SEFFNER, FL — Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies believe a Seffner man may have drunk himself to death, by downing 23 shots of vodka in 30 minutes.
Deputies discovered the body of Eric Morris at a bar on US 92 in Tampa Tuesday night.
Morris was 26 years old.
According to a sheriff’s spokesman, Morris went to “The Angels” bar, which is a topless bar on US 92, and began ordering shots of Burnett’s Cherry Vodka. He was playing a drinking game with a friend. The police report says his friend told Morris he was too old to keep playing the game, but Morris continued.
He drank 23 shots in 30 minutes before passing out. His friend dragged him to the club’s champagne room where Morris died.
Full Article: ABC Action News
What great friends this guy had. Who would purposely push their friend to continue drinking that much alcohol. Also, the bartender should have been paying attention and shut these guys off. What a stupid way too die.
Three people may have watched a few too many movies about sewer-dwelling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as kids. One of the three had to be rescued from Sacramento’s sewer system overnight.
Sacramento police say a 26-year-old man whose identity has not been released,19-year-old Rhea Schroeder, his girlfriend and his 24-year-old brother Jacob Reinitz, had been drinking early Tuesday and decided to climb into the underground tunnels near Florin Road around 1:00 this morning.
The three walked about 200 yards in the drain and then tried to surface. When the older brother was lifting a manhole cover in the middle of a street, his head was struck by a passing car.
Firefighters climbed down into the sewer to attend to the injured man and strap him to a rescue board. They then set-up a tri-pod rescue system over the manhole and lifted the injured man out of the sewer with a hook connected to the tri-pod.
Many of the rescue crews involved say this type of sewer rescue was a first for them.
Full Article: CBS13
I too loved TMNT when I was younger, but I never had any desire to run around in the sewers. Hopefully their childhood fantasies have been fulfilled and they have learned a lesson.