Looking at Twitter this morning, I kept seeing the headline “In drunk-driving flood, judge criticizes society for promoting alcohol.” At first, I didn’t pay it much mind. Judges rail against things all the time and while it can sometimes be entertaining and they’re often not wrong, there are better ways to spend my reading energy …
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Don’t Drink And Drive…To Your Driver Interview
I’ve heard of people half assing it at a job interview when it’s a position they really don’t care about, but I think Ryan William Dickson may have set some new standards. A woman on her smoke break saw Dickson trying to maneuver into a parking space, but hit an adjacent car while he was …
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You’re Under Arrest And You’re Going To The Family Reunion
You know that saying about leaving well enough alone? This is why we have that. Officials said they received a bulletin to be on the lookout for a reckless driver travelling southbound on Interstate 75 near Ocala. A trooper spotted the vehicle and was able to stop it. While talking with the driver, later identified …
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Fight On Road Drunk
When a story begins with the words “An altercation between a man and a Ford Taurus,” you just know it’s going to be good. WSU security notified Winona police that a man was punching, kicking and screaming at a blue Ford Taurus parked on King Street on the WSU campus. On arrival, police found Mikhail …
Finally, A Decent Use For A Taco Bell Burrito
Early on Tuesday morning, Sheriff’s deputies responded to a house in Crestview, Florida, after receiving reports of a disturbance. There they found 51-year-old Suzanne Hulvert with a fork protruding from her right hand. How did it get there, you ask. Well, turns out that 66-year-old Carl Owen Smith (A.K.A. her husband) stuck it there during …
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I Guess, You Know, You Should Have Shared
I’m not sure if these types of incidents have slowed down or if I’m just not trying hard enough to dig them up, but it’s been a while since we’ve had a good old fashioned pot roast related sibling stabbin’. On Monday, police say Rodney Gilliam and his brother Randy Gilliam were drinking alcohol and …
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Goodbye Philippines, And Everywhere Else, Too
There’s drunk, there’s really drunk, and then, apparently, there’s let’s hug this enormous New Year’s Eve firecracker as it’s about to go off drunk. A drunk man died after he embraced a giant firecracker called Goodbye Philippines as it was about to explode, health secretary Janet Garin told reporters. “His jaw was shattered. He was …
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Listen. It’s Early. I Can’t Think Of Anything Better Than Urine Trouble Now
Am I weird, or do the rest of you see a story like this where some nutty person dumps her kid on some strangers while drunkenly proclaiming that she doesn’t want it anymore and think to yourselves way to go little buddy, you get a do over!? Jennifer Cael, 34, left her child with strangers …
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Gin And Spruce
I’ve been sitting here for far too long trying to think up more tree jokes and nothing’s getting done, so let’s just start reading the story of Maryann Christy and her traveling companion and go from there. Christy was nabbed in late-January after a Roselle Police Department officer spotted her driving with the tree as …
There’s An Ear In My Beer
According to the complaint, officers were called Friday evening to a domestic assault on Seventh Avenue South. Upon arrival, officers met with Elrod and her husband. Officers noted in the criminal complaint that the husband was missing part of his right ear. During a search of the apartment, officers found blood as well as a part of …