Don't drink and fly

Don't drink and fly, then decide that you need some fresh air while at 30,000 feet.

Drunk British passengers force plane to make emergency landing
One passenger told Bavarian Radio: "It was a hell of a scene. One of them was lashing out with a vodka bottle after being refused more booze and the other went to the emergency exit yelling: 'I want some fresh air.'"

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One last day to live ...

if you had one last day to live
and your soul was free from fear

...

would you pray to god or not
get real drunk and cuss a lot
bitch about what you ain't got
or get you something new

Alcohol? Check. Horse? Check. Wait, what......

On more than one occasion, alcohol consumption has been blamed for a man's decision to ride a cow -- it is called beer goggles.

Australians do it a little differently ...

A 27-year-old man has been charged with riding a horse while drunk after motorists complained about his riding skills in heavy traffic in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.

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Mobile BAC Testing Unit To Visit Bar Area In Raleigh, NC

Starting Friday night, Raleigh bar patrons can find out what they would blow on a blood alcohol test if stopped by the cops -- from the safety of the sidewalk.

Alcohol Educators, Inc. will begin providing a new push cart vending service to downtown visitors. The "BLOW THIS" cart will be located in The Glenwood South area on Friday and Saturday nights this weekend from 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., weather permitting.

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Dead Drunk

We in the U.S. are catching up to our Eastern European counterparts:

Driver gives new meaning to term dead drunk
Police in Rhode Island say they arrested a man on Wednesday whose blood alcohol level was 0.491 percent - the highest recorded in Rhode Island for someone who was not dead.

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Highest BAC ever recorded: Bulgarian man with .914 (A blood-alcohol level of 0.55 is considered potentially fatal.)

The Floating Men: World of Shadows

There was a band in the 1990's that still performs amazing music to this day. The characters in their early songs were not familiar with cell phones, SMS or instant messaging (as they were developing in the 1990's. They had a few bad experiences with IRC and AOL chat rooms, though) ... but they knew the dangers of alcohol, lonely nights and the ghosts of their pasts..

The band is "The Floating Men":

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Before Microsoft Word, there was Wite-out

Some of us actually remember typing papers for college using a word processor, not word.exe. Wite-out was our friend. So was cheap vodka. However, we kept the two worlds separate, but equal. This driver decided to blur those lines (with video goodness):

Drunken driver drinks Wite-Out while in police custody

Drunk-friendly streets designed

Redesigning streets to make them more user-friendly for drunks could help reduce conflict and violence, scientists believe.

Researchers are using computer simulations to mimic the movements of people staggering home after a good night out.

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Friends don't let friends..

I don't know a great deal about current country music, but I found this word of caution from James Otto. This is a fan video for his song from his new CD "Sunset Man."


If you can't view the video, here is the link

Apparently, he is running a contest on CMT to promote the song. You can check that out here.

Lyrics to help you follow along: here