Anti-rape Cocktail Glasses
• Sex Crime
Rather depressing to think that women may need a special glass to prevent their dates from drugging them.
Nightclubs in Italy are to try out a cone-shaped, sealable glass intended to prevent partygoers’ drinks being spiked with the so-called date-rape drug, according to the its French inventors.
Made of coloured plastic, the disposable “Billglass,” designed by Stephane Mathieu and Richard Bille from Nice in southeastern France, will be introduced in several clubs across the Alps in Italy from January.
Filled through its base and sealed by the barman, the glass’s top can be pierced with a straw once in the drinker’s hands, to prevent a would-be rapist from slipping the colourless, odourless drug into the drink.
Is date rape really that common? I know that lust makes some people do nutty, sometimes awful things but …