One dead after ingesting 'unknown cleaner' at Winston-Salem bar

[carolinakid]

A CRAZY thing happen in nc this week. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...nown-cleaner-at-winston-salem-bar/ar-AA1kSMT8

 

[carolinakid]

i never heard of this ever before

 

[jjgold]

That’s a crazy story

 

[Tanko]

I've heard of this. The cleaners some bars use is a caustic (contains sodium hydroxide). Residual in the lines can cause death.

Think of it as drinking lye.

 

[BMR Genie]

Wow! This is sad.

How many times do they need to clean the beer line? Now, I can't trust any draft beer. Scary.

 

[carolinakid]

abc board here said it never heard of this before, i guess bottles sales here will go up now

 

[carolinakid]

i drink only bottles at bars so im good

 

[carolinakid]

i know one thing the company that did the cleaning will get a large law suit now

 

[Tanko]

i know one thing the company that did the cleaning will get a large law suit now

Bars can do it on their own. You buy the solution online and pump it through the lines.
If they don't clean them often with food safe cleaners, they have to use harsh stuff like what was probably used here to clean the lines and keep the beer from tasting nasty.

Convience stores do the same with soda fountain lines. They probably use the safer, non-toxic stuff if they are a large chain.

 

[carolinakid]

it been a long time since i had beer out of the tap, i just get a bottle and glass

 

[quantumleap]

Bars can do it on their own. You buy the solution online and pump it through the lines.
If they don't clean them often with food safe cleaners, they have to use harsh stuff like what was probably used here to clean the lines and keep the beer from tasting nasty.

Convience stores do the same with soda fountain lines. They probably use the safer, non-toxic stuff if they are a large chain.

Here's the thing that doesn't "smell right" with me. The body has defense mechanisms against this. They're called taste buds. If the lye was strong enough to kill someone, certainly there would be a taste and also the lye would burn the sides of the mouth and even the throat so much that the person drinking the beer would spit it out before they ingested enough to kill them. Also, if the lye was so strong to kill someone then the stomach would puke it up.

 

[BMR Genie]

Here's the thing that doesn't "smell right" with me. The body has defense mechanisms against this. They're called taste buds. If the lye was strong enough to kill someone, certainly there would be a taste and also the lye would burn the sides of the mouth and even the throat so much that the person drinking the beer would spit it out before they ingested enough to kill them. Also, if the lye was so strong to kill someone then the stomach would puke it up.

So there's a big possibility that they are just pointing the blame at the one who did the cleaning.

 

[carolinakid]

one thing for sure the lawyers will be the ones coming out ahead in this one

 

[jjgold]

What an epic lawsuits coming

 

[carolinakid]

heck this one might even be on court tv

 

[Tanko]

Here's the thing that doesn't "smell right" with me. The body has defense mechanisms against this. They're called taste buds. If the lye was strong enough to kill someone, certainly there would be a taste and also the lye would burn the sides of the mouth and even the throat so much that the person drinking the beer would spit it out before they ingested enough to kill them. Also, if the lye was so strong to kill someone then the stomach would puke it up.

You'd think so. I wonder how drunk these people were and was it at the beginning of the night?
Maybe the ordered a beer that's not sold often and the line sat with some cleaner in it.