Guest Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Hookah Patron Collapses, Sustains Multiple Injuries By Kristen Richer – Staff Writer Friday November 12, 2004 A young man was seriously injured at Sam’s To Go in Isla Vista on Thursday night after he passed out while smoking a hookah. Witnesses reported seeing an unidentified man fall backwards off the bench he was sitting on and strike his head on the cement. The man lost consciousness, went into convulsions and began vomiting. Rescue 7 Ambulance responded to the incident around 6:50 p.m. Emergency response personnel treated the man for a contusion sustained on his face during the fall with a compress, and carried him from the scene on a stretcher. The current condition of the man was unknown at press time. Neither Goleta Valley nor Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital could confirm they had admitted the patient, due to confidentiality laws. The owner of Sam’s To Go, who refused to give his name, said an unidentified man entered the Sam’s To Go patio area and appeared to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs when he arrived. The owner said the man was smoking a hookah while sitting at a table on the patio area when he passed out. He said the man fell from the bench and struck his head on the cement behind him. The blow to his head rendered the man unconscious, the owner said. “When he hit his head he went into seizure,” the owner said. “When he regained consciousness he started to vomit everywhere. He had a cut on his forehead and kept going in and out of consciousness. Blender’s called 9-1-1.” Blenders In The Grass employee Adam Robinson, a fourth-year film studies major, said he called 9-1-1 when the injured man went into convulsions. “He was taking a hit [from the hookah] when he fell on the ground. The hookah fell either on his head or on the ground right next to him.” Robinson said emergency response vehicles arrived within five minutes of his call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathazar Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 You're a mentally disturbed individual adrock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NERV Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 this be the kind of publicity hookah doesn't need. even with the previous intoxication itll still give hookahs a bad name, the story will spread word of mouth and eventually become something either the guy passed from the hookah or his shisha was laced with drugs and then he passed out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathazar Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Okay, adrock, you removed your comment, so I take back my remark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Nerv, should I delete this post? Also, dou you know of any hookah bars or lounges you can post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff_T Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 That is rediculous. I hate that some drunk ass has to give it a bad name for the rest of us. Also, the ower of that bar should def. know better. Here at the hookah lounge, which is close to downtown with all the bars etc., if someone seems remotely drunk or on anything they are not allowed in. This rule should go for all lounges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApoC Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 awww, the clumsy son of a bitch knocked the freakin hookah over! id kick his ass right then and there for that.... deleting it would be a good idea... its a horror story we cant learn anything from, and furthermore its the kind of story which easily changes into "bad rep" through word of mouth (not that any of us here often recant such nonsense to friends). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NERV Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 i dont really see any need to remove it from here since we are all informed people, i was just saying that in whatever publication that gets published, alot fo the readers will assume it was due to the hookah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
To100YearsToLate Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Nobody's going to give hookah a bad name from this. I dismissed the story at the mention of Isla Vista. For those that don't know, thats the "trendy" off campus place to live next to UC Santa Barbara. I've been there many times. Somehow the kids there do nothing but party, but still pass their classes. I wish I could do that. I've seen many drunken idiots and 15 year old girls puke at hookah bars because they dont know what they're doing. Their body isnt used to alchohol or smoke, and definately not a combination of the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR Bubble Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Remember the story I told you guys about one of my pals in Cairo falling down after he showed up drunk and took a hit? Seems mighty familiar. I guess there is a reason why the floors hsve rugs and you sit on cushions at the tourist hotels there. Oh, the anti-tobacco lobbyists will still pounce on hookah smoking for something else at any given time, so the post just doesn't matter. MR Bubble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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