Jerry's Kids, Didn't Anyone Tell Them About Robitussin?

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

11 soldiers at Fort Bliss injured after drinking antifreeze, military says

Two soldiers remained seriously ill, the military said. It happened at the end of a training exercise, but exactly how it occurred is under investigation.

www.nbcnews.com

Did someone have time to try and make some homemade shit or was someone in motor pool having a good laugh?

 

[Flyingbullseye]

Someone is going to jail. But best to get those guys drunk asap to counter the antifreeze.

 

[clcustom1911]

I have no sympathy for them if they *knowingly* drank antifreeze.

I am a fan of taking all the warning labels off everything for a couple years to solve some self-correcting problems.

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

One article says it was two warrant officers, two non commission officers and 8 regular troops.
The numbers don't add up but could this be some ritual for completing the course?

 

[GrumpyOleFart]

Either that, or just some really cheap and nasty Spanish wine.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

I have no sympathy for them if they *knowingly* drank antifreeze.

I am a fan of taking all the warning labels off everything for a couple years to solve some self-correcting problems.

The product warning labels we have today are to keep normal people safe. TikTok and Instagram attention whores will still find a way to off themselves for clout using these products, warning label or no warning label.

That said, if these guys' drinks had been spiked without their knowledge, I see some people are going to have to get used to hearing the word "Leavenworth", for a pretty long time...

 

[chongoMT]

HURRY! Create an online course to add to the mandatory training, add it to the ones required because CSM's and O's got the busy hands and sad marriages.

I've seen about 10 ranch cats all hopped up on anti-freeze and they did not look happy, symptoms similar to rabies.

 

[Animal357]

The product warning labels we have today are to keep normal people safe. TikTok and Instagram attention whores will still find a way to off themselves for clout using these products, warning label or no warning label.

Anyone who thinks a superman cape will enable them to fly won't be bothered by a label that says: "Warning, this cape does not allow the wearer to fly."

 

[Sniperwannabee]

i cant see a CWO knowingly drinking antifreeze............someone was probably playing a joke and didnt realize how deadly it was

 

[Porksboy]

Lost a couple dogs years ago when a truck cooling system sprung a leak. Not a nice way to die.

 

[BullGear]

How can a healthy, somewhat sane man in the USA not know what antifreeze smells like? It all has a ver distinctive smell. There's no way that can be confused with alcohol. I'm betting on some "passage" ritual that got way out of hand.

 

[Porksboy]

Im surprised they havent switched to propylene glycol.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

How can a healthy, somewhat sane man in the USA not know what antifreeze smells like? It all has a ver distinctive smell. There's no way that can be confused with alcohol. I'm betting on some "passage" ritual that got way out of hand.

I am going towards THIS...

Never underestimate what a group of college age guys can do in a testosterone fueled atmosphere, where it be in the military or a football party. Fraternity hazing incidents involving "butt chugging" and other highly unconventional methods of ingesting intoxicants have led to more than a few deaths and serious injuries over the years. Right near my AO, in SUNY Stony Brook University, a bunch of frat boys were hospitalized for hypothermia a few years back because the rest of the house made them strip naked and goose-step around the whole campus while it was 20°F with wind chills around -4°F... And the gem of it all was that not a single one involved stepped up and said, "uh, hey, dontcha think this is a little bit extreme?"...

 

[BullGear]

I'm guessing someone was supposed to cut the antifreeze with alcohol but that someone didn't get the message and they drank 100% antifreeze or something close to it.

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

Somehow I think that Tide Pods should be involved in this story.

 

[BullGear]

Fort BLISS, huh????

 

[Doc68]

Unfuckingbelievable.

Doc

 

[BullGear]

Somehow I think that Tide Pods should be involved in this story.

That's why they're there in the first place. They ate those pods growing up in preparation for the antifreeze cocktail party.

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

Must have been in Heineken bottles.

 

[Mike Casselton]

 

[Jscb1b]

BUY MORE ROBITUSSIN!!!!

 

[DarnYankeeUSMC]

BUY MORE ROBITUSSIN!!!!

Back in the day there was a variety with a alcohol content of 18% or something. There was a mouthwash with a high content also if I remember right

Probably prescription only now.

 

[Jgunner]

 

[pmclaine]

Finally the Marine Corps is able to pass the "baton of stupid" off to the Army but we know right now, somewhere, in some corner of the globe a Lance Corporal is saying "Here, hold my crayons, watch this....."

 

[pmclaine]

BUY MORE ROBITUSSIN!!!!

Nyquil for the win.....

 

[packratt]

Pvt Sad Sack must have been given the responsibility of washing out an antifreeze jug marking it and refilling with booze. He marked the one with the antifreeze.