gizz72 wrote:
Gosh, Speaking of injecting, here I heard of a tall tale: It's about two prisoners, since liquor is not allowed in jail they have to improvise(not sure if this story is true or not, but I'll share it, man I was drunk...).
You know of Isopropyl Alcohol, well they were desperate.
One night they have a pitcher of water and a shot-glass. The first guy, tried a half a tea-spoon. After drinking a shot, he felt 'good' then became sleepy and fell a sleep. That fast. The second, tried a bit more than teaspoon. Well, after a shot he got too dizzy and was unconscious. The warden came the next morning and found the two.
The first guy woke-up with an extremely bad headache. The second guy died.
The first guy swore he'd never drink again.
Disclaimer: Believe it or not!
I believe it. Isopropyl alcohol isn't ethanol, the grain alcohol humans drink. It's extremely lethal, more so than methanol. I'm not surprised a teaspoon is enough to kill. Drinking 40mg of methanol (4 table spoons) is enough to kill, and its less lethal.
For those interested:
Methanol is CH3OH, ethanol is CH3CH2OH, and propanol is CH3CH2CH2OH. Isopropanol is just propanol with a branch instead of a continous chain. While they all have very similar properties and look and smell the same, ethanol is the only one that isn't very poisonous.
