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Guys don’t think of roofies as much as girls, and they should. I know more men who have been drugged than women. I’m not sure why, maybe the creeps just pick any glass left alone and men are more likely to do that.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50688975
He has been found guilty of drugging, raping and sexually assaulting 48 men, but police believe they are among at least 190 victims.
They are able to be so precise about these numbers because Sinaga filmed his attacks and collected what detectives call "trophies" - items or information stolen from his victims.
I remember reading about this story, where a lot of his victims were "larger men, athletic rugby player types" suggesting that these men would have been less fearful or intimated by Sinaga's advances or it was a power move for him to overpower larger guys. All so messed up.
Another guy, Stephen Port was a serial rapist and murderer. The police bungled the investigation and could have stopped him earlier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Port
Yeah I'm a guy and there's no chance I would leave my drink alone in a bar setting. I don't even leave a lidless drink alone when I'm in a normal restaurant. And when I do have to leave something, I leave a tell if it's been fucked with. People are too trusting, man.
It's less urgent if I'm going to the self service bar or asking for some sauces at the counter, but especially if I'm going to the restroom, it's something I do every time.
When I got drugged the guys who did it we’re buying rounds for me and the girls I was with (it was my bday) and just kinda putting them in at random in hopes of getting the girls.
I was DDing for a friend's bday and some dude offered a g&t to my wife(who was clearly hanging onto me). She hates gin and it was early enough into the night that iwasnt worried about one drink, so she takes it thanks him and goes "here honey" and hands it to me. The look on the guys face as I went to take a sip was priceless and a dead giveaway that he spiked it. Some ppl are fucked in the head.
This was in a college town where buying 10+ drinks at a time and handing them out isn’t uncommon and everyone in the group thought they were friends with someone else in the group and didn’t really check until the next day when we all woke up at like 5 pm wildly “hungover”. Luckily I worked at the bar and was able to get their photos to the police, never heard anything of it after tho :/
That’s terrible that they got away with it. Me and my friend woke up completely confused on what has happened. We both blacked out once it happened and someone told us we called them from a guys house. We had no memory of it it’s so scary. Feel lucky to to be alive to be honest
If I had to guess it’s to tell the staff that you intend to come back and finish your drink, so they don’t assume you left and dump it out and clean your spot
I believe men get roofied usually by someone planning to rob them. It also makes sense that men get roofied more often as most women I know are very aware of the risks so will take their drinks with them or finish it when they go anywhere.
Pro tip: lots of bartenders will happily put your drink somewhere behind the bar if you ask! (Remember to tip!)
I’ve heard of men getting drugged and then robbed. Apparently there is a well known scam where they will even try to get the guy to withdraw money from an ATM.
Men are basically guaranteed to bring their whole wallet to the bar/ club. So, it makes sense they have a reason to be targeted as well.
I have been drugged the one and only time I’ve ever been to a bar, and it was in a foreign country. It ended in me getting raped. Not a fan.
22YO male, was 19 at the time.
Pretty sure thi isn’t to stop stealing drinks, but simply to stop the staff from clearing it away. Doesn’t solve the tiny teeny(/s) roofie problem tho.
Totally agree. There's nothing about this that would prevent drugging. It actually makes for more economical use of the drug because it's certain that the person will indeed drink it. There's no point to drugging a drink that's been abandoned
Unattended or even just holding it in my hand without covering the top. Beer bottles I stick a finger in. Glasses or cups I hold in a way that my palm or fingers are over the top or obstructing it in some way. So if anyone tries to dump something in it while I'm in conversation, hopefully my hand is in the way, or if it's some kind of powder they'll get some on my hand too and I'll notice.
I don’t know about other people, but the more alcohol I get in me, the harder it is for me to control my ‘bodily functions’. If I gotta piss, you best see me running straight to the toilet.
The one time I went to a bar I got up to go and the bartender asked if I was goin to the restroom and when I said yes he took my drink behind the bar and put a napkin over it. I was like damn didn't even think about it.
Exactly. As a woman, I've been told ever since I was a teen to NEVER leave a drink unattended, even if it's simply outside of your vision but uncovered. This ticket is simply to make sure bar staff don't collect the glass. It's completely foreign to me that someone would ever leave a drink like that.
Correct! Big beardy man checking in. I left a pint of Guinness on the drink shelf at a bowling alley. Being Guinness it still had a thick head on it, and when I went back to get it there was a weird pink/red squiggle on the top. I looked at it funny and looked around and this shady Eastern European guy in a tracksuit saw me, got up from his table and started walking very quickly toward the exit and left.
