That’s a lot of caffeine for someone who threw a glass at a wall when he had a couple of soda pops.
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Yeah, he drank both. 600 mgs of caffeine is 200 mgs over the recommended daily intake threshold.
Also, BANG apparently contains the artificial sweetener sucralose, which has a variety of negative side-effects, including increasing sugar cravings. BANG advertises itself as a workout drink with "super creatine", so I guess Lucas is "looking into" bodybuilding again LOL. Another ingredient in it is apparently metabolized into benzene, a known carcinogen. In fact, BANG is considered one of the most dangerous energy drinks on the market.
And for what, all this risk? Why does Lucas need so much "energy"? He doesn't excercise, work, or have an energetic hobby. Assuming there's any thought to his actions at all, he
may be attempting to counteract the heavy sedative effects of his daily antipsychotic cocktail, or perhaps trying to give himself enough energy to re-experience the long manic walks he used to regularly enjoy... in a misguided effort to lose weight? I would imagine there would almost certainly be contraindications between BANG's ingredients and Lucas's daily meds.
Separate from ALL these great reasons to NOT indulge in 600 mgs of caffeine, energy drinks,
especially the sugar-free variety, taste like shit. I personally find the extreme jitters and awful lingering taste to be reason enough to never try these trendy beverages... but of course, Lucas has no discernible taste buds or foresight.
He also seems to exclusively make impulse purchases. Whenever he shops, there never seems to be any rhyme or reason to his groceries, just a childish conglomeration of sweet and salty snacks, with especial focus on anything that seems popular or trendy with youth culture... or is mis-percieved as such by Lucas's out-of-touch sensibilities.
I was going to suggest that Mallon should monitor his intake of chemicals vis-a-vis contraindications with his meds, but it's difficult for ordinary people to anticipate his behavior, because Lucas buys and consumes foodstuffs in a
uniquely childish and bizarre fashion. Do you think the shelter with the toaster oven anticipated, in their wildest dreams, a homeless patron cooking
lobster tails and scallops in their meager appliance intended at most to warm 7-11 burritos? Of course not, because no one else would ever do this. And yet Lucas did, and they had to create new rules and signage concerning his selfish monopolizing of the toaster oven, both to prevent him from playing chef as well as attempting to minimize the damage he did to the appliance by over-broiling everything he cooked until the shelter's smoke alarm was sounding regularly.
Mallon may have to create new "Lucas Rules" in the future as well, if this sort of over-caffeination continues. Of course, no such rules are
already in existence, because no one would expect a mentally-ill adult to gamble with his health through this indulgence in stimulants alongside their daily psychoactive medications.
TL;DR Lucas is playing with fire by combining his antipsychotics with this manner and amount of stimulants. He's asking for trouble, but a manic Lucas may produce some entertainment for
us, at the very least.