Posts tagged as: drunk

Thursday, January 27, 2005

 

Firemen free 30-stone drunk wedged in taxi

‘A man, who was understood to weigh around 30-stone and was believed to have been drunk, had fallen over in the vehicle and slipped between the driver’s seat and rear seat. He was wedged fast on the floor of the cab, where officers said he was being sick.

Paramedics and firefighters from nearby Whitehaven Fire Station were called out to help. A team of five firefighters took about half an hour to manhandle the man out of the vehicle.’


Friday, January 14, 2005

 

Beer can filled with urine inadvertently leads to man’s death

‘Sentencing will be Jan. 20 for a man who unintentionally killed a friend who had given him a beer can filled with urine as a practical joke. [..]

He punched Leonard Strong in the head last July on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and Strong died two days later. [..]

Shippentower told federal judge Ancer Haggerty he did not mean to kill Strong but was upset at the prank.’


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Thursday, November 18, 2004

 

Reward offered for ‘baby Jesus’

`The South Australian Brewing Company has offered six cases of beer to anyone who can produce Jesus.

The company today offered the reward after thieves made off with baby Jesus from its traditional nativity display earlier this week.

Brewery managing director Mark Powell said security footage showed a man scaling a fence and swiping baby Jesus from his manger along the banks of the River Torrens.’