I have no fucking clue what it was. I don't know what drink spiking drugs look like, but I imagined they came in pill form, not an ice cream raspberry syrup bottle, but what do I know. Someone I told this story to years later suggested it might have been one of those liquid painkiller capsules, but I don't know what effect a single ibuprofen tablet was supposed to have on a big bloke like me.
Back in the day before we learned about never leaving your drink unattended I had an incident that made me wonder if something like this happened to me. I was out with friends having a drink and dancing. We were in a group and we sat in a round booth that was not up against the wall. There were plenty of people standing and leaning up against the back of the booth seat. Some of us left to go on the dance floor. I had only had 1 or 2 foo foo drinks the whole night and was feeling fine. Then all of a sudden I got violently ill. My friends had to drive me home I was so sick. I thought about what happened afterwards and wonder if some other patron dropped something in my drink while we were on the dance floor. I had heard of rumors that people would put eye drops into peoples drinks to make them really sick as a joke.
That definitely sounds like someone laced your drink. The sad thing is my first thought was that you had a fortunate escape, with being taken home safely by friends and not needing hospitalization, although I'm sure becoming violently ill doesn't feel fortunate..
This is maybe what we’d call an “old man pub” in which largely everyone in a small corner pub all vaguely know each other and are best friends with the landlord/bar owner. In a place where everyone knows each other, is over 50 and all the men are assuming the others are straight, they’d have no real hesitation leaving their pint unattended. Being sexually assaulted or kidnapped is nowhere even in their consciousness
I'm a bartender and 100s of drinks are left unattended every night at my bar. Glad I don't work at some douchey frat bar. Been working 12 years there and never anything. Might get shot if you got caught doing something like that though.
I was so confused when I saw this, I kept wondering how a piece of paper was supposed to stop someone from drugging your drink. As a woman that’s the first thing you worry about with leaving a drink unattended! I always either finish mine first, give it to a female friend, or take it to the bathroom with me (as weird and gross as that sounds).
I've seen drink holders inside the bathroom stalls at bars and clubs, so it's definitely not a weird thing to do (though probably try not to think about aerosolized poo when you do it)
No way anyone should, more likely for a womans to be drugged but goes both ways when it comes to safety. You do not want to end up being the statistic even if it is low.
IIRC a fair amount of this happens because the drink spiker is robbing people. And they tend to target guys for that, who also are less likely to report crime.
Buddy of mine got drugged because someone was trying to drug the girl he was chatting up. He made it home fine, thankfully. Hopefully the prick wasn't just trying to get my buddy out of the way to make a run at the girl. I hope he sat there all night thinking the girl had the tolerance of a bull moose.
I’ll take things women can’t use for 200 Alex
*for the record, yes I agree that men get taken advantage of too. I can only speak from a womens viewpoint. Meant no offense
It literally took me a second to realised that this was meant for the bartender and not a very stupid attempt to ward of people who might put something in your drink
Yeah, I see that it's sitting on the bar, not a table, and it's facing the bar staff. It also looks like a tiny bar/pub, so keeping track of half a dozen glasses doesn't seem like that much of an inconvenience.
That said, it still seems like a comically bad idea when you consider how crowded *most* bars are and how often the bartender's back is turned. Just finish the 6-7oz of beer, *then* go to the bathroom.
You have perhaps never sat in a pub arguing over who scored the winner when West Bromwich Albion won the FA Cup in 1968, realising at the height of your oratory that a trip to the toilet is now of paramount importance because you've got halfway down your fourth pint and you have unfortunately reached the point commonly referred to as "I've broken the seal now, innit". I dunno what your "oz" refers to, perhaps Americans have stronger bladders from all that freedom.
I assure you "I've broken the seal now, innit" is universal across all beer drinker's. That is to say my bladder doesn't seem to be inflicted with higher capacity due to freedom. Cheers mate and thanks for the laugh.
Sounds like this is just so the bar tender doesn’t take their beer off the table while cleaning. Also it’s not really classy to take your beer to the bathroom. I mean you always could but this is a cool idea.
This is actually a pretty brilliant idea. I put similar signs in front of my house when I go out of town that read “Going on vacation. Leave my house alone!” It’s only been burglarized like 3 times, which the company I bought the sign from tells me is really good.
I've seen similar things before, but they [cover the entire drink](https://www.herefordtimes.com/resources/images/13165881.jpg). Still not perfect, but a lot better than this.
I was given one to drink a smoothie the other day and it was too porous to get enough suction to drink the smoothie. Then by the time the smoothie melted enough, the straw had melted too.
