Warning! Drinking 10 litres of Coca-Cola a day will kill you!

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That is way too much of anything to be drinking daily ever. Or at least it is near too much.
Doing the math 10 liters is 338.14 oz, and most cans of soda (around here [in Ohio... in the US]) come in 12 ounce cans so she would have to drink a little over 28 cans of soda a day... damn, the math just make it even more obscene. I don't even drink that much water in a day.
A warning label seems to be really unnecessary in this scenario.

PreviouslyPwned:
I wonder what effect 10 litres of Monster a day will have...

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you'd literally be dead in a week or two, that's a lethal dose of caffeine plus a bunch of other nasty chemicals
and more sugar than your body can process

so you'd better un accept that challenge unless you like life on death row!

Christ, my girlfriend gives me shit drinking just 1 can of soda a day... 10 litres is astounding...Wonder how many teeth she was missing.

an annoyed writer:
Wow. I pretty much kicked soda out of my diet a while ago, so that's kind of a bullet dodged there. When I was drinking tons of the stuff I sure as hell didn't get past one or two liters a day, let alone up to ten. Got a real Darwin Award winner here.

yah, I got up to about 3 litres of Mountain dew, and maybe a couple large monsters in a day.

Cyberbob87:
I had a friend who was pretty much physically dependent on Coca-Cola. If he didn't get enough he'd tend to black out. It was kind of scary, kind of funny. Once he weaned off the Coke he lost a HUGE amount of weight quite quickly and got really healthy.
I'd love to see a lawsuit and warning labels, just to take Coke down a peg. Seriously though, you have to be pretty dense not to realize that 10 litres of Coke is going to hurt you (10 litres of ANYTHING can't be good!) Darwin Awards for this woman perhaps?
This reminds me of the case that resulted in the "Warning: Contents may be hot!" on hot beverage containers. A woman leaves a McD's Drive-Thru with a coffee between her legs, brakes suddenly and scalds her legs severely with the piping hot coffee. I believe she got a couple of million dollars in settlement too. Gotta love that suing culture - protecting people's stupidity for decades!

Actually, that isn't quite true.

OT: Are we sure that the 10 liters is legit? Sounds like hyperbole to me.

Roggen Bread:

Queen Michael:

Aaaaaaand the Darwin Award goes to...

no. has children, they are still alive.

Thats not how Darwin Awards work. To be eligible you must:

1) Through your own actions render yourself unable to reproduce if you were stuck on a island with a member of the opposite sex. (children born before the 'accident' don't count)

2) Said actions must be really really stupid.

She's dead due to her own actions (which were not the smartest) therefore a Darwin is awarded.

neonsword13-ops:
...

Why was she not drinking Dr. Pepper?

Hard to get in New Zealand.

I'm trying to imagine how she could physically drink that much liquid in a single day, and failing. On a night of heavy drinking, I'll occasionally down an entire 2 liter of (diet) soda mixed with alcohol (usually rum or whiskey). But that's over the course of three or four hours, and I'm pissing like a race horse every 15-30 minutes. I can't imagine drinking five times that much in just a normal day, especially without the alcohol.

And yeah, I know it's terrible for me. But considering how much beer I'd have to drink to be equivalently drunk for equivalently long, that's a downright healthy solution.

Ed130:

Roggen Bread:

Queen Michael:

Aaaaaaand the Darwin Award goes to...

no. has children, they are still alive.

Thats not how Darwin Awards work. To be eligible you must:

1) Through your own actions render yourself unable to reproduce if you were stuck on a island with a member of the opposite sex. (children born before the 'accident' don't count)

2) Said actions must be really really stupid.

She's dead due to her own actions (which were not the smartest) therefore a Darwin is awarded.

neonsword13-ops:
...

Why was she not drinking Dr. Pepper?

Hard to get in New Zealand.

Actually, unless the rules have changed, you /do/ have to do it before reproducing, since from an evolutionary standpoint, any organism that reproduces is successful. Killing yourself through stupidity /after/ reproducing can get you an honorable mention, but not a full award. Only exception I know of is if the same stupid action takes out your children's ability to reproduce at the same time, but for obvious reasons, they don't like to talk about cases that involve dead children.

NO SHIT.

Someone should seriously just pay attention to the freaking nutrition facts and the ingredients. Saves a lot of trouble...

And how the fuck is it possible to drink 10 liters? Shouldn't you feel sorta bad before the effects of what's in Coca-Cola affect you?

Owyn_Merrilin:

Actually, unless the rules have changed, you /do/ have to do it before reproducing, since from an evolutionary standpoint, any organism that reproduces is successful. Killing yourself through stupidity /after/ reproducing can get you an honorable mention, but not a full award. Only exception I know of is if the same stupid action takes out your children's ability to reproduce at the same time, but for obvious reasons, they don't like to talk about cases that involve dead children.

