| January 27, 2009 | - A man in Somerset, England, spent two days trapped beneath his sofa, subsisting on whiskey from a bottle that had rolled within reach. “I thought, Well this isn't too bad,” he said.
| Source:
BBC
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| August 24, 2007 | - Reality-show personality Nicole Richie was released from jail in Los Angeles after serving 82 minutes for drunk driving.
| Source:
My Way News
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| January 1, 2007 | - The inauguration of Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York was celebrated with a twelve-liter bottle of Veuve Clicquot that required a wrench to uncork and bloodied the hand of its opener.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 7, 2006 | - A Christmas party in Dublin was canceled after Gus, a camel starring in Santa's Magical Animal Kingdom Show, got drunk on Guinness and ate all the mince pies.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| October 20, 2006 | - The mayor of Paris auctioned off City Hall's most expensive wines in favor of serving “little democratic wines.”
| Source:
IHT via New York Times
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| July 31, 2006 | - A study conducted at Texas A&M University found that cigarette smoking reduced the impact of alcohol on inebriated rats. “I hope people won't interpret that as a good thing,” said lead researcher Wei-Jung Chen.
| Source:
Seed Magazine
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| July 29, 2006 | -
Senators Hillary Clinton and John McCain held a vodka-drinking
contest.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 15, 2006 | - Peter Coors, chief executive of Molson Coors Brewing Co., had his license revoked for drunk driving.
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 28, 2006 | -
English
soccer fans, said German breweries, were endangering the German
beer supply.
| Source:
Mirror.co.uk
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| June 15, 2006 | - At the World Cup in Germany over 400 people were arrested for violence and drunkenness related to the Germany-Poland soccer match (which Germany won 1-0).
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 8, 2006 | - A man in Brooklyn, angry because someone asked him to stop drinking, shot and killed a 3-year-old girl.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| May 4, 2006 | - In Hungary, it was widely reported, construction workers renovating a house discovered, and drank, a barrel of rum; when the barrel was empty they found that it contained a pickled human corpse (the story was later revealed as an urban legend).
| Source:
The Advertiser
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| February 3, 2006 | -
Russia was facing a vodka shortage.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| January 22, 2006 | - It was cold in Russia. People were smearing goose fat on their bodies to stop frostbite, and near Moscow zookeepers fed an Indian elephant a bucket of vodka to keep it warm; the elephant then went on a rampage, tore radiators from a wall, and calmed down only after it was given a hot shower.
| Source 1:
HindustanTimes.com
Source 2:
The Toronto Star
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| December 28, 2005 | - A 2-year-old in Patchogue, New York, was found drunk.
| Source:
AP
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| November 12, 2005 | - A Milwaukee, Wisconsin, man was in trouble for drunken
ice-cream-truck driving.
| Source:
GMToday.com
|
| September 21, 2005 | - It was reported that President Bush, exhausted from job stress, was back on the bottle. "Stop, George!" Laura Bush allegedly yelled as she walked in on him drinking straight whiskey.
| Source 1:
The National Enquirer
Source 2:
Wikipedia
Source 3:
Slate.com
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| June 28, 2005 | - A Zamboni driver in Morristown, New Jersey, was charged with drunk Zamboni driving.
| Source:
ABC News
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| May 15, 2005 | - A study found that women who abuse alcohol are more likely to suffer brain damage than men.
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 13, 2005 | - The state economy and culture senator of Bremen, Germany, resigned under criticism for pouring wine on a homeless man's head.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 29, 2005 | - In Peru, authorities saved four thousand frogs from being put into blenders and made into cocktails.
| Source:
CNN
|
| April 15, 2005 | - In Wales, a drunken man stood before an open window, dropped his trousers, and cried out, “who wants some of this?” before he fell from the window, impaled himself on a railing, and died.
| Source:
Daily Record
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| April 3, 2005 | - In France, radical wine producers threw sticks of dynamite at a state agriculture office and demanded that the state take action to stop the depression in French wine prices.
| Source:
Wine International
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| March 30, 2005 | - A Toronto man attempted to pass a Breathalyzer test by stuffing his mouth full of his own feces.
| Source:
Ottowa Sun
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| March 27, 2005 | - A priest dripped some wine onto Terri Schiavo's tongue.
| Source:
ABCNews.com
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| March 2, 2005 | -
President Bush said that his administration granted $2 billion to social programs at churches, synagogues, and mosques in 2004--20 percent more than in 2003. The President made it clear that these programs did not discriminate based on faith. “All drunks are welcome,” he said.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| February 1, 2005 | -
Scientists determinedthat rats are responsible beer drinkers.
| Source:
University of Florida News
|
| December 29, 2004 | - and a bad batch of homemade alcohol killed 37 people in India.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 15, 2004 | - and an Australian man nearly died after his "jug helmet," a beer-drinking device made from a hose and a power drill, malfunctioned.
| Source:
The West Australian
|
| December 14, 2004 | -
Russian border guards discovered an underground "vodka pipeline" used to smuggle alcohol into Estonia,
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 24, 2004 | - Six Buddhist monks from Ratchaburi, Thailand, were arrested and defrocked for holding wild drug and alcohol parties.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| October 2, 2004 | - The Pope beatified Karl I, the last emperor of Austria, an alcoholic
adulterer who performed a miracle and used poison gas during World War I; the miracle allegedly occured in 1960, when a Polish nun prayed to Karl and was cured of sores and varicose veins.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| September 6, 2004 | -
Argentine researchers discovered that smoking and drinking are bad for men's semen.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| August 1, 2004 | - Scientists said that alcohol makes your brain work better.
| Source:
Telegraph
|
| June 12, 2004 | -
Alcohol abuse was up in the U.S..