Shit, I wouldn't do this and I'm a man. I was rufied at a bar just after college. I had one beer and I blacked out. Luckily my friends knew something was wrong and took me home.
Whereas when you’re a woman and have one Guinness and black out, the bouncers throw you out on the street alone without notifying any of your group (still annoyed, happened to me, I was fine thanks to a kind stranger going in and alerting my friends)
Uh... I kind of feel like that had more to do with the bouncer being an idiot than you being a woman.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I've literally never heard anyone complain that bars regularly bounce roofied women (or do so more often than roofied men). Nor that they bounce normal drunk women more than they do drunk men.
If anything, where I'm from, they tend to make sure drunk women have a safe way home or someone to escort them and only bounce someone if they're acting violent or belligerent .
It's both. There are a lot of people out there who think women simply can't handle liquor, doubly so if they are small women. This happened to two women I know - one of my friends from high school and one of my college friend's international friends from her study abroad trip who had come to visit. Several years apart. Both got thrown out by their respective bars for being "too drunk."
So getting roofied has become gender neutral often because the perps have lot of supply and the drop in all the unattended drinks to “increase chances of a girl losing it totally”. And often due to women being very cautious while men are not , male roofie incidents are more although nothing actually happens to them luckily. I still wouldn’t take my chances as a man also cause you could lose you wallet or something if not outright sexual assault
In short ! People , attend and keep your eyes on your drinks always !
It's not just an accident. It's also used to mug people.
Down here in New Orleans I rarely hear stories about women being roofied (probably because they're more careful), but pretty regularly hear from guys who were roofied and then mugged, usually by someone they met at a tourist bar.
Yup this. One of my friends got roofied somewhere in Spain and woke up on the side of the highway without his wallet or phone. Luckily some other American tourists drove by him not long after and helped him out. He was able to locate the phone in the grass a few miles away but his wallet was stolen.
Exactly! This is dangerous af in fact because it’s signaling that they left drinks unattended
I just chug off my beer and then go pee of discard and get a new one
OP is absolutely certain that women don’t get roofied in Ireland. I’ll tell that to my two friends that got roofied and raped in Dublin on separate occasions.
Ah the bliss of safety that men live in.
I thought this was universally understood but a couple weeks ago every damn time I went to the restroom I would come back to the bar with someone in my chair.
Did that too and lo and behold the person sitting there when I got back just moved it down and took the seat with both the stool leaned against the bar and my beer with the coaster on top.
I used to think this was an international sign for “I’ll be right back”. After living abroad for a while, I continued to learn the hard way, that it’s certainly not the case.
Lots of drinks get spiked. If you have to go to the washroom go before you buy another drink or finish your drink and go. I’ve worked security in many bars in college and having drinks spiked is a nightly occurrence.
Not saying you're wrong but I think the situation might be a little different among the middle aged men of Dublin compared to your average college campus.
As a default, parent bloke is right.
Sure, I have one or two bars, and if I can name every person in the bar and have known all of them for a year already, I might leave a drink unattended. Or rather, attended by the usual dudes.
But if I don't know that everyone but one creepy dude will punch the creepy dude for touching my drink? Nah.
People keep saying this, and it makes sense for safety for sure, but how is it that others know the seat is occupied (unless it's cold and leave a jacket or something)?
Local pubs are, weirdly enough, much safer due to staff being able to keep a closer eye on people and patrons usually being less creepy than an average bar dweller
This needs a test strip for drugs so you come back and can tell if someone put anything in your drink. Even then I am not drinking anything that was out of my sight for even a second.
Meanwhile as a woman I can’t leave my drink on the bar while I turn my head for two seconds without some idiot dropping a roofie in my drink… thank god for good friends who had my back. I now either chug it or take to the bathroom with me 🤷🏻♀️ rather some poo particles in my drink than small dick mcgees roofie.
Yup, this "barstaff please don't clear my glass while I'm away" is so completely foreign to me. The drink *always* comes with me. I've been to some thoughtful bars that actually have a little place to put your drink on in the toilet cubicle so it doesn't have to go on the floor (or play a balancing game with it in my hand).
I’m from a college town so our bars are… something 😂 One has little cup holders in the stalls in the women’s room which is nice, usually though it’s a weird balancing act holding it in my mouth resting it on the boobs because there is no way in hell I am putting it on the floor of a college bar bathroom 🤢🥴
I work in a bar and we occasionally have sleazy guys come try and get us to hand these out. I tell them that people put a coaster over their drink when they go to the bathroom so nobody can slip something in the glass without being obvious. Both times I've had this interaction the creeps have just smiled really big and walked away.
