article_snippet: A drinking game popular in Mexico City takes shock-factor to the extreme as friends affirm friends macho status by competing over who can handle the most electricity, and friends connect friends to a live current.
article_snippet: The drunker people get, the more voltage
article_snippet: I've seen party-goers pass out after passing 100 volts, although it usually has something to do with what party-goers've been drinking.' '
article_snippet: I've seen people get up to 50 volts by touching tongues.'
article_snippet: If you get to the upper limits of the voltage you actually start to feel tingling in your brain,' said Ignacio Alonso, a Mexico City native who reached 90 volts before screaming for mercy, a trial sandwiched by shots of the rudimentary and potent mescal, a spirit similar to tequila.
highlights_snippet: Drinkers compete to see who can cope with the highest voltage .
  