Man was drugged while bar-hopping on Sixth Street, he says | FOX 7 Austin

[@Nicdangershouse.]

Thats how you wind up in lake Austin as a floating corpse .

[@frankmacleod2565]

Think I'll just stay out of Texas

[@Nicdangershouse.]

@@frankmacleod2565 don't drink with hookers at a bar ,anywhere in the world

[@constant4534]

Don't those bars have surveilance cameras? Too many people in The Lake to be overlooked.

[@Truelib99Hobbes]

It's not just random strangers you need to worry about. Bartenders and other bar staff work with criminals groups to target victims, including bartenders, servers and doormen. They will drug you then throw you out.

[@chrissinclair4442]

This is why they often don't have cameras. Even a decent bar is going to have a chance at criminals threatening it to not have cameras weather for trafficking or "Protection".

[@lisalee3067]

I don’t trust bars. Austin has a serial killer loose who works at those bars.

[@mond000]

"Serial killers" have always been scapegoats for all of the local cult killings.

[@idahoman325]

Bingo or on the PD

[@americanadreaming]

How about the fact that alcohol is poison to start with? Why poison yourself for a good time?

[@obscuremusictabs5927]

@@mond000 Of course, some random youtuber is the keeper of the actual truth. Pray tell, how did you come by this information?

[@jamesmccool503]

​@@obscuremusictabs5927 You found the Q-loon 😆

[@StopCensoring-fq5fl]

This is probably what happened to rhat student who disappeared from a bar after partying with his friends...

[@randaanders2378]

So glad this man is speaking out, warning others for sure will save lives. Brave man.

[@krystalann98]

I want to know the back story of talking to women but yet there is his wife?

[@katiesioux7757]

I totally believe him, luckily he didn't end up in the lake Austin has demons for sure Poor guy

[@gennaCarr10]

“There’s no serial killer” APD “There’s no connection between bodies found floating in the water” APD They’re in denial about what’s happening there.

[@LONESTARINDIE]

🎯🎯🎯

[@waynepolo6193]

They’re not in denial, the city just makes more money if people keep going out.

[@Kingx90]

APD doesn’t want to respond to anything. They can’t handle noise complaints, let alone a serial killer.

[@SmirkInvestigator]

Likely no serial killer. But I don’t live in this city. Show me a Saturday night and I’ll show you 1/10 people who would do this 1/5 who facilitate 19/20 who just don’t care to help a stranger who’s clearly lost it. I(many) know bars plural where organized SA happens and the PD do nothing. Sometimes community protected if there’s hateism Those cases are rarer but a countable amount is too many.

[@sandrasepeda853]

Probably the bartender since many men have already been drugged and robbed...and ended up in the river....for years..

[@kelleymcbride4633]

The ATX aint what it used to be

[@denisekoltys3019]

Going to 6th Street even 40 yrs ago was not advisable. It’s always been that way. Ppl just paid more attention to keeping up with their friends in the past.

[@paulcarlin5181]

@@denisekoltys3019 6th street was fun and safe until about 2005-2010. Did you grow up in Austin 40 years ago?

[@Deploracle]

@@paulcarlin5181 Austin was great 40 years ago. I was there. Clean streets and low crime. virtually non-existent homelessness, police in blue and white cars wearing beige uniforms, always friendly. Now it's a real mess. San Francisco on the Colorado River.

[@denisekoltys3019]

@@paulcarlin5181 I lived in Austin 41 yrs. Moved 3 yrs ago when there was a homeless camp in north Austin 2 blocks from my house and there was a shoot out at a bar in the strip mall I often shopped at.

[@kelleymcbride4633]

@denisekoltys3019 I worked on 6th street all through the 90s and 2000s and it was never like this. I would walk from downtown across Town Lake at 4am to go home and never had any problems. This all started around 2010 and it's only gotten worse. This is what you get from decades of democrat policies. That's why Austin has turned into San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago or pick any other democrat controlled city they all look the same for the same reasons.

[@wpeale71341]

Dude needs to get him some better quality friends. Real friends keep their friends in sight and don't let these kind of things happen. Kind of hard to find military quality buddies as a civilian but they are out there. Choose your friends wisely.

[@luxgreen1277]

I was drugged by a bartender at a CPK about 13 years ago, and sold. Lucky to be alive. don’t trust anyone honestly.

[@SHW5010]

sold?

[@hunniedtea]

Im so sorry, i hope you have healed or are still working towards it

[@franko8572]

Wym sold?? Hello??

