A 25-year-old Hsinchu Science Park engineer was on Sunday morning found dead in a bathroom at the ATT 4 Fun building in Taipei’s Xinyi District (信義) and the initial suspicion is that he died of excessive drinking, police said yesterday.
On the day of the incident, the man, surnamed Chang (張), took part in a promotional event at a nearby bar where he drank a large cocktail in less than eight minutes, prosecutors quoted his friends as saying.
The friends were quoted as saying that they and Chang participated in a “one liter of tears” challenge which offered punters free entertainment if they could finish their drink in less than eight minutes.
Photo: Yao Yueh-hung, Taipei Times
The cocktail was a vodka and passion fruit mixed drink, with 30 percent of the volume taken up by ice cubes, prosecutors said.
In surveillance camera footage, Chang was seen finishing his drink at the bar and going into the ATT 4 Fun building’s basement to find a bathroom, police said, adding that after going in and out twice, the footage does not show him leaving again.
A security guard on patrol later that night found a locked stall with an unresponsive person inside and called the police, the police said.
An initial investigation suggested that the cause of death was excessive drinking, but a forensic autopsy is yet to confirm that suspicion, police said.
The bar canceled its promotion and took down its Web page, while police are to interview the owners to determine what exactly happened.
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