Jagermeister Party!

rimrocker · Jun 20, 2013

Sounds like the party was almost as much fun as drinking Jagermeister.

From the department of I’m glad I stayed home: A party in Leon, Mexico, got slightly less fun when its organizers, from the German spirit company Jägermeister, decided to pour four cans of liquid nitrogen into the pool. The nitrogen, reacting to the chlorine in the water, billowed up in a toxic cloud that engulfed approximately 30 swimmers. Eight of them fainted or fell ill after inhaling the gas and had to be rescued. One man, 21-year-old Jose Ignacio Lopez del Toro, lapsed into a coma and was conveyed to an intensive care unit in central Mexico.

The lawsuits don’t seem far behind. “Public prosecutors were said to be investigating the organizers of the party, which have so far not been identified,” reports the New York Daily News, adding that four of the victims have already filed a complaint with the state’s attorney general. Furthermore, Mayor Barbara Botello came out in favor of “reforms to regulate pool parties,” presumably so that it would soon become illegal to dump canisters of potentially noxious chemicals into their midst. (To be fair, liquid nitrogen on its own is not toxic. Neither is Jägermeister, but only technically speaking.) Across the ocean, Jägermeister substituted geographical specificity for true contrition: “We are aware of this incident in Leon, Mexico, which is currently being investigated by our headquarters here in Germany,” a spokesperson told the Mirror. “We fully support responsible drinking,” he added, which seems irrelevant until you consider that the decision to uncork the nitrogen may have been a product of irresponsible drinking, or at least that drinking Jägermeister while enshrouded in a terrifying miasma of death does not scream “safety first!”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...r_pool_party_turned_out_to_be_a_bad_idea.html
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CCorn · Jun 20, 2013

Germans in Mexico go hard.

EssTooKayTD · Jun 20, 2013

Why would one even consider dumping liquid nitrogen into a pool? Am I missing something? Did they think it would be like dry ice and make smoke?

fallenphoenix · Jun 20, 2013

germans poisoning people with gas? yikes

Yonkers · Jun 20, 2013

A Dothraki party without at least three toxic cloud induced comas is seen as a dull affair.

So Good · Jun 20, 2013

I don't know about anyone else, but I instantly gagged when I read the title of the thread.

DrLudicrous · Jun 20, 2013

CCorn said: ↑

Germans in Mexico go hard.
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GRENDEL · Jun 20, 2013

Jagermeister........just a bad idea all around....

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