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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man is facing charges after Memphis Police found him passed out in a car with 36 beers. On Sunday, officers responded to a drunk call in the 3000 block of Claudette Street in Parkway Village. Once on the scene, homeowners told them that an unresponsive man had driven into their yard. According to reports, after several attempts, officers were able to make contact with the suspect, Domingo Ticum-Tebalan. They found a 12-pack of Modelo bottles and a 24-pack of Modelo cans in the car. Memphis Police said Domingo had an odor, his eyes were bloodshot and...

VIDEO Eating ginger candy definitely prevents seasickness. I learned that on a recent cruise. However, on the same cruise I noticed that I never felt drunk despite drinking heavily. So I got to wondering whether eating ginger candy will prevent drunkenness. On May 5, I decided to test this idea out by eating ginger candy followed by drinking 375 ml of Tequila straight. What you see in this video is my participation in this experiment plus the result of that investigation.

One of the last sentences said by the 44-year-old man struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Longwood Friday was shouted to a friend as the two walked to a neighborhood pub: “Let’s race the train!” Alexander Javier, the 24-year-old friend, made it across the tracks. Todd Keller did not. The Longwood Police Department released details about Keller’s death Wednesday afternoon. According to the incident report, Keller and Javier had been drinking at Connolly’s Pub earlier in the night and had gone to Javier’s apartment for awhile before deciding to head back to the pub. The men were walking...

An Orange County Sheriff’s deputy was arrested early Saturday after he pulled a gun on a Lyft driver, the agency said. The driver told Orlando police that after dropping off Deputy Troy Heyer at his home, he was writing a report to Lyft when Heyer came out and pointed a gun at him, saying “what are you doing here,” an arrest affidavit said. The driver said he was in fear for his life and went to the intersection of Narcoossee Road and Lake Nona Club Drive where he called police. He took officers to Heyer’s home. Officers knocked on the...

Police arrested a man last week after he allegedly drove a stolen construction excavator into a light pole and caused extensive damage while driving through two gas stations just off Interstate 5 in Redding. Remore Allen Smith, 37, of North Carolina faces charges of vehicle theft, resisting arrest and hit-and-run after authorities say he stole the heavy machinery from an I-5 on-ramp at about 3:15 a.m. Friday. Smith allegedly drove the excavator several hundred feet on Churn Creek Road, striking a light pole and traveling through a Chevron gas station and then an Arco AM/PM station, the Redding Police Department...

An Oregon sheriff’s office took to Facebook to share its “weirdest DUI arrest of the weekend,” in which law enforcement officials arrested a woman after she poured alcohol into a Taco Bell drive-thru employees mouth. According to Washington County Sheriff’s Office, the incident took place around 1 a.m. on Saturday at a Taco Bell branch in Beaverton, Ore. The suspect, 23-year-old Elianna Aguilar-Aguilar from Cornelius, Ore. had a blood alcohol level of 0.12 percent. The Oregon state limit is 0.08. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to Yahoo Lifestyle’s request for comment, but wrote in its Facebook...

The world’s tallest church is slowly disintegrating at its base due to human urine. Officials responsible for upkeep of the Ulm Minster Church in Ulm, Germany, say the stone base of the tower is eroding due to salt and acids in urine from drunken revelers urinating on the base, CNN reports. The erosion has become such a problem that city officials doubled fines to 100 euros for anyone caught urinating. “I’ve been keeping an eye on it for half a year now and, once again, it’s coated with urine and vomit,” Michael Hilbert, the building’s head of maintenance, told Südwest...

Yesterday a friend and I were talking about some of the weird, perplexing things in the Bible, swapping quotes and links to try to make sense of a strange passage. I decided I’d throw it out there today and see what others thought.Genesis 9:18-27 describes how after Noah lands the ark and makes a covenant with God he plants an orchard, invents wine, and gets drunk. Then his son Ham “saw the nakedness of his father” and told his brothers, who then covered their eyes so they didn’t see him, but went in and covered him. Afterwards Noah curses Ham’s...

The CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi is the most amiable, open-minded guy in the world, with a good sense of humour to boot. The perfect radio host. His weekly show, Q, frequently provides proof of his willingness to explore both sides of a gamut of issues in the classic liberal tradition. Unfortunately, amongst doctrinaire feminists, amiability, intellectual curiosity and even (especially?) a sense of humour don’t cut it when their pet theories fall into Q’s crosshairs. Ghomeshi had the temerity on Monday to host a debate about the veracity of “rape culture,” between Lise Gotell, chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at...

The Apostle Paul said to not become drunk on wine, but to be filled with the Spirit. Obviously, there is a point at which one can imbibe a certain amount of alcohol, be it from fermented grapes, fermenting honey, or whatever - and become drunk. I imagine that some people, somewhere, can drink one beer for the first time and become drunk - a rarity indeed - but nonetheless not outside the realm of possiblity. And so, by drinking that first beer, they become drunk --- and sin. Others may say that it takes x amount (be it from wine,...

