The Daily Beast has posted a revealing list of the 25 drunkest cities in the U.S., after filling up the mother of all spreadsheets with market research data.

Among the stats that were analyzed, the site examined how many monthly drinks are consumed per person, the percentage of binge drinkers in the population, and well, you get the idea. The point is: Boston, I’m proud of you, you lovable drunk swines! *raises glass, swaying*

Here’s how the site explained its methods:

“The Daily Beast first analyzed data from Experian Simmons, a leading market-research firm, which provided data on the average number of alcoholic drinks per month the residents of more than 200 cities across the country reported to have consumed in a survey from earlier this year. As well, we considered the percent of the population that are either binge drinkers or heavy drinkers for each metro area, according to the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control. The average number of drinks was given twice the weight of the heavy- and binge-drinking population for the final rank.”

Boston took top spot with 7.4% of the population classed as ‘heavy drinkers’ and a 20.1% (!) termed binge drinkers. It was followed closely by Springfield, Mass., which took silver position thanks to a lofty average number of monthly drinks consumed per person – 14.6. Milwaukee, Wisconsin came in third.

There’s a further 22 spots to fill, so head here to read the rest. And if your city doesn’t register, bottoms up for next year!

[Via The Daily Beast]

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45-year-old Mary Ellen Lisee made an emergency call from a Travelers Inn in Fort Pierce, Florida, prompting a St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputy to show up and find Lisee drunk, yelling, and jumping up and down.

As police arrived and were shown to Lisee’s room by hotel staff, a man who identified himself as her boyfriend was in the process of leaving, saying it was too noisy and that he needed to get some sleep. When officers asked Lisee to write a statement, she wrote:

“My name is Mary Ellen Lisee. I have beaten, I believe in God, and He forgives me. I may joke, but I do not do crack. I will not for as long as I live.”

It was while police interviewed Lisee at the hotel that she made her bizarre eating confession, matter-of-factly stating to officers that she ‘ate too much food’. She declined medical attention before being arrested.

While uncommon, Misuse and Abuse of 911 is a crime that carries prison sentences and stiff fines in Florida.

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John Rich was kicked off of a Southwest Airlines plane yesterday after crew members decided he was too hammered to travel from Vegas to Nashville.

According to TMZ, the inebriated 37-year-old country singer was ejected from the 10:50am (!) flight while he was boarding. Before stumbling aboard, Rich had already argued with two passengers, and his behavior didn’t improve massively once on the plane.

The ‘Big & Rich‘ singer was confronted by Southwest crew members who asked him to vacate the plane. There was reportedly no resistance from Rich – indeed, witnesses said that he remained peaceful and cooperative as he exited the plane.

A spokesperson for Southwest confirmed a passenger had been kicked off the flight Rich was on, but in line with company policy could not reveal the person’s name. Which is no fun, really.

TMZ pressed for a statement, and got the following:

“Our crew assessed the situation and determined that the passenger was not fit for travel under governing federal aviation regulations. The customer was rebooked on a later Southwest flight out of Las Vegas, but chose to make alternative travel arrangements. We have processed a refund for the customer and his travel companion.”

Rich’s rep was less cooperative, denying there was ever an altercation, and refusing to comment any further.

Rich, meanwhile, joins the list of famous people thrown off flights in 2011, a line-up that includes Leisha Hailey, Billie Joe Armstrong, Gerard Depardieu, almost Whitney Houston, and quite a few more.

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Here’s something you won’t hear ever again, a drunken moose in Sweden recently became entangled in an apple tree while searching for apple’s that had not yet fallen to the ground.

The moose was eating fallen fermented apple’s that had previously dislodged from the fruit tree and when it had eaten what we assume was too many apple’s the animal decided to climb the tree in search of fresh fruit.

Once in the small apple tree the moose was hopelessly tangled  in a bunch of limbs and it took an entire group of rescuers several hours to free the drunken and confused wild animal.

Speaking to Swedish paper The Local one observer noted:

“My neighbor recognized it as the animal that almost ran into her car earlier in the day,” while adding,”She was pretty sure the elk [Moose] was already under the influence.”

So there you have it, drunken moose apparently like to climb trees, they just aren’t very good at getting back down.

Believe it or not drunken moose sightings are common in Scandinavia where fermented apple’s are typically the reason for their buzz.

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Ever posted an embarrassing tweet, check-in or Facebook status update while under the influence of alcohol?

Ambien is actually a notorious offender here (given its tendency to drop your inhibitions while not affecting your speech or grammar), but alcohol is the most common precipitate when it comes to mortifying morning after replies. Whether you’ve checked in at six or seven local hotspots or merely unleashed a series of “WOOOOO!” updates on Facebook, cleaning up the social media mess can be a bit of a chore when hungover. (There is yet no app to scrub the puke from your bedroom carpet.)

Although you can’t make anyone else “unsee” a mortifying status update, sometimes it can be a bit embarrassing to even have to sort through iffy updates when you sober up. A new app in the iTunes store takes care of the deleting for you, scrubbing Facebook and Twitter of all your sobby updates @yourexgirlfriend. Enter the time you started partying, and the app goes to work on deleting without forcing you to relive the night in all its hooch-soaked glory. (Now, if it could prevent tagging by your friends from that night, that would be really cool.)

Once the app has erased the evidence, however, there’s no getting it back. But better safe than the subject of a screenshot on Reddit with over 1,000 upvotes.

