Are people really getting their drinks spiked and being spiked by injection without any other crime being committed?

[ALightThatNeverGoesOut]

Or are they just more drunk than they thought (given that young people in the UK drink huge amounts of alcohol) and maybe got a flea bite on their leg?

I just can't see what the point would be to spike a person and then just walk away and not rob them or whatever. It's a lot of effort to go to and a waste of drugs.

I agree. I think most of the time it's just too much alcohol.

@ALightThatNeverGoesOut this has definitely crossed my mind too... Or has it turned into a bit of a copycat afair with folk jabbing drinkers with a safety pin for shits 'n' giggles? (Great username by the way.)
PS NOT wishing to offend anyone who has been spiked and assaulted because that would be horrific, obvs.

My brother was spiked years ago and nothing happened to him - except a frightening black out night. He thinks it was meant for the woman he'd been chatting to though as who really bothers to spike a man. In a way he was glad he'd drank the drink as it would have been a lot worse if the intended victim had.

Nah, no need to spike folk on the sly. Just tell them ‘there’s a pandemic, dont ya know’ and watch them line up to be stabbed on multiple occasions.

@DinkyDiggies oh wow, I didn't realise the Covid vaccinations were causing black outs. You'd think the 98% of people in my area who've been vaccinated might have noticed that.

There's also been no proof of drugs in anyone's system who claim to have been injected, the drugs hard to get hold of, and hard to just randomly inject someone.

Talking to sons student girlfriend last night. She thinks the reporting is making copycats and most of the needle stabbing is just to scare people - not long enough to get enough of a drug in, but they use the same needle repeatedly, so they are worried about hepatitis/HIV as well as drugging and assault.

As far as I am aware there is zero actual evidence that anyone has been ‘spiked’ by a needle in any venue anywhere in the U.K. at any time.

As for people having their drinks ‘spiked’, that happens all the time. And in 99.9% of cases the drug they are ‘spiked’ with is alcohol.

To me it seems to be a bit if an urban myth. Better to say your drink was spiked rather than you got rat arsed.

@DinkyDiggies

Nah, no need to spike folk on the sly. Just tell them ‘there’s a pandemic, dont ya know’ and watch them line up to be stabbed on multiple occasions.

How tedious of you to cram your weird obsession into other threads.

There was a girl in the paper recently (south Essex somewhere) that was clearly off her face on MDMA claiming to have been spiked. No one wastes MDMA like that...

Well yes there's that. It's kind of a variation on "a big boy did it and ran away".

If someone genuinely doesn't notice that they've actually been injected they're probably close to coma through drink anyway.

Well it makes you wonder why someone would go to the bother of obtaining and paying for the drug and needle to inject someone for absolutely no reason.

Well, after all of these reports case out I thought the same thing. Then me and a friend went to a gig last month and she was spiked. As in she was fine one minute and the next was struggling to walk, she’d had 2 drinks while we were there. We went outside, hoping the fresh air would help her feel better. I went to get some water and I returned to some young men taking pictures of her, including up close to her face. It was bizarre, I took her straight home.

So you didn't take her to hospital, ask for a toxicology report and inform the police and venue?

Some people do just like to cause mayhem and see someone suffer, there are nutters who need no more motivation than that.

@Rno3gfr

Well, after all of these reports case out I thought the same thing. Then me and a friend went to a gig last month and she was spiked. As in she was fine one minute and the next was struggling to walk, she’d had 2 drinks while we were there. We went outside, hoping the fresh air would help her feel better. I went to get some water and I returned to some young men taking pictures of her, including up close to her face. It was bizarre, I took her straight home.

There’s a big difference between drinks being spiked, which is a documented thing, and spiking via injection. I don’t think there’s any evidence of people being injected, and I’ve read about experts discounting it as it’d be far too difficult to titrate a suitable dose.

"I only had one or two ..."

My partner was spiked a few weeks ago. It was very frightening. He ended up in hospital as his heart was doing strange things. If he hadn't of been able to use voice recognition on his phone he would have been unable to get home and been outside all night, as he couldn't stand or sit up or use his arms. So, no, not just alcohol consumption.

@shouldistop was it Manchester ? Have you heard of Reynhard Sinaga?

Do hospitals do blood tests if they suspect spiking? That might show something up.

It's not just consumption no. It's also fear panic and hysteria.

Did you get confirmation of the substance involved?

I don’t think there’s any evidence of people being injected

The victims reports are evidence in themselves. Or do we just not count a thing a victim says unless they have CCTV footage to prove it?

@MaryAndGerryLivingInDerry

I don’t think there’s any evidence of people being injected

The victims reports are evidence in themselves. Or do we just not count a thing a victim says unless they have CCTV footage to prove it?

People are mistaken about a lot of things. Reports are then investigated to see if there’s any evidence.