Posted on 06/10/2019 11:52:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
'I Believe These People Were Poisoned. I Would've Been Poisoned Had I Not Held It In My Mouth... It Took Effect Really Fast.'
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A Brooklyn woman is claiming she vomited blood after drinking a beverage from her hotel room’s mini bar in the Dominican Republic.
She says it was at the same resort where three American tourists died last month, reports CBS2’s Reena Roy.
Awilda Montes believes her 7UP bottle was actually filled with bleach when she was on vacation.
She initially thought it might’ve been some kind of accident or mix up, but now with the recent news of three people dying at the same resort, this could be something criminal
It was supposed to be a romantic getaway with her boyfriend at the Luxury Bahia Principe Bouganville Resort last October.
Just a few hours into Montes’ vacation she was rushed to the hospital.
“You finally get those days off you look forward to and something like this will happen?” said Montes. “You just don’t expect this.”
She says it all started when she opened a bottle of 7UP from her hotel room’s mini bar. She noticed it didn’t have fizz and assumed it was simply flat, but quickly tasted what she believed was bleach.
“I was cautious when I took a gulp of it,” said Montes. “I immediately felt it burn me, burn my mouth, burn my tongue.
“My mouth was on fire,” she said. “When I spit it out in bathroom sink it was blood. I was just irrigating my mouth.”
The hotel staff brought her to a local clinic where doctors treated her for the pain and vomiting.
Montes says the resort apologized, offering upscale dinner reservations and a couples’ massage.
Luxury Bahia Principe Bouganville Resort (credit: CBS2)
The resort is where three American tourists were found dead last month: 41-year-old Miranda Schaup-Werner collapsed and died after also drinking a beverage from the mini bar, according to her family.
Five days later, a Maryland couple were found unresponsive in their room at a sister hotel in the same resort. They showed no signs of violence, and relatives say they were healthy.
“At the time I didn’t think it was done deliberately,” Montes said about her experience. “Until I saw the news and realized there has to be some kind of correlation with what happened to me and what happened to them.
“I believe these people were poisoned,” she said. “I would’ve been poisoned had I not held it in my mouth and spit it (out) because it took effect really fast.”
In a statement, the resort claims Miranda Schaup-Werner died of a heart attack. A family spokesman says she was treated for a heart issue years ago but was recently in good health.
“We don’t have any answers of what happened down there,” said neighbor Mike Saraceni.
The FBI confirms it is investigating the sudden deaths. Preliminary autopsies indicate all three had the same cause: fluid in the lungs and respiratory failure.
Resort officials tell CBS News the deaths are unrelated. CBS2 has reached out to them for information in Montes’ case and are waiting to hear back.
Yeah, I hope she just spit it out, but if she did swallow it, she certainly wasn’t thinking clearly.
I would never go to Mexico.
But she didn’t quickly pick up on the distinct odor of bleach?
Why do people go on vacation to Third World shit holes?
I don’t think bleach would - in concentrations where the smell wouldn’t immediately bowl you over - make you vomit blood. But then I have never used the supposed lemon-scented bleaches. Pool bleach is pretty potent but again, how would someone cloak the odor? One whiff burns the eyes and nose.
I can see liquid plumber doing that, but not bleach.
[Why do people go on vacation to Third World shit holes?]
I can’t understand the appeal either, but my brother LOVES this place for some reason. I highly doubt these stories will change his mind from going again.
It could be something as simple as a maid dipping in to the beverages in the mini-bars, and then replacing the fluids with something off her cleaning cart.
I am not too confident that the local LEO are spending much time investigating.
That was my first thought too, then I recalled the first couple that made the news was a black couple.
But the further thought occurs to me that perhaps they were targeting the rooms, because they expected white people, and inadvertently got a black couple by mistake.
Your words, I just made the meme.
Free dinner and a massage? W00H00!
“Jihadis?”
Doubtful. More likely, someone mad at tourististas.
Probably a female, if really a poison.
If I am right, she’ll get caught, spin a tale of being abused at the hands of white men, and end up a liberal icon — and get a book and movie deal.
Fiji is probably Ciguatera and just a bad accident.
Well at least she got upscale dinner reservations out of the deal. Yeah right. :-)
Why are people so trusting?
I don’t consider myself paranoid, or even fearful. Just cautious and deliberate at times. If I opened a bottle of soda and it was flat and didn’t fizz, the first thing I would do is smell it. If it didn’t smell bad I would only take a small taste. Not necessarily because I expect it to be poison, but if it’s flag I’m not expecting it to taste fresh. I would probably do that for something I took out of my own fridge, let alone being in a strange or new place.
"Hi, what is your poison"?
And, half-price mini-bar.
May be a ‘cultural’ thing....................
Eh, maybe I’d skip the mini-Bar after that.
I generally try to anyway. The rates are ginourmous.
Do not go to the Dominican Republic.
Ever.
We have everything we need right here in America.
Including poison.
Looks like ricin poisoning.
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