Methanol in South Africa Teens Deaths Often Fatal

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>Because methanol is cheap it has been used in making illegal alcoholic drinks, sometimes called moonshine.

This article is absolute garbage they make it sound as if people are deliberately adding methanol to homemade spirts because it's cheap. This is not what typically happens, methanol is usually/(always?) a by product and has to be removed during the distilling process. There is no mention of methanol being a natural by product of production. Because of articles like this the next group of kids may assume that as long as they don't add methanol they are safe.

Terrifying. No one expects to go blind and die when drinking alcohol.

I definitely think about that possibility and whether the distiller was skilled/wise enough to remove the methanol before i try homemade moonshine

Nobody expects to die or go blind drinking sterno, either. People do some pretty stupid things seeking a buzz at times.

> Nobody expects to die or go blind drinking sterno, either. People do some pretty stupid things seeking a buzz at times.

While true, these boys were in a tavern. They did nothing more stupid than under-aged drinking.

Methanol Toxicity : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_toxicity

Interesting article.

>There are cases of methanol resistance, such as that of Mike Malloy, whom someone tried and failed to poison by methanol in the early 1930s

The original "Iron Mike", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Malloy

That is such a weird title.

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