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12 Sep 2009 13:38

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U.S.: College students all about drinking to the point of no return

  • 56% of college students binge drink; the rest are losers source
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30 Aug 2009 11:15

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Offbeat: Hooray! The Beer Bike can keep rolling in Amsterdam

These fixtures of the biggest Dutch metropolis were in danger after a couple of recent crashes. But they can keep going – with some new restrictions. source
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14 Aug 2009 11:33

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Offbeat: We do this all the time when we’re at hotels, guys

  • He was a bit surprised that there were two people in his room and he was butt naked.
  • Sergeant Steve Watt of the Queenstown, Australia police • Describing the scene after a drunk, naked man barged into a hotel room that wasn’t his own and fell asleep on the bed. Sounds like someone had an interesting night. Charges weren’t pressed, by the way. • source
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08 Aug 2009 11:10

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U.S.: The driver in the wrong-way crash in N.Y. was downing vodka

  • 0.19 her blood-alcohol level, more than double the legal limit source
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07 Mar 2009 14:05

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Sports: Sir Charles: Only in jail for 3 days, still having a press conference

  • Best press conference ever. TMZ.com just confirmed it. Hopefully Charles Barkley says something awesome. In case you forgot, the former NBA superstar and current TNT commentator, who is not a role model, was arrested on a DUI charge in Arizona on New Year’s Eve. source
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18 Feb 2009 10:26

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Offbeat: How to get rich: Get drunk, fall in the subway, lose your leg

  • Dude got a $2.3 million settlement. Brooklynite Dustin Dibble, 25, doesn’t even remember his apparently epic bender, but he has a pretty obvious souvenir from it in the form of a missing leg after a train hit him. His lawyers are pretty good, apparently: He won a lawsuit after they claimed the train had time to stop. There are worse ways to make your life savings. source
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