Man who stumbled out of bar at 6 am & spiked Mexico City Marathon water cups with rum is ID'd (w/ video of him spiking

This really doesn't seem like that big of a deal. No one would be hurt. Just a quick "yechh... what was that?". Not like they are full cups of rum. If your whole race collapses after that you weren't tough enough to have a good race anyway.

Justice would be served if the next time he shows up at a bar to get drunk and be merry, he is forced to run a marathon instead.

Think about it......

My very first thought was similar to that of Flagpole's....How far ahead of time do they fill these cups...and where were the volunteers who presumably filled them? Do they do this the night before and just let them sit out all night? I highly doubt that.

I mean this is brilliant, but what if we made him do it when he was hungover? Too cruel?

Funny you should say that. I would say definitely not when he was hung over. Do it when he has worked all week and is dead tired and all he wants is a drink. Point being, he should get the ultimate reversal like he was intending to do to the runners.

Also, I noticed that when I ran in High School cross-country, we would have these Saturday morning meets, and the times that I was a little hung over, I actually ran my best. The reason was because I already felt like hell and wasn't about to notice when I started hurting. I was resolved to it.

Man, the things we could get away with when we were young!

Isn't it kind of hot for a marathon there at the end of August?

Wait, guess not. Cloudy part of Mexico, cool but crazy humid mornings, T-storms every afternoon.

Not at all. Mexico City is at 8,000 ft elevation. It never gets above 80 degrees. Plus it’s the rainy season so temps are from 50-70 degrees.

He was running for mayor. It's a custom to give away hard liquor to buy votes.

or forced to drink water at the bar

That's not bad!

How about every drink he is served at his favorite bar for the rest of his life may be what he actually ordered or it may be a non-alcoholic version of the same thing. Beauty of that would be, he would never know if he was drinking something he wanted of just a fake. No way to tell until either buzz sets in or it doesn't.

That would really suck. LOL.

... but this is funny.

Drunks are frequently asshoIes.

This is news?

They're volunteers. They were probably at the same bar that guy just stepped out of.

I've translated the tweet from the article. I'm not fluent though so if anyone here is, feel free to show where I made a mistake.

"Mexico City, August 29, 2022.

The institute of sport (INDEPORTE) woke up this Monday to a complaint before the Attorney General of Mexico City, with respect to the deeds that occurred in the early morning of Sunday, August 28 on the President Masaryk Avenue, when a person in an obvious state of drunkenness contaminated cups of the Gatorade, which would be used to hydrate the Marathon athletes.

The director general of INDEPORTE, Javier Hidalgo Ponce, informed that this action was immediately detected by a person of Gatorade who removed the product and avoided entering in conflict with this person.

'Before this deed, the INDEPORTE took letters for this affair so that this action will not remain unpunished and that the full weight of the law will punish this subject who made an attempt against the athletes.

The denunciation is against which result responsible for this reproachable deed which made an attempt against the physical integrity of the athletes, an action which the person responsible recorded and shared on social media.

The INDEPORTE asked the Attorney General to conduct an exhaustive investigation into this...using surveillance cameras to locate this individual."

Couple of things:

- Why are cups out in the open with water like that the night before? It could get contaminated with bird droppings or just about anything.

- The smell of hard alcohol should have made the race volunteers suspicious

- Running picking up the cup would have smelled something strong before they chugged the cup.

End of the day: don't run marathons in the third world. You could have a stray fly which could have previously sat on poop then land in the cup. This a big reason for food poisoning in some third worlds where people eat from street vendors.

Ahh my Spanish came in handy today on letsrun, his commentary was pretty funny. Not much made into a single cup anyway.

Yeah, despicable thing to do, no doubt about that.

But maybe we could use this despicable act to make something positive out of it. Let's develop a new drink who's main ingredients include gatorade, water, and well, Rum. We can call it the "Marathon City Marathon Rum Runner". (Apparently there is a Rum drink called a Rum Runner alreadly, btw.). Serve it up at your next running clob/team social or outing.

Cheers1