The Latest Idiotic Fraternity Hazing Ritual: The Defibrillator Dare
Apparently at fraternities now, nothing is too shocking. Literally.
Fraternity pledges are reporting a new kind of hazing ritual called the where the initiate is given a series of multiple shocks from a defibrillator. Though usually reserved for people suffering from a heart attack, the defibrillator use by fraternities apparently involves a lower setting. Rather than impacting the heart, the shocks tend to cause a loss of motor control and… how to best put this? A loss of bladder and bowel control.
I guess the prior incidents of hazing that involved tazers wasn’t hard core enough, and now they’ve graduated to this.
The first incident of the dare was recorded at Dartmouth sometime in late 2012, but it’s been slowly spreading to other campuses through social media. Apparently there’s some kind of informal rule that a medical student has to always be present whenever this is done. When they say present, I assume they mean standing around clutching a beer.
The running joke is that if a pledge’s heart stops beating as a result of the shocks, they can get it started right back up again in seconds.
Ok, so… I’ll admit that is kind of funny. But man… there’s no way I’d ever agree to something like this, not even on a dare. Remember that documentary Flatliners?
Yeah, thanks but no thanks. You guys keep on tempting fate and trying to bring about myocardial infarction. I’ll be in the corner doing things the old fashioned way: sluggingdown Jim Beam nonstop and dying of alcohol poisoning.
[via widerider107]
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