A crazed film student who recently embedded with Marines in Afghanistan is accused of a drunken, hate-fueled attack on a Muslim cabby in Midtown -- further heightening tensions in a city already gripped by the Ground Zero mosque controversy. Michael Enright, 21, of upstate Brewster, asked his victim if he was a Muslim and exchanged pleasantries in Arabic before going berserk and slashing the driver's neck and face through the taxi's partition, police said. He has been charged with attempted murder as a hate crime for the attack, in which he allegedly shouted, "This is a checkpoint, motherf- - -ker!...

She's persona non Gaga. A fuming Hal Steinbrenner informed Yankee Stadium executives that Lady Gaga is permanently banned from the team's clubhouse after her boozy antics -- including swigging whiskey and repeatedly fondling her boobs -- during a visit to the house that Ruth built Friday night, sources told The Post. The songstress and two girlfriends sauntered their way into the Bombers' clubhouse -- without team approval -- and hung out for 30 minutes after the team lost to the Mets. She met six players -- including Alex Rodriguez and Robinson Cano -- while the "Poker Face" singer kept slurring...

Girls just wanna have fun, right? Tell that to the folks at the Parkersburg Art Center, West Virginia, and the Lake Lyndsay Lodge, Ohio. These are really nice halls whose owners rent them out for wedding receptions, dances, and similar genteel occasions. They feature amenities such as crystal vases, silk flowers, pin-tuck tablecloths, statuary, and the like. On March 6 at Petersburg, and April 9 at Lake Lyndsay, the sisters of a college sorority, with their dates, held dinner dances at the halls, rented for the occasion. As reported by thesmokinggun.com, the college girls made a total shambles of both...

Driving under the influence charges hit both the father and mother of a 1-year-old who was in the vehicle when his mother was arrested early Saturday morning. At 12:45 a.m., Indiana State Police Trooper Fred Blohm stopped a 1996 Dodge mini van for speeding in the westbound 4000 block of U.S. 30. The driver of the van, Kelli M. Thompson, 24, of Crown Point was allegedly intoxicated and had her 1-year-old son in the vehicle with her, police said. Thompson called for the child's father, Robert A. Dereamer, 23, of Merrillville, to pick the boy up and police discovered he,...

See for example this thread first. This story is fit for a blog A man tried to pee on a dog "Turnabout is fair play" If that's what they say-- I'm just glad it excluded a..."log".

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) - A rowdy Stanford University mascot was fired after being discovered drunk during a basketball game, university officials said. Fifth-year senior Erin Lashnits, who dresses as a tree for the university's irreverent band, was stripped of her duties last week after her blood-alcohol level was measured at 0.157 during a men's basketball game at the University of California, Berkeley. For the purposes of driving a vehicle in California, legally drunk is .08. Stanford went on to lose the Feb. 9 game 65-62. The university had previously placed the band on "alcohol suspension," which requires a zero-tolerance policy...

/begin my translationJapan: "You are drunk, too!" -- Embarrassing Accusations over Showing up Drunk at Legislature 2005/06/22 "Never drank a drop(of alcohol)!" "You look flushed. You were drinking!" Japanese lawmakers at the main session of the lower house  were engaged in exchanging embarrassing accusations over showing up drunk at the session. On June 17th, after the end of the daily session, the largest opposition party, Minshuto, submitted, to Kono Yohei, the chairman of the lower house,  a motion for reprimand against two lawmakers, including former Prime Minister Mori Yoshiro, accusing them of showing up drunk at the vote over whether to extend the legislature...

The American 'super-cop' brought in by the Home Office to cut Britain's crime rate warned last night that the nation's binge drinking culture was spiralling out of control and fuelling an epidemic of violence outside pubs and clubs that threatened to overwhelm the police. In his first major interview the former Boston police chief, Paul Evans, described scenes he had witnessed in the early hours of the morning in city centres across Britain as chaos. 'I'm not sure it can get much worse,' he said, in response to police fears that new licensing laws allowing 24-hour drinking would lead to...

<p>The former head of human resources for Caddo Parish has filed a formal complaint against Parish Administrator Bill Hanna, citing allegations of job discrimination, unprofessional behavior and on-the-job intoxication.</p> <p>Linda Rae Jordan, whose job was listed among employment opportunities in Sunday's Times, sent all 12 Caddo commissioners a copy of her formal complaint Feb. 11.</p>

Did Jesus drink wine?Related Question: Is it okay for a Christian to drink? Jackie writes - Do you know if the wine Jesus drank was non-alcoholic or not?Is social drinking sinful?     Question #1: Do you know if the wine Jesus drank was non-alcoholic?The key word in Jackie's first question is "know." No, I do not KNOW if the wine Jesus drank was non-alcoholic, or if He drank wine at all.Nobody knows, because the Bible doesn't say. To my knowledge, there were just two incidents where the Bible SPECIFICALLY indicates that Lord Jesus was "involved" with drinking wine...