A Drinking Game Gone Very Wrong

How many times have you played a drinking game with friends or bet someone they couldn't drink "x" amount of liquor in so many minutes? Well, the story of a 19 year-old Warwick University student may stop you from doing so again.

It can and does happen more than we think, especially when you're young and having fun. It's easy to get carried away as English college student Jason Venezia and his friends did last May. They were out drinking, returned home and someone bet Venezia that he couldn't drink a liter of vodka in 20 minutes. According to the story on the Telegraph website, he got through 1/2 the liter before he was incoherent and taken to bed, dying in his sleep by the next afternoon.

What a sad story that should really make drinkers of all ages, especially the young and adventurous, think again about responsibility. The threats to your lives and others does not end with driving drunk, but extends into your overall health and overindulging can lead to some serious consequences and alcohol poisoning is one of them. Drinking games may be fun and the challenge of drinking more than the other guy may be something that you feel compelled to do, but when something like this can happen it's not worth those few laughs.