Crowd Spikes Soda with Alcohol-Based Hand Soap

A number of people attending the three-day Baltic Sea Music Festival in Karlshamn, Sweden, used the liquid soap in the portable toilets to spike their carbonated beverages, the Associated Press reported July 23.

The soap, which contained 62 percent alcohol, was in 65 portable bathrooms. "I suspected something was wrong because the soap went like hot cakes," said Anders Persson, whose company supplied the portable latrines.

One 14-year-old girl was hospitalized with minor stomach pains after she put too much soap into her soda.

Swedish law bans the sale of alcoholic products to anyone under age 18. The country's tight alcohol laws also limit sales to state-run retail outlets.