MOSCOW (AP) — The death toll from alcohol poisoning in a Siberian city has risen to at least 48 after the victims consumed a bath lotion, prompting local officials to introduce a state of emergency Monday.
Responding to the tragedy in Irkutsk, the Russian government also called for tighter regulation of the alcohol market.
The sale of lotions and tinctures containing alcohol has been on the rise in recent years as Russia has plunged into recession under the impact of Western sanctions and a slide in oil prices. Poisonings caused by cheap surrogate alcohol are a regular occurrence, but the Irkutsk case was unprecedented in its scale.
While local officials in Irkutsk introduced a state of emergency in a desperate bid to prevent more deaths, and went house-to-house in search for more victims, Russia’s top investigative agency opened a probe into the incident and arrested several people suspected of involvement in the sales of the lotion. more
SNIP: Comprehensive Lotion Legislation is needed
Years ago Soviet fighter pilots and aircraft maint. peeps would drink their canopy deicing fluid. Sheeh…..
Q. What’s the name of a drink mixed with prune juice and wood alcohol?
A. A shit or go blind.
They have potatoes, they have sugar.
Have the Russkies literally forgotten how to cook up backyard Vodka?
Say it ain’t so, Vlad P.
I once went to a bar in Minsk and I ordered a Vodka and Bubble bath….Luckily, there was a Priest, a Rabbi and a Leprechaun there and they were talkin’ about the proper method of making corned beef…
So it was the lotion-crazed Russians who hacked Hillary’s server in order they could get a candidate elected that would ease trade sanctions and start selling them the Mad Dog 20-20 they so desperately need, again.
It’s all starting to come together now, isn’t it?
🙂
Is it worth the effort to save the type of people that are willing to consume bath lotion in order to obtain the effects of alcohol?
To The Pain!
Inconceivable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_eZmEiyTo0
Russians will drink anything
Video. Serbian drunk fails dui test. Funny.
For only pennies a day, you can sponsor a Russian alcoholic and help prevent such tragedies.
Thank God they don’t put bath lotion in US vodka.