"Do you and your friends enjoy blacking out?" asks an anonymous host for the Twitter site UNH blackout (@UNHblackout). "Does your liver hate you?"

"Do you and your friends enjoy blacking out?" asks an anonymous host for the Twitter site UNH blackout (@UNHblackout). "Does your liver hate you?"



"Tweet your pics," the site invites.



On dozens of occasions, University of New Hampshire students have complied by posting photos portraying what appear to be sad endings to bouts of binge drinking.



Coeds appear slumped near toilets and over wastebaskets, more often than not with what should be embarrassing glimpses of their undergarments and body parts. Photos are posted of young people face down, fetal, and pouring liquids into themselves with plastic tubes and funnels.



A couple of seemingly sleeping young men are pictured on the site with pornographic images drawn on their faces. One has a racial slur scribbled on his cheek with what looks suspiciously like a permanent marker.



The images seemingly celebrate the over consumption of alcohol, by students who mostly post using their real names and photos that appear from their personal Twitter accounts.



"Amateur snow day drinker" is the caption of one recently posted "pic," showing a young man lying lifeless in a pile of snow. Other photos on UNHblackout depict students who apparently soiled themselves.



"You know you killed it when you have to get carried back from the bar," reads the caption of a photo showing one young man carrying another one over his shoulder.



Durham Police Chief David Kurz said, "The goal today appears to be, 'Let's get drunk.'"



"It creates a lot of dangerous behavior," Kurz warned. "We've rescued people, literally from the middle of a swamp and from snowbanks, because they thought it was a shortcut to wherever. A lot of what we do in Durham is to help them live through it."



Meanwhile, almost 2,000 people have signed up to subscribe as followers of the UNHblackout Twitter site since it launched last October. A request for comment from the site host went unanswered.



Kurz said his data shows that during the past 10 years, about 60 percent of arrests made in Durham involved people with some affiliation to UNH.



"We started tracking that because people in town think its all university students and it's not," he said. "The bulk of what we do as a police department has some root in alcohol."



Asked to comment about the UNHblackout site, university spokeswoman Erika Mantz provided a written response: "UNH is aware of such online sites. We regularly encourage and educate our students to be safe and smart online, and will investigate any criminal behavior if brought to the attention of the UNH Police Department."

UNH Police Chief Paul Dean did not return messages seeking his comment for this story. But Durham's police chief said his officers routinely encounter drunken students around town and generally don't take them into protective custody.



If they're over 18 and with someone sober enough to bring them home, they're sent on their way, he said. But if a Durham officer finds an underage student alone and overly intoxicated, the student will be arrested for unlawful/internal possession of alcohol, Kurz said.



The parents of all people under the age of 21 who are arrested for alcohol-related offenses in Durham get notification letters from the Durham Police Department, Kurz said.



"Parents are spending a lot of money on junior's education and they have a right to know when there are dangerous behaviors," he said.



The host of UNHblackout recently advised online to almost 2,000 followers, "you can't regret what you don't remember."



Kurz said he received a phone call from one father saying there must have been a mistake because his daughter couldn't have been arrested in Durham because she was a college student in Massachusetts. After a booking photo was sent to the father for verification, the dad phoned back to say he'd "deal with this," Kurz recalled.



"A lot of people come here for what they perceive to be a party atmosphere," said the Durham police chief. "For the most part, life here on Thursday through Saturday nights is thousands of kids walking the streets."



One of them apparently recently posted to the UNHblackout site, "Happy 21st," next to a grainy photograph of a young woman hurling into a wastebasket. Another recent post purports to show a coed urinating into a kitchen sink.



Kurz said public urination is a lingering problem around UNH and over the years it has increasingly involved more women perpetrators.



"That market is not cornered," he said. "We've come a long way."



Meanwhile, according to the university's publicly posted "alcohol, drug and other drug policies," UNH "students are expected to obey the law and assume full responsibility for the choices they make regarding alcohol use."



"Students, not the university or its staff, are accountable for all outcomes related to legal, illegal, and/or irresponsible use of alcohol," according to the UNH policy.