[@darksu6947]

How much did they get out of you? About tree fiddy?

[@thirstonhowellthebird]

@@franko8572 It happens all the time. How could you not know this….it’s called sex trafficking. Bartenders paid thousands of dollars to spike drinks of some of the most attractive men and women for the purpose of exploitation. You go into a bar, they drug you, as you’re fading, someone comes to your rescue and offers to help you walk out which of course you trust them because you’re in a state of desperation. The next thing you know, you basically fall asleep and you wake up chained to a bed with multiple people waiting in line to have sex with you!! Now do you understand!

[@justatitle]

I was drugged once, and I firmly believe someone had plans for me, but as soon as I started feeling really funny after one drink, I thought that’s not right, so I slipped into the bathroom and got myself outside and drove home carefully. Didn’t think I’d make it. But I did! It was 40 years ago.

[@DicyaninGlass]

So lucky for you to decide to put others’ lives in danger too. Like how sad that so many get murdered by people just like you.

[@M.K.386]

This happened to me too about 35 years ago.

[@banzairunner7860]

@@M.K.386 what happened in your situation?

[@M.K.386]

@@banzairunner7860 it's a long story. It happened twice. The first time I knew I was trying something different but I had no idea it was a liquid. I remember walking in and I remember walking out. What happened in between and how long I was there, I have no idea. I never remembered any of it until it happened a second time 10 or so years ago. I had a party at my house, a lot of people were here. This guy I knew wanted to know if I wanted to do a shot of vodka and I said sure yeah he said he would go get it and be right back. I didn't think anything of it but I do remember he wasn't gone that long. I went to do a shot because that's what I did. I really wasn't a drinker and he told me just to take a sip which I thought was odd but I didn't question it. When I woke up the next morning I remembered him telling me he was leaving and he was crouching by my bed and it was all dark but I almost thought it was a dream. A couple years after that I was looking through an old flip phone that I had and I saw a picture that I took and it was me sitting on the bed, this guy next to me and somebody else at the end of the bed. It was of my legs, my feet, his legs, his feet, he had his underwear on. I was taking a picture of the person at the end of the bed who had their clothes on. I have no idea why I would have taken that picture because I don't like to take pictures. I was looking through social media one day and I came across a video of me, a tame sex video and I couldn't figure out where it was taken from or when it was. The only time I could think of was when I was 18 or 19 and I went into that house. So the second time it happened triggered the memory of the first time. If it wouldn't have happened a second time I don't think I ever would have remember the first time. I asked the guy the first time it happened if I could get some of that because I thought it was really good and I liked it and he told me it was discontinued. The internet quit selling it, they banned it. This guy was buying it by the case. His dad was a cop. It was GHB. Gamma hydroxybutyric. I think that's how you spell it. I've done Rohypnol too. I used to have problems going to sleep. I would take one of these pills and a bomb could go off and I would not have heard it. We called them roofies. There's dangerous shit out there. Into the wrong hands could be detrimental and fatal.

[@wickedsin6225]

Gay bar?

[@RepentfollowJesus]

FBI needs to get in on this.

[@DOSU490]

Pfffttttt 😂😂😂 They’re busy looking through the bank records of anyone that purchased a Bible in the last 3.5 years.

[@Odin33356]

They did it

[@bunjijumper5345]

Its a male, no one cares.

[@fsoto2900]

No time for that. They are too busy investigating Donald Trump.

[@slappy8941]

You mean the FBI who is protecting the Epstein client list?

[@magalover2024]

Great, bartender still serving drinks like nothing happened, I’m assuming no arrest were made.

[@-OBELUS-]

It almost seems like one of the bartenders is in on it.

[@slappy8941]

*arrests

[@jessegarza8087]

It’s been going on for years and there’s a documentary about bodies being found at lady bird lake!

[@82ndGrunt]

His friends left him?

[@VAHelix]

Yup, friends is questionable.

[@denisekoltys3019]

Yep, ppl used to keep up with their friends like their wallets with lots of cash and credit cards inside. Now “friends” wander off and nobody knows where they went.

[@paulcarlin5181]

@@VAHelix Most assume a guy will be ok and they more than likely will be. This was one of the exceptions.

[@kelleymcbride4633]

@paulcarlin5181 Men are victims of violent crime far more than women

[@futuremelina]

Exactly lol he should be mad at his friends for leaving him

[@leo78744]

A lady he was talking to gave him a drink that was intended for her.

