This story takes place on a late Saturday night, on September 23rd, 1989, in Topeka, Kansas. Two patrons, Cindia Cott, and her father enter the nightclub The Peppermint Twist for what I can assume is just a good carefree night of drinking and dancing. However, after ordering some pink shots that are known at the club as watermelon shots, there night will go from great to a complete disaster. After their order is placed at the bar, the waitress makes a few rounds than goes to pick it up. Unfortunately, this is were the disaster struck, as she grabbed the bottle of what she believed was watermelon shots and a few clean glasses and begin to hand them out to the unlucky patrons in the club. People began to toast and slam down their shots, and as they did the feeling was instantaneous, but not one of joy but one of absolute pain as the liquid they have just drank began to erode the insides of their bodies, Cindia and her father included. Little did the waitress know she had just willingly served these people a caustic chemical known as sodium hydroxide in the form of the dish soap brand "Eco-Klene."
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However, Cindia was the most badly injured with her esophagus almost entirely eroded to the point where the only way she would be able to survive was from monthly throat dilation procedures or through a likely expensive sugary involving replacing parts of her esophagus with parts of her colon. This was also not even the end of the story, as two more cases had taken place around the same time as this instance, where someone had accidentally mistaken their cranberry juice for that same "Eco-Klene" and another case where a hospital staff had mistake a similar type of cleaner known as "Mikro-Quat" for a pink fruit juice. The hospital staff had fed it to five elderly patients without knowing it was a
However, Cindia was the most badly injured with her esophagus almost entirely eroded to the point where the only way she would be able to survive was from monthly throat dilation procedures or through a likely expensive sugary involving replacing parts of her esophagus with parts of her colon. This was also not even the end of the story, as two more cases had taken place around the same time as this instance, where someone had accidentally mistaken their cranberry juice for that same "Eco-Klene" and another case where a hospital staff had mistake a similar type of cleaner known as "Mikro-Quat" for a pink fruit juice. The hospital staff had fed it to five elderly patients without knowing it was a