In a story that will make you question drinking alcohol and the extremes people will go to get drunk, a bar in the UK was hit with a $156,000 fine on Thursday after a girl celebrating her 18th birthday — the UK’s legal drinking age — took a shot of Jägermeister laced with liquid nitrogen.

In 2012, Gaby Scanlon was at Oscar's Wine Bar and Bistro when she was asked if she wanted a free shot. Scanlon said she asked the man if the shot was OK to drink, and he said it was. However, after taking the shot, Scanlon instantly experienced pain in her stomach. “Immediately on consuming the drink she was taken violently ill, retching and vomiting, and smoking from her nose and mouth," prosecutor Barry Berlin told the Preston Crown Court.

Scanlon was immediately taken to the hospital where she underwent a gastrectomy to remove her stomach and connect her esophagus to her small intestine. She may never be the same again; gastrectomies allow people to have working digestive systems, but they may not function as well as they did before.

So, what was up with that drink and why was it on the menu? The bar put the drink there after its director saw similar drinks at different bars and felt the smoking effect, caused by the liquid nitrogen, was cool. Unfortunately, the required wait time before taking the shot is 10 seconds — an arbitrary number made up by the bar to allow the liquid nitrogen to evaporate. Scanlon, unaware of this, took the shot after only 4 seconds.