Michigan boy aged 12 gets DRUNK after Outback steak house staff 'accidentally serve him rum-filled strawberry daiquiri rather than booze-free 'virgin' version he usually orders'

A 12-year-old got drunk on a 'virgin' drink at an Outback Steakhouse after the staff accidentally infused it with alcohol. 

Mekyle Cureton and his grandmother, Yolanda Collins, are regulars at the Outback in Livonia, Michigan, visiting a couple of times a month. He told Fox 2 that his go-to order is a virgin strawberry daiquiri. But during a recent rip, something was off. 

'It didn't taste like how when I had it the other times,' Cureton said. 'It didn't taste normal.'

After taking a few sips of the drink, Cureton said he started to feel unwell.

'My head started hurting when I was leaving and my heart started beating as I was drinking it,' Mekyle added.

The child was taken to the hospital, where doctors helped him eliminate the alcohol in the system. However, it left Mekyle with a nasty hangover, his first, at 12 years old.  

Mekyle Cureton, 12, got drunk on a 'virgin' drink at a Michigan Outback Steakhouse after the staff accidentally infused it with alcohol. 

Mekyle and his grandmother, Yolanda Collins, are regulars at the Outback in Livonia. His go-to order is a virgin strawberry daiquiri. But during a recent visit, it came with alcohol

Collins took a sip of the drink to see if there was indeed alcohol, but couldn't tell as she was not a drinker herself.

'We don't drink, so we couldn't tell whether there was alcohol in it or not,' Collins told the outlet. 

'After that, he started letting us know that his heart was kind of racing.'

She flagged down the server, who then voiced their concerns to the bartender. he bartender admitted he had accidentally made the slushy drink with alcohol.

'It was supposed to be a virgin daiquiri, but it says a daiquiri,' Collins told Fox 2, with the receipt in hand.

The restaurant staff apologized to the customers and comped their meal.

The sixth-grader was taken to the hospital where doctors could do little other than give him Tylenol and told him to sleep it off. He had a hangover the next day. 

'Diagnosis was accidental exposure to alcohol and accidental ingestion,' Collins said. 'I didn't want him to have to have an alcoholic experience this way.'

After taking a few sips of the drink, Mekyle said he started to feel unwell and his 'head started hurting'

 The sixth-grader was taken to the hospital where doctors could do little other than give him Tylenol and told him to sleep it off

Outback officials confirmed  that the staff was disciplined and underwent retraining to make sure Mekyle's situation doesn't happen again

An Outback official provided a statement to Fox 2 after the horrifying incident.  

'We take this situation very seriously and are thankful that the child involved was not seriously harmed,' the statement read.

'We have taken the appropriate disciplinary action, and all our bar and staff has been retrained to ensure this does not happen again.'

Collins said she just wants to be sure what happened to Mekyle never happens again. 

'I just hope they don't make the mistake again,' Collin said.