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<blockquote data-quote="graceupongrace" data-source="post: 361267" data-attributes="member: 7371"><p>Wow -- I just heard about this today via a youth culture newsletter. Here's what it said:</p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span><span style="color: Black"><span style="color: black">"Eyeballing," a drinking game where participants pour vodka directly into someone's eye, is the latest -- and dangerous -- fad, and videos of the act are even popping up online. "They're not doing this eyeballing to get drunk, they're doing it after they're drunk and they're drunk enough to act stupid," Mike Gimbel, a substance abuse expert told Fox41. "They're actually doing it as part of a fad. You know, I dare you to do this." "Vodka is about 40 to 50 percent pure alcohol, which can take off the top layer of the cornea," said Robert Stutman, president of the Maryland Optometric Association. "It can cause scarring. Can it make you go blind? I suppose it probably could, if it causes severe enough scarring of the cornea." <em>Source: <a href="http://signup.homeword.com/ct/3410399:1773613703:m:1:95534654:91531CFA0AF03FF7FDA9D07F00466BB9" target="_blank">AOL Health</a></em></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p>Who do you think thought this up?!?! Now we not only have to warn kids not to drink alcohol, we have to warn them not to pour it into their eyes! <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/faint.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":faint:" title="faint :faint:" data-shortname=":faint:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="graceupongrace, post: 361267, member: 7371"] Wow -- I just heard about this today via a youth culture newsletter. Here's what it said: [COLOR=black] [/COLOR][COLOR=Black][COLOR=black]"Eyeballing," a drinking game where participants pour vodka directly into someone's eye, is the latest -- and dangerous -- fad, and videos of the act are even popping up online. "They're not doing this eyeballing to get drunk, they're doing it after they're drunk and they're drunk enough to act stupid," Mike Gimbel, a substance abuse expert told Fox41. "They're actually doing it as part of a fad. You know, I dare you to do this." "Vodka is about 40 to 50 percent pure alcohol, which can take off the top layer of the cornea," said Robert Stutman, president of the Maryland Optometric Association. "It can cause scarring. Can it make you go blind? I suppose it probably could, if it causes severe enough scarring of the cornea." [I]Source: [URL="http://signup.homeword.com/ct/3410399:1773613703:m:1:95534654:91531CFA0AF03FF7FDA9D07F00466BB9"]AOL Health[/URL][/I][/COLOR][/COLOR] Who do you think thought this up?!?! Now we not only have to warn kids not to drink alcohol, we have to warn them not to pour it into their eyes! :knockedout: [/QUOTE]
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