Chaser’s World Weird Web: Woman Has Stomach Removed After a Bar Served Her a Drink

Make sure if you are drinking anything with fog on the top of it, you remember this story.

According to Cnet.com, a bar in England was just fined $155,000 for serving a drink that contained liquid nitrogen, because the girl who drank it had to have her stomach removed.  The story's going around online, so here's what happened.

A girl named Gaby Scanlon was celebrating her 18th birthday in Lancaster, England two years ago.

18 is legal drinking age in England.

She went to a new place called Oscar's Wine Bar and since it was her birthday, they gave her a free drink, the Nitro-Jagermeister.  It's basically Jager with some liquid nitrogen on top, to create a cloud of smoke. The same effect dry ice has when its put in a liquid.

In case you didn't know, liquid nitrogen is what they use to freeze off warts, among other things.  A health and safety inspector had warned them about serving it, and the bar was supposed to make people wait ten seconds before drinking it.

But they told Scanlon to drink it before it evaporated and she did, so it froze and killed her internal tissue, basically causing internal frostbite.

Her stomach expanded, got perforated, and doctors had to remove it in emergency surgery.  Then they had to build a direct connection between her esophagus and her bowels and she had to spend three weeks in the hospital.

So if you are out this coming Halloween and you are offered a foggy type drink, wait till the fog clears before you drink it.