There was an A&E doc on Newstalk when this *trend* was first emerging and he basically debunked the whole thing saying it was near impossible to do what was being described in the media.
Methinks a few people jumped on the ‘I was spiked’ bandwagon to explain away overdoing it and being a mess at the restart of the college year.
I remember going home off my face after a few yokes, and I told my parents my drink must have been “spiked”.
Oldest excuse in the book.
Spikers are scum, but they aren’t stupid. The idea that they were going around with big needles trying to stick people when there are realistically far more surreptitious and effective ways to do what they want to do never made any sense, and had all the hallmarks of a moral panic.
Next they’ll be telling us that drug dealers aren’t dishing out drug-laced sweets at Halloween
I remember years ago I drank way too much vodka and it all kicked in at once and I honestly thought I was spiked
Jaw swinging, unconscious basically.
For most people they’ve never took a drug like mdma or ketamine so they wouldn’t know what the feeling is actually like.
Debunked in Scotland the other day too.
Fucking influencers and social media dopes pushing this nonsense for the likes and 5 seconds of fame. What a waste of police time and seriously undermines actual spiking cases.
No real shock there, cant imagine someone walking around like fucking Dexter in coppers
My missus knows a girl who kept banging on about how she was ‘spiked’ this way. Wonder what she is thinking now that she’s been outed.
I remember when this was in the media; there was a photo of a somewhat rough looking chap doing the rounds on peoples Instagram stories.
It was captioned something along the lines of: “this guy was stalking girls on Grafton Street and tried to inject some girl”
Now I have no idea if this chap was creeping over girls or not. But if he was acting dodgy somewhere busy like Grafton St, you’d think there’d probably be CCTV evidence and/or witnesses, and the Gards could hopefully deal with him.
Reading this article; this struck me as another example of a possibly baseless social media witch hunt, which could have easily put someones wellbeing in danger.
Colour me shocked
There was a fair few floating around this subreddit throwing around claims of soggy knees when people rightly pointed out how unlikely this was.
Imagine… It’s almost as of the Facebook warriors needed to just get dramatic about something. I’ll be checking all the go fund me’s that were set up to: “protect our streets”. Smh
And absolutely no one who originally believed this story will change their mind about this.
On par with Oprah Winfrey’s “Rainbow Parties” back in the day with how fucking dumb this is.
This rears its head every couple years, the reports are never substantiated and are proven false everytime by gardai, medical and public health officials. This time around was particularly bad as officials jumped the gun and scared the bejesus out of people when the reports weren’t even proven true. Most of the time it’s used as an excuse when someone gets paraletic drunk and can’t explain why the 10 drinks they had made them black out.
All the crows and yokes on twitter jumped on this trend so hard
Who are the journalists that ran these myths?
I was very sceptical of this whole thing when the story first broke.
Then a girl in the locality had a fb post up one Sunday morning with her story of how it had happened to her in Kilkenny the previous night.
She had attached pictures of her arm with what looked clearly like a mark from a needle. Like the bruise after getting blood work done.
I took that to mean the whole thing was genuine.
Now the whole thing has been Debunked.
Are these people just going to elaborate lengths for the attention?
Are they getting injured on nights out and then attributing the marks to needle spiking when really they just banged their arm off a table during the night?
Sounds to me like the tiktok generation heard the term “spiking” and assumed it was literally some random guy going around sticking a needle into strangers. Because obviously that’s what spiking is.
Hypnotism will be the next scourge ….. rough looking types swinging pocket watches on Camden Street. Next thing you know, you wake up in an ice bath with a telephone in your hand …….
Didn’t stop people from posting pictures of people they didn’t like.
Without presuming truth or deception in any of the claims, the questions around this must be asked are this; if there is no evidence this occurred then who started the claims and why did they do it?
The amount of stick people got for telling people this was impossible is outrageous.
>There was significant speculation on social media
Yet another dumb online fad for gullible morons.
IMO
There were quite a few people I know who would get emotional if you had any doubt that these events happened and claim you had some kind of agenda.
Oh well, the shit I got hit with for saying this would be the case a few months back when the story broke. Media driven panic.
Sounds like hysteria tbh, you’d fucking know if someone stabbed you with a syringe.
