An Australian teenager has died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos in what Australia’s prime minister on Thursday called every parent’s nightmare. An American and two Danish tourists also died, officials said, following reports that several people had been sickened in a Laotian town popular with backpackers.

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    5 days ago

    This sounds maybe a bit insensitive, but if they did bad coke or something and died, they would be idiots for doing drugs in the first place. But since it’s the government approved good drugs, it’s a tragedy.

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      5 days ago

      It’s not really about whether whiskey is a drug or government approved or anything.

      What if someone died from eating a government approved carrot?

      It’s just not supposed to happen.

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      4 days ago

      Ah yes, let me eat my government approved spinach and get salmonella poisoning. Let me go swim in a government approved lake and get brain eating amoeba.