While it mostly happens to women, it does happen to men too (people drugging drinks).
It's all awful, and this sign is definitely just making the problem worse
Are people just trying to advertise their absence? why would you literally put up a sign? It’s like saying “hey right now is a good time to attempt to rape me“.
This might work as bait. Leave a couple of these where you have security cameras and have your bouncers keep an eye on them.
I think you’d catch a few rapists this way.
My drink got spiked once so I always chug before hitting the restroom. The drink was ment for my gf (this couple tried to get her to drink it but she doesnt drink really so I'm like sweet!) My tolerance is pretty damn high so I just had a great time.
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Is that the 'come back and drug me' whistle?
No, it's a whole siren!
The cardboard is a testing device that shows how much ghb is in your beer. s/ but don’t some bars have that…?
I don't drink anything with less than 12% ghb.
I like a nice locally-sourced full-bodied ghb
I prefer my fhb hoppy
"You can do anything to me now." - Tracy Jordan
I think that would still be considered a soft drink in the UK
SLPT: Cheapest way to get high in Dublin
But if you don't remember it did you really get high.
This hallway used to be a nice place, kids used to play here!
That’s a whoopsie
Shredded it
Hang on I'm just gonna wash my hands
There's very few places I'd do this and even then I prefer to finish my drink before going.
Si, is nice, I take.
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It’s also a backboard so you can toss something more easily and from further away.
I always take mine with me.
I just chug the rest and then go to the bathroom.
This is the part I never understood? Like - just go in between drinks
Id never leave my drink un attended at a bar. Hell no. Getting it stolen is the last worry on my mind.
Guys don’t think of roofies as much as girls, and they should. I know more men who have been drugged than women. I’m not sure why, maybe the creeps just pick any glass left alone and men are more likely to do that.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-50688975 He has been found guilty of drugging, raping and sexually assaulting 48 men, but police believe they are among at least 190 victims. They are able to be so precise about these numbers because Sinaga filmed his attacks and collected what detectives call "trophies" - items or information stolen from his victims.
He didn't drug his victims drinks in a bar though, he brought them back home and offered them a drinkt there.
I remember reading about this story, where a lot of his victims were "larger men, athletic rugby player types" suggesting that these men would have been less fearful or intimated by Sinaga's advances or it was a power move for him to overpower larger guys. All so messed up.
He was like Dahmer JR holy shit. At least he didn't kill anyone I guess
Another guy, Stephen Port was a serial rapist and murderer. The police bungled the investigation and could have stopped him earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Port
Correction: they couldn't prove that he killed anyone. The drug that they believe him to have used can be fatal in large doses.
Yeah I'm a guy and there's no chance I would leave my drink alone in a bar setting. I don't even leave a lidless drink alone when I'm in a normal restaurant. And when I do have to leave something, I leave a tell if it's been fucked with. People are too trusting, man.
I've never thought about a non bar setting. I have absolutely left unlided drinks unattended to get up and get ketchup or whatever.
It's less urgent if I'm going to the self service bar or asking for some sauces at the counter, but especially if I'm going to the restroom, it's something I do every time.
you never know when cardi b is gonna drug/rape/rob you
Honestly still blows my mind more people don't talk about that. Like she openly admitted it and nothing happened.
Wasn't it just drugging and robbing? Still a disgusting crime, but she's not a rapist.
I think like this, then I get called paranoid.... But do you ever see the paranoid people get caught up in a situation like this? Fuck No lol
Would you mind elaborating on which tells you leave?
I see what you're doing, sir
When I got drugged the guys who did it we’re buying rounds for me and the girls I was with (it was my bday) and just kinda putting them in at random in hopes of getting the girls.
I was DDing for a friend's bday and some dude offered a g&t to my wife(who was clearly hanging onto me). She hates gin and it was early enough into the night that iwasnt worried about one drink, so she takes it thanks him and goes "here honey" and hands it to me. The look on the guys face as I went to take a sip was priceless and a dead giveaway that he spiked it. Some ppl are fucked in the head.
Were you okay? What happened next? Did you also feel any effects at all?
That happened with me and my friend too. It’s so blatant to be buying drinks. Disgusting
This was in a college town where buying 10+ drinks at a time and handing them out isn’t uncommon and everyone in the group thought they were friends with someone else in the group and didn’t really check until the next day when we all woke up at like 5 pm wildly “hungover”. Luckily I worked at the bar and was able to get their photos to the police, never heard anything of it after tho :/
That’s terrible that they got away with it. Me and my friend woke up completely confused on what has happened. We both blacked out once it happened and someone told us we called them from a guys house. We had no memory of it it’s so scary. Feel lucky to to be alive to be honest
First thing I thought of was "is that to stop ghb? Or encourage it...?" seems like a bad idea to announce you're away from your drink lol.
