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Mizzou frat pledge blinded, brain damaged, mute after party where his BAC was almost 0.5%

Posted on 6/9/22 at 4:20 am
Posted by Jack Ruby
Member since Apr 2014
22975 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 4:20 am
Dude apparently funneled a ton of beer and then drank a bottle of Vodka and nearly died after he essentially went into a coma and was resuscitated. He is now blind and brain damaged and can't walk or talk.

His blood alcohol level was beyond anything I've ever seen. (For a reminder, Dwayne Haskins' BAC was around .024 when he was killed.)

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A University of Missouri student who suffered a serious brain injury after being forced to drink a bottle of vodka during a pledge party is back home in Minnesota — but is blind and unable to walk or communicate.

“He has massive brain damage. He’s blind. He’s unable to walk or communicate,” family attorney David Bianchi said about 19-year-old Daniel Santulli, who is in his parents’ care, the Columbia Tribune reported.

Santulli, of Eden Prairie, was found inside a car Oct. 20 at University Hospital, where his blood-alcohol content was found to be 0.486 percent — more than six times the legal driving limit.

The student was resuscitated and placed on a ventilator after the hazing incident at the Phi Gamma Delta house, where he was a pledge, according to a February report in the Columbia Missourian.

Bianchi — who has settled a lawsuit against the fraternity, known as Fiji, and 22 other defendants — on Monday sought in a court motion to add fraternity brothers Samuel Gandhi and Alec Wetzler to the lawsuit.
Wetzler was allegedly an organizer of the event, according to the probable cause statement cited by the news outlet.

“We didn’t know about them when we filed the original lawsuit,” Bianchi said, according to the outlet.

The petition, which Judge Joshua Devine approved, alleges negligence against the two defendants.

Wetzler allegedly forced Santulli to drink excessive amounts of booze by putting a tube into his mouth and pouring beer down his throat, according to the lawyer’s complaint.

Gandhi, meanwhile, walked back into Santulli’s room and saw that he had not moved from where he had left him, the Columbia Tribune reported on the amended lawsuit.

“At 12:28 a.m., Danny slid partly off of the couch and ended up with his face on the floor but he had no voluntary control of his arms or legs and remained there until someone passing through the room saw him and put him back on the couch,” the petition states.

“His skin was pale and his lips were blue, yet no one called 911,” it adds, according to the outlet.
Wetzler has reportedly been charged with misdemeanor counts of supplying alcohol to a minor and possession of alcohol by a minor. He is due in court on July 5.

Fraternity member Ryan Delanty sent a text message to a friend at 10:57 p.m. Oct. 19 during the “pledge father reveal party” saying “my son is dead.”
The friend responded by asking what Delanty did to him.

“I left him,” Delanty, the so-called “pledge dad,” reportedly texted back.

Bianchi said the fraternity members should be charged under the state’s statute.

“Missouri’s got a good anti-hazing statute,” he said, according to the Columbia Tribune.

The judge also has approved the dismissal of several defendants sought by Bianchi because of the settlements, the outlet said.

The national fraternity and university have both suspended the Missouri chapter of Phi Gamma Delta.




We've all been to college parties where a kid drinks so much he can barely move, but this is on another level.

It seems no one was responsible enough to even recognize the kid probably had alcohol poisoning when his damn face started turning blue and he was lifeless at the party. Damn, I knew that in high school.
This post was edited on 6/9/22 at 4:21 am
Posted by cable
Member since Oct 2018
9666 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 4:30 am to
sounds like he did it to himself. idk sad story
Posted by KillTheGophers
Member since Jan 2016
6248 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 4:33 am to
Everyone in this situation is screwed.

Real sad
Posted by TigahJay
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2015
10590 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 4:34 am to
Haskins was around .2 not .024…he got killed by a car anyway so not sure why that’s relevant.
Posted by McCorkleJonesGOAT
Member since Apr 2022
362 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 4:38 am to
I think this was like his 2nd time drinking. I don't think 21 drinking age really did anything, but make binge drinking worse for young adults.
Posted by 0x15E
Outer Space
Member since Sep 2020
12877 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 4:39 am to
Did shite like this never happen in the old days?

Or did the media just not pick up on it?
Posted by tigerpimpbot
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Member since Nov 2011
67125 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 4:40 am to
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sounds like he did it to himself


quote:

Wetzler allegedly forced Santulli to drink excessive amounts of booze by putting a tube into his mouth and pouring beer down his throat




Posted by Jack Ruby
Member since Apr 2014
22975 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 4:46 am to
Sound like the typical college freshman frat kid we all knew who hax never had alcohol before and would do anything to put in a show for everybody and just get annihalatey hammered in an hour then passes out on the couch in the middle of the party.

Problem is, seems like he never threw up or had anyone smart enough to get him to a sink and make him throw up or get him to an ER to get his stomach pumped.
Posted by McCorkleJonesGOAT
Member since Apr 2022
362 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 4:49 am to
That's a good question. I remember someone saying that it was mostly beer at frats instead of liquor which is much easier to get drunk on. Regardless if someone ever had alcohol poisoning this would have been solved/never happened around me. Idc how drunk you are, you can tell when someone is turning blue. I'm still questioning how his bac was so high. I have drank a shite ton and never had alcohol poisoning, the gift of the Irish.
Posted by Beessnax
Member since Nov 2015
9204 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 5:02 am to
We lost 100k Americans last year due to alcohol related reasons and another 107k due to drug overdose. We have our heads in the sand as a nation when it comes to substances.
Posted by Fat and Happy
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2013
17111 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 5:17 am to
What sucks is the guys that had zero to do with this.

The fraternity is probably gonna get suspended or tossed off campus over this
Posted by GetCocky11
Calgary, AB
Member since Oct 2012
51482 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 5:39 am to
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The fraternity is probably gonna get suspended or tossed off campus over this


Good
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
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Member since Oct 2004
57544 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 5:43 am to
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The student was resuscitated and placed on a ventilator after the hazing incident at the Phi Gamma Delta house


Wasn't it this same frat that had a similar incident at LSU with Max Gruver?
Posted by FredBear
Georgia
Member since Aug 2017
15089 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 5:47 am to
I know they're young but in all honesty 18-19 years old is old enough to know you shouldn't try to drink yourself almost to death or force someone else to. A little common sense judgement would have went a long ways here
Posted by Jsand43
Member since May 2021
882 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 5:52 am to
I had a .43 when I went to detox to stop drinking.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
99635 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 6:00 am to
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I don't think 21 drinking age really did anything, but make binge drinking worse for young adults


That's my theory also
Posted by PhillyTiger90
Member since Dec 2015
10757 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 6:08 am to
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He is now blind and brain damaged and can't walk or talk.


I mean just fricking kill me at this point. What’s even the point?
This post was edited on 6/9/22 at 6:09 am
Posted by Tigerlaff
FIGHTING out of the Carencro Sonic
Member since Jan 2010
20922 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 6:09 am to
quote:

We lost 100k Americans last year due to alcohol related reasons and another 107k due to drug overdose. We have our heads in the sand as a nation when it comes to substances.


Lost 400k due to covid last year. I'm not super worried about that in a nation of 350 million. Not going to get worked up over 200k from people poisoning themselves to get high either.
Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
37663 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 6:12 am to
Liquor and hazing should never go together. Make kids drink beer, make them do stupid, silly shite.

Don’t force them to drink liquor. Damn it
Posted by SECdragonmaster
Order of the Dragons
Member since Dec 2013
16279 posts
Posted on 6/9/22 at 6:12 am to
I wish this would result in fraternities being banned across the country. Sororities as well.

Much more harm than good comes from them.
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