Butt Chugging: Alcohol Enemas Deadly?

A University of Tennessee student denied "butt-chugging" wine, but bloodstains, his injuries and eyewitness accounts told a different story, UT records released today show. The members of fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha apparently chugged the wine — through one orifice or another — as part of a "blackout party," with one member posting pictures to Twitter, and tried to destroy evidence afterward, according to a UT police report. Alexander P. Broughton, 20, of Memphis was treated for severe alcohol poisoning Saturday after he arrived at the University of Tennesee Medical Center unconscious with a blood-alcohol level of nearly 0.45, according to police — a potentially deadly concentration more than five times the legal limit. Knoxville and UT officers reported finding empty bags from wine boxes and passed-out frat boys at the Pi Kappa Alpha house, where at least one member told investigators they'd been "butt-chugging" wine, according to records...".* Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, and Ben Mankiewicz break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Matt Lakin / knoxnews.com:http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/sep/27/ut-student-denies-alcohol-enema-poli...