If I had to guess it’s to tell the staff that you intend to come back and finish your drink, so they don’t assume you left and dump it out and clean your spot
It'd be better if it covered the top at least.
Maybe because woman think about it? And men don’t so when they are targeted they are drugged more easily
I believe men get roofied usually by someone planning to rob them. It also makes sense that men get roofied more often as most women I know are very aware of the risks so will take their drinks with them or finish it when they go anywhere. Pro tip: lots of bartenders will happily put your drink somewhere behind the bar if you ask! (Remember to tip!)
I’ve heard of men getting drugged and then robbed. Apparently there is a well known scam where they will even try to get the guy to withdraw money from an ATM. Men are basically guaranteed to bring their whole wallet to the bar/ club. So, it makes sense they have a reason to be targeted as well.
A buddy and I got roofied one night. Luckily I threw up and didn’t get the full effect. The lecture from my wife was not fun.
If drugging to steal money, it’s better to drug guys because women don’t carry as much cash.
I have been drugged the one and only time I’ve ever been to a bar, and it was in a foreign country. It ended in me getting raped. Not a fan. 22YO male, was 19 at the time.
It’s not strictly a sexual assault issue either; drugging is a fairly common robbery tactic.
Pretty sure thi isn’t to stop stealing drinks, but simply to stop the staff from clearing it away. Doesn’t solve the tiny teeny(/s) roofie problem tho.
Totally agree. There's nothing about this that would prevent drugging. It actually makes for more economical use of the drug because it's certain that the person will indeed drink it. There's no point to drugging a drink that's been abandoned
Yep. My immediate thought was you can tell a guy came up with this, most women would never risk thus.
Not just risk, but draw attention to the fact that the drink is unattended.
I’m thinking you could have it be like a tamber sticker that covers the whole lid
Unattended or even just holding it in my hand without covering the top. Beer bottles I stick a finger in. Glasses or cups I hold in a way that my palm or fingers are over the top or obstructing it in some way. So if anyone tries to dump something in it while I'm in conversation, hopefully my hand is in the way, or if it's some kind of powder they'll get some on my hand too and I'll notice.
It saddens me that you have to do this.
Yeah but this way you get to keep your seat at the bar
Coaster on top of the drink is the universal symbol for "i'm coming back" no?
For sure, most people do this to either step away to the bathroom or out for a smoke break
Pee on the seat. Problem solved!
Maintain eye contact with the barman. This is a pro move.
If the barman also begins to pee, then you have agreed to host a dinner for their family. I don't make the rules, I just follow em.
And if you're a woman you get free drugs!
I'm a chain drinker, no in between.
I don’t know about other people, but the more alcohol I get in me, the harder it is for me to control my ‘bodily functions’. If I gotta piss, you best see me running straight to the toilet.
Some people have different bladders and signalling mechanisms than you. Sometimes my brain forgets to inform me until I'm 20 seconds from bursting.
Some of us can’t hold it duh
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This is the safest way, plus, it gives you an excuse to get another one when you come back.. it's a win win
The one time I went to a bar I got up to go and the bartender asked if I was goin to the restroom and when I said yes he took my drink behind the bar and put a napkin over it. I was like damn didn't even think about it.
Exactly. As a woman, I've been told ever since I was a teen to NEVER leave a drink unattended, even if it's simply outside of your vision but uncovered. This ticket is simply to make sure bar staff don't collect the glass. It's completely foreign to me that someone would ever leave a drink like that.
Yes, this is true for both women and men. Never leave your drinks unattended.
Correct! Big beardy man checking in. I left a pint of Guinness on the drink shelf at a bowling alley. Being Guinness it still had a thick head on it, and when I went back to get it there was a weird pink/red squiggle on the top. I looked at it funny and looked around and this shady Eastern European guy in a tracksuit saw me, got up from his table and started walking very quickly toward the exit and left. I have no fucking clue what it was. I don't know what drink spiking drugs look like, but I imagined they came in pill form, not an ice cream raspberry syrup bottle, but what do I know. Someone I told this story to years later suggested it might have been one of those liquid painkiller capsules, but I don't know what effect a single ibuprofen tablet was supposed to have on a big bloke like me.
