A bar in the UK has gone viral with a video demonstrating its method to stop drink spiking, setting off a spread of emotional reactions.

PJ's, a bar and nightclub in Warrington, England, has amassed 8.6 million views on a TikTok video exhibiting how its bartenders helped defend their clientele. Within the clip shared Saturday, a bartender took out a beer bottle alongside a bathtub of plastic bottle stoppers. She inserted a stopper into the bottle and caught a straw by way of its tight opening.

"Keep secure at PJs," textual content overlay on the footage learn. "Ask your bartender for cup and bottle stoppers."

Within the feedback part, the bar added that the stoppers have been offered freed from cost.

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A bar in the UK has gone viral with a video demonstrating its method to stop drink spiking, setting off a spread of emotional reactions. Right here, bar employees serve drinks on the Duke of Kent pub in London, United Kingdom, in 2021.Chris J Ratcliffe / Stringer/Getty Photos Europe

Final October, girls throughout the U.Okay. organized a boycott of nightclubs and bars to protest an increase in drink spiking and drugging by way of needle injections. Between early September and early December 2021, the Nationwide Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) recorded 670 reviews of injection spiking throughout the nation.

In keeping with a survey by British analysis agency YouGov in November 2021, one in 9 U.Okay. girls stated they'd been a sufferer of drink spiking. One other 8 p.c reported that a member of the family had been spiked and one other 12 p.c stated a good friend had been spiked. One-third of the overall surveyed girls had both been drugged themselves or knew somebody who had.

Under the clip posted by PJ's, feedback ranged in emotion between gratitude, skepticism and gloom.

"These needs to be in all pubs and golf equipment internationally," stated one viewer.

However dispersed amongst those that applauded the bar have been some viewers who recommended the measure was inadequate.

"When you have been to be spiked, could not you simply pour the powder or no matter into the straw?" requested one skeptic.

"I labored as safety at a bar for nearly a decade," added one other. "It's extremely uncommon to spike a drink you have already got. It is when somebody brings you a drink...it is also nearly all the time somebody you already know who does it."

One other cynic recommended that the strategy solely labored when the bartenders may very well be trusted. "Till you notice it is the bartenders spiking," their remark stated.

Regardless of this debate, most viewers agreed it was disappointing to dwell in a world the place PJ's efforts have been wanted.

"It is so unhappy that that is what we've to do now, keep secure everybody," stated a remark that summarized the despondent temper.

Newsweek reached out to PJ's for remark.