[@rolandvillareal9337]

2024 never let your guard down in public , that means you should NOT be inebriated, that’s for home.

[@cgpcgp3239]

That doesn’t help if the one drink you have is spiked. Men don’t look out for men because they don’t expect drinks to be spiked. It’s under reported. Men’s drinks are spiked so they can be robbed or SAd. Or couple’s drinks are spiked to make it easy to take the woman out of bar. Or beat the man up bc of a beef. Or bc they think it’s funny. It happens at bars. At parties. When someone you invite to your home for drinks. Men rarely talk about it to each other.

[@Truelib99Hobbes]

It's not just random strangers you need to worry about. Bartenders and other bar staff work with criminals groups to target victims, including bartenders, servers and doormen.

[@wills242]

So much for having fun with friends in public. Whelp. Freedom was cool while it lasted.

[@MegaLivingIt]

Exactly.

[@MelModica]

Exactly it’s extremely dangerous to be inebriated in public! Obviously men and women could both be in danger. Also people need to watch their sons and daughters! Too many people don’t worry enough about their boys unfortunately I know because my nephew was murdered with fentanyl!!!

[@Chad-Giga.]

I have seen this happen to a friend I went out drinking with one night, we figured out it was the bartender and went back the next day and confronted him with the owner present and he started acting really weird! He was fired that day.

[@NBGTFO]

That's just one reason alcohol is something to be avoided. It doesn't do anything good for anyone.

[@HollyMoore-wo2mh]

For those who are visitors here - Austin's city motto is - Keep Austin Weird. Good job Austin ... you're living up to that dream.

[@ariot2398]

"Keep Austin Weird" Its been a successful Austin motto for years. Then they went through their "Defund The Police" phase, which was apparently successful and now they need "Stay TF Outta Austin" as the motto. Also, for us hetero dudes, there should be a "Protect your A-hole at all times" motto. That's the one I use when my friends say they're going down to Austin.

[@Bluebaby422]

Good thing he didn’t end up in the lake

[@kneesusforjesus2879]

It would be easy to catch the bartenders responsible for these acts. Somebody needs to step up

[@sergioomar9090]

Stay home and be safe

[@tmmckee]

Something similar happened to a guy I know in Louisiana years ago. He was out with a bunch of people for a birthday party, and they had a large table. It wasn't a night club. It was a restaurant/bar...kinda like Chili's. They hadn't even been there that long. He'd only drunk 2 beers and they ended up having to carry him out of there. He couldn't even walk. They think that he drank a beer meant for one of the women at the table, because there were a lot of them, but who knows. My friend was pretty shaken up afterward describing how he'd never felt like that and how he couldn't walk or help himself. The beers served were all on tap.

[@jennyhong6746]

Been there…TWICE! Needless to say, I don’t drink or go to bars anymore. Alcohol is pure poison, anyway. Not worth it.

[@stub4488]

Nobody asked him what bars he went to??

[@mindyourbusiness302]

Freak bartender spiking men's drinks🤫

[@hildachacon001]

Woah! From a Texan, so sorry had such a horrible experience here. I will be praying for your recovery, well wishes and strength.

[@gretaeberhardt541]

It does not matter the city or town or if you’re male or female, there are nefarious people out there who will take advantage. I know someone who seemed streetwise, but their drink was tampered with and over 5 years later the incident still impacts their life. The mental impact has led to physical issues. Be very careful and aware at all times.

[@Devonellah]

That is horrible!! Im glad he's okay!!

[@AlexOrtiz-sq4ns]

Went once to 6th ,never again

[@Deploracle]

I was last on 6th street in the early 2000s. Friends and I would inline skate down the sidewalks wearing bright florescent lights on our skates. All of us drunk from sharing a fifth of whisky 30 minutes before. We could skate into some of the bars and restaurants and we never had any trouble with patrons or police. I can't remember ever seeing anything bad back then. Everyone around was just really cool (as we all expected Austin to be). It's gone down in the years since.

[@Lobonova]

I saw boobs, great times.

[@Glum1964]

Was he robbed?

[@justinbelt8032]

I have the same question. They didn't mention it, so I assume the answer is no. Robbery is only reason a male would be drugged. I'm calling bs on his story. Probably just got too drunk & fell off bridge...end of story.

[@justmejenny7986]

What are you talking about? You realize that men can be SA. And remember Jeffrey Dahmer?

[@Big_Island_Boi]

Dude got roofied. Too crazy. Probably accidently drank some chick's drink that some other dude was trying to roofie. What a world.

