alt Hacker Newsalmost every year there is a news story of some Western tourist visiting another country dying from bootleg methanol alcohol
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theodric • yesterday at 4:34 PM
Raised and addressed in an earlier post on an earlier article on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736298#47737600
As I said, this happens when someone tries to sell illegally produced trash created not by brewing but with sugar, chemical essence, and whatever they've mistaken for ethanol. The tax on alcohol creates a black market and some people taking part in it are either dumb or lazy and those are the cases you hear about.