18-year-old German male drinks Angels' Trumpet tea, hilarity ensues.

[Wonk]

(snip)

His mother said: "Andreas was behaving normally the whole day until he left the house and disappeared into the garden for a couple of minutes."

When he returned to the house he was wearing a towel wrapped around him and was bleeding heavily from his mouth and between his legs.

Angels' Trumpet is the latest drugs craze to sweep Germany.

more...

on edit: I'm not sure if it was Datura or Brugmansia. I'd originally said Datura in the title.

[seventhson]

1. This is a good witches' plant to know about if the fascists take over

grows wild all over America and was used as a biological weapon against the British (or so it is said) by the Natives, possibly.

AKA Jimson weed and I know quite a bit about it as an old herbalist.

Carlos Castaneda writes about it.

It CAN make you totally blind and crazy temporarily.

"Witches" rubbed it on their broomsticks which they then rubbed on their "parts" to make them fly.

Natives used the root to FLY -- they made a paste and rubbed it on their skin. It is a powerful entity.

But using it requires directions.

AKA also Bella Donna and is used medicinally -- but the plant alkaloids are dangerous - like taking ten hits of orange sunshine barrel acid. You might never return.

[Terwilliger]

2. here you go

a link for the curious

http://www.erowid.org/plants/datura/

[sexybomber]

7. Jesus H Christ

read some of the experience reports. that's nasty, nasty stuff.

[Padraig18]

14. Darwin was right

[Liberal Veteran]

3. Bad idea.

And stupid.

Assuming it was actually Datura and not Brugmansia (respectively called Devil's Trumpets and Angel's Trumpets}. Dataru is more widely abused and both contain some nasty poisons, although they both contain similar chemicals.

I grow both because I think the flowers are beautiful.

[KamaAina]

4. Alas, poor Andreas has just won a rare non-posthumous Darwin Award.

The criterion is that your stupidity must cause you to lose the ability to procreate, thus removing yourself from (the shallow end of) the gene pool.

Ordinarily, this entails death -- but Andreas' clever use of garden implements fits the bill nicely.

:puke:

[Droopy]

5. I don't see how this is funny

Were you just being ironic? Those stories about guys getting their genitals chopped off always make me cringe.

[Dirk39]

6. Angry german replies...

Don't think your as isolated in Northern America as your leaders want you to be!
We hear and read everything you say and write!
Just wait, 'till your president tries to eat his next pretzel....
he will outdo Andreas everytime!
I work in an urology-hospital in Germany, ask me anything!
Hello from Germany, Freedom Penis:
Dirk

[newyawker99]

13. Congrats Dirk39!! 600 posts

:toast:

[AlienGirl]

8. I have to wonder...

This just sounds *so* much like the old "druggie tears out his eyes while tripping on LSD" thing that i have to wonder if it isn't an urban myth.

Tucker

[sendero]

9. When we moved into this house....

.... there was a beautiful plant in the back yard, with beautiful trumpet-shaped white blooms that opened at night.

We did a bit of research and found out it was "angel's trumpet" aka jimsonweed.

It was a beautiful plant and I love gardening, but we have kids and decided it was a risk so we dug it up. I think we saved some seeds, but I doubt they are still viable.

I've always found the *existence* of hallucinogenic/psychoactive plants fascinating.

[amazona]

10. thought Brugmansia was a new name for Datura...

It seems like they're all Brugmansia's now. I don't eat 'em, my soul is too impure, I just like to look at 'em. I'm not a botanist but it just seemed like they had changed the name of the genus?


you want me to drink WHAT

[Pert_UK]

11. Dammit Wonk....

You know that posting stories about genital-related incidents and accidents is MY job!!!

:evilgrin:

Seriously though.....OUCH!

They should send this guy around schools with an anti-drug message....

P.

[Ohio Dem]

12. "hilarity ensues" is one of my all time favorite phrases.

There's something about that phrase that really tickles me.