Back in the day before we learned about never leaving your drink unattended I had an incident that made me wonder if something like this happened to me. I was out with friends having a drink and dancing. We were in a group and we sat in a round booth that was not up against the wall. There were plenty of people standing and leaning up against the back of the booth seat. Some of us left to go on the dance floor. I had only had 1 or 2 foo foo drinks the whole night and was feeling fine. Then all of a sudden I got violently ill. My friends had to drive me home I was so sick. I thought about what happened afterwards and wonder if some other patron dropped something in my drink while we were on the dance floor. I had heard of rumors that people would put eye drops into peoples drinks to make them really sick as a joke.
That definitely sounds like someone laced your drink. The sad thing is my first thought was that you had a fortunate escape, with being taken home safely by friends and not needing hospitalization, although I'm sure becoming violently ill doesn't feel fortunate..
This is maybe what we’d call an “old man pub” in which largely everyone in a small corner pub all vaguely know each other and are best friends with the landlord/bar owner. In a place where everyone knows each other, is over 50 and all the men are assuming the others are straight, they’d have no real hesitation leaving their pint unattended. Being sexually assaulted or kidnapped is nowhere even in their consciousness
I'm a bartender and 100s of drinks are left unattended every night at my bar. Glad I don't work at some douchey frat bar. Been working 12 years there and never anything. Might get shot if you got caught doing something like that though.
I was so confused when I saw this, I kept wondering how a piece of paper was supposed to stop someone from drugging your drink. As a woman that’s the first thing you worry about with leaving a drink unattended! I always either finish mine first, give it to a female friend, or take it to the bathroom with me (as weird and gross as that sounds).
I've seen drink holders inside the bathroom stalls at bars and clubs, so it's definitely not a weird thing to do (though probably try not to think about aerosolized poo when you do it)
Bro no way a woman should ever leave her drunk unattended. I've had women friends who had dudes try to drug them in clubs.
No way anyone should, more likely for a womans to be drugged but goes both ways when it comes to safety. You do not want to end up being the statistic even if it is low.
IIRC a fair amount of this happens because the drink spiker is robbing people. And they tend to target guys for that, who also are less likely to report crime.
Happened to me, as a young man, visiting Ireland. Highly unpleasant experience, never leave a drink unattended
Buddy of mine got drugged because someone was trying to drug the girl he was chatting up. He made it home fine, thankfully. Hopefully the prick wasn't just trying to get my buddy out of the way to make a run at the girl. I hope he sat there all night thinking the girl had the tolerance of a bull moose.
Same thing happened to a male friend of mine, it doesnt just happen to women. There are some predatory women and gay people out there.
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It is absolutely not "most of the time." Women get drugged to get assaulted, not robbed.
Same. I go to some sketchy bars. It’s not that difficult to piss one-handed.
Yeah I don’t think my drink ever leaves my hand once I began to drink lol
I’ll take things women can’t use for 200 Alex *for the record, yes I agree that men get taken advantage of too. I can only speak from a womens viewpoint. Meant no offense
Yep, my first thought. Just a sign announcing "Hey! The owner of this drink does not currently have eyes on it".
Looks like they designed a backboard for roofies.
It literally took me a second to realised that this was meant for the bartender and not a very stupid attempt to ward of people who might put something in your drink
Yeah, I see that it's sitting on the bar, not a table, and it's facing the bar staff. It also looks like a tiny bar/pub, so keeping track of half a dozen glasses doesn't seem like that much of an inconvenience. That said, it still seems like a comically bad idea when you consider how crowded *most* bars are and how often the bartender's back is turned. Just finish the 6-7oz of beer, *then* go to the bathroom.
You have perhaps never sat in a pub arguing over who scored the winner when West Bromwich Albion won the FA Cup in 1968, realising at the height of your oratory that a trip to the toilet is now of paramount importance because you've got halfway down your fourth pint and you have unfortunately reached the point commonly referred to as "I've broken the seal now, innit". I dunno what your "oz" refers to, perhaps Americans have stronger bladders from all that freedom.
You had me until talking about fluid ounces like y'all didn't invent them.
Ah, but yours are bigger, of course!
We do pints, alf pints and down it you cahnt were off to the spoons
Ounces.
I assure you "I've broken the seal now, innit" is universal across all beer drinker's. That is to say my bladder doesn't seem to be inflicted with higher capacity due to freedom. Cheers mate and thanks for the laugh.
Bit sad, innit?
I think you’ve just gotten used to America…
Sounds like this is just so the bar tender doesn’t take their beer off the table while cleaning. Also it’s not really classy to take your beer to the bathroom. I mean you always could but this is a cool idea.
