Drinking has now become a sport

There’s no doubt that we’ve all that one night in college where we had too many drinks.

You know like the time the police stopped you for pissing in the middle of the street.
Or the time you blacked out and woke up in your own pool of vomit
And that one time you had an orgy with a bunch of hot sorority chicks who posed for Playboy
(that may or may not have happened)

And for all those times you’d consider yourself “fall-down” drunk it was nowhere near the night this kid had at Drake University last weekend.

As part of an apparent hazing ritual, an Iowa fraternity pledge consumed so much booze that his blood alcohol level was nearly .500 when, barely breathing, he was admitted early Sunday to a Des Moines hospital. Nate Erickson, a 19-year-old Drake University freshman pledging the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, was found unresponsive at a home used by the frat, according to the below Des Moines Police Department report (which was unearthed by the Times-Delphic). Erickson’s mother told cops that her son had sent out text messages “stating that ‘they’ were making me do full cups of Everclear and that he had already done 5 beer can shots.”

.5 is unheard of and frankly, almost impossible. That kid must either have the will and determination of a champion or he was simply being force-fed alcohol. Considering this was a frat pledge, a good bet that it was the latter. Luckily, Nate Erickson will survive, although short several million brain cells.

Let’s hope for his sake he finds a new hobby. Like quilting or playing chess. His future in “drinking for sport” is over.

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