Drunk People in the News

why dont you go climb up a tree, couric

Dick, there for a party rapper Lil Jon threw to launch his energy drink Crunk, was downstairs with party staples Sean Lennon, Devon Aoki and Chloe Sevigny when he lost control.

A music magazine editor had the misfortune of sitting alone at a table when Dick and his assistant decided to join her. The wayward comic took one sip of his drink before ducking his head under the table to hurl. "It came out like a rope!" he proudly announced to the editor, whose $200 jeans he ruined. Then, suddenly embarrassed, he whispered, "Did anyone see me?" before staggering off to the bathroom.

Man pleads guilty to firing bullet through mother’s left eye
BELLEVILLE, Ont. (CP) — A 50-year-old man fed up with how his mother emptied his ashtray and paid his bills pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder for shooting the woman through the left eye with a .22-calibre rifle.
Murray Wilson admitted in a Belleville courtroom to murdering his mother, Velma Wilson, 75, in her home outside Bancroft.
Court heard from three witnesses, including Wilson’s brother-in-law and cousin, who described the disdain he had for his mother, a popular church worker in the Bancroft area.
He especially disliked it when she sorted through his mail and made his bed, they testified.
Wilson, a former trucker who is twice divorced, admitted that on Aug. 17, 2002, he went to his bedroom in his parents’ basement and grabbed the gun while his father was out.
After he shot his mother as she sat in her rocking chair, Wilson walked to a neighbour’s house and confessed to the killing, court heard.
Acting Crown attorney Lee Burgess said Wilson had an estimated 250 milligrams of alcohol in his blood after a long night of drinking — more than three times the legal limit to drive.
Wilson had moved back in with his parents after a number of failed relationships. He lost his driver’s licence because of an impaired driving conviction, and could no longer drive a truck for a living.
Wilson will be sentenced in September.
(Ottawa Citizen)

Kitchener woman gets house arrest for attacking friend over Popsicles
KITCHENER, Ont. (CP) — A Kitchener woman who drank 18 beers before threatening to kill a friend and her three-year-old daughter because the girl ate too many Popsicles was sentenced Monday to two years less a day of house arrest.
Court heard Shelley Ammon, 40, the mother of a 16-month-old girl, had a sleepover at her house on Oct. 20, 2002, and invited her friend Jodi Pender, 29, and her three-year-old daughter.
Both women were single mothers who’d met six months earlier and whose children got along well.
Pender had two beers before going to bed because she wasn’t feeling well, Kitchener’s Superior Court heard earlier this year.
Around 1:30 a.m., Pender was awakened by Ammon trying to tie a white plastic bag over her head. Ammon had her knee in Pender’s back to hold her down.
“I have to do this,” Ammon said. “I have to kill you and your daughter and your mother because your daughter ate all of my daughter’s Popsicles.”
Pender was able to rip a hole in the bag and break free.
Ammon pleaded guilty in May to assault causing bodily harm and making death threats. She was initially charged with attempted murder.
(Waterloo Region Record)

Spano says the machine is a setback to efforts to curb teen drinking and drunken driving. ...

Drunk gets in stranger's bed

Aug 18 2004

Duncan Higgitt, The Western Mail

A REVELLER yesterday told a court he didn't remember getting into a stranger's bed after a drinking binge.

Devindar Hirani, 26, is accused of walking into the woman's house before groping her in her bed.

But Hirani told the jury he does not remember a thing about the incident apart from waking up "startled" after the woman screamed.

Hirani told Cardiff Crown Court he had gone for a night out with some friends.

He said, "I must have drunk half a bottle of vodka and then some drinks in the club.

Hirani told the jury he smoked five cannabis joints during the night but could not remember anything else until he was caught in the woman's house.

He said, "I remember getting startled and woken up in the other person's house. I don't remember noticing the half-naked lady."

Production worker Hirani told the jury he thought he was going to his own house when he walked into the woman's home.

Prosecutor Hywel Hughes accused Hirani of telling a "pack of lies", claiming that he knew what he was doing.

But Hirani told the jury it was a "genuine mistake".

The court heard the woman was asleep in bed and thought it was her boyfriend who had joined her.

She said, "I had fallen off to sleep when I became aware of a hand on my lower back.

"Shortly after I felt the hand it went inside my underwear.

"I clenched my bottom then I turned round and saw an Asian gentleman lying in my bed."

Hirani, of Grangetown, Cardiff, denies indecent assault. The trial continues.

