True story. But it will also save your ass if you ever get stupid and decide to drink anti-freeze. Gotta love chemistry. Crazy story, when in paramedic school, I was doing clinical rotations with an ER Doc. Guy was brought in via ambulance (suicide attempt) drank antifreeze. The charge nurse was a beast of a woman, I would not cross, called her parents after the guy arrived. Asked her mom if they still had the huge bottle of vodka she gave them for someones birthday or something. They said yes, she told them to set it on the porch and she had one of her nurses go to their house and get it. She set it on the table next to the guy in his room and told him to start drinking it. His eyes got big and he asked why. The alcohol binds to the ethylene-glycol and renders it safe in the body and you end up just peeing it out. Saved his ass. He did get pretty drunk but they ran fluids with vitamins/ minerals and his hangover was minimal. And before you ask, yes, treatment was approved by doctor. Oh, the things that come into ERs and things that occur in the cities throughout the nation, that never make the news, would blow people's minds. There was a child abuse case in the Children's ER when I was there, and if the police weren't there, I would probably have gone to jail that evening. But that's another story.