The Hood Life: College Students OD On Four Loko

This is what happens when your parents send you to learn something, and you decide to do hoodrat stuff with your friends instead.

A couple of weeks ago, an off-campus party close to Central Washington University made headlines when a bunch of kids who “drank out of the red cups” all got sick. Authorities thought they were drugged or poisoned. And now they know the truth.

Nine Central Washington University students hospitalized this month after an off-campus party were sickened by “Four Loko,” a caffeinated malt liquor also known as “blackout in a can,” according to a police investigation.

Investigators concluded that none of the students were drugged or given alcohol without their knowledge and no sexual assaults occurred, according to a school statement.

Police found the underage students passed out and “very intoxicated” at a party attended by about 50 students in Roslyn, Washington, on October 9, the police report said.

Each students consumed “Four Loko,” while some mixed the canned drinks with other alcohol, including vodka, the report said.

Just to make sure no one is inspired to repeat this act of stupidity, the school’s president is banning “alcohol energy drinks” from the campus.

“We need to make sure that we’re sending a strong message to students about the dangers of alcohol energy drinks and we need to know more about the way it affects health and behavior,” Gaudino said.

The drinks are “a binge-drinkers dream because the caffeine and other stimulants allow a drinker to ingest larger volumes of alcohol without passing out,” the chairman of the school’s physical education department said.

“Being able to feel the effects of tiredness, loss of coordination and even passing out or vomiting are the body’s defenses against consuming doses of alcohol that will kill you,” professor Ken Briggs said.

“Regardless, once the blood alcohol level reaches a certain level, you can drop like a box of rocks.”

The Washington State Attorney General wants to take things one step further and ban Four Loko all together. Meanwhile the manufacturer of the drink which comes in cans that pretty much like any energy drink, says they go out of their way to make sure their product doesn’t end up in the hands of kids.

We call BS.

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