.

Saweep

6,703 posts

209 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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I just don’t believe it is common at all.


anonymous-user

77 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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Someone should ask the surgeon on the other thread if this is actually feasible?

Any phlebotomists on ph ?lol

pquinn

7,167 posts

69 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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Seems to have woken up in hospital and assumed the needle mark and big bruise on the back of their hand was from something other than a drip. At least that's the right sort of mark and location.

Quite possibly got totally blackout pissed and fell over and needed some saline and then jumped to conclusions.


BeastieBoy73

773 posts

135 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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My teenage daughter was at Stealth last week and Rock City a few weeks before that, both clubs in Nottingham where this has just happened.

I’ve gone from total elation of seeing her and her mates finally getting out there and partying after lockdown, just like I did 30 years ago and then she tells me about this.

I hope genuine harm comes to people who do this kind of thing or think that it’s acceptable.

andyeds1234

2,468 posts

193 months

Wednesday 20th October 2021
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It sounds like total BS to me.
I’m not saying it’s never happened, but it’s not “a thing”

GranpaB

17,124 posts

59 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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andyeds1234 said:
It sounds like total BS to me.
I’m not saying it’s never happened, but it’s not “a thing”
Why do you think drink spiking/needle spiking is not "a thing"?





Frimley111R

18,402 posts

257 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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There seems to be spiking someone with a needle and spiking someone's drinks and I think they are getting a bit confused.

Spiking someone with a needle is particularly concerning and new. Although cases seem to be minuscule in the overall picture of social nights out.

Spiking drinks seems really hard to measure. I have friends in the 'medical support' arena and the number of times they have helped a woman out who had 'had her drinks spiked' only to then find she had 4 double vodkas, a couple or shots and a beer is ridiculous. One young woman was on TV saying that on her first freshers night her drinks were spiked and she didn't remember anything. There was even a video of her and it is very hard not think she just got battered on her first proper night out.

As I said, the number of drinks that really are spiked is almost impossible to gauge.

gotoPzero

19,944 posts

212 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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Surely with CCTV what it is these days its literally just a case of watching the footage back?


anonymous-user

77 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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pquinn said:
Seems to have woken up in hospital and assumed the needle mark and big bruise on the back of their hand was from something other than a drip. At least that's the right sort of mark and location.

Quite possibly got totally blackout pissed and fell over and needed some saline and then jumped to conclusions.
This. How even a trained dr/sn/ phlebotomist could on the fly cleanly inject a amount into someone’s hand without them noticing, in a busy club ?!?

It’s like the drink spiking which all young women attending ED claim. Subsequently it turn out they have had a couple bottles of wine BEFORE leaving the house to head out to the pubs …

98elise

31,400 posts

184 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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GranpaB said:
andyeds1234 said:
It sounds like total BS to me.
I’m not saying it’s never happened, but it’s not “a thing”
Why do you think drink spiking/needle spiking is not "a thing"?
I'm sceptical as well. Being injected comes with some pain, and would take some skill. People who go to nightclub often become unconscious of their own making.

Obviously there have been cases of spiked drinks, I just don't think it's moved on to injecting people.

If anyone has any medical evidence then I'll happily change my mind.

Zetec-S

6,624 posts

116 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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Is it a new thing? I vaguely remember about 20 years ago some story going round about people being stabbed with needles in clubs in the Southampton area...

BeastieBoy73

773 posts

135 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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98elise said:
GranpaB said:
andyeds1234 said:
It sounds like total BS to me.
I’m not saying it’s never happened, but it’s not “a thing”
Why do you think drink spiking/needle spiking is not "a thing"?
I'm sceptical as well. Being injected comes with some pain, and would take some skill. People who go to nightclub often become unconscious of their own making.

Obviously there have been cases of spiked drinks, I just don't think it's moved on to injecting people.

If anyone has any medical evidence then I'll happily change my mind.
Reports of 12 cases and an arrest here in Nottingham and increased police out and about on Saturday night, so it is being taken seriously. If it is becoming a 'thing', I suspect it must be happening in other cities so time will tell as more incidents are reported. Fingers crossed it isn't.

98elise

31,400 posts

184 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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BeastieBoy73 said:
98elise said:
GranpaB said:
andyeds1234 said:
It sounds like total BS to me.
I’m not saying it’s never happened, but it’s not “a thing”
Why do you think drink spiking/needle spiking is not "a thing"?
I'm sceptical as well. Being injected comes with some pain, and would take some skill. People who go to nightclub often become unconscious of their own making.

Obviously there have been cases of spiked drinks, I just don't think it's moved on to injecting people.

If anyone has any medical evidence then I'll happily change my mind.
Reports of 12 cases and an arrest here in Nottingham and increased police out and about on Saturday night, so it is being taken seriously. If it is becoming a 'thing', I suspect it must be happening in other cities so time will tell as more incidents are reported. Fingers crossed it isn't.
If there's been an arrest then there may be something in it.

steveo3002

11,058 posts

197 months

Thursday 21st October 2021
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andyeds1234 said:
It sounds like total BS to me.
I’m not saying it’s never happened, but it’s not “a thing”
im sure allsorts goes on , id also say theres plenty of little princesses that go out and get trolleyed and sniff up god knows what then cry they were spiked /injected when mummy finds them in a pile of puke with their purse and phone missing the next day