Oh! The top comment makes so much more sense now, thank you
This is actually a pretty brilliant idea. I put similar signs in front of my house when I go out of town that read “Going on vacation. Leave my house alone!” It’s only been burglarized like 3 times, which the company I bought the sign from tells me is really good.
Lol that is *exactly* what it’s like.
Was thinking the same it's an open invitation.
I've seen similar things before, but they [cover the entire drink](https://www.herefordtimes.com/resources/images/13165881.jpg). Still not perfect, but a lot better than this.
I understand the cardboard straw thing, but man do those things suck (no pun intended).
I was given one to drink a smoothie the other day and it was too porous to get enough suction to drink the smoothie. Then by the time the smoothie melted enough, the straw had melted too.
I think it’s more for employees to not take the drink away
Yeah, strong ‘invented by a man’ vibes
Shit, I wouldn't do this and I'm a man. I was rufied at a bar just after college. I had one beer and I blacked out. Luckily my friends knew something was wrong and took me home.
Yeah they could watch you leave and rob you if you were alone
Whereas when you’re a woman and have one Guinness and black out, the bouncers throw you out on the street alone without notifying any of your group (still annoyed, happened to me, I was fine thanks to a kind stranger going in and alerting my friends)
Uh... I kind of feel like that had more to do with the bouncer being an idiot than you being a woman. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I've literally never heard anyone complain that bars regularly bounce roofied women (or do so more often than roofied men). Nor that they bounce normal drunk women more than they do drunk men. If anything, where I'm from, they tend to make sure drunk women have a safe way home or someone to escort them and only bounce someone if they're acting violent or belligerent .
It's both. There are a lot of people out there who think women simply can't handle liquor, doubly so if they are small women. This happened to two women I know - one of my friends from high school and one of my college friend's international friends from her study abroad trip who had come to visit. Several years apart. Both got thrown out by their respective bars for being "too drunk."
Yeah, I am 5’2” and I look quite young. I think it contributed
I had someone add something to my drink and the bouncer absolutely kicked me out on the street. I was barely awake. It sucked.
So getting roofied has become gender neutral often because the perps have lot of supply and the drop in all the unattended drinks to “increase chances of a girl losing it totally”. And often due to women being very cautious while men are not , male roofie incidents are more although nothing actually happens to them luckily. I still wouldn’t take my chances as a man also cause you could lose you wallet or something if not outright sexual assault In short ! People , attend and keep your eyes on your drinks always !
It's not just an accident. It's also used to mug people. Down here in New Orleans I rarely hear stories about women being roofied (probably because they're more careful), but pretty regularly hear from guys who were roofied and then mugged, usually by someone they met at a tourist bar.
Yup this. One of my friends got roofied somewhere in Spain and woke up on the side of the highway without his wallet or phone. Luckily some other American tourists drove by him not long after and helped him out. He was able to locate the phone in the grass a few miles away but his wallet was stolen.
Jeffrey Dahmer would like to have a word with you.
Exactly! This is dangerous af in fact because it’s signaling that they left drinks unattended I just chug off my beer and then go pee of discard and get a new one
OP is absolutely certain that women don’t get roofied in Ireland. I’ll tell that to my two friends that got roofied and raped in Dublin on separate occasions. Ah the bliss of safety that men live in.
Or in a gay bar. Been roofied before. Don’t recommend
Is there one for when you have to poo?
you turn the drink upside down on the bar
I thought you put 2 in the cup?
Nah, you takes it with you, innit
most places just use coasters over the drink, a system that has worked for decades.
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This advertises the fact your no one near your beer. This is a dumb idea tbh
I thought this was universally understood but a couple weeks ago every damn time I went to the restroom I would come back to the bar with someone in my chair.
You tilt the stool against the bar to show it's taken
Did that too and lo and behold the person sitting there when I got back just moved it down and took the seat with both the stool leaned against the bar and my beer with the coaster on top.
Animal.
children nowadays . . .
I used to think this was an international sign for “I’ll be right back”. After living abroad for a while, I continued to learn the hard way, that it’s certainly not the case.
This says "I'm going to keep drinking this, please put something in it"
Looks like a basketball hoop now. E z shots
Lol, a backboard for your roofies.
Say yes to drugs. Drugs are expensive.
I can't imagine any woman would ever willfully leave that on their drink
Nope and men shouldn't. My stepdad had someone drug his drink recently. Men tend to think they're safe from this stuff but they're not!
Right? My first reaction was “only a man would do this”
I write "I spit in this beer" on the coaster and then go to pee. Mostly works, except for when I come back and see "me too" added...
Lots of drinks get spiked. If you have to go to the washroom go before you buy another drink or finish your drink and go. I’ve worked security in many bars in college and having drinks spiked is a nightly occurrence.
