alcohol

People lose all kinds of things when they are drunk: pride, self respect, and it would seem, $200,000 sports cars. A British jury believed 35-year-old Glenn Knowles and 39-year-old Richard Mant when the two men told the court that Knowles lost the Lamborghini Gallardo that they share when he...

Pecica, Romania: A Romanian town decided to take action over what was considered to be a “despairing” amount of accidents involving cars and drunken pedestrians by warning about them with street signs. The Daily Mail reports that the signs feature a crawling stick figure with a glass in hand...

In what can only be described as the greatest marketing idea ever, Cascade Regional Blood Services in Tacoma, Washington has guaranteed they’ll see a huge increase in residents donating blood. Their plan? Give a pint of blood, get a pint of beer. Beautiful in it’s simplicity, yet a lock...

When their driver missed a turn, some of the older children on an Allegany County school bus knew that something was wrong. Despite protestations from the driver that everything was fine, they demanded that she stop the bus and allow them to exit the vehicle, which was definitely sensible...

Henry Hill, the mobster turned FBI informant whose story was the basis of the movie Goodfellas has been arrested for public intoxication and resisting arrest. The 66-year-old Californian’s arrest followed an alleged altercation in a Drury Inn lobby in Illinois. The Associated Press reports that he was in the...

A 25-year-old Toronto woman who was apparently driving the influence is said to have been involved in a road-rage incident that ended with a spectacular crash off a cliff into the Humber river. The incident allegedly began when the accused woman Ngoc Tran, 25, and 32-year-old Roland Branko became...

Pulled over with a blood-alcohol content that was almost four times the state’s legal limit, the ironically named Zachary Duis explained to police that for him, driving after consuming alcohol was something of a pastime. Duis exclaimed: Dude, I do this every night; I’m straight up and not drunk!...

Proctor, Minneapolis police have reported that the gasoline-powered La-Z-Boy recliner that was driven by a man in a drunk driving incident is currently up for sale on eBay and that the bidding will close on Tuesday. The recliner has a maximum speed of 20 mph, a steering wheel, headlights,...

Minneapolis man, Dennis LeRoy Anderson was sentenced to two years of probation for the drunk driving of a motorized La-Z-Boy chair that had been treated to a number of modifications. Anderson, whose blood alcohol level was 0.29 (three times the legal limit) when he crashed into a parked car...