A British holidaymaker has died whilst on holiday in Thailand after an intense 36-hour binge drinking session.
In that time the 29-year-old Peter Nicholson managed to fit in 20 bottles of lager, Sambuca shots and Jack Daniel’s and Coke. However, what probably finished him off was the additional buckets of Vodka Red Bull (or ‘Thai Buckets’ as they’re known). Just four glasses of Red Bull alone would be enough to send your body into meltdown — like, did you see the woman who went blind because she drank the stuff each day? Can’t be good for you.
The whole fiasco started with his first pint in the departure lounge at Manchester Airport, while waiting for a connection flight to Qatar and it all sort of escalated from there.
In an inquest, his friend Daniel Wilson who travelled with Peter said:
On the first flight to Qatar we had four small cans of lager. We also had four mini bottles of Jack Daniels with coke.
Peter slept most of the second journey. He was drinking a lot of water when he was waking up.
We had five or six bottles of lager in the afternoon when we arrived. Then we went sightseeing and both had an iced tea and looked for the other three to get ready to go out for the night.
That night Peter drank all the lager, Sambuca and buckets and despite the massive consumption, he was said to be “laughing and joking” in his hotel room.
Soon after that things took a dark turn. In the morning his mate Daniel said he went to tickle Peter’s feet to get his attention but he was out cold — he had died in the night.
Speaking on the matter, toxicologist Julie Evans said that he wouldn’t have known how drunk he was because of the Red Bull and basically mixing alcohol with it is a really bad idea because it makes you ‘wide-eyed drunk’. Either way, Red Bull or not, this is a sad occurrence — you’ve got to feel bad for the family and friends.
This story is just even more evidence to show that alcohol sucks balls and we should all be smoking weed instead.