Student drinks half a litre of vodka in 20 minutes, dies

This can sometimes happen when its a sausagefest. Go out! After the 5th shot, you'll want to chase girls, and forget about your dumbass friends' bet.

This is sad news. Its a shame someone so young died in such a bad way.

What an idiot...
natural selection wins this time.
I AM sorry for his family. It always sucks loosing someone to a legal drug.
It's sad nobody takes alcohol poisoning serisously.
I'm fairly sure he knew the risk he was taking...I don't know how the UK informs kids of alcohol poisining.
Im gonna agree with the smoke weed people...you never hear of anyone smoking weed to death, because it doesn't happen. Ever.

Young teens need to know how to be responsible. We don't tell these kids anything and hide the real truth. Then the parents act suprised when their kids do something stupid. Society tells teens don't have sex or drink, your too young. Instead we should be saying things like: wear a condom, you can piss all over yourself if your too drunk ,or yes, you can get pregnant.

Why should we let teens go on in life blinded?

Smoke weed

And guess what? This is a product that is supported by our government, yet the one therapuetic substance that has no blood on it's hands remains illegal. It's estimated you would have to consume 100 pounds of cannabis a minute for 15 minutes (1500lbs) to induce a lethal dose..

Smoke weed.

quitter!!!!!

its terrible when you learn the hard way.

who wants to get that drunk anyways? you cant do shit when your wasted you can hardly stand. whats the point? its no fun to just lie on the floor trying to keep the room from spinning. getting shit faced is way overrated

I guess suggesting to this guy that playing "Century Club" would have been a better game with weak beer is a moot point.

When I was the same age I did a similar thing, but luckily made it through the ordeal due to a friends older brother; who happened to be an eagle scout type of guy, showing up at the right time and doing CPR until an ambulance showed.

My fun began with a bottle of Jack and a dice game called three man. 45 min into the game I was still in the 3 man spot and the bottle was empty. What followed was an interesting chain of events ending with me waking up with a tube down my nose and IV's pumping fluids into me.

Moral of the story

Stay away from Jack ...

If jason was using marijuana as to alcohol he would have woke up and ate everything in the kitchen, but at least he would be alive.

Now that's natural selection at work. No one thought that was a bad idea?

There is definitely something wrong with the attitude that my generation has towards alcohol. I don't think this kid's mindset was any different then most people I've partied with. Drinking is fun, but anybody that's had a hangover knows it's not healthy for your body.

Thats DUMB, what a Dumb way to die! One of the reasons I don't drink at all....So sad

drink responsibly kids

IT WAS SOOOO WORTH IT! POST IT ON YOU TUBE!

It wasn't worth it.

I bet they never paid him either.

It's the sad perception that those who can drink a lot are cool and those that can't are weak that perpetuate these kinds of things.

The teasing of OMG you can't hold your liquor can get some to prove that they can by drinking or show how awesome that they are for being able to do this or that with a drink.

I dare not mock people for their inability to hold down such....one because I think that's the dumbest thing to tease people about and two I can't hold mine...at all. ha. I don't drink often. Nor do I care to...ever.

But well, what a wuzzzz! Lots of people drink half or a whole liter in some 2 hours...

How about the 3 18 year old Dominicans like 2-3 years ago with the Tequila bottles? They did a Tequila contest, after shot 21-23 the first died and the second was grain dead.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,149708,00.html

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/02/12/1202760254276.html

I think it's clear this was directly linked to the current economic situation in the U.S. which is now affecting Europe as well.

I dont see any peer pressure to this at all for those of you blaming that....this was this own kids stupid idea to bet his friends.....

God, that's awful - I remember doing all the fishbowl stuff at Warwick when I was there but this seems really extreme - I hope to God the union didn't serve him those shots.

That said, I don't know how much the blame can be laid on his friends - after all, we've known mates to pass out after too many and they must feel awful. add to that, it was alcohol poisoning, not throwing up that killed him.

On a personal note, a friend of a friend, a successful 27 year old journalist, died two weeks ago after a girls night out where she was drinking the usual white wine - she choked on her vomit in the night and died. in a way she died doing what so many young women, myself included, do every week. It makes you think, doesn't it, you don't even have to be completely over the top like this young lad to fall foul of the booze.

This is really upsetting, but I agree with the parents: students need to become aware of the problems of excessive drinking and peer pressure and at least make sure they look out for each other more!

"friends" real friends would have stuck their fingers down his throat and checked up on him

This happened at the university I went to. It was on an initiation night. The guy died of alcohol poisoning in his bed. Our uni stopped initiations after that and as I worked in the pub I was then told to monitor all people and what they were drinking and to stop all drinking games if I saw them. Its a big ask from bar staff and bars but it stopped a lot of silly behavior! It's a horrid thing to happen! you just don't expect something like that to happen, but it does, a lot!

that is savage, i remember some pretty rough drinking games at uni but nothing as excessive as that...

God that is horrible. It makes me sad to think that people feel they need to prove themselves to their "friends" by pulling stunts like this.