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Girl loses stomach after drinking cocktail containing liquid nitrogen
2012-10-09
A teenage girl has undergone emergency surgery after drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen.

Gaby Scanlon was celebrating her 18th birthday with friends in Lancaster city centre when she had the drink at Oscars wine bar on Thursday night.

Police said she had her stomach removed afterwards in an urgent operation thought to have saved her life.

Miss Scanlon, from the nearby village of Heysham, had reported feeling breathless and then developed severe stomach pain after drinking the cocktail.

She was taken to Lancaster Royal Infirmary at about 11pm, diagnosed with a perforated stomach and underwent emergency surgery to remove it, Lancashire Constabulary said.

The premises involved have fully cooperated with all agencies and have suspended the serving of drinks involving liquid nitrogen."
The teenager was said to be in a serious but stable condition afterwards, and was apparently well enough last night to write on Twitter: "Maybe stay off the liquid nitrogen' is not a f------------ funny thing to say to me." She also tweeted: "I nearly died."

A police front man said: "The investigation is still in its early stages and we are still interviewing witnesses to establish the full facts.

The premises involved have fully cooperated with all agencies and have suspended the serving of drinks involving liquid nitrogen."
Posted by:Fred

#16  wait til you get the Efudex treatment. Week+ long fun and ugly
Posted by: Frank G   2012-10-09 19:36  

#15  Shaken, not stirred?
Posted by: no mo uro   2012-10-09 17:40  

#14  My SWAG: they put a drop or two of liquid nitrogen in a drink to make it boil and froth and fizz. After it cooks off, you're left with a harmless, cold drink. In this case, she chugged it before it was done. ++ungood.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-10-09 16:33  

#13  I get the same thing from my dermi doc. He's a retired USAF flt surgeon. I made the mistake of telling an Air Force golf course joke a few years back. I get the full nitro treatment with lingering booster now every visit. :-(
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-10-09 15:58  

#12  I went to a dermatologist not long ago with actinic keratosis on my forehead from sun exposure. Untreated AKs can advance to squamous cell carcinoma. The treatment? Liquid nitrogen sprayed on the affected area. It destroys the AK cells.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-10-09 15:37  

#11  Mix me 400cc of Flaming Dr. Pepper, stat!
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-10-09 15:34  

#10  I call bullsh*t.

She drank a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen?

Have any of you ever picked up a piece of glass that was cooled down to -196 C? I have a few times. You immediately get frost bite on your fingers. There is no confusing it with a cocktail drink, even if one were spectacularly stupid and increadibly drunk.
Posted by: Chemist   2012-10-09 14:41  

#9  Liquid nitrogen is at something like -196C.

I don't understand howver how it could happen. Firrst: the girls should heva noticed it was coooools. In fact it is so cold that if you put it in a metal recipient there will be dropletes of liquid oxygen in the bottom of it.

Also at science museum the attendant threw a fair quentity of it it the public and it vaporized before reaching anyone. Finally we passed (briefly) our hands in it and nobody was hurt because it vaporized around our hands.
Posted by: JFM   2012-10-09 12:23  

#8  I guess nobody can use dry ice any more.

Some dumbfuck club owner's idea. I hope he gets sued for millions.
Posted by: gromky   2012-10-09 10:43  

#7  Apparently the liquid nitrogen creates nice mist as it burns off or whatever but they aren't supposed to drink it. Either someone got stupid or something else is going on.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-10-09 08:43  

#6  I been around liquid nitrogen quite a bit in labs. We always treated it very seriously - it gives pretty nasty "burns".
Posted by: Spot   2012-10-09 08:01  

#5  I'm going to make a bet it wasn't the Liquid Nitrogen...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2012-10-09 04:29  

#4  And her friends on twitter can only think to crack unfunny jokes at her condition. Sad what they've become.
Posted by: gromky   2012-10-09 03:07  

#3  The government must ban nitrogen!
Posted by: Bulldog   2012-10-09 02:54  

#2  WTF were they serving liquid nitrogen anyway in the bar. That is a Darwin Award close call.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2012-10-09 01:18  

#1  Poor girl - correct me iff I'm wrong, but isn't her only medical option a Stomach Transplant???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-10-09 00:42  

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