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Doctors can vary a bit in the recommendations about drinking and pregnancy.

Some medical professionals say as much as a glass of wine daily is okay, while some believe there is no way to determine how much alcohol, if any, is safe to consume while pregnant. But a new study indicates that even moderate drinking during pregnancy can have lasting effects on a male fetus:

In a study of almost 350 young men, sperm levels were a third lower in those whose mothers had drunk more than four drinks a week during pregnancy compared with teetotallers.

The Danish researchers told a fertility conference these men may have a harder time getting their partner pregnant.

The study grouped participants one of four ways: women who abstained totally, those who consumed 1-2 units of alcohol per week, those who consumed 3-4 units of alcohol per week and those who drank more than 4 units a week. Men whose mothers belonged to the latter groups had a concentration of sperm 32% lower than men in the first group.

The BBC goes on to state that UK researchers believe drinking while pregnant may not so much cause the reduced fertility in affected males so much as indicate other markers leading to the findings. Dr. Alan Pacey of the University of Sheffield elaborated:

“It needs following up but it might help us understand factors which affect testicle development in the womb.”

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Luckily for all the wildness of my youth I never found myself in any situations that came close to being this embarrassing let alone having them end up on the Web – but then we didn’t have an Internet when I was that young.

Of course it is these kind of photo we warn you about not having them show up on your Facebook page, but hey what do I know.

a big hat tip to Holy Taco for the original and larger list.

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Spoiler alert: she survives.

In the clip, a 27-year-old unnamed woman is shown perilously weaving about on a Boston subway platform before falling onto the tracks. As she stumbles around on the track, hugging the rail and unable or unwilling to reach the horrified bystanders trying to frantically alert the conductor and reach out to assist her, the train rapidly approaches. Police say that the woman, who was treated for “scrapes,” had been drinking heavily for a long period of time.

Luckily for the woman, the conductor manages to grind the speeding train to a halt just short of where she stood on the track. The train operator, 27-year-old Charice Lewis, describes the experience:

“The people were waving, but they were waving too much, and they were really, really close to the yellow line, which you are not supposed to be. It was telling me, ‘Slow your train down. Slow your train down.

“As I was approaching, the lady pops her head up, and I was like, ‘Oh my God. Someone is in the pit.’ I threw it into emergency, exactly what I am supposed to do, and it stopped just in time not to hurt her.

“After the fact, she came up with a big smile on her face.”

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In comparison, Donut Day looks kind of lame.

Unfortunately I couldn’t find you guys any free tequila offers, but it’s still a great excuse to get your drunk on. When exactly July 24th became a national holiday of Tequila and the origins of the holiday remain unclear. But hey, National Tequila Day!

Interestingly, babies and bruises of unidentifiable origin aren’t Tequila’s only side effects. From Fast Company:

Last year a group of scientists found that by vaporizing tequila and then heating it to nearly 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit, they could create diamonds. The balance of ethanol and water in tequila is so ideal that even an inexpensive bottle of gold tequila can produce 100-400 nanometer diamond sheets free of imperfections.

Tequila… is there anything it can’t do?

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As attorney for Jeffersonville City Council Illinois, Larry Wilder is usually prosecuting cases against local drunks. But with a name like Wilder you have to live up to your name, so Larry decided to see what it was like to be on the other side…. and was discovered by neighbors drink and asleep in their trash can Tuesday morning.

According to a local report, Police responding to a 911 call decided not to charge Wilder. “When officers arrived on the scene, they made contact with that person and he was identified as Larry Wilder,” Jeffersonville Police Chief Tim Deeringer said. “He wasn’t belligerent, he wasn’t out of control. Mr. Wilder was asked if he could walk to his home. He said he could and he was turned over to two adult children at the house.”

Just because the humiliation of being caught isn’t enough, naturally pictures from the scene have been published. The city council is currently reconsidering Wilder’s ongoing employment.

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Amy Winehouse has done it again, running around Camden last night off her face on god knows what, and for the amusement/pity of the rest of us its all been caught by the paps.

The Mirror is reporting that Winehouse went on a rampage, screaming for her husband and banging on the door of her old flat, which is just 100 metres from her current home.

The photos are awful, she is wearing that same strange string vest top she was wearing the other day. I suppose with that on if she spills anything she can just be wiped down. Whilst she doesn’t look as emaciated as those photos which appeared before she stopped saying no to rehab, she needs to switch out the meth/crack/smack for a sandwich, stat.

Obviously yelling for her husband means she intends to hook up with Blake Fielder, now that he is out of the slammer. Can’t wait for those pictures.

One day, if she doesn’t die like next week, she is going to do a vanity google, see these pics and be mortified. Its a train wreck, you won’t be able to look away.

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The overly “emotional” Mr Smith is filmed on a set of steps writing a story about the Obama victory.  Obviously hammered he then admits to plagiarisng his take on the historic US election, yelling “thank God for the BBC becuse I am cutting and pasting it all, baby!”

The video is a 4 minute embarrassment, and is therefore hilarious.  The Birmingham Mail is refusing to comment on what it calls an “internal matter”.

Adam Smith has got to be regretting his F*&k You resignation which he didn’t even remember the next day.  The worst I have ever done when a little inebriated is drunk dialled an ex.  Tell us your humiliating drunk story in the comments. Go on, it won’t be as embarrassing as Adam Smith’s.

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