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A TEENAGER died after downing 20 SHOTS of ouzo in a drinking game based on a Dirty Dancing song, an inquest heard yesterday.

Rugby player Matthew Loveday, 19, collapsed at a New Year’s Eve party after finishing the boozy challenge.

He knocked back a shot of the Greek aniseed-based drink every time the word “Hungry” was sung in Eric Carmen song Hungry Eyes. In all he had 20.

After the song — which featured in the 1987 hit film starring Patrick Swayze — was finished, Matthew knocked back the rest of the bottle. Moments later he collapsed unconscious.

His pals carried him up to bed. And — not realising how serious his condition was — they covered him in shaving foam and cat litter, shaved one of his eyebrows and wrote on his stomach: “I went to bed at ten to ten.”

But moments later the jokey mood changed when they realised their friend was dead.

Medics raced to the scene in Bletchley, Bucks, but failed to revive him.

The alcohol level in his blood was FIVE TIMES the drink-drive limit.

The inquest also heard that just before the party Matthew’s mother, Jennifer, rang him and said, “don’t drink too much” and he promised, “no mum, I won’t”.

But four hours later, he was dead.

Witnesses said he did not drink in the week but binged at weekends and he had moved out of the family home after rowing with his parents over his boozing.

After the Milton Keynes inquest, Matthew’s dad Clive, 48, of Swindon, Wilts, said: “Our son was only enjoying himself like thousands of others on New Year’s Eve.”

He added: “I think he was the victim of the binge drinking culture in this country.”

Cause of death was given as respiratory depression brought on by excessive alcohol intake.

Verdict: Accident.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 19 May 2005 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

He added: “I think he was the victim of the binge drinking culture in this country.”

god this phrase pisses me off no end. he was playing in a DRINKING GAME ffs!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 19 May 2005 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

please tell me there's a "she's like the wind" drinking game.

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 May 2005 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

But moments later the jokey mood changed when they realised their friend was dead.

"Who's up for another round of knock knock jokes?"
"He's dead"
"Right, better have a round of political discussion instead then"

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 19 May 2005 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: Dude, that part when Cartman/J-Lo gives a handblowjob to Ben Affleck? -vs- Eric Carmen kills teenager

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

'He added: “I think he was the victim of the binge drinking culture in this country.”'

surely he was *part of* the 'binge drinking culture in this country'?

― N_RQ, Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread title is soooooooooo false advertising.

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel bad for whoever shaved his eyebrows off. You really don't want to have to remember that as your last gesture of friendship.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god, yeah. 'i poured cat litter on my friend's corpse.' ow.

― N_Rq, Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if they scratched out "went to bed" and wrote "died" at the morgue.

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i predict a call for banning of irresponible "drinking game movies"
first dirty dancing, then withnail and i, bond movies, mallrats, passion of christ etc

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Thursday, 19 May 2005 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Just like on CSI.

xpost

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I the only one who read this as "Eric Cartman kills teenager"?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I read it as "Harvey Korman milks terrorist"

― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel bad for whoever shaved his eyebrows off. You really don't want to have to remember that as your last gesture of friendship

Or explain it to his grieving mother.

― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

He knocked back a shot of the Greek aniseed-based drink every time the word “Hungry” was sung in Eric Carmen song Hungry Eyes. In all he had 20.

After the song — which featured in the 1987 hit film starring Patrick Swayze — was finished, Matthew knocked back the rest of the bottle. Moments later he collapsed unconscious.

I cannot believe his friends let him do this. Holy shit.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

they were all langered too, you have to assume. britain *does* have a fucked-up attitude to the bouze.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, I'm in the US! This seems to happen every other day over here (and I have the exact same reaction).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Singling out the drinking game is pretty silly. Even he was doing the 'every mention of Big Booty Bitches in the recorded works of Momus' game, if he's going to finish the bottle afterwards, he's in trouble.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The alcohol level in his blood was FIVE TIMES the drink-drive limit.

wait, so the drink drive limit is 4 shots of ouzo and 1/5 of the rest of the bottle?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean, i drink 5 times the drink drive limit like, every other day.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

yes but the question is do you listen to eric carmen while doing so? or any 80s rock ballads?

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

you obviously don't know me very well!!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

(sometimes)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

if he had died in a car crash, i guess that information would be material. otherwise moot.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i think that drink drive type information is often included to give non-heavy drinkers a point of comparison as to how utterly sozzled he actually was

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

woo!

― miccio penn state '02, Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's supposed to sound SCARY. FIVE TIMES the limit, dude. don't you get it!??!?!??! FIVE TIMES!

*spinarooney*

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i reckon i'd die if i was five times the legal limit too. that is a not inconsiderable amount of drunkenness.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

being from bletchley, there's every chance that that kid went to my school. which isn't surprising i guess.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't the limit like two pints of beer? i don't know. i can't take my bouze these days.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

the guidance recommendation whatsit here is that the limit is approx two pints of beer for a bloke and one pint of beer for the laydeez, then one standard drink each hour after that (and a 'standard drink' is a halfpint of beer, 110ml of wine or 30ml spirits). if i had 5 pints of beer in a short space of time i would be smashed! although probably not dead. but who knows what would happen if you ingested that much high proof spirits in such a short space of time.... might just totally depress your vital functions like heart rate and respiration

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

there's no way i would trust myself to drive a car on 2 pints! even if I could drive.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

nah i'd be quite pissed after two pints these days too. but i'm a chick and i'm also quite small and skinny so i guess i'm not a good yardstick.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, spirits will fuck you up more than beer. but i used to get heavily, heavily drunk and pass out all the time. i guess this guy had bad luck. two pints: these days i'd be in trouble. but i can't drive and i'm quite thin anyway.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i drank half a bottle of vodka once in one go (i was young, and was testing out this theory i had that if i keep downing the vodka i won't taste it until i stop - it worked, actually!) and then went down the pub and everyone bought me more vodkas, and martinis (haha vodka martini, not stirred and in seperate glasses).

it was probably a good thing that i finally threw up when i got home (trying to eat a bite of pizza triggered the whole reflex)

i think 2 pints would be pushing the drink driving limit a little (it depends on your size and stuff obv)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i blame rugby. ban this sick filth

the drivign limit i think is 80 mg BAC (blood alcohol concentration). i did an exam about it yesterday, but i still dont know. i do know that Borkenstein (1965?) first proved the link between drink driving and accident rates in his Grand Rapids study.

1/2 a pint is one unit, but the limit isnt really related to alcohol by volume (eg 2pints is the limit). depends on a bunch of stuff. I used to drive on 1 pint, but weaned myself off a bit. its a bastard that the nicest pubs are old ones out in the country (serving the most interesting beer), and coincidentally those are the ones least accessible by public transport.

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

two pints of beer for a bloke and one pint of beer for the laydeez

No, it's a glass of dry white wine for the laydeez.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's gonna drink the Zima!?!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Where's Curtis? Isn't he 17?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I once tried to drink a glass (shot? whatever it was) of ouzo at an Anababoula concert, and I ended up discretely abandoning it on a speaker or something of that sort. That is some nasty stuff to begin with.

― RS, Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, this is no time for fieldwork.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahahahaha!

― The Ghost of PWNED (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

That is some nasty stuff to begin with.

Indeed. I've made metaphors in the past, I can't remember what exactly. A hairy sock? An oil slick crossed with an armpit? How do you do shots of this stuff without gagging? I suspect this guy died not from alcohol, but from Nasty.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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