Brisbane - A remorseful man was shocked to learn he had bitten the tail off a live mouse while drunk to win a pub competition.

Apprentice chef Tony McGee (22) pleaded guilty in the Brisbane Magistrate's Court to being cruel to an animal and was fined A$750 (about R3 500).

During the pub challenge, McGee also set off a mouse trap with his tongue, ate a cup of maggots, sucked up three chewed chillies through a straw, and drank a pint of anchovies and another pint of mouthwash, defence lawyer Ben Power told the court.

McGee, who downed bourbon and beer for six hours before competing, had no recollection of chewing the mouse and didn't believe his friends the next day when they told him what he had done, Power said. - Sapa-AP

ALCOHOL-FUELLED young pop fans are being blamed for a spate of obscene graffiti.

Phallic symbols and the names of teen pop bands like McFly and Busted were sprayed on car bonnets in a quiet Reigate area.

The news comes after teen queen Christina Aguilera was accused of popularising graffiti in her music videos.

The nature and timing of the graffiti - late one Friday night - has led neighbours to suspect it was the work of alcopop-fuelled youngsters.

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HONG KONG: Hong Kong justice chiefs have suspended a lawyer who admitted being "drunk as a monkey" after his giggling and mumbling caused the adjournment of a court case, an official statement said Tuesday.

Roderick Murray clapped, put on his sunglasses, drummed his fingers on his desk and laughed during the District Court case of seven defendants charged over millions of dollars in unpaid cigarette duty.

The British-born prosecuting counsel was repeatedly reprimanded by Judge Chua Fi-lan, who later described his behaviour as "bizarre".

Henry Kissinger's assessment of the president's condition on the night of Oct. 11, 1973, is contained in more than 20,000 pages of transcripts of Kissinger's phone calls as the president's national security adviser and secretary of state — records whose privacy he had guarded for three decades. The National Archives released them Wednesday.

They show the powerful adviser trying to manage world crises even as Nixon's presidency teetered from the Watergate scandal that would consume his administration in August 1974.

In October 1973, U.S.-Soviet tensions were peaking over the Arab-Israeli war, and British Prime Minister Edward Heath's office called the White House just before 8 p.m. to ask to speak with Nixon.

"Can we tell them no?" Kissinger asked his assistant, Brent Scowcroft, who had told him of the urgent request. "When I talked to the president, he was loaded."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/08/politics/main634636.shtml

"He pulled up behind me, rolled down the passenger side window and said he was looking for a police officer to arrest him," Ian McCollin, chief of police in Vernon, VT, said in an interview on Wednesday. "When I asked him why, he replied 'I'm drunk.'"

To make matters worse, the drunk driver was operating on a suspended license, which was taken away after a previous drunk driving charge, McCollin said.

Bryan Condo, 28, was driving on a quiet Vermont road at night when he asked McCollin to take him in. Since drivers rarely pull over police cruisers, a cautious McCollin called a colleague for backup with an amused "You won't believe this one."

"I was a little concerned but I also wanted him to hear the story too," he said. "I was afraid they'd think I was senile or losing my mind."

Police discovered Condo, a resident of North Pownal in Western Vermont, was four times over the legal limit and charged him with driving under the influence as well as driving without a license.

Condo, was released hours after his arrest and will be arraigned on Aug. 17. He could not be reached for comment.

"This guy was hilarious," McCollin said. "And he was very cooperative and polite, unlike your average drunk driver."

Determined thieves steal Norwegian family’s in-ground swimming pool
OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Norwegian family’s swimming pool wasn’t just bolted down, it was in the ground. But that didn’t stop a band of determined thieves.
When the Nicolaysen family visited their mountain cabin over the weekend, they discovered a big hole in the yard in place of the swimming pool that had been installed 20 years ago.
“This can’t be, we thought,” Arild Nicolaysen told state radio network NRK on Monday. “We didn’t think it was possible. No one can steal a swimming pool.”
Evidently, someone did.
At some point since early November, when the family closed up the cabin for the winter, their five-metre-diameter pool and all its equipment was uprooted and stolen.
“It must have been a terrible job to disassemble such a big pool,” Brit Nicolaysen said. “There is a steel lining all the way around, plus there is a plastic liner and then there was a skimming system, a filter system and a lot of big hoses, and pipes.”
Police said they had never heard anything like it. They suspected the pool was taken for someone’s private use.

i have been thrown out of a bar before for cursing, but oddly enough not this one.

(Clue for the squeamish, the headline is "Welsh rugby fan cuts off testicles after win")

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