This happened 3 months ago. Connor Murphy died from drowning in a lake in Thailand. His two bro-science friends claim that he was injecting gold and that the gold injection made him behave erratically.

I think there's not enough evidence to show that injecting gold would make him behave erratically. There are documented instances of people injecting gold for medical research. I think Connor was probably behaving erratically prior to injecting gold, if he even actually injected gold.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

injecting gold would count as erratic behavior as an initial decison

[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago

Yeah that's what I was thinking, it was probably that the core issue caused him both to inject gold and to take the actions that led to his death.

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 27 points 2 days ago

As I recall the comments from his social group implied that he was erratic before and also experimenting with amphetamines, though I'm certain it was the gold

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

He may have been scammed, we've all had run ins with door to door metal salesmen, and sometimes they'll try and pass off gold coloured mercury as liquid gold to try and swindle you.

Just this morning, a man tried to palm off some copper so shit it'd make Ea-nasir blush. I said "Look, buddy, I'm in the market for copper because I'm making High Bandwidth Memory chips in my bathroom right now, and you're offering copper not even suitable for roof gutters. Please come back with some actually good copper and then we can talk".