I would hate being a teen or young adult right now.

Yeah this is one of the reasons I never bother with any events involving crowds anymore. That or covid. Just not worth it.

kinda funny you can block their "ad blocker not allowed" banner with ublock

what was in the needles?

Updated: toxicology reports have all come back negative for anything.

I don't have a quality source because I don't know how to search for French stories but there was some English coverage on a podcast.

If anyone has a quality report showing the toxicology results or the outcomes or updates on any of the arrests I'd love to see them.

Tangentially, I was chatting with the owner of my local pub in Boston recently, and apparently it’s become something of a game (?!?!?!?!?) to try to slip people mickeys around here. As in, just see if you can sneak it into the drink, with no real intent of abuse or rape or whatever - just to see if you can do it.

I fucking hate humans sometimes.

People have different definitions of major incidents apparently...

"including a 17-year-old who was hospitalized after being found sitting on the street with stab wounds to the lower abdomen."

"The prefect of the Paris police, Laurent Nunez, said that "no major incident has been reported.""

Jfc what the fuck

Oh cool. We're doing another needle panic

Britian went through this just three years earlier.

Their experiences were shared on social media, along with photographs of apparent puncture wounds. Groups were formed to warn of the dangers of needle spiking, politicians called for investigations, and by February 2022, over 1,300 reports of needle spiking had been made to police over the previous 6 months (Wynn-Davies, 2022).

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Many victims claimed they only had a few drinks and were not drunk. However, an Australian study of suspected incidents of drink spiking found that self-reports of alcohol consumption are often unreliable. One 17-year-old girl was taken to hospital after having only one glass of vodka. However, on further questioning, she ‘remembered’ having beer and whisky. The study also analyzed the blood and urine of patients who presented at hospital emergency departments. Of 97 patients, none had traces of a sedative in their systems (Quigley et al., 2009).

Could someone please shoot whoever wrote the headline?

The people planning this and walking around doing the pricking...

There's a classic death metal song by Cannibal Corpse called "Hammer Smashed Face".

And that 145 is just those who noticed. I regularly have to self administer injections and they're often nearly painless once you're used to doing it, especially with small gauge needles.

This is a panic that has come and gone multiple times even just during my lifetime. I remember the first time I heard about it was visitors to neighboring Tijuana with HIV infected blood on the 80s. Never once has it actually been confirmed to have happened.

These are 145 self reports. Nothing confirmed. No video evidence.

Plenty of resources available for this panic.