TX- Dad drugged at a Montrose bar after drinking his wife’s drink roofied by a ‘creepy’ guy, Houston, July '24

[acutename]

why does it matter that he's a husband and a father? weird.

I see a little soupcon of sexism in there- we expect incautious young women to get drugged at bars but now we have a possibly upstanding married guy catching the brunt of this stunt. IMO.

 

[LadyL]

So sorry you had this experience. I cannot begin to even imagine what that must have been like for you.

I didn’t watch the video, but if the lighting/surveillance is such that we can barely see “the creep,” I would imagine it may also have made it exceedingly difficult to see/easier not to notice when something was put into the drink. MOO

It is so scary to me the way we see this happening again and again to even the most vigilant people.

It is to the point now that I will not even set my drink down at a “Chuck E. Cheese” type pizza parlor. I physically carry it around the arcade with me, following my children around, and I don’t allow the children to pour their drinks until the food is ready, and we sit down to eat.

A younger girl (just past college age) who worked for us in one of our retail businesses was once roofied.

She didn’t realize until she “woke up” in an Uber with the strange man she recognized from the restaurant/bar she had been at that evening which was, obviously, headed to an unknown final destination.

In a quick panic, she opened the door to the backseat & jumped out of the vehicle.

She needed cosmetic surgery to correct the scarring left behind (especially after the road rash damage to her beautiful face).

All of the above is MOO/my experience.

both incidents happened years ago when this drugging culture was just getting started & we didn't call cops back then - one was on a date with my boyfriend (now husband) and he took me to the bathroom without leaving my side - I knew from just a sip that something was wrong (I think I took another sip which was stupid but kind of like 'did that really taste that bad?' sip) the creepiest thing is the guy who I think it was was waiting by the washroom and staring at me - I think he would've assaulted me in the bathroom or 'helped' me outside but my boyfriend waited for me and even had another female check on me when I was taking so long - I was in and out of consciousness in the stall - my boyfriend helped me walk to the car and got me home ... the second incident was at a Christmas work party and I ended up in the hospital - the doctor asked my friend if I could've been drugged and she said NO which I've never forgiven her for - this was still before drugging became rampant and she just couldn't fathom that one of our coworkers did this to me - I was hallucinating (the doctor had an alien head) and I ended up off work for awhile - when I went back my first shift, this creep was scheduled on the same day and I couldn't do it so I quit

so thankfully for me, nothing worse happened and thankfully your employee got out of that car and got help!

 

[annemc2]

it is a suburb of Houston.

It's more like a neighborhood or area of town. It's pretty much smack dab in the middle of the city so a very populated area.

Man, my cat was on buprenorphine after a surgery and it was wild. I watched him stare intently at a door for half an hour before he melted into a puddle on the ground. Interestingly, it was a clear liquid with no odor (I didn't taste it!). It would take one second to squirt into a drink using a syringe.

 

[LeahBee]

It's more like a neighborhood or area of town. It's pretty much smack dab in the middle of the city so a very populated area.

Man, my cat was on buprenorphine after a surgery and it was wild. I watched him stare intently at a door for half an hour before he melted into a puddle on the ground. Interestingly, it was a clear liquid with no odor (I didn't taste it!). It would take one second to squirt into a drink using a syringe.

Vets can get buprenorphine compounded in a liquid in many flavours. We kept chicken flavour in stock at my clinic but I know the compounding pharmacy offered liquid medications in many flavours including fruity and sweet ones

 

[dotr]

july 28 '24

Texas dad drugged after drinking wife’s roofied drink: ‘I don’t remember anything’

A Texas dad says he was unintentionally roofied while out with his wife, whose drink he chugged mere moments after she encountered a “creepy” man at their favorite local dive bar.

nypost.com

Texas dad Daniel Zuniga, here with wife Melissa (right) and daughter Natalie, says he was roofied while at a local bar with his spouse

A creep was captured on surveillance footage walking behind the dad as he closed his tab.Click2Houston
'The mother and daughter said Daniel was unrecognizable, acting violently and cussing as he stumbled into their home.'

''The family has since filed a police report with the Houston Police Department and is working with the bar’s owner to try and find the person responsible.''

By Brittany Wong Mar 17, 2023,

These Are The Signs That Someone Has Been Roofied

Experts discuss the ways to tell if a person has been drugged and what to do if you suspect it's happened.

www.huffpost.com

“Based on what I learned in the [emergency room] ... I believe I was drugged with GHB — or ‘liquid ecstasy,’ as it’s also known,” Hansen said. “One of my work friends texted our group chat the next morning to check on us, and that’s when I learned that my friend that went up to get her third drink with me that night was also drugged.”

''The date-rape drug you’ve likely heard about most is Rohypnol, which the ’90s slang “roofie” is a remnant of. But these days, GHB and ketamine are more commonly used in drug-facilitated sexual assault cases, according to Maria Michonski, a statewide training specialist at the Sexual Assault Center service provider in Nashville, Tennessee.
“Those two are used frequently because they ... result in incapacitation in the extreme, are easy to drop into a drink subtly, and will leave the bloodstream and body systems in a number of hours, making testing for them after an assault incredibly difficult to impossible,” Michonski told HuffPost.''

 

[katydid23]

Years ago I kind of frowned at pictures my daughter and her friends posted, of them doing shots of tequila at a club. I said unapprovingly," why do you girls do shots, just sip a drink slowly instead..."

MOM, we have to do shots, we can't leave drinks on the table when we go dance....OH GOT IT, and this was 10 years ago