#7 - Kayla Mendoza
On the night of November the 16th of 2013, Florida woman Kayla Mendoza accompanied some of her
co-workers from her job at a T-Mobile US store to the Tijuana Taxi Co., a local bar in Coral
Springs. According to subsequent reports, the 20-year-old woman drank two "fishbowl" margaritas,
over the course of the next several hours. At some point during the evening, Mendoza made a post to
her Twitter account in which she’d stated “2 drunk 2 care”. It was later detailed how she regularly
posted similar quotes to her social media profiles that suggested she suffered from an addiction to
alcohol, as well as other substances. Although the drinks she’d consumed at the bar had left her
severely intoxicated, Mendoza got behind the wheel of her then-boyfriend’s Hyundai Sonata in order to
drive home a few hours later. The young woman then traveled down the Sawgrass Expressway in the wrong
direction and at speeds of up to 80 miles per hour, before colliding with a 2012 Toyota Camry
occupied by Kaitlyn Ferrante and Marisa Catronio, both aged 21. The violent crash, which occurred
at about 1:45 am, instantly killed Catronio, while Ferrante passed away in the hospital a
few days later. Mendoza broke both her legs in the collision and was consequently confined to
a wheelchair for over a year. She was arrested and charged with several offenses, including
two counts of DUI manslaughter while impaired. In 2015, Mendoza pleaded guilty to her charges and,
shortly thereafter, was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison. She was ordered to serve 6 years
of probation following her release, and was also permanently banned from operating a motor vehicle.
#6 - Davis Allen Cripe In April of 2017,
South Carolina teenager Davis Allen Cripe collapsed during one of his classes at Spring
Hill High School. Paramedics were dispatched to the scene and Cripe was taken to the hospital,
where he was later pronounced dead after having suffered a “cardiac event causing a probable
arrhythmia”. It subsequently emerged that Cripe had consumed several highly-caffeinated beverages
in the hours leading up to the incident. According to the Richland County coroner, the teen had drunk
a latte from McDonald’s, a large Mountain Dew, and an unidentified energy drink within a 2-hour
timeframe. Although Cripe was described as healthy and reportedly exhibited no signs of
a pre-existing heart condition, the excessive amount of caffeine in his system, ingested over
such a short period of time, ultimately triggered his fatal cardiac episode. In subsequent reports,
it was detailed how the 200-pound teen had consumed approximately 470 milligrams of caffeine
on the day in question. In 2015, the European Food Safety Authority stated that drinking more than
400 milligrams during a 24-hour period could lead to increased heart rate, higher blood pressure,
irregular heartbeat, tremors, nervousness, insomnia, and panic attacks.
#5 - Ryan Austin Martin Florida police were called to the Orlando
International Airport, on February the 24th of 2022, after receiving reports of a belligerent
flier in the midst of what was described as a “chaotic meltdown”. When officers arrived at
the scene, they came upon New York resident Ryan Austin Martin, who was traveling with his wife and
daughter. According to eyewitness testimony, 34-year-old Martin had gotten into a physical
altercation with his family and ultimately needed to be separated from them by airport security. He
also allegedly attacked an airline employee during the course of his public outburst. The incident,
which was captured on cell phone video by witnesses at the scene, culminated with Martin
being Tasered a total of 7 times by the police. Despite law enforcement’s efforts to subdue him,
the heavyset man continued behaving aggressively. Additional officers eventually got to the airport,
at which point Martin was detained and taken to Orange County Jail. He reportedly faced charges of
child abuse, battery involving domestic violence, resisting an officer with violence, and disorderly
intoxication. In the wake of the incident, it emerged that Martin had consumed several alcoholic
beverages leading up to his meltdown, which investigators identified as a contributing factor
to his unrelentingly aggressive behavior. #4 - Jennifer Strange
California radio station KDND sponsored an on-air water-drinking contest, for which the prize was
a Nintendo Wii video game console, on January the 12th of 2007. The challenge’s participants
competed to see which of them could consume the most water without urinating. One of the
contestants, a mother- of-three from Sacramento named Jennifer Strange, drank approximately 1.5
gallons of water during the competition. Later on, the 28-year-old woman reportedly told the radio
hosts that she was suffering from an intense headache. The DJs reacted by laughing at her,
however, and even told the woman that her distended stomach, another side effect of the
excessive water intake, made her look pregnant. After finishing in second place for the contest,
Strange left the station and called one of her supervisors at the Radiological Associates of
Sacramento to say that she wasn’t feeling well and was going home for the day. Hours later, the woman
was found dead after having suffered hyponatremia, which occurs when the concentration of sodium in
one’s blood is abnormally low. Strange’s family subsequently filed a wrongful death lawsuit
against the radio station, which fired 10 of its employees in the incident’s wake. During
the lawsuit’s court proceedings, a kidney expert testified that, by drinking too much
water, Strange had disrupted her body’s salt balance, causing her cells, as well as her brain,
to swell. The jury ultimately awarded a $16.5 million payout to the woman’s family.
