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popeye1250 -> RE: Drugs in the lifestyle (7/24/2007 10:04:09 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth
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ORIGINAL: witchywoman313
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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth
There are 3 fraternity brothers sitting in state prison because of their excessive drinking hazing ritual. The drink they made their pledge drink? Water.
Ignorance kills - somtimes I wonder why dead bodies aren't strewn all over the streets.
Id like to here more about the pledge drink water story. Drinking too much water too fast can be extreamly dangerous, it can even kill you. Ive heard its even come into popularity as a way to commit suicide.
Turns out four went to jail, not three.
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They were forced pushups and trivia quizzes. Through it all, the Carrington and Quintana were ordered to drink from a five-gallon jug of water, which was filled over and over. Fans blasted icy air on their wet bodies. They urinated and vomited on themselves. Then, according to DA Ramsey, something went terribly wrong.
Carrington collapsed and started a seizure. Fraternity members didn't initially call an ambulance. By the time they did, it was too late. Carrington was taken to Enloe Medical Center, where his heart stopped. At about 5 a.m. he was pronounced dead from water intoxication, which caused the swelling of his brain and lungs. Not a single fraternity brother was there, a fact that still haunts his mother.
The Butte County courtroom of Judge Stephen Benson was awash in red, the color worn by family and friends of Matthew Carrington to honor him. Gabriel Maestretti, deeply religious as a boy, had never been in trouble before. Yet, according to the district attorney, he was the most culpable in Carrington's death. He stood before the judge, baby-faced, with the physique of a linebacker, choking back tears.
"I did what I did out of a misguided sense of building brotherhood, and instead I lost a brother. I will live with the consequences of hazing for the rest of my life," Maestretti told the court. "My actions killed a good person, and I will be a felon for the rest of my life, and I'll have to live with that disability, but I'm alive and Matt's not. "
Moments later, Maestretti and three of his fraternity brothers -- John Fickes, 20, Carlos Abrille, 22, and Jerry Lim, 25 -- were handcuffed and led off to jail.
Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5012154
Damn, do they still have "Fraternities" these days?
Do the "Frat Boys" wear Beanies?
I thought a lot of that stuff went out of fashion after WW2.
I saw a program on the History Channel and it said that; " returning combat veterans just had no interest in being "hazed" or joining these organisations after going through the real thing when they enrolled in colleges and universities after the war." (paraphrase)
They seem kind of trivial, a holdover from the early 1900's "23 skidoo" days.
When I hear the word "Fraternities" I get a picture of Rudy Valle in a bearskin coat playing a eukalailie and drinking out of a silver flask of whisky! lol
A bunch of young guys getting drunk and in trouble and doing stupid things.
Just too foolish for me.
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