Some Kids Celebrate Graduation By Pouring Vodka (Yes, Vodka) on Their Eyes

by Tom Henderson (Subscribe to Tom Henderson's posts)
May 26th 2010 4:00PM

Filed under: In The News, Weird But True, Alcohol & Drugs

Vodka shots are for mouths, not eyes. And only for those 21 and up. Credit: Getty Images

Hey kids, thinking of sticking your face in an electric fan?

Don't do it. It hurts.

The same is true about pouring alcohol in your eyes.

You might think anyone who made it through 12 years of public education, let alone four years of college, might be able to figure out that alcohol and eyeballs don't mix.

But the Washington Examiner reports "eyeballing," the practice of dousing one's eyeballs in vodka, is a popular party stunt among the young and stupid. And, according to the Examiner's website, police in D.C. are particularly concerned about the practice with graduation coming up.

They fear newly minted grads might just celebrate years of education by blinding themselves. Students heading off to the area's annual Beach Week also raise concerns.

Eyeballing "gets you drunker faster on a lot less vodka," optometrist Stephen Glasser tells the Examiner. "When you go through your eye to your sinuses, it is close to straight injection. The alcohol absorbs into the bloodstream right away."

Maryland optometrist Alan Glazier compares eyeballing to an alcohol enema.

"In essence, you could melt the cornea," he tells the Examiner.

Eyeballing caught American teens' attention through a London tabloid. Now you can watch hundreds of YouTube videos showing teens screaming in agony as the vodka hits their eyeballs. Naturally, some kids just have to try such searing pain for themselves.

"Younger teens who are the high school drinkers are the ones who are going to end up trying to do this," Mike Gimbel, the president of Mike Gimbel Associates, a substance abuse consulting firm in Maryland, tells the Examiner.

"They are going to go to Ocean City, and some of these idiots are going to do it and make themselves blind," adds Gimbel, who was also Baltimore County's drug "czar" for 30 years.

Gimbel tells the Examiner he's sending out immediate alerts to state police, schools and parents.

"Every time, it was a big spectacle where people were like 'what the hell is that kid doing,' " one graduate tells the website.

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5-26-2010 @ 6:19PM

rueducated said...

Nice going there with the Hispanic burglars story on the front page of AOL. How convenient for you that the whole country wants Hipanics out of the US. Perfect timing ! I guess there isn't any white burglars.

5-26-2010 @ 6:30PM

kmreneau95 said...

Wow.. That's really all you got out of that article? It doesn't have anything to do with the fact that the burglars were Hispanic. It's about a little girl doing the right thing in a scary circumstance. I can't believe you aren't more concerned that they could have hurt that little girl had they found her. And correction: It's not that the whole country wants Hispanics out of the US.. They want the illegal ones that are breaking the law out, like the one in the story.

5-28-2010 @ 2:24PM

trista said...

Kmreneau95
You are very prejudist too. There are many illegal people in this country who do not come from Latin America.
Are you suggesting that you want only the Hispanic illegals to be thrown out? So you are cool with the Asians, Indians, Australians, Africans, Europeans who are here illegally, avoiding taxes, and taking jobs?

5-28-2010 @ 3:18PM

JOE said...

Don't worry about him, there will always be uneducated people like this, who wave the race card and play the victim..... They're slaves to their own mentality.

5-28-2010 @ 3:24PM

trista 5-28-2010 @ 2:24PM

Kmreneau95
You are very prejudist too. There are many illegal people in this country who do not come from Latin America.
Are you suggesting that you want only the Hispanic illegals to be thrown out? So you are cool with the Asians, Indians, Australians, Africans, Europeans who are here illegally, avoiding taxes, and taking jobs?

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Nope, they need to go too.

5-27-2010 @ 10:22AM

Roorback.com said...

Why am I not surprised that it’s the British who have found a whole new way to both fail at drinking and go blind while doing it?

5-28-2010 @ 2:12PM

Joanna said...

I have never heard of anything more stupid than putting vodka in your eyes. I guess that were just getting stupider by the year.

5-28-2010 @ 2:50PM

C.D. said...

Did you notice in the story where they mentioned an alcohol enema??? LOL

Trista, aren't you the tolerant type! That reply was to a poster that claimed everyone in the US is trying to get rid of Hispanics. So it was a proper response that we are only trying to get rid of illegal Hispanics.

5-28-2010 @ 3:19PM

greg said...

Reminded of a story I heard years ago about young girls soaking tampons in vodka.

5-28-2010 @ 3:22PM

mike hylton said...

And todays kids are suppose to be smarter than previous generations? lol, from what ive seen and ive seen a lot in 60yrs, the kids of today are just stupid sheep that will do whatever is in style at the time, want to pour 100proof vodka in your eyes and go blind, fine have a great time, you deserve to spend a lifetime in total darkness, lmfao

5-28-2010 @ 6:28PM

Pamela J said...

The problem with ignoring the eye-ball/vodka morons is that after they make themselves ( not just stupid) but blind too, is that taxpayers will get to support them for the rest of their worthless lives

edward3 said...

For the want of a buzz the eyesight is gone! How sad.

5-28-2010 @ 3:25PM

wzygrl said...

Holy crap! That is stupid and crazy. However, thanks for posting this. Now kids that may only have limited supply to mom and dad's liquor cabinet can get soused (or doused) with minimal alcohol. Heck, parents might not even notice it's missing. Here's another hint....when you try to refill/replace liquor with water, it eventually evaporates!

5-30-2010 @ 2:04AM

slk said...

Ok you highschoolers...you want a better way to get drunk without it being on your breath and quick, and without the searing pain....the correct way is to use a tampoon soaked in vodka...then stick that up your butt...for girls...you can stick it up ur vag...both ways get you exceedingly drunk in a flash...and your safe from the breath-a-lizer!

But i dont recommend drinking and driving...

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