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| 'Spiked drinks and drugs' on orgy cruise |
| 2004-06-25 |
| Britons on holiday may have been duped into taking part in mass orgies on a cruise ship by being served cocktails spiked with pure alcohol, authorities on Cyprus suggest. Witness accounts of the ferry operating out of the Ayia Napa resort have also revealed the widespread use of ecstasy. The night voyages were sold as a "pleasant mini-cruise". British touts in the "anything goes" resort are thought to have taken the lead in rounding up clients at £30 a head. Cypriots were scandalised this week when the private Mega TV channel exposed the sex cruises. Shots of nude passengers either having sex or sitting on deck half-dressed watching others having sex were broadcast on the news. "It is clear from the pictures that mass sexual orgies were happening on board," Kostas Kostaras, an officer of the Cypriot merchant marine department, told the Guardian yesterday. "We'll study them very closely. If they took place on the boat in question, tough measures will obviously be taken." Arrests, he said, could be made in the coming days. The Cyprus government depends on tourism, not least from Britain |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #11 ...what in the world is "pure alcohol"?... Ahem...that was a rhetorical question |
| Posted by: Quana 2004-06-26 2:52:03 AM |
| #10 Oooh yes, Frank G.- We make everclear by the train tanker load here at the grain processing plants in the heartland (Iowa)! We have to do something with the megatons of corn other than feeding the livestock. |
| Posted by: Craig 2004-06-25 9:19:25 PM |
| #9 After a weekend, my alma mater's campus was usually littered with Everclear bottles. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-06-25 9:06:16 PM |
| #8 180+ proof Everclear, long available in Tijuana, was a staple of our high school parties in Chula Vista and San Diego State (SAE) fraternity parties...(isn't this stuff available elsewhere?) pretty much odorless, tasteless in a trashcan punch, sample at your risk...also understood that it made good fuel for stoves and engines :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-25 8:52:21 PM |
| #7 Help me out here...what in the world is "pure alcohol"? |
| Posted by: Quana 2004-06-25 8:32:30 PM |
| #6 "We'll study them very closely." Yup I am sure after a couple of months they will fine the Captain $100 or something like that. Sounds like a fun cruise if your into that sort of thing. Not my cup-o-tea but then I am not British. I used to live on Creete and the Brits got pretty rowdy at night in the clubs. I don't think it took too much alchohol to get the party started. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-06-25 3:26:35 PM |
| #5 ecstasy, starting to sound more like a rave, just needs a little trance music |
| Posted by: Dcreeper 2004-06-25 9:34:56 AM |
| #4 Oooh. They spiked the alcoholic drinks with alcohol. How diabolical. People were drinking booze, not knowing that they would probably get drunk on it. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2004-06-25 9:13:40 AM |
| #3 You have to be duped into taking part in a orgy? Oh, right, they're British. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-06-25 9:05:32 AM |
| #2 Hey we're just sooo European now. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-06-25 4:19:10 AM |
| #1 How can you read this and not laugh: "It is clear from the pictures that mass sexual orgies were happening on board," Kostas Kostaras, an officer of the Cypriot merchant marine department, told the Guardian yesterday. "We'll study them very closely." |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-06-25 1:38:48 AM |