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| May 31, 2004 | -
Kirin Brewery Co. announced that it had genetically
engineered a cow, which has not yet been born, that will be immune to mad cow disease.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| May 14, 2004 | - The president of Brazil tried to expel a New York Times reporter who wrote an unflattering article about his drinking problem.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 21, 2004 | - Governor Rick Perry of Texas proposed shifting the burden of school financing in the state from property taxes to sin taxes on gambling, alcohol, and stripping.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 16, 2004 | -
Researchers at Harvard University found that drinking alcohol can double a man's chances of getting gout.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| February 27, 2004 | -
Finland lowered its alcohol tax.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| February 19, 2004 | -
Iraqi guerrillas were killing sidewalk alcohol vendors.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| January 22, 2004 | -
Russian soldiers rescued 10 tons of beer kegs that became trapped under the ice of a frozen Siberian river; after divers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations failed to dislodge the kegs, a T-72 tank saved the day.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 7, 2003 | - A new study found that beer does not cause beer bellies.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| October 27, 2003 | - Brewers in Colorado were offering a pint of beer in exchange for a pint of blood.
| Source:
Ananova
|
| September 20, 2003 | - An American soldier who was drinking beer after hours at the Baghdad city zoo shot and killed a Bengal tiger that had bitten another soldier who was trying to feed it.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| August 6, 2003 | - A mob attacked a brothel in Basra and smashed cases of beer in the street.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 29, 2003 | -
China started producing beer made from cows' milk.
| |
| March 25, 2003 | -
Scientists found that turmeric prevents alcohol-related liver disease in rats.
| |
| January 14, 2003 | -
Venezuela was suffering from a critical shortage of beer.
| |
| December 31, 2002 | -
A Delta Airlines copilot was arrested shortly before takeoff in Norfolk, Virginia, for being under the influence of alcohol.
| |
| November 19, 2002 | -
The British government, concerned about closing-time binge drinking, proposed to let pubs stay open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
| |
| October 1, 2002 | -
Iranian authorities arrested about 60 people for attending a “depraved party” in Shiraz where women and men were dancing together and some were drinking.
| |
| October 1, 2002 | -
A British man changed his name to Mr. Yellow-Rat Foxysquirrel Fairdiddle in exchange for a pint of beer.
| |
| June 25, 2002 | -
President George W.
Bush told Americans to get more exercise, eat less, and stay away from tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.
| |
| June 11, 2002 | -
New York's state education commissioner declared an end to the practice of removing all references to religion, race, sex, alcohol, drugs, and other topics from quotations of famous writers that appear on standardized tests.
| |
| February 26, 2002 | -
Two drunk fisherman got into a fight in Florida; the first hit the second with a beer bottle; the second stabbed the first with the bill of a swordfish.
| |
| December 18, 2001 | - The Drug Enforcement Agency agreed for the first time in two decades to permit research on the medical effectiveness of marijuana; the agency also decided to ban any food products that contain trace amounts of THC, the active ingredient in pot, which is a problem for many natural-foods companies that use hempseed or hempseed oil in their products. “Pasta, tortilla chips, candy bars, nutritional bars, salad dressings, sauces, cheeses, ice cream, and beer” containing hemp have been banned, but not hats, shirts, lotion, paper, or rope, because they “do not cause THC to enter the human body.”
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| December 11, 2001 | -
Angry women in Kenya were attacking bars, claiming that cheap alcohol was making their husbands impotent.
| |
| December 11, 2001 | - Vigilante women in Pune, India, who called themselves the Bangle Army, were attacking bootleg alcohol vendors with rolling pins.
| |
| November 20, 2001 | - Prozac causes mice to become extremely aggressive, especially when they drink alcohol, researchers found, and brain scans can now reveal whether someone is lying.
| |
| November 20, 2001 | - Archaeologists in Syria found a 3,800-year-old recipe for beer.
| |
| October 30, 2001 | -
Americans were drinking more beer.
| |
| October 23, 2001 | - A cleaning man at London's Eyestorm Gallery tossed out an installation by “young British artist” Damien Hirst a day after it was assembled because he thought it was just a pile of garbage; the artwork, which was largely composed of cigarette butts, empty beer bottles, candy wrappers, and newspapers thrown about on the floor, was re-created by gallery staff based on photographs of the original.
| |
| September 4, 2001 | - Historians in Britain brewed a 5,000-year-old recipe for beer flavored with animal feces.
| |
| August 7, 2001 | -
German
beer consumption was down to 1.4 billion gallons during the first half of this year.
| |
| July 3, 2001 | - A mob of students in Paterson, New Jersey, beat a homeless drunk to death with his own beer bottle.
| |
| May 29, 2001 | - Surgeons removed a beer-can ring-pull from the lung of a New Zealand man.
| |
| May 1, 2001 | - Jenna Bush, the 19-year-old daughter of the President, was given a ticket for the possession of alcohol in an Austin nightclub.
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| December 5, 2000 | -
Russians were busy paying “Freedom's Toll,” wrote the New York Times, drinking hard and dying young.
| |
| October 17, 2000 | - Yakama Indians were trying to enforce a ban on the sale of alcohol; non-Indian owners of bars and grocery stores were refusing to comply; the occurrence of fetal alcohol syndrome among the Yakama is 500 percent higher than normal.
| |
| October 10, 2000 | - Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin published a memoir in which he admitted to drinking too much and to having planned in 1996 the abolition of Russian democracy.
| |
| September 12, 2000 | - Bureau of Indian Affairs director Kevin Gover apologized to American Indians for “the decimation of the mighty bison herds, the use of the poison alcohol to destroy mind and body, and the cowardly killing of women and children.”
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