We’ve heard from various sources that they or someone they know has had an experience that sounds like roofies were involved.
One account:
My friend thinks she might have been drugged on Friday night. She came in to BAR and then she went to ANOTHER BAR and had a drink then next thing she remembers she was crawling in the road and almost got run over. She didn’t drink that much so we’re pretty suspicious.
I have another friend who had something similar happen to her at BAR a few months ago.
We’ve also heard stories of date rape pills being found at another bar. We’re hesitant to name the places, but if anyone has any other experiences, please share.
This is a very serious manner and I haven’t heard of these situations occurring in Charlottesville, so I thought it was worth a discussion.
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Except you mentioned BAR [changed].
(you can mention it again - Editor’s Note)
You are correct, although I did change your comment to be fair to that place. It’s your call now that it’s corrected.
No, you did exactly what I was hoping you would.
I’m torn between wanting y’all to protect the bars (because it’s not their fault) and really, really wanting to know where these purported places are, for my own/others’ safety…
Ok, well I won’t tell you the name of this BAR but it starts with a C and there was like a whole bottle of Roofies under a table one night.
@4, I don’t know cause it’s not like we have a lot of data to back this up.. it probably happens at all bars, we just hear about it at certain ones.
@5– hmmmm… ok. If I’m guessing correctly, that may not be too surprising.
@6– sure, I understand– but still, some anecdotal information is enough for me when it comes to something like this. It’s not like I typically leave drinks unattended for long, but -still.- (and again, totally not the establishment’s fault.)
I think we should name the places. Girls have a right to know where other girls are being roofied, maybe they will be more careful and maybe somebody reading this might know something and offer up some info. Anyways, it’s not the bar’s fault a girl gets roofied there, it’s whoever it is that’s carrying around Roofies.
Is there any reason why we shouldn’t name the bars? Like everyone before me said, it’s not their fault, and no one is blaming them.
BTW, the story at the top of the page happened at OXO and Cassis. Doesn’t mean those two bars are to blame, means somebody who has Roofies was hanging out at one of these bars.
Some guy that wants to have sex with a floppy lifeless body…. why be so impatient?… get married and wait 10 years. It’ll come.
Some dude did it to me at Bizou a few years ago and it had the opposite effect. I wasn’t floppy- I went bonkers. My friends took me home cuz I was crying and then my roommates found me in the backyard screaming and shoving leaves into my underwear. They put me in my bed and when I woke up the next day, I saw that I had torn every picture off my wall and smashed it on the floor.
@11 LMFAO!!!
On a serious note, watch your drinks very carefully, ladies. There are some f’d up guys in this world.
I’m in favor of naming places where people are concerned that this might have happened. People need to know where to be vigilant. Someone who is going to decide to avoid going to a bar because its named in this post/thread is more likely to avoid going to bars period in the absence of specific information, so I don’t think anyone would be harming a bar by listing it as a place where some awful person may be trying to prey on others.
I have a friend who was roofied at South Street a few weeks ago.
@12– yeah, I would find that really funny if it weren’t so infuriating and horrible that someone would do it to you. Does kinda sound like they slipped you mushrooms, though.
I dont’ think it matters where it happens, just that it’s happening. Ladies, and fellas, you should all be very alert and watch your drinks closely.
I know a few roofers.
Really, they reshingled my whole house in a couple of hours. Great stuff, but they smelled like fritos.
@16 I don’t know what kind of mushrooms you were doing…. but it sounds like the wrong ones!
@16: I know it sounds like that, but I assumed it was Roofies because the guy who I suspect slipped me it (he handed me some wine and said I could have it) kept asking me if I was gonna come over to South Street later on. Luckily I ended up going somewhere else with people who kept an eye on me.
Naming the bar isn’t as important as finding the a-holes who do this is. We need to work together to watch out for these sick individuals. If you see something like this talk to the bartender or call the cops. This is a crime pure and simple and these sick people need to be caught and punished.
@17: The scary thing is we were REALLY careful the night of the incident from the top of the page. I made her first drink, she went to a bar she used to work at for her second drink where a friend served her, and she made her third drink herself. She even left the drink on the bar at one point and some other people walked up and I grabbed her drink and moved it to the end of the bar and kept an eye on it till she got back. We think it happened while she was outside, that she put her drink down for a minute. There was this dude hanging around her that she doesn’t normally hang out with. Tall, with reddish hair.
@20– oh, I don’t doubt you at all, I was just joking. (god, what a creep!!)
@19– hah! No, they’ve always been the right ones– it’s just the yelling outside & leaves details sounded vaguely familiar…
A Ginger…. I knew it.
Does anybody know who I’m talking about? He’s skinny and kinda effeminate. His first or last name starts with a T. He was the only one hanging around her that doesn’t normally hang out with us.
@25 Tommy Tune?
@21.. totally.
(hi!).
last year about this time i was talking with a girl on the downtown mall, she was telling me that not only were girls drinks were being “roofied” but that one of her friends ended up in the hospital because of it. The folks working told her that there had been a bunch of similar visits recently.
i called the rant, (and ranted) hoping to have it printed along the lines of a PSA or maybe looked into, strangely -the usual bits about socks and sandals were more print-worthy.
they’re called “forget-me-nows”
@29 I just did.
