Needle spikings - logic?

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Just been reading about a spate of social media postings around being injected and spiked over the weekend in our local city.

I’m just wondering about the why? I understand sick men will spike a girl to take her away and attack her

But what is with the spending time and money on needle injecting random women who are not a target in the other way?? What fresh hell is this?

I’m just completely WTF about the whole thing. Anyone have experience of understanding this new phenomenon?

I can't understand it. Awful behaviour. Same as most other violent crimes I can't understand them either. Not sure who is buying this stuff or selling it or how someone realised there is a market for it.

I assume their motivation is to take her away and attack her same as regular spiking though.

I don't know if this is true but a couple of young people have told me that the perpetrators are secretly filming the victim in their intoxicated state and selling the videos (no idea to whom/where). Apparently it's quite lucrative, so they consider it worth the investment/risk. Horrifying if true, but as I said, might be BS.

Is there any actual proof of this happening or just speculation? I honestly think its a social panic. I do believe we are seeing more spikings but i also think a lot of them are likely alcohol poisoning, and the injection thing - the logistics of that are far harder than dropping a pill in someones drink that youre chatting up

I’ve wondered this too - my understanding is that the majority if the victims are NOT taken away and attacked in some other way, they are generally found collapsed and taken home by friends (thus has happened to friends of both my DC). So why bother going to all the trouble of slipping something in a drink or jabbing them for no other purpose? It must be costly to buy the drugs. Baffles me but it does happen

@Branleuse

Is there any actual proof of this happening or just speculation? I honestly think its a social panic. I do believe we are seeing more spikings but i also think a lot of them are likely alcohol poisoning, and the injection thing - the logistics of that are far harder than dropping a pill in someones drink that youre chatting up

I agree I don’t think people are actually make this up deliberately but if someone bumps into you or you catch yourself on a door or something and you notice a red mark or scratch then if you are hyper aware of this “trend” then it’s easy to jump to conclusions, especially if you have been drinking. Maybe it has happened occasionally (and SM is always full of how it definitely happened to someone’s friends cousins niece) but I doubt it’s very prevalent

@Doesabear

I don't know if this is true but a couple of young people have told me that the perpetrators are secretly filming the victim in their intoxicated state and selling the videos (no idea to whom/where). Apparently it's quite lucrative, so they consider it worth the investment/risk. Horrifying if true, but as I said, might be BS.

Wouldn't surprise me one bit, men get their kicks in some sinister ways.

I believe I was spiked fairly recently. It was strange as I was with a big group of friends but didn't remember getting home. I figured I'd drunk too much but when I checked my statement I hadn't had anywhere near enough to be in the state I was. My date said I seemed absolutely fine walking home, but when we got in I went to the loo and passed out on the toilet and he couldn't wake me, he was worried and considered calling am ambulance I'm too old to let myself get to that point these days so I assume that someone at the pub did something. I wandered off a couple of times to pinch a lighter off a couple of different (male) groups and stayed to chat.

I haven't been out since as its unsettled me. Not the pub I went to but a couple nearby have had spiking incidents resulting in hospitalisation and the management are putting social media posts telling women to be careful, and getting backlash for focusing on women, rather than the perpetrators. They're also barring people who bad mouth them on local groups so it doesn't feel like they have our back at all