Which rules are you going by?

I'm going off

http://www.darwinawards.com/

The existence of offspring, though potentially deleterious to the gene pool, does not disqualify a nominee. Children inherit only half of each parent's genetic material and thus have their own chance to survive or snuff themselves. If, for instance, the offspring has inherited the "Play With Combustibles" gene, but also has inherited the "Use Caution When..." gene, then she is a potential innovator and asset to the human race. Therefore, each nominee is judged based on whether or not she has removed her own genes, without consideration to the number of offspring or, in the case of an elderly winner, the likelihood of producing more offspring.

I struggle getting through a 600ml bottle of diet Coke. God i'm such a light weight.

I'm joining every facepalmer in this thread. Good grief. Poor family, having to deal with both her, frankly, insane addiction and for her death.

No wonder she died though, it reminds me of a form of bullying I've heard of. The victim would be forced to drink X amounts of water in a very short time, resulting in stomach pains and vomiting. Why anyone would want to do something like that to their own bodies is beyond me.

Now, I'm going to go pour myself a glass of cola, which I will drink in moderation.

Ed130:

Owyn_Merrilin:

Actually, unless the rules have changed, you /do/ have to do it before reproducing, since from an evolutionary standpoint, any organism that reproduces is successful. Killing yourself through stupidity /after/ reproducing can get you an honorable mention, but not a full award. Only exception I know of is if the same stupid action takes out your children's ability to reproduce at the same time, but for obvious reasons, they don't like to talk about cases that involve dead children.

Which rules are you going by?

I'm going off

http://www.darwinawards.com/

The existence of offspring, though potentially deleterious to the gene pool, does not disqualify a nominee. Children inherit only half of each parent's genetic material and thus have their own chance to survive or snuff themselves. If, for instance, the offspring has inherited the "Play With Combustibles" gene, but also has inherited the "Use Caution When..." gene, then she is a potential innovator and asset to the human race. Therefore, each nominee is judged based on whether or not she has removed her own genes, without consideration to the number of offspring or, in the case of an elderly winner, the likelihood of producing more offspring.

Huh, maybe my memory is faulty, then. I used to have a couple of physical books full of Darwin Awards, and I could have sworn that reproducing disqualified you, but I'm also pretty sure that website was behind those books.

Ignorance is bliss, and like most things that induce bliss too much of it will eventually kill you.

I think the most I got up to habitually drinking every day for about 2 or 3 years was 6 liters...usually 4 liters though.

#cantmove #sosleepy #outofbreath

TopazFusion:

There are now calls for the drink to have warning labels on it.

But anyway, what are your thoughts? Should these drinks have "maximum daily intake" warning labels on them?
And anyone here have a similar addiction?

"108g of sugar" in the nutrition section of a 1L bottle of coke .... unfortunately education is not often valued by those who would need it the most.

Yopaz:

Don't be rude, you are taking away credit from the guy who played Russian roulette with a pistol among other incredibly stupid people out there.

Wait wait wait wait...

You can play Russian roulette WITHOUT the use of a pistol?!

This changes EVERYTHING!

Jesus Christ, my freshman year of high school we'd hit up the local grocery store during lunch and grab a 2-liter bottle of soda constantly. We racked up what we thought was a disgustingly impressive ~72 liters over the course of the year. Apparently what took three of us months to consume, this idiot drank in a week.

It takes mighty powerful stupid to get me to side with CocaCola in a matter of health.

Well no fucking dick, sherlock.
Are people really this dumb? Seriously?

I don't think I drink even 3 litres combined in one day, nevermind more than three times that just of cola.

I wouldn't say that warning labels are necessary given that most governments in the developed world publish guidelines on how much of pretty much everything you can safely consume daily to be healthy. Putting warning labels on everything that could potentially be dangerous means most things on the planet would need one including your water taps. I don't like to make fun of the dead (often) but this person was clearly either stupid or heavily addicted to consume so much and unless they were living in a cave they must have heard even the urban myths about overconsumption of fizzy drinks.

Having a maximum daily intake warning would be harmful for the company because it makes people think oh 10 is too much but 5 liters if fine. No I'm sorry but it's not cigarettes is sugary drinks people need to understand that it can destroy your health, how is the question. Public awareness should be the first step, I mean if your gonna put a label on coke it needs to be on everything. Excess consumption of anything will kill you or harm your health even water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

It seems unreasonable to put a label on everything of how it could kill you especially when the use in that way are so unreasonable. When reasonable use can kill you oh hell yeah I agree that should be labeled, if drinking a liter of coke could kill you then yeah put a label on it.

