Spiking By Injection

“I don’t think any of these spiking stories are real”

As others have pointed out, the whole idea is that you don’t see it. I would like to see you say the above to the multiple women I know who have been spiked. Two were “lucky”, the other will be scarred for life following what happened that night.

How old are you? What type of places do you go to? Pubs or clubs? Student nights? Are you friends with many young women? What gives you the right to tell them spiking is not part of life?

 

I'd agree with that. Spiking of drinks, via a tablet or pill, is a genuine threat, in that it does happen. Spiking via a needle seems much more unlikely and at the moment appears to be urban myth/rumour rather than a proven fact.

 

A bit like saying, "I don't believe racism is a problem" when you're a white bloke not normally mixing with people from other backgrounds unless it is when you're having a curry. Plenty on here have come out with stuff like this.

Not for us to pass comment to the contrary if we have no experience of it or can't experience it.

 

For clarity, I'm not saying spiking drinks doesn't take place, although I would question if it takes place as often as claimed, I was talking about injections, chloroform, or whatever other sensational story the media run with that month that are then reposted across social media with very few people questioning the validity of the claims.

 

Me neither !
Look at the absolute lovely person of a prime minister and henchpeople we’ve got because of them ,

 

Just got back from Dingle. We were speaking to a friend of ours who's son is at Uni in Cork. She got a call from one of his friends at three in the morning last week to say he was acting erratically on the phone, was able to track him via some snapchat type app which showed he was just going from place to place in the city. They found him completely off his head, wallet stolen, phone smashed and when they took him to hospital were told he'd been given something they couldn't identify.
The same person also told us that, in a separate case, one of the local barmen had just been sacked as he was seen with two different girls, completely all over the place on successive nights. He claimed the second was his girlfriend. The guy who confronted him knew she wasn't. The understanding is he had been spiking drinks for some time but there was no direct proof.
Sorry but that's a long winded way of saying please be careful and aware of this new trend and make sure your kids are too.
Just to clarify. I think both these cases were of drinks being spiked rather than by injection. Nevertheless spiking of one sort or another does seem to be on the increase. I'm not sure what the answer is. Make sure you buy your own drink. Make sure you watch the barman prepare and pour it.

 

This should be classified as attempted murder.

 

I'm not sure that's appropriate mate to be honest.

 

Edited.

 

My partners' cousin spiked my drink about fifteen years ago. I came back from the toilet, took a couple of slurps, and then felt really weird. He was smirking at me, asking if i was alright etc. When i got up to leave, in my mind i thought i needed fresh air, he suggested "no, its best to stay seated" .
Finally came to my senses in the middle of a ploughed field several hours later, covered in mud!

 

Did you ask him why in earth he did it!?

 

I’m certain my drink was spiked a few years ago. I’m always extremely careful with drinks, covering it when not drinking from it (unless seated) and never leave it unattended. On this night, I asked a friend to look after it and went to the toilet. When I came back I could see he was turned away from my drink on the table behind him but he was next to the table and I didn’t say anything. I drank a bit of it and about ten mins or so later I started to feel really dizzy and horrible and had a terrible stomach ache. I stopped drinking it immediately (I wasn’t drinking it quickly as was only on Diet Coke and wasn’t thirsty so just nursing it) and told friends who looked after me. There was zero chance of me being drunk.

 

I'd have either punched him or reported him to the police

 

I teach at a University and had a female student report a needle spiking last week. She said she’d found a bruise with what looked like a pinprick in its centre. I believe she had it confirmed as a needle spiking by the hospital through a bunch of tests, and has now got to take a three month course of something to protect her from hepatitis. I can’t say I’ve seen Police reports or doctors notes to confirm this, but it doesn’t seem much like an urban myth to me at this point.

 

Might have been spiked might not. I've been so drunk I've had coherent conversations with people and gone hours on benders in as auto pilot. I've been told it's a body mechanism called a black out.

It happened to me one afternoon. I'd been out all day watching the racing. Afterwards Laura met me in Prince and we went up to Greasbrough Club to see a turn. I can't remember anything from leaving the Prince at 5:45 ISH until waking up the next day and Laura filling me in the blanks.

Apparently I didn't act drunk and wasn't falling about was just more lairy than usual.

 

Why don't they feel the needle pierce though?

 

You barely feel a thing when you know you re having an injection though so in a busy club I can see how you wouldn't necessarily feel it.

 

Apparently he did it "for a laugh" with his mate. It caused all sorts of aggro within her family, culminating in a punch up with his father.
We're separated now lol. And I'm back up north.

 

There are multiple independent reports of this happening in various towns and cities around the country (and in other countries too) - including at least one that had a photo that looked like an injection site on a woman who was in hospital (she posted it). Now, as men we could think that this is a manufactured urban myth and ignore the reports, or we could step up, assume that these ladies are telling the truth and work together to help eradicate it - warn the people in our lives to be careful, make sure that nobody is left alone when we go out, and if we find out anyone is involved shop them to the police.