'Roofie' Sting: Date-rape drug-detection in social situations
11/24/2015 5:00 am PST
It's a statistic that turns your stomach: 1 in 5 women in the U.S. have been sexually assaulted. In a Crime Watch Daily undercover investigation, we want to show you just how vulnerable you could be.
You're at a club out for a good time. You order a drink. Little do you know it will be the last thing you remember. You black out. In the morning you have no memory of the night before.
You've been slipped a "roofie," also known as the date-rape drug.
Crime Watch Daily set up a scenario to see just how easy it is to get roofied by a stranger when you least expect it.
We set up a bar full of actors along with some unsuspecting women. Our pretend "bad guy" spiked their drinks -- and you will be amazed at how easily he was able to do it.
The Experiment:
Everyone knows the rules of the game: Never take a drink from a stranger and never leave your drink alone at a party. So all the people we've invited have no idea what's about to go down. They know they're here for some sort of social experiment. All they have to do is meet people and mingle, but while they're doing that they'd better make sure that they're watching what's going on around them. It could cost you your life.
Our "bad guy" Chris Powers has a vial of water filled with a "fake roofie," and Powers and his friends are going to find out how many people they can get.
It's all a setup. We have cameras tracking everywhere in the room. There are three infiltrators to distract partygoers while Powers slips a fake roofie in their drinks.
