Azrayne
Irenicus did nothing wrong
Yeah definitely there are gonna be isolated cases, and if there weren't before the media latched onto the idea, then it became a guarantee that once every news outlet started running 'put this chemical in a chick's drink and you can rape her while she's unconscious!,' there were gonna be idiotic assholes who thought it was an awesome idea. So it's possible the girl in your example got one of those legitimate cases, but they're a tiny, tiny minority.Overall, I would agree with you that in most cases "spiking" is bullshit. However I personally saw a girl I know get spiked at a New Year's party in Whitefish Montana a few years back. We know she was spiked because she was going drink for drink with another girl (both of them, along with myself, were tourguides on the ski trip). Normally it's the other girl who gets all fucked up, starts crying, and then fucks the first thing that comes along while the other girl despite being very petite can actually hold her liquor (we were pretty much professional alcoholics, going on ski trips every weekend and drinking very heavily the entire time). The two of them had had maybe 2-3 beers each pre-drinking at the hotel before heading to the bar. Within 45 minutes of being at the bar the petite girl was all over the fucking place, barely able to stand, alternating between giggly and angry, and again the two girls had more or less matched each other's consumption (maybe another 3-4 drinks/shots). The other girl appeared nearly sober.
Thankfully the spiked girl's ex-boyfriend was there, and immediately recognized that something was wrong. At the time and before we'd had a chance to piece her consumption together, I just assumed she'd had a couple too many, too quickly. I thought it was actually pretty funny how fucked up she was. And no, he wasn't the one who did it. They had gotten back together over the previous week or two, so he didn't need to spike her shit, they were already hooking up. Long story short, he took her back to the hotel and she damn near went in to a coma for the next 12 hours. When she woke up the next day, she still felt extremely woozy and almost sort of high. She mentioned that her depth perception was goofed up, that she either felt a lot taller or shorter than normal, I don't remember which.
So yeah, while I agree that it doesn't happen nearly as often as some claim, it does happen from time to time. Thankfully in the above case the girl had a couple friends who saw what was up and made sure she wasn't harmed.
What I find really interesting is your description of the effects she felt:
Is a really common side effect of dissociative drugs - ketamine, pcp, DXM, nitrous, etc. I'm having a hard time imagining a plausible scenario where one of those could be involved, but that particular manifestation of spacial/perceptual distortion is pretty specific to this class of chemicals. And of course with the rise of research chemicals in the last 3 - 4 years, it's possible to get analogues of these drugs with similar effects in potent powder form online, depending on how long ago this actually happened. The drug geek in me is really curious about what might have been at work there, but not much point in speculating over events so far in the past I guess.She mentioned that her depth perception was goofed up, that she either felt a lot taller or shorter than normal,