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With the banning of homebrew at the station being rationalized as a safety issue, do they have actual instances where someone got drunk on homebrew and froze to

With the banning of homebrew at the station being rationalized as a safety issue, do they have actual instances where someone got drunk on homebrew and froze to death outside? Because that seems pretty far-fetched. I've never been so drunk that I didn't notice sub-zero temperature.

chrononaut 4y ago
I don't think most individuals (sober or drunk) are typically wearing clothing that keeps them at an appropriate temperature outside for multiple hours while sitting still, since that's not what they usually plan on doing. I suspect if these circumstances occur, as the article describes, people are venturing outside drunk and feeling the cold as they normally would expect but caring less about its consequences and then just passing out.
Swenrekcah 4y ago
Or perhaps you have but didn’t notice it?
Retric 4y ago
Antarctica is still really dangerous when you consider how few people work there on average. This makes people very safety conscious even over seemingly unlikely events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_in_Antarctica_by_death_toll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_in_Antarctic...
boomboomsubban 4y ago
I don't think the homebrew itself is the problem, it's the quantity of booze they can create. Plenty of people die to exposure while drunk, here's one of the first examples I could find https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/02/05/autopsy-college-student-had-been-drinking-died-exposure/vCJoYb0hykFaU6PPMzJrvL/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/02/05/autopsy-college...
cromulent 4y ago
It's pretty silly, I think, to claim weather and safety. The Australian stations are only about 67° south, just inside the circle, and about the equivalent of Bodø in Norway.
codetrotter 4y ago
> I've never been so drunk that I didn't notice sub-zero temperature. I once laid down outside on my way home in a drunk state at winter. It wasn’t that I didn’t notice the cold, or that I didn’t know of the danger. It was me in my drunk state thinking “I’ll just lay down for a little while to rest and then I’ll get up and walk the rest of the way home.” Thankfully, almost as soon as I laid down someone who was driving past me saw me laying down, stopped, and insisted that they drive me home. Probably the same kind of thinking which I experienced is what happens to some of the people that freeze to death while drunk.

chrononaut 4y ago

I don't think most individuals (sober or drunk) are typically wearing clothing that keeps them at an appropriate temperature outside for multiple hours while sitting still, since that's not what they usually plan on doing. I suspect if these circumstances occur, as the article describes, people are venturing outside drunk and feeling the cold as they normally would expect but caring less about its consequences and then just passing out.

Swenrekcah 4y ago

Or perhaps you have but didn’t notice it?

Retric 4y ago

Antarctica is still really dangerous when you consider how few people work there on average. This makes people very safety conscious even over seemingly unlikely events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_in_Antarctica_by_death_toll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_in_Antarctic...

boomboomsubban 4y ago

I don't think the homebrew itself is the problem, it's the quantity of booze they can create. Plenty of people die to exposure while drunk, here's one of the first examples I could find https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/02/05/autopsy-college-student-had-been-drinking-died-exposure/vCJoYb0hykFaU6PPMzJrvL/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/02/05/autopsy-college...

cromulent 4y ago

It's pretty silly, I think, to claim weather and safety. The Australian stations are only about 67° south, just inside the circle, and about the equivalent of Bodø in Norway.

codetrotter 4y ago

> I've never been so drunk that I didn't notice sub-zero temperature. I once laid down outside on my way home in a drunk state at winter. It wasn’t that I didn’t notice the cold, or that I didn’t know of the danger. It was me in my drunk state thinking “I’ll just lay down for a little while to rest and then I’ll get up and walk the rest of the way home.” Thankfully, almost as soon as I laid down someone who was driving past me saw me laying down, stopped, and insisted that they drive me home. Probably the same kind of thinking which I experienced is what happens to some of the people that freeze to death while drunk.