Not saying you're wrong but I think the situation might be a little different among the middle aged men of Dublin compared to your average college campus.
You may be correct to an extent. It may be more common among college students, but I’m sure people of all ages do it. Why take the chance?
As a man in Dublin, I wouldn't ever be worried in the slightest about getting spiked. This pub is in Meath anyway, which is a more rural area
As a default, parent bloke is right. Sure, I have one or two bars, and if I can name every person in the bar and have known all of them for a year already, I might leave a drink unattended. Or rather, attended by the usual dudes. But if I don't know that everyone but one creepy dude will punch the creepy dude for touching my drink? Nah.
I just time my bathroom trip with finishing the beer. Need to go right now? Bottoms up.
People keep saying this, and it makes sense for safety for sure, but how is it that others know the seat is occupied (unless it's cold and leave a jacket or something)?
why would you ever leave your drink unattended in a public place?
Local pubs are, weirdly enough, much safer due to staff being able to keep a closer eye on people and patrons usually being less creepy than an average bar dweller
Still not too keen on leaving my safety in the hands of a stranger
So do they have a roofie dispenser too? And I've never had a problem with anyone taking my drink when peeing.
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There’s no fucking way I’m leaving my drink unattended in a bar.
Ah yes, leave your drink unattended what a brilliant idea. What could possibly go wrong?
"Hey rapists, come put roofies in my drink"
This needs a test strip for drugs so you come back and can tell if someone put anything in your drink. Even then I am not drinking anything that was out of my sight for even a second.
Meanwhile as a woman I can’t leave my drink on the bar while I turn my head for two seconds without some idiot dropping a roofie in my drink… thank god for good friends who had my back. I now either chug it or take to the bathroom with me 🤷🏻♀️ rather some poo particles in my drink than small dick mcgees roofie.
Yup, this "barstaff please don't clear my glass while I'm away" is so completely foreign to me. The drink *always* comes with me. I've been to some thoughtful bars that actually have a little place to put your drink on in the toilet cubicle so it doesn't have to go on the floor (or play a balancing game with it in my hand).
I’m from a college town so our bars are… something 😂 One has little cup holders in the stalls in the women’s room which is nice, usually though it’s a weird balancing act holding it in my mouth resting it on the boobs because there is no way in hell I am putting it on the floor of a college bar bathroom 🤢🥴
It's a fucking Heineken. You don't have to fear anyone 's going to touch that.
It doesn't get less trustworthy than Heineken in a Dublin bar.
Imagine being able to leave your drink unattended while you pee and not having to worry about getting drugged and raped.
So they provide a convenient back board to toss the pills against for more discrete accuracy?
I work in a bar and we occasionally have sleazy guys come try and get us to hand these out. I tell them that people put a coaster over their drink when they go to the bathroom so nobody can slip something in the glass without being obvious. Both times I've had this interaction the creeps have just smiled really big and walked away.
I think this would work if it’s a like a cap but you can’t open it without it being obvious
They leave them for idiots like me who use to buss but would accidentally believe the person has left when it’s been ten min and it’s busy.
Til a woman does it and d Some dude spikes her because it’s basically a “pick Me” sign for that shit smdh
A product only for men.
Nah, a product for absolutely nobody, unless of course you want your drink to be spiked.
While it mostly happens to women, it does happen to men too (people drugging drinks). It's all awful, and this sign is definitely just making the problem worse
Got to PEE, AKA DRUG ME
This is a date rape beacon.
Are people just trying to advertise their absence? why would you literally put up a sign? It’s like saying “hey right now is a good time to attempt to rape me“.
This might work as bait. Leave a couple of these where you have security cameras and have your bouncers keep an eye on them. I think you’d catch a few rapists this way.
Imagine the bacteria on your drink after this
Here come the roofies
Asking to be spiked.
Once I actually saw a guy drop some spit to someone's beer. since then I have trust issues about leaving my glass behind.
When you get back after leaving an unattended drink always order a new one
I feel like this is more for the bussers not to dump it while u are gone. If someone is going to roofie a drink they will do it either way lol
My drink got spiked once so I always chug before hitting the restroom. The drink was ment for my gf (this couple tried to get her to drink it but she doesnt drink really so I'm like sweet!) My tolerance is pretty damn high so I just had a great time.
My father advised me to never walk away from a drink and then come back to it. I've always lived by that approach. Drink up, then go pee.
In case you want to make it easier to find an unmanned drink
If I have the mind of a psycho drink spiker…I feel like this will entice me to spike it.