[@-OBELUS-]

No. It's been happening for years. Drugged, robbed, and left for dead. They're all men.

[@dsherwood3889]

P Diddy

[@jakebe4915]

Evil everywhere. Even simple bar hopping!!..I wish this victim all the best in his recovery.

[@soflodoug]

Never leave a drink unattended anywhere in any restaurant. Take it with you or ask the bartender to hold it behind the bar until you return.

[@dangitjacques5133]

I’ve seen so many guys just get up leave their drinks uncovered and unattended, either to go smoke or bathroom. It’s like they don’t think it can happen to them. Only once did I see a guy take his beer to the restroom.

[@soflodoug]

@@dangitjacques5133 They live and learn

[@mikemartinez1557]

That happens all the time and is still happening daily.

[@NukeyAllen]

If you go to Austin do not drink at the bars or don’t drink at all.

[@e.t.calledme]

Happened to me in Austin, in '75, at Mother Earth.... luckily I had friends with me. 🤨

[@AndrewFloydWebber]

Just not safe to talk to strange women anymore (getting hard to find any other kind).

[@laughingbird]

He's lucky that water wasn't even mildly deep.

[@BirdDogey1]

I got nervous at a bar in Austin. Some people sitting near me kept encouraging me to drink my beer after I made a head call. Kept watching me. Unusual behavior.

[@TDog14126]

Everyone knows to keep an eye on your drink(s)...except this guy for some reason

[@Aiesha87]

This is why I don’t care about going out at night. I’ll have a drink at home 💯

[@gooddad3575]

Stay off 6th street. You're way too old to be partying.

[@missinde0723]

I think I would find new friends to go drinking with!!! They didn't keep an eye out of each other . . . this could have ended so tragically!! Glad he lived to tell about it . . . .

[@jdoveyk9422]

Austin residents need to boycott these businesses so that the financial detriment compels the bars and law enforcement to deal with this ongoing crime spree that is going unchecked. Too many mysterious deaths and disappearances associated with this area. Serial crimes maybe one person or maybe it’s a gang.

[@GoodWillPrevail]

Poor guy! This world is becoming more evil by the day.

[@Speaktruthalways23]

Happens in Canada too. I know. First hand. Thanks to great friends for getting me out and home safely. I thought it was a bartender too.

[@doricetimko5403]

Reminds me of Riley Strain

[@lulajohns1883]

I hear women talking about being drugged in bars all over the place. It is very sad

[@dannyfisher6681]

Matthew Perry was killed this way. They knew his patterns and it was to come home, have a soft drink and get his hot tub... Minutes later, he passed out in his hot tub and drowned. Didn't even have to send in a hit man... Brlliant! neat and tidy. (Entertainment purposes only)

[@rmcgraw7943]

6The has been unsafe since 2018' when Austin ,to me, became too liberal allowing homeless everywhere.

[@Escobart911]

Is it safe to travel to Austin?

[@RepentfollowJesus]

Not if you plan to drink

[@frankcorrea8691]

Austin 6t is trash street, wild 2 a.m. fights like the waffle house, gotten resl ghetto, skanks evwrywhere!🎉

[@d1nonly14ever3]

Just avoid 6th Street.

[@allpraisestoyah5033]

@@frankcorrea8691bro I’m from Austin and live downtown it’s not even that bad lol try moving to Houston 😂😂😂😂

[@gennaCarr10]

Not the way they drive!!! Horrible all around.

[@ActWithUnderstanding]

They drug, then follow, then rob, then dump. I think because he never lost consciousness, he likely fought them off leading to him going over the barrier. We live in a sick freaking world.

[@quantum_beeb]

“Medically induced coma” aka anesthesia lol

[@daniella8400]

I love being alcohol free.

[@WhiteDove73-888]

Where were his friends again?

[@thegrumpytexan]

Was his butt sore too?

[@wooduniversity7109]

He apparently had a real bad taste in his mouth.

[@Wigington24]

He finally met Mickey

[@Renee-kk1hf]

Same bar help in Nashville huh?

[@debbiesittard7653]

LOL... Be sure now you go and repeat the same lifestyle when you finally recover. 🙄

[@patriotjon8535]

This has been going on for over 15 years. The Austin Police department is utterly USELESS...!!! They are too busy writing traffic tickets. They don't have a Clue. And could care less that there is a serial killer in their city, That has been putting them to shame for YEARS.

