Topic: bogus trend stories

Your Kids Probably Aren't Getting Drunk on Hand Sanitizer

Associated Press

The very latest development in the media's ongoing obsession with spurious trend stories about kids getting drunk in weird ways comes via the Los Angeles Times, and it involves some kids who got drunk on hand sanitizer.

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