I'm not saying we should round up all the stupid people and exterminate them, I'm just saying we should take the warning labels off everything and let the problem sort itself out.

I doubt it was a real addiction, most likely just an excuse to not change your obviously silly ways.

There was the story of the guy who drank 6 litres a day until he had to have literally all of his teeth replaced due to rotting. The clown still drinks 2 litres of coke a day lol. I mean how dumb can you be?

But yeah the company isn't really to blame. They make a product and it's up to the consumer to decide whether or not they should consume it.

dmase:
Having a maximum daily intake warning would be harmful for the company because it makes people think oh 10 is too much but 5 liters if fine.

That's actually a really good point, I never thought about that. Well put.

I find this hard to believe. I don't think anybody is stupid enough to think that there's no problem with drinking 10 liters of Coke a day.

Eleuthera:
Damn, at my worst I drank 1 (one) litre of Coke a day. And that was the point I decided I should probaly cut down a bit. But 10L? 10L of water a day will probably kill you...

Water Poisoning actually.

takes less than 10 liters if I remember right.

still though, what would these would be labels read?

if you drink more than 10 liters of this a day you are retarded?

hell, Energy Drinks have warning labels, but for good reason. Taurine overdoses are horrible in their own right.

What's with all the outrage against a warning label? Coke is horrible and bad for you. It has no redeeming qualities. It should absolutely have a warning label, preferable along the lines of "Seriously this shit is disgusting, stop feeding it to your kids dumbass".

How the hell does one drink that much soda?
Also apparently 2 bananas+ liter of sprite=you puking.

10 liters? That's all? I'm sure I've probably topped that before, though it's usually spread throughout the day, which for me is about 20 hours.

The quantity makes the poison

Seriously... 10 LITRES per day! I usually have at most 1-2 300 ml can(s) per day! This woman was having over 30 of those a day! No wonder they died...

Too much OXYGEN can kill you for goodness sake! You would need to put up signs everywhere saying that breathing too much can be harmful or fatal!

"we didn't know it was harmful because there wasn't a warning label" is The worst possible excuse for someone getting hurt or dying, you have to be monumentally stupid to not understand in even the vaguest sense that that much of anything liquid or the equivalent in solid or semi-solid food is harmful if not lethal. it's a sad thing this lady died and I do feel for those left behind but for Christ's sake exercise some goddamn moderation

What? 10L? I'm pretty addicted to pop, but 10L a day???

TopazFusion:
There are now calls for the drink to have warning labels on it.

Really? They want to put warning labels on it because one stupid person drank enough of it to kill her. *facepalm*

She must have been going to the washroom a few times an hour at that rate. Forget volume, how about the weight of all that Coke? Assigning the density of water to Coke, she was putting away 22 lbs of Coke every day. Wow.

Cyberbob87:
I had a friend who was pretty much physically dependent on Coca-Cola. If he didn't get enough he'd tend to black out. It was kind of scary, kind of funny. Once he weaned off the Coke he lost a HUGE amount of weight quite quickly and got really healthy.
I'd love to see a lawsuit and warning labels, just to take Coke down a peg. Seriously though, you have to be pretty dense not to realize that 10 litres of Coke is going to hurt you (10 litres of ANYTHING can't be good!) Darwin Awards for this woman perhaps?
This reminds me of the case that resulted in the "Warning: Contents may be hot!" on hot beverage containers. A woman leaves a McD's Drive-Thru with a coffee between her legs, brakes suddenly and scalds her legs severely with the piping hot coffee. I believe she got a couple of million dollars in settlement too. Gotta love that suing culture - protecting people's stupidity for decades!

Someone might have mentioned something previously (internet connection is derpy so I don't really feel like going through all 4 pages to check) but from what I remember that coffee was WELL above what should have been served and McD's had been warned about it before. And the woman had just wanted them to cover the cost for skin grafts, her lawyer or someone else made the few million happen. Been a while since I read up on it.

This news is pretty old, I followed it and yeah, I would have to say she was pretty dumb. That's spending on average, $15 NZD bucks or so a day on coke, anyone could see it would be bad for you, it has the nutritional details on the bottle like any other food product in the country, yet people ignore stuff like this and then suddenly they need warning labels on them? It doesn't bother me if they do, but it seems unnecessary is all.

If I recall, her partner tried to sue and that went no further, it's like saying a car company is responsible for the eventual death of someone who speeds all the time.

It's a drink that you're not supposed to have too much of, it's snack drink, or however you want to put it. You have to balance that stuff, just like anything else.

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