[@user-rv9qx9sp1y]

20 Bodies found in Lady Bird Lake?! Police don't have suspicious thoughts? The FBI needs to get rid of that Chief of Police! #Incompetent

[@ricfax]

Have a friend who went partying and wound up sitting on a curb on Bourbon St. In his boxer shorts with no idea how he got there. Happened about fifty years ago. Not new. Always be vigilant.

[@xrrrismickey]

Liberal cities, this is what you get

[@youngjordan8283]

My grandma said " when you have a drink, don't set it down and come back to drink again" People are dirty!!!!

[@hisinvisibleness-fn8qj]

Becoming common

[@crand20033]

Did he have his money when he was found?

[@Indiekiwi]

There must be CCTV camera around the route. Investigators should check them.

[@russgaartexastrainingandbo949]

With friends like these……..

[@052970]

Gang stalking 101. This is considered basic in the targeted individual community. Remember, safety first. Stay safe.

[@jengordon7246]

My son was drugged when he went to New Orleans. Drugged and left for dead! They took everything. Urged

[@cristinawilliams8026]

I can’t believe it was a MAN this time!

[@jerredwebster]

This happens often by bar tenders waitress and bar goers.,. Be safe people

[@joemccallister4883]

Glad you didn't get smiley-faced.

[@ramonaparker8318]

Wow scary

[@raytaylor3077]

something is definitely going on in Austin for sure

[@funwithFred]

Feel for him, it happened to me ...........twice. Ruined my life. There are some sick, sick, deviant people out there.

[@UntamedAustin]

The police don't believe bodies in the lake are suspicious? How many bodies are we talking about? Sheese. Serve and Protect.

[@aaronrealerx]

How are rods not permanent??? Only time I had rods taken out was when it bent and screw broke free from falling, but it was immediately put back in 😂.

[@Volundur9567]

I'd be side-eyeing my "friends" as well.

[@CupidsCrackhouse]

I am old enough to remember when it was fun to go down to 6th St. to party. That was a long time ago.

[@SRocco-dv8we]

Ummmm 😮was he robbed ?

[@lovedede2002]

Dam i guess no more drinking lesson should be learned

[@betty-joymoreau4363]

Not good for business.

[@thetrainwreck1469]

Everyone needs to be aware that spiking drinks is our reality. It doesn’t matter if you are a Nan, or a woman.

[@kidarcos]

Same thing happened to me about 20yrs ago while bar hopping on 6th street. Luckily my brother was with me and drove me home. I think it could have been a bartender, because i had my drink with me. 6th street has a lot of shady characters, just saying.

[@teenyverse7707]

Happy Face ......

[@tylermassey5431]

Dont go to stupid places with stupid people at stupid times to do stupid things. Lesson learned.

[@sal2975]

Rainy Street, Ladybird? Texas? Where's Hank Hill

[@sanlen1944]

Thank goodness this man is ok , Too many creepers at bars , now days you even have to watch the person that is making your drink , and never leave a drink on a table and come back to it later . I hope they catch the Devil or Devils that did this to this man !!!!

[@Madelena714]

Women frequently get roofied this doesn’t make the news until it’s a man? I’ve been roofied three times and two of them were by bartenders. I’m 100% positive. Instead of helping me they threatened to call the cops on me unless I left. luckily I had a friend there to help get me to family back home. And when I asked to see camera footage they threatened me even more. I got home safely all 3 times. I called for help of someone trusted or called a Lyft immediately sensing something was not right. Which I was highly untie with because when I drink alone I always stick to a drink top shelf liquor I got used to gauging my limit with. And always said no to shots. I never mixed liquors or bought cheap drinks unless I was with someone I trusted to help me. I have talked with women who have also been roofied, and they were not as lucky they were never quite sure what fully happened to them.

[@davidcarrier3273]

Biden border policy is working great.

[@carmenfarine3580]

Careful

[@louie24seven]

Dont trust beers on tap.

[@alyw1988]

This is the work of the Rainey Street Ripper, he is lucky to be alive

[@lestersloan2758]

I been saying that there's something dark going on in Austin Texas 😮😮

[@NinaRosado-wg3fh]

Flip a table

[@user-gc5ly3tz8l]

I bet the cops didn’t go looking for those women. They usually get a free pass to abuse and hurt men but if the sexes were reversed, they’d have every detective scouring the area to find the perpetrators

[@ll2323]

Okay we need to seriously stop believing APD and come to terms that there absolute is a serial killer on the loose! Men stay alert!