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Needle Spiking of Women in Britain Stirs Alarm Over New Kind of AssaultWomen are reporting being injected with syringes at crowded clubs in a horrifying variation of dropping pill into drinks. This is a new depth, said a former chief of police.
NOTTINGHAM, England Lizzie Wilson was standing in a crowded nightclub on Monday night with three friends when she felt a sharp pinch in her back, as if she had been pricked by a needle. Ten minutes later, she was struggling to stand.
Ms. Wilson, 18, said she had heard about young women being injected with syringes at crowded clubs and immediately feared she was another victim. Her friends rushed her to the hospital, where she spent hours disoriented and without sensation in her legs.
Nobody should ever go through that, said Ms. Wilson, a student in her first year of college in Nottingham in central England. The most upsetting thing is, I could not control anything.
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Now come alarming reports, if still relatively small in number, of women being injected with syringes at crowded pubs and nightclubs, in a variation of spiking, in which drugs are dropped into someones drink, a crime that often targets women. A number of police forces in England are investigating reports of needle spiking, including 12 incidents in Nottinghamshire. Police in Scotland are looking into similar reports.
https/www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/world/europe/needle-spiking-uk.html
chowder66
(9,069 posts)dalton99a
(81,486 posts)harumph
(1,900 posts)Really, a bullet in the head to such people. Sorry if that offends.
JanMichael
(24,887 posts)I cannot imagine seeing that and not flipping out
harumph
(1,900 posts)JanMichael
(24,887 posts)Just kidding I get draft in a glass...
wnylib
(21,464 posts)Deuxcents
(16,216 posts)This is scary as hell. Covid-19 was bad enough to keep me away from crowds but now this? Im too old for clubbing but just the thought of this is frightening. Sick people out there n the copycat is out there
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)Sure to be global within a few weeks?
AJT
(5,240 posts)It will be spread across the globe by social media.
KT2000
(20,577 posts)sterilized needles too. Put a huge sentence on any person who does this. Keep them out of circulation long past when their looks and youth fade away.
lindysalsagal
(20,684 posts)for all women, so they can get help and be taken seriously. It will require legislation to demand compliance by bar workers. It should become illegal for a man to carry a passed-out woman out of a bar. Only an ambulance should be called.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)We might as well all stay home and never go out in public.