Police Air UI Drinking Death Details

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  Sisyphus on May 01 at 10:27 a.m.

  Guilty.

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  Charlie on May 01 at 10:32 a.m.

  As youngsters we all considered ourselves 10 feet tall and bullet proof. Bad things only happen to someone else, it was Miller’s turn to be someone else.

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  moscow_minidoka on May 01 at 10:40 a.m.

  Guilty, but I usually passed out or fell asleep before I hit toxic levels. What really kills kids is doing shots, because you don’t realize how much alcohol you are accumulating… if you stick to just beer or wine, it’s pretty hard to O.D. unless you’re bonging or something… you’ll pass out of vomit before hitting toxic levels (usually).

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  Cabbage Boy on May 01 at 11:08 a.m.

  I was too much of a lightweight to be in danger of toxic levels. But MM is right, the hard liquor can be consumed quicker without feeling the effects right away.

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  Walkabout on May 01 at 11:18 a.m.

  No, not really. I have never really understood the need to get drunk. I have been drunk and I didn’t care for it all. The little pay off of being uninhibited makes people behave like idiots, not to mention the unpleasant side effects of vomiting and hangovers. It has probably been 12 years since I have had anything alcoholic.

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  idawa on May 01 at 11:21 a.m.

  This is just a observation, but I think part of the problem, at least in Moscow, is that a lot of the kids come to University ill prepared and uneducated about the real health dangers that alcohol can pose and go into drinking blindly. I, for one, had never had much exposure to drinking before college except for a beer or two at a high school party and didn’t understand the effects at really high dosages. I, unfortunately, learned quickly though.

  I remember a number of cases of alcohol poisoning when I was at the U of I, luckily each of those incidents the drinker was surrounded by people who knew what to look for and intervened to help. Unfortunately, problems arise when a drinker is surround by those that don’t know what to look for or are too drunk themselves to help …

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  brentandrews on May 01 at 12:54 p.m.

  (Holding hand up)

  God bless this young man’s family. For a True Believer in the God of Abraham who directly controls all things, these are times when the questions nag … why him and not me? Why, God, why? How could good come of this? How could this be a part of Your plan? I have to think we’ll know the answers one day, in His time, and meanwhile we just have to have faith. Something good will come of this. Miller’s death might save a thousand of his peers.

  Yes, but for the grace of God … and what constantly haunts me is, I don’t deserve it. Not more than this kid.

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  brentandrews on May 01 at 12:55 p.m.

  A tear, today, for young Mr. Miller. So sorry, so sorry …

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  Joker on May 01 at 1:13 p.m.

  Binge drinking is a rite of passage at college. You learn your limits and then race right past them. Yah, I drank a lot in school. It’s very sad this person died. Kids won’t learn from it either. At that age, other people die. Not you…

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  Liz on May 01 at 2:00 p.m.

  uh, yeah…I’m lucky to be alive. Let’s leave it at that.

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  Bree on May 01 at 2:02 p.m.

  Guilty.

  I look back and think of so many scary situations with me and other people.
  I plan to thouroughly educate my kids and hope when they find themselves going for another round that they remember to slow down.

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  jreighley on May 01 at 2:11 p.m.

  I don’t think education will do much good. The only thing that will help abstaining from getting drunk. But for most of these kids, that is the whole point.

  There is only so much that you can drink before you impair you ability not to keep on drinking until you cannot drink no more.

  Been there done that back in my U of I days.. I don’t go there anymore.

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  Kibby on May 01 at 3:09 p.m.

  A good friend of my uncle’s died from the same thing. That was many years ago before I was even old enough to drink. That always stuck with me because we’d all been hanging out the day before and he was such a nice guy. Year’s later I had a run in with a 5th of Tequila that cured me of every going overboard again.

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  Escapee on May 01 at 7:50 p.m.

  There were a couple of times when I felt like I was gonna die after a ‘bender’. It was like, my body was this big convulsing thing that I had no control over, and I was trapped inside it. I imagine I came close to a lethal level of alcohol a few times; most times I’d just drink beer because it got me drunk more slowly. Hard drinks, tho? Careful there…those can rise right up and smack ya. This is proof that alcoholism is a disease, ‘cos I never developed any kind of craving for alcohol and believe me, I drank my share. Me thinks I was a subscriber ot the oft-known line, “let’s get drunk and Be Somebody!” The last couple of years I drank, I’d actually get tired of beer and switch to Pepsi.

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  EagleKeeper44 on May 02 at 9:13 p.m.

  Raised in the Carolina’s . My uncle Bill was a Moonshiner
  and made some really GOOD white lightning. Dad would
  keep a Jug in the cellar hidden, or so he thought. I would
  “borrow” some and add water to replace what I took.
  Developed a taste for it and sippin whiskey too. Yes, as
  a teenager nothing ever could happen to me. Drove
  drunk as a skunk an sometimes barely made it home.

  There but for the grace of GOD go I………….

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