Last Night Was a Buzz! A Shocking Drinking Game Seeing a Surge in Mexican Bars Alasdair Baverstock - MailOnline
go to original April 6, 2015

Mexicans take it literally when they amp themselves up for a night out in their country's capital. (MailOnline/Bav Films)

A drinking game popular in Mexico City takes shock-factor to the extreme as friends affirm their macho status by competing over who can handle the most electricity, and they connect themselves to a live current.

Known as 'toques' - Spanish for 'touches' - the game has seen a recent surge in popularity through the city, and has seen players' nights-out cut short by urgent visits to the emergency room.

'The drunker people get, the more voltage they can generally handle,' says Javier Rodriguez, who has worked the lively Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City for the past 35 years.

'I've seen party-goers pass out after passing 100 volts, although it usually has something to do with what they've been drinking.'

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