Thanks for posting on this! I know that I’ll be more vigilant about my drinks now…I hadn’t thought of roofies since college.
@30 Her?
TRUST NO ONE
@32 Sorry….and you are…?
@33 does that mean you to- man, it’s just easier to quit drinking I guess
Being in a college town, I’m not surprised that these drugs are showing up. What worries me is that I see a lot of the same faces when I am out and one of those faces (possibly/probably more) is pathetic enough to feel the need to drug a girl (or guy) in a last ditch effort to get laid. If you’re that desperate do us all a favor, drug yourself and just pass out in the corner.
drug yourself and just pass out in the corner
That happened to me a couple weeks ago. I was trying to drug ‘nanigans, but I put it in my drink on accident, and then oy ended up drinking it. It was an epic FAIL.
@5 That is totally uncalled for and not funny.
@10 I spend a lot of time at Cassis, and I have never heard of anyone getting roofied there, nor do I ever feel unsafe there.
@22 I’ve heard this story from several people all referring to the same incident, and I also heard that the person in question was NOT as careful as you say and drank way more than she should have. Maybe some girls should take responsibility for their actions after they drink too much and black out.
I do think roofies are real and a problem, but I also think we should be sure of our stories before we go around slandering bars.
@15. I can confirm. Not hearsay. Let my guard down in a very familiar place. Never again. Effing bastard.
I just outed myself.
@38: I already knew
@38, no one is slandering bars.
@38: No shit Sherlock. Who said it was?
@22: I didn’t hear the story from several people, I WAS THERE. And she had 3 drinks.
Also, not sure which bar you mentioned that I’m supposedly slandering, since I have mentioned 4.
Taliesin… are you serious?
My @38 was supposed to be @39.
Make sure you get your own drinks and watch them being made. Or else make sure you know the person who is bringing you your drinks. I dont drink very often but when I do I never let a stranger get me a drink and always watch when it is being made at the bar.
@45: We did that. Didn’t help though.
@39: If you don’t mind, can we have some details of what happened?
I was roofied once, but it was in a private residence. I was stupid, alone with a stranger. It’s not a fun experience, but I learned my lesson.
Whether you get roofied or not, I suggest being safe and traveling in groups when going out.
@42 exactly, you’re slandering a lot of bars. Saying things like that makes people go, “oh well, I’m not going there again,” when it could happen anywhere. This kind of thing happens all the time to UVA kids, so no, roofies are not “hitting” charlottesville, they’ve been here.
I blame boredom for these tragic events. Maybe desperation and lack of morality as well.
@8 I really think girls should just be careful no matter the place. This could happen anywhere. (Even your own house party)
@49: No one is slandering any bars. ‘nanigans even said she doesn’t blame the bars, she blames the people with the roofies (see 8). If someone is drugging girls at the bars downtown, I think everyone should know. It’ll keep everyone more alert for strange people.
@49: Defensive much?
Yeah, you didn’t read comment 10 did ya? Naming bars is not slander. People have a right to know where stuff is going on. They might know something too. Doesn’t mean the bar itself is to blame. If I hear someone gets roofied someplace, I will still go there but I’ll be extra careful with my drink.
i don’t think anyone is blaming the bars. The blame belongs with the scumbag who manufactured/sold the shit to the attacker - and the attacker himself.
The blame belongs with the scumbag who manufactured/sold the shit to the attacker
Just because I made good grades in chemistry and like making a little extra cash cooking up pills in my kitchen doesn’t make me the bad guy.
@52: I know! Awareness will lead to less of this happening I think.
I’m more referring to what was said @5. Sounds like a jab to me.
@57: Um, if @5 is true, people should know. That is some scary fucked up serious shit.
Yeah.
By the way, febreze, we’d like to welcome you to the internet….
Help yourself to some premade drinks and bar nuts.
@58 of course it’s not true. It was a bad joke. One of many.
@57 why do you love sexual predators so much!?
/karlrovesmearjob>
One of the problem places (two incidents allegedly took place there) just closed down. You all lamented the closing, but I imagine there are a few women out there who are pleased about it.
Don’t freak out on me…I said allegedly. But my sources have been pretty damn good in the past.
@60: Thank gawd. I’ll drop it.
@62: Yeah, it probably did happen at OXO. Doesn’t mean we were to blame. And now the skeevy asshole responsible is just gonna go somewhere else. You inferring that there are a ton of women sighing in relief now that OXO is closed so they won’t get roofied is a shitty thing to say.
That backs up my source, including the description.
I had GHB put in a drink in a different city. Luckily, I’m trained to know about this stuff and while I was in no condition to do anything about it at the time, in the morning, I went through the proper steps to document it. It turned out that a bartender had put it in my drink.
Now, I’m not vilifying bartenders, but I want to put it out there that you need to watch your drink from the moment it’s being poured until you’re finished with it.
Good Lord… I might start smoking Crack just to be on the safe side.
