Liquid nitrogen cocktail: Lancaster’s Oscar’s Wine Bar fined £100k
As I’m sure you can gather from the headline, a woman drank a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen, which evaporated in her stomach, overpressurizing it, bursting it, necessitating its removal and the surgical attachment of her esophagus directly to her intestines.
Describing the moment she drank the shot, Ms Scanlon told the court: “I turned to the man and asked if it was okay to drink. He said ‘Yes’.
Protip: if you have to ask if something is safe to drink… IT AIN’T.
Second protip: don’t drink cryogenic liquids. You wouldn’t think this would be a point that would have to be explained, but apparently it is.
And… then there’s this:
The prosecution said it would offer no evidence against him if he made a £20,000 contribution to the court costs prior to sentencing.
How is that not bribery??