Teens die after drinking mixture of Mountain Dew and methanol racing fuel

[Miles Archer]

http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/local/regional/2016/01/27/teens-die-after-drinking-mountain-dew-racing-fuel-mix/79397100/

NASHVILLE — A second Greenbrier teen has died and two more received medical treatment after officials said they drank a mixture of Mountain Dew and methanol racing fuel last week.

On Thursday, authorities were called to the Franklin Farms home of 16-year-old Logan Stephenson, who was found dead in his bed.

Within minutes, they were called to a second home, on Cemetery Road, because the boy’s best friend had begun having seizures, Greenbrier Police Chief K.D. Smith said.

Authorities have not released the identity of the second teen, but Smith confirmed Tuesday that the medical examiner’s office had notified his department of the second teen’s death that morning. The Robertson County Sheriff's Office also released a statement Tuesday confirming the second teen's death.

[hobbit709]

1. Ethyl and Methyl.

[lame54]

2. It gives you angel wings

[Odin2005]

17. LOL!

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. Not funny.

[ronnie624]

30. Not at all.

That kind of humor is disturbing.

[SammyWinstonJack]

31. It really is.

[TexasProgresive]

3. I don't guess they knew the difference between ethyl and methyl alcohols

the 1st may kill you after long abuse but the 2nd will kill you right now.

[Codeine]

4. Darwin Awards all 'round!! nt

[DetlefK]

5. There's this anecdote from WWII about russian soldiers drinking methanol.

The Third Reich had a rocket-test-site at the coast of the Baltic Sea. The Russians pushed back the Nazis and eventually conquered this test-site. The russian soldiers found huge tanks of rocket-fuel: methanol. Only they didn't know it was methanol.

They drank it, and a whole battalion went blind.

[madinmaryland]

22. I think you have the story wrong. If they went blind, they were probably all masturbating!!

[JonathanRackham]

6. I've seen kids sniff anything with solvent in it.

Called "huffing". Starve the brain for oxygen and the high you get is asphyxiation. Then there was the "choking game" during my kids younger years.

I've known about this stuff since the 7th grade. It was a school education thing. Kids still did it back then though. Glad I was a mean parent to mine.

[ryan_cats]

7. Mountain Dew

Mountain Dew must be deadly.

[TwilightGardener]

8. Not seeing the humor in this. These were kids. Kids do dumb things, and

most of us are lucky to survive our dumb years.

[Miles Archer]

9. There was no humor intended or implied in my original post

I'm going to assume you are not directing your comments toward me.

If you are addressing someone else, it's polite to respond to them directly.

Thanks.

[closeupready]

10. +1. Who knows who these kids were, what their issues were.

Perhaps they were raised by addicts...?

Anyway, I'm thinking your way.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. We know the parents of one of the teens. They aren't addicts. Far from it.

[Quantess]

19. Wow, sorry to hear it.

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. Thank you. They are devastated.

[Quantess]

18. Nobody's laughing, really. Just your usual, grim, gallows humor, common stuff.

The kids were dumbasses, and maybe by shedding light on it, other reckless teens will think twice.

[former9thward]

26. Many of the posters were laughing.

If you want to willfully ignore it, so be it.

[Quantess]

34. In your imagination, sure.

That's your imagination.

[former9thward]

35. See#4 and the ones before?

Again, willfully ignore.

[d_r]

32. Yep.

[KamaAina]

11. Ugh.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Eeeep!

Methanol. Back in prohibition, badly distilled gin had reasonably high methanol levels and caused lots of drinkers to go blind as a result.

That stuff and the body do not play well together.

[Blue_Tires]

13. Jesus...Fucking....Christ

More info:

The deadly danger of 'dewshine'
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/01/27/deadly-danger-dewshine-teens-tennessee/79401368/

The surprising moonshine history of Mountain Dew
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/01/27/surprising-moonshine-history-mountain-dew/79405142/

[uppityperson]

14. Crap. A barrel of this washed up on a remote AK village's beach 25 yrs ago, kids thought it was

just regular alcohol and had a party. Several died. This is really sad.

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. One of the teens was the son of my daughter in law's co-worker. Pretty sad.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. How heartbreaking.

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. It really is. Nice young man, very polite and he and his dad were very close.

So sad.

[ScreamingMeemie]

24. My son is 17, and I worry about him doing something stupid every time he walks out the door.

It can happen in any family. I'm sorry you've had to read some of the stuff posted here. My thoughts go out to his family and all those who loved him.

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. Thank you. I raised two boys, so I know about kind of worry

Thank you for your kind words.

[spanone]

28. so damn sad.

[hifiguy]

29. I did a fair amount of Seriously Stupid Approved crap as a teenager,

though not near as much as I witnessed. And though I saw some mind-roastingly stupid shit, including watching a guy grind up pain pills, sprinkle them over weed and smoke the whole shitaree through a bong ( ), then bounce around the cabin like a Nerf Person, this shatters every Scale of Stupidity that the mind of man has ever yet devised.

The only thing this dumb I ever heard about among people who knew people I knew was a guy who put a brick on the gas pedal of his car so he could concentrate on rolling a joint (with his feet?) and promptly crashed into a tree. And he didn't kill himself in the bargain.

Sad yes, but what in the blue hell could lead anyone to think this was a remotely good idea?

[HassleCat]

33. Kids might not know

Teenagers tend to optimistically believe whatever sounds good. People used to think it was OK to drink Sterno fuel if you filtered it through a piece of bread. You still hear of people being poisoned by rubbing alcohol. And so on.