#3 - Gemma Payne
24-year-old English woman Gemma Payne was arrested in the afternoon of September the 26th
of 2019 after a police officer had witnessed her punch a man while intoxicated. The
incident occurred only hours after Payne had been released from the custody of West Midlands police
in connection to what was described as a “similar offense”. In September of the following year, the
young woman was arrested for drunkenly assaulting a police constable who was “acting in the exercise
of her duties as an emergency worker”. In March of 2021, it was reported that Payne was involved
in a domestic violence incident. Court records indicated that she’d flown into a fit of rage
after her girlfriend had refused the inebriated woman access to her home. Payne then forced her
way inside and threw a pair of shoes at the victim before repeatedly striking her in the
head. During her trial, Payne reportedly told the court that she had no recollection of the attack
due to her having been acutely intoxicated at the time. Her overindulgence in alcohol
had led to more than 10 criminal convictions for instances in which she was “drunk and disorderly”.
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#2 - The Black Licorice Overdose In September of 2020, a case study was
published in the New England Journal of Medicine that centered on the story of a man who’d died by
eating too much black licorice. The medical report only identified the individual as a 54-year-old
construction worker from Massachusetts. He’d developed a habit of consuming 2 large bags of
the black-colored confection every day, for 3 weeks, back in January of 2019. The excessive
amount of licorice, which naturally contains a toxin called glycyrrhizic acid, reportedly caused
the man’s potassium levels to plummet. While he was eating at a fast food restaurant, he abruptly
went into cardiac arrest and lost consciousness. Paramedics arrived at the scene within minutes
and managed to revive him using 4 electric shocks and CPR. Approximately 30 minutes later, the man
was admitted to a local hospital. Medical staff subsequently determined that he’d suffered from
multiple organ system failure, “profound metabolic derangements”, dangerously low levels of potassium
in his blood, and cardiac arrest associated with ventricular fibrillation. It was ultimately
concluded that each of his medical complications had stemmed from his extreme overindulgence
of black licorice. Despite the best efforts of his doctors, the man passed away about 32 hours after
his initial hospital admittance. #1 - Artie Lange
Comedian Artie Lange, best known for his tenure on the famed Howard Stern-led radio show,
made headlines in May of 2019, after he was arrested for an alleged probation violation.
Officers from the Essex County Sheriff’s Office, in New Jersey, had taken the former television
personality into custody at a halfway house in Clinton on the morning of May the 21st. Although
Lange reportedly “looked sober” and appeared to be coherent when interacting with law enforcement,
he was ultimately “deemed to not be in compliance” with his drug rehabilitation program. Subsequent
reports detailed how traces of both cocaine and morphine had been detected in his system, which
was a clear violation of the probation associated with his 2017 drug possession conviction. The
attention generated by Lange’s latest run-in with the law was partially attributed to his deformed
appearance in his mugshot, which went viral online. In it, the man exhibited obvious signs of
saddle nose, a deformity caused by trauma to the septum. The condition is reportedly common among
drug abusers who’ve repeatedly overindulged in substances ingested through the nose. Beverly
Hills plastic surgeon Paul Nassif, who rose to prominence by co-hosting the reality series
Botched with Terry Dubrow, publicly stated that he’d be willing to mend Lange’s nose
if he was committed to permanently refrain from abusing illegal substances.
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