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Man Fired For Drinking Ethanol

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This is only an honorable mention, but I'm sure is a good one anyway. I felt it more appropriate to include the text of the article and let you create the entry yourself. ---------------- DES MOINES, Iowa -- A man who claimed discrimination after being fired from an ethanol plant for drinking "automobile fuel'' has been denied unemployment benefits. Cory Neddermeyer was dismissed by Amaizing Energy in April. The Denison-based company produces ethanol fuel for vehicles.

The formula that includes a high concentration of alcohol. According to Neddermeyer, he showed up for work on April 21 and saw that there had been a spill of fuel alcohol. The liquid, which was 190-proof, had not been blended with gasoline.

Neddermayer, a recovering alcoholic, said he was curious about its effects and taste. He said he drank between two and three ounces.

Records show that Neddermeyer was later found by co-workers in an incoherent state. He was taken to the hospital, where his blood-alcohol level, according to state records, was reported at 0.72. That's almost twice the level considered potentially fatal for many adults.

http://www.ketv.com/news/9490934/detail.html?rss=oma&psp=news

Submitted on 07/10/2006

Submitted by: Jonathan Paz
Reference: KETV, Omaha, NE, July 10, 2006

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James said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
Thanks, Jonathan. Alcohol based incidents are way too common, but this one is definitely different! This jamoke (who worked at a FUEL plant, for cryin' out loud!) not only damn near killed himself but did so ON THE JOB! He also had the arrogance to demand unemployment! I am glad they axed this fellow when they did, or we might have been reading of a HUGE ethanol plant explosion...!


Fitzroy said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
Some friends of mine in college had a similar misadventure with pharmaceutical grade ethanol. Certainly this deserves treatment as a cautionary tale, and one with potential for humor at that.


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