Those shots SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!!!!
A wine bar has been fined £100,000 after a woman needed to have her stomach removed after drinking a smoking liquid nitrogen cocktail handed to her for free.
Gaby Scanlon, now 20, had been with friends at Oscar’s Wine Bar and Bistro in Lancaster when she was
given the Nitro-Jägermeister shot in celebration of her 18th birthday. But upon drinking the normally £3.95 drink she described feeling agonising pain and was forced to loosen her clothing as smoke billowed from her mouth and nose.
Preston crown court heard on Thursday that she was left close to death after experiencing “an explosion” in her stomach four seconds after the cocktail was poured for her.
Prosecutor Barry Berlin said: “Immediately on consuming the drink she was taken violently ill, retching and vomiting and smoking from her nose and mouth. The liquid nitrogen itself is a dangerous product.”
Upon consuming the liquid nitrogen which is used for freezing warts, internal tissue was killed and the lining of her stomach was perforated. The court was told that three years on, Scanlon still suffers from pains.
Berlin added: “The investigation in this case uncovered serious systemic failings by this company and director.”
Training notes were said to have been “loose”, with staff told to wait 10 seconds until the liquid nitrogen had boiled off before consumption. But the rule, devised by the family-run company, was said to have been an arbitrary figure.