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There was an A&E doc on Newstalk when this *trend* was first emerging and he basically debunked the whole thing saying it was near impossible to do what was being described in the media.
Methinks a few people jumped on the ‘I was spiked’ bandwagon to explain away overdoing it and being a mess at the restart of the college year.
I remember going home off my face after a few yokes, and I told my parents my drink must have been “spiked”.
Oldest excuse in the book.
Spikers are scum, but they aren’t stupid. The idea that they were going around with big needles trying to stick people when there are realistically far more surreptitious and effective ways to do what they want to do never made any sense, and had all the hallmarks of a moral panic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases
Next they’ll be telling us that drug dealers aren’t dishing out drug-laced sweets at Halloween
I remember years ago I drank way too much vodka and it all kicked in at once and I honestly thought I was spiked
Jaw swinging, unconscious basically.
For most people they’ve never took a drug like mdma or ketamine so they wouldn’t know what the feeling is actually like.
Debunked in Scotland the other day too.
Fucking influencers and social media dopes pushing this nonsense for the likes and 5 seconds of fame. What a waste of police time and seriously undermines actual spiking cases.
No real shock there, cant imagine someone walking around like fucking Dexter in coppers
My missus knows a girl who kept banging on about how she was ‘spiked’ this way. Wonder what she is thinking now that she’s been outed.
I remember when this was in the media; there was a photo of a somewhat rough looking chap doing the rounds on peoples Instagram stories.
It was captioned something along the lines of: “this guy was stalking girls on Grafton Street and tried to inject some girl”
Now I have no idea if this chap was creeping over girls or not. But if he was acting dodgy somewhere busy like Grafton St, you’d think there’d probably be CCTV evidence and/or witnesses, and the Gards could hopefully deal with him.
Reading this article; this struck me as another example of a possibly baseless social media witch hunt, which could have easily put someones wellbeing in danger.
Colour me shocked
There was a fair few floating around this subreddit throwing around claims of soggy knees when people rightly pointed out how unlikely this was.
Imagine… It’s almost as of the Facebook warriors needed to just get dramatic about something. I’ll be checking all the go fund me’s that were set up to: “protect our streets”. Smh
And absolutely no one who originally believed this story will change their mind about this.
On par with Oprah Winfrey’s “Rainbow Parties” back in the day with how fucking dumb this is.
This rears its head every couple years, the reports are never substantiated and are proven false everytime by gardai, medical and public health officials. This time around was particularly bad as officials jumped the gun and scared the bejesus out of people when the reports weren’t even proven true. Most of the time it’s used as an excuse when someone gets paraletic drunk and can’t explain why the 10 drinks they had made them black out.
All the crows and yokes on twitter jumped on this trend so hard
Who are the journalists that ran these myths?
I was very sceptical of this whole thing when the story first broke.
Then a girl in the locality had a fb post up one Sunday morning with her story of how it had happened to her in Kilkenny the previous night.
She had attached pictures of her arm with what looked clearly like a mark from a needle. Like the bruise after getting blood work done.
I took that to mean the whole thing was genuine.
Now the whole thing has been Debunked.
Are these people just going to elaborate lengths for the attention?
Are they getting injured on nights out and then attributing the marks to needle spiking when really they just banged their arm off a table during the night?
Sounds to me like the tiktok generation heard the term “spiking” and assumed it was literally some random guy going around sticking a needle into strangers. Because obviously that’s what spiking is.
Hypnotism will be the next scourge ….. rough looking types swinging pocket watches on Camden Street. Next thing you know, you wake up in an ice bath with a telephone in your hand …….
Didn’t stop people from posting pictures of people they didn’t like.
Without presuming truth or deception in any of the claims, the questions around this must be asked are this; if there is no evidence this occurred then who started the claims and why did they do it?
The amount of stick people got for telling people this was impossible is outrageous.
>There was significant speculation on social media
Yet another dumb online fad for gullible morons.
IMO
There were quite a few people I know who would get emotional if you had any doubt that these events happened and claim you had some kind of agenda.
Oh well, the shit I got hit with for saying this would be the case a few months back when the story broke. Media driven panic.
Sounds like hysteria tbh, you’d fucking know if someone stabbed you with a syringe.