There's the recent example of Mukovhe Rasethana - the 23-year-old South African who downed an entire bottle of Jaegermeister in 2 minutes and immediately died:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/great-acts-of-stupidity.10939/post-2192862
Such rapid alcohol intake stunts need careful preparation to be reliably survived. As I noted back in July ...
Back in the Seventies I was a road musician in the resort region of northern Minnesota (an area where drinking was the #1 pastime).
At one of our primary bar venues I met a young local lady whose sideline was performing this sort of stunt (with fifths of brandy) for bets a lot bigger than the mere £10 involved in the South African incident. She'd waltz into a bar full of festive vacationers, chat up the clientele, and brag that she could down a fifth of California brandy in one extended chug-a-lug. This reliably drew incredulity and bets from the night's customers. Her male accomplice would set the stage, the bartender would hold the "purse", and she'd perform the stunt as promised. Immediately following its completion her boyfriend(?) would usher (more like "carry") her out the door with the money.
She was relatively small and thin, so I had to ask her how she managed to survive. She told me there were two critical elements in pulling off the stunt. The first was packing her gut with starchy carbs to absorb the alcohol and slow the absorption rate. The second was to pass out ASAP so her accomplice could remove her to a safe place to sleep for the next 12 - 24 hours (minimum).
