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Heard on the radio the other day of the new date rape drug that is truly horrifying.
Aside from making you completely unaware of your surroundings, it is able to make the female reproductive system completely sterile for life.
What sort of society do we live in where people are this evil just for a quickie on a Saturday night?

Watch yourselves & your drinks ladies!

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Vigilance is always wise.

I suspect I heard the same radio programme as Willow. Apparently there are only two cases were 'date rape drugs' have been proved to have been used in a crime.

The most worrying drug is alcohol. The drug that makes people do things they shouldn't, or in some cases things they were so drunk they can't even remember if they consented to or not.

Watch your unattended drinks true, but also don't drink so much that you put yourself in unnecessary danger.

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I'd like to bring everybodies attention to the SPIKEY. It is a plastic plug that goes into the top of your bottle. It doesn't make it impossible to stop somebody spiking your drink. But, it makes it extremely difficult. Bailey's had them available on the bar last year, but unfortunately people thought that they were great for decorating straws, or throwing at each other. According to the "Spikey" website, they are available at most Tesco stores. They are also available in a tub (about 100) for around £10/15 from Bookers cash & carry.

They are recommended by the police.

:D

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Its a good idea, but i can see why people just used them as toys.

I just watch where i put my drink.

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I used to always make sure that my female friends carried a few in their bags when they were on a night out. Better to be safe, than sorry.

:)

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I agree, it's a corker of an idea. It would be nice if they did one that was a bit more somber, for us not as younger folk. :)

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...or better still put a stopper in the bottles without any hole, then they won't get legless and will keep their wits about them.;):D

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Even better still not have the drugs at all!

Me when i go out stops drinking when i get legless - i go home! But otherwise make sure i dont put my drink down at all unless i'm out with friends i can trust and who i know will look after it.

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:o ............................

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quote=shillelagh]When was you last out Shillelagh....:D

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[quote=Doug]She was out with Lady Heather Mills McCartney last Friday night.;)

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Same here:D

But those stoppers are all well & good for bottles but what about spirit or beer glasses???? I make sure mines guarded or drunk!!:Banane26:

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Most of you know what job i do. You'd be suprised how people i see each weekend that do leave their drinks unattended. For all the men that are reading this without a care in the world, thinking that is just a problem for the women

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Blooming heck nobodys safe these days:(

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I know all too well. It's an awful state of affairs, in my opinion bouncers should search everyone coming into a pub or club round the town, it needs to be done.

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lol your safe in accy because rather than spike a drink its more likely to be stolen

went out with rindy one night and got 2 orange reefs stolen seconds after we put them down

now i spit in my bottle assureding me some kind of revenge if my drinks ever get stolen :D

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I understand what you're saying, but it's just not practical. I know that lots of people view doorstaff with a great deal of contempt, but rest assured that if any of them caught somebody spiking drinks, the culprit would be dealt with. (The good old fashioned way, not with the police)

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Monday night Doug

garinda She was out with Lady Heather Mills McCartney last Friday night.;)Today 19:01


Excuse me - i have taste!

And anyway for the last 2 1/2 months i've havent been drinking except for them 3 medicinal hot toddies i had about 4 weeks ago! The last time i was legless and brought home was July!

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you dont need drugs for that,just get married.:D

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It was me that stole them.:o

The ones with your gob in will be safe in the future.:D

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I was going to make some crass comment about swapping spit, but I won't..............:D

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Seriously, I don't know how common drinks spiked with drugs are, but I shall share my tale...

Those of you that have met me socially know I like to get jolly when I have a drink, which sadly isn't very often these days. I have a drink, I get silly, but I always remember most of what I did, even if it is through an alcoholic haze.

Six years ago, at my old firm's Christmas do, we went to a Chinese restaurant in Soho. I had six vodka and tonics whilst in the restaurant. I remember leaving the restaurant by the stairs, and saying goodbye to the people I worked with. This was at 9.45 pm.

The next thing I remember was waking up at Morden underground station, sat on a bench in the snow. It was so far past my stop that it was above ground. I looked at my watch and it was two o'clock. Shocked, I thought I must have been asleep there for hours. In an area I didn't know I wandered around until I managed to flag down a cab, and luckily had enough money to get home.

The next day at work, feeling a bit worse for wear, people kept saying what a hoot I'd been the night before. Fair enough, I always give value for money. It wasn't until people started talking about me getting told of by a copper for sitting on a motorbike, as well as it setting it's alarm off, that I started to think they were taking the proverbial. However when they said that I'd nearly caused a fight between a few Man U players, after I got a bit too friendly with Peter Schmeichel, whilst in a club in behind Liberty's, that I knew they were making it up.

Sadly, or happily, they later in the day produced photographic evidence of my exploits, both on the bike and with the MUFC boys.

I would have sworn on my Mother's life that after the restaurant I'd caught the tube home, and that I must have gone past my stop and fell asleep in the snow. It was only the photographs that convinced me that I had been to those places in my 'missing' four hours.

Did someone I worked with spike my drink? I don't know. What I do know is that in the twenty five years I've been drinking, nothing like that has ever happened, either before or since. I still have no recollection of doing anything in those four hours.

Who knows?

Happily nothing like it has happened to me again.

Caution is wise.

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If it was so called work mates that did the deed I would be after them with a large heavy object to teach em a lesson they wouldnt forget. It goes to show it can happen to anyone.

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I remember many a night waking up and not knowing what the hell I'd done, I don't think I was ever spiked, just stupid.

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How could I prove it?

I know some of them took recreational drugs, they could easily have got hold of it.

Luckily I'm big and bad enough that nothing awful happened to me.