'BORG' Challenge Hospitalizes Nearly 50 College Students

[MrDawn]

Thoughts?

College kids are partying with gallon-size jugs that they call “BORGs,” which stands for “blackout rage gallon.” They purchase gallon-size water jugs then add alcohol, a color sweetener and an electrolyte supplement to help avoid hangovers. However, too many of them are winding up in the emergency room. Forty-six University of Massachusetts Amherst students were hospitalized during a pre-St.Patrick's Day “BORG” challenge.

 

[passenger]

Thoughts?

I wonder how many of these parents really know what they're paying for. Or, if they knew, would they continue footing the bills.

 

[Nebulous]

Binge drinking for sure. Drinking too much / too fast is a recipe for disaster.

 

[PGen98]

Wow, horrible thing to do to yourself. A gallon jug? Most are going to add far too much alcohol and poison themselves. Idiotic.

 

[Webster]

Thoughts?

Idiots, all of them.

 

[Nebulous]

Plenty of people binge drink and drank way more than a gallon jug's worth.

However having a gallon jug guarantees binge drinking because finishing it is the goal.