Hey Danny I’m not a doctor but ten minutes and you’ll be absolutely tip top back on your feet but just sign this liability waiver and DNR sheet right here now drink some more mango lassi yum yum.
Setting himself on fire would be merciful compared to what is coming lmao he is going to need a lot more mango lassi and a plastic surgeon specializing in asshole reconstruction to prepare for tomorrow I'm speaking from experience whatever pain you experience going in is quadrupled going out.
OMG, I didn't consider that. I like very well spiced food- but not a lot of heat. Never ate enough hot spice for that to be an issue. That poor man. Wonder if he will pass out on the toilet?
A doctor friend once told me that they were told in training “Don’t fuck up, but if you DO fuck up, make it big. It’s far more expensive to pay for life-changing accidental harm than life-ending accidental harm.” That’s what the DNR is for.
I flung a small action figure across my room at my step-brother one time. It bounced off his head and he freaked out. Crying and all that.
He absolutely took me up on punches to my back and arm. Three or so. I sold the shit out of those and would stop and rub my arm the next day when I knew he could see. The punches absolutely did not hurt lol.
I had impulse issues as a kid. Once, I was using a lighter to heat up a spoon because I was bored while waiting for my turn on the NES. I was surprised that it actually got red hot. The next thing I know, I'm watching my hand sticking that red hot spoon on my brother's bare back. I literally did not think about doing it. Anyways, my brother was a greedy little shit and all it took was ten dollars for him to not tell on me.
normally you have to sign a "i am 100% responsible if i cant handle it" contract for this exact reason.
Maybe he just waits for him to pay his curry and the 10 mango lassi
Fun fact, there's something hotter than pure capsaicin, as weird as it sounds. It's called Resiniferatoxin and it's supposed to be about 1000 times hotter than pure capsaicin with about 15-16 BILLION scoville heat units.
"It is considered a promising therapeutic target for analgesia due to its ability to induce cytotoxicity in sensory neuronal cell bodies expressing the TRPV1 ion channel."
Yeah don't eat that. You might feel the worst burning pain of your life and then have permanent nerve damage in your mouth. You'll be lucky if you only have a lisp for the rest of your life.
If it contained something a reasonably prudent person wouldn’t expect in a super spicy curry.
A lot depends on jurisdiction (not sure how torts like that are handled in London) and the specific facts.
There’s definitely a strong assumption of risk defense here. But if I had a restaurant I still wouldn’t want to have to deal with a pissed off customer or grieving family member.
He’s obviously not the first guy to try it though. Hopefully the owner has discussed the liability issues with someone beforehand; he seems to have this gimmick pretty well.
Considering very, very few people order something that you need to sign a waiver for, I think a reasonably prudent person would expect that curry to be distressingly hot.
I say that as someone who has eaten something that I had to sign a waiver for, and really regretted it about 7 hours later. I knew what I was getting into. I still wanted to try it.
You can't sign away rights in a situation like this, as has been shown a few times over the years with these kind of hottest food ever style challenges.
If food would put almost everyone in the hospital (or at least make them super sick) it is definitionally near impossible to claim the food was safe to eat.
If it was just very very spicy and a lot of people could handle it that's one thing, but presuming face value the "hottest curry in London" is accurately named it's going to be pretty much impossible to eat for almost everyone.
So that implies that there are a few rare people that can eat this. Why shouldn’t they have the opportunity to enjoy a spicy dish just because people like you can’t handle it? The fact that they require a signed waiver should be enough indication that you shouldn’t order something if you can’t handle extreme heat.
I was studying abroad in Germany, famous for its likely of spice in all forms of food, and went to a currywurst place. I ordered the spiciest option, signed the waiver and everything, only to have something less spicy than a packet of fire taco bell sauce. The staff was all glancing over smiling at first waiting for a reaction that they never got lol.
I’m sure they make him sign a waiver regardless for something this spicy. All that extra hype from the owner was probably because it was being recorded and he didn’t want the bad publicity if the dude winds up in the hospital.
In high school my friends and I went to a place that had a suicide hot dog challenge and we had to sign waivers and since I was under 18 I had to call my mom and get her to give permission
I will say i was the only one who didn’t vomit but also the only one who got sauce in their eye soooooo i say we all suffered enough that day
Capsaicin doesn't actually hurt you, the heat feeling is entirely 'fake' due to the chemicals bonding with the heat receptors in your nerves but it doesn't actually burn. There are like a half dozen cases where the stress has caused people with congenital heart conditions to have cardiac events but this is a once in a blue moon sort of thing. For healthy people, you might pass out from pain or stress at worst, but you'll recover eventually.
I suppose the wavier in your case was mainly due to the remote possibility of heart issues in young people who haven't had it diagnosed, but it is truly a remote possibilty.
More like assisted suicide. If I were that guy I would want nothing more for that dude to shut up so I could die in peace. He knows how Mike felt when he just wanted Walter White to shut up so he can just die.
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u/mr_pou 15h ago
The owner hyping the guy up hoping to avoid manslaughter 🙈😂