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Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.

A study of self-reported drink-spiking victims admitted to an Australian hospital found that none of them actually had their drink spiked with a drug.

Ninety percent of the 100 purported victims were women, and most were under 25. Investigators found in almost every case their level of intoxication matched up with the amount of alcohol they had conceded consuming. Furthermore, toxicology reports didn't find a single instance of a sedative being put in a drink.

Even after being told their drinks weren't spiked, one-third of the "victims" continued to insist that they were.

We tried to use the "my drink must have been spiked" excuse with a girlfriend once. No, we are no longer dating.

UPDATE: This post has upset a few people and we want to address the concerns of our readers. If David Letterman can be self-aware, then so can we. While the findings in the Australian study were interesting and we stand by our decision to report on them, we should have made it more explicit that this was just one individual study and not necessarily representative of a larger trend.

We know the crime of spiking drinks does occur. We also recognize that when it occurs, it can sometimes lead to even more heinous crimes, including rape. We understand the gravity of such evil acts, and we realize that the article may have come across as if we take such acts lightly. For that we sincerely apologize.

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