Drunk Mexicans take shock factor to the extreme

Published Apr 1, 2015

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MEXICANS take it literally when they amp themselves up for a night out in their country’s capital.

A drinking game popular in Mexico City takes shock factor to the extreme as friends affirm their macho status, by competing over who can handle the most electricity, and they connect themselves to a live current.

Known as toques– Spanish for touches – the game has seen a recent surge in popularity through the city, and has seen players’ nights-out cut short by urgent visits to the emergency room.

“The drunker people get, the more voltage they can generally handle,” said Javier Rodriguez, who has worked the lively Condesa neighbourhood of Mexico City for the past 35 years. “I have seen partygoers pass out after passing 100 volts, although it usually has something to do with what they have been drinking.”

Leonardo Flores, who eagerly took up the challenge when Rodriguez passed by clicking the metal handles to make the sound known throughout the capital as a toques vendor, said: “'It’s fun.”

“It gives you a jolt and you feel good afterwards,” Flores said as he withstood 85 volts of electricity passing up his left arm and then down his right.

“People also say it makes hangovers less painful but that has not ever been my experience.”

The game stops only when the player asks – or screams – for it to end, signalling the man with the battery pack to cut the power. – Daily Mail

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