The key is to build up a tolerance. Every night before you go to sleep, take a roofie. After a couple weeks, they’ll have no effect on you.
@64:Do you know anyone who knows his name? I can’t remember it. I’ll know it when I hear it.
@67: Tuffy McFucklebee?
@68: Not cool. I’m gonna drug your drink next time you come in.
Echo… nice in theory but what if you experience weird flashbacks involving self-abuse but you are not quite sure if it happened? How would Parlie know it was time to clean up the infamous Kleenex pile?
Even the sign of the establishment where I was drugged makes me feel ill. I can’t walk by it. Can’t contemplate stepping foot in it. I’m not a shy, timid little thing, either. But if someone mentions going to the place (most of my friends know better), I’m thrown back to that horrible feeling.
Maybe that’s a “shitty” thing to say, but when something traumatic happens in a particular place, you tend to have a powerful emotional reaction to it.
@69: You will have forgotten by the next time you’re serving me a drink.
@70: Easy, if there’s a pile, clean it up.
See? I rest my case.
@71: That’s you. Some would know better than to blame the establishment.
@38.. “maybe some girls should take more responsibility of their actions and not drink too much and black out..” i didn’t have too much to drink.. i DID test positive for GHB.. and you can kindly mind your own business when it comes to matters where people are in danger– good to know you’ve got your story right tho.
P.S. I said “a few” which is not the same as “a ton”.
@75: For real. That’s like hearing a girl got raped and saying, “Maybe she shouldn’t have worn that short skirt.”
You clearly don’t have much experience working with victims of trauma.
@76: Maybe you should ask sdigga if she shares the same sentiments as you.
@78: Never said I did.
@68 - Great just what I need. I’m cool, ladies!
/my mom says I’m cool
Hmmmm… you’re holding a big ginger cock in your weblink? Care to change that one?
/Just sayin’.
Yer not.
Jeez, did I do something wrong?! Let me apologize for everything I can think of.
I’m sorry I’m not in town…
I’m sorry I shot those bottle rockets at your house…
I’m sorry I put Elmer’s Glue on your cat…
I’m sorry I drank your champagne and blamed your roommate…
@84: You should get some roofies for Thursday ifyouknowwhatImean…
/kidding!
What’s Thursday?! Oh…you mean Friday .
Bring your date to X lounge and I’ll make you some roofie-free drinks.
With pleasure. Week from Friday, not this Friday.
And I will abstain from ordering an “echo”. I want to remember the rest of the evening.
I have my own drink now. If only I could remember what’s in it.
@89 - alcohol, perhaps?
@90: Perhaps a little. That might help explain the loss of memory.
Roofied at Bizou? OMG! What a laugh! That place closes shop at 9. Gee, maybe they were putting in the meatloaf back then. Damn, then again, maybe that’s why I like it so much. Think I’ll go there tonight.
Let’s be careful out there. Have any guys here ever had anything like this happen?
Tequila overdose doesn’t count
@93: There have been countless nights where I will be sitting at a bar one minute, and the next thing I know it is 9AM and I am at home. On those nights, there was definitely something in my drink. I think it was alcohol.
@46 –you did all that and they still were drugged? Something is def not right there
How does that happen?
it’s happened to me in town, but years ago. taught me not to leave my drink on the bar, sure, but mostly to be more careful about who I hang out with. because no one’s going to put one in your drink if they’re not the one driving you home.
@96 OMFG Queenie… do you think Camilla slipped you something, or could there be a plot to discredit the monarchy in general? I still believe that Di and Dodi are on an island with Lord Lucan and Amelia Earhart.
/JMHO
@43. Unfortunately yes. Then the Gods of Laughter and Joviality decided that would be a good time for my Blackberry to speed dial my insane jealous 1000 mile away boyfriend while I was apparently talking to two guy friends about how miserable I am and haven’t been effed in ages. No memory of that. He doesn’t believe me. I should link this article to him but he’s not talking. Wonder why? I had my usual 3 beers at SS. Anyone who knows me knows that ain’t me babe. This isn’t disparaging any damn BAR. It could happen anywhere. Anytime. To anyone.
But thanks to the poster who talked about personal responsibility and not admitting when you’ve blacked out. Raises hand. He’d/She’s be great for the defense during a rape trial.
The Hell…I think technology is taking over my life and not in a good way. That was me at 98.
98: heh. Welcome to the internets, new to the internets! Help yourself to a drink—it’s cool. You can mix it yourself! And we have some burritos a-cooking, too.
/I look forward to the ongoing evolution of your commenting handle (e.g., soon enough you’ll be “veteran of the internets” and then “internets emeritus”; it’ll be great).
Well, in light of 99, 100 seems inappropriate. Egg on my face, boy oh boy. Re-welcome! Or something.
@98: Do you know who did it?
@98. or Agent 99. No way. It was a random. No way anyone I know there would do that. f@cker. and if I did…well. Let’s just say the recent decision of the Supreme Court would be just the beginning. You’ve seen Pulp Fiction? Same thing. Mfuckers. They would pray for a ball in their mouth. And a dildo up their ass. Just saying.
This shit is fucked up.