Giving beer a bad name: Vol. 10
If you have a brother, or two, like The Thirsty Beagle, you’ve probably had your share of spats and disagreements over the years. Brothers can really go at it, especially when they’re younger. But with age comes wisdom — hopefully — and those wedgies and noogies and headlocks fade into the past. Or do they? If you are 45-year-old Kenneth Mullins of Lutz, Fla., who says you can’t punch your brother and smash a glass over his head? That was the scene that carried out Wednesday in the bathroom – yes, the bathroom – of Mullins’ home as him and his brother got in a fight over — wait for it — the last beer. Even worse, it is reported Mullins repeatedly slammed his mother’s arm in the bathroom door as she tried to intervene in the fight. Now don’t get me wrong, having only one beer left is a serious issue. But allegedly assaulting your brother and mother over it? Going to jail over it? That better have been some kind of gold-plated, weather-controlling, keep-you-warm-in-the-winter magical bottle of beer.
Giving beer a bad name: Vol. 9
Here’s a round-up from the beer-related crime blotter. Why are some people so stupid?
-A Salt Lake City teen was arrested after throwing a beer can at a man who wouldn’t let his daughter go out with the teen. Looks like that was good parenting.
-A Connecticut woman was arrested after police found her driving with 22 empty Heineken bottles in the back of her car.
-A man broke into a Colorado Springs pizza parlor and ice cream shop, but only made away with some beer and a brownie.
-Strange story here about a Florida man who robbed a convenience store of a couple beers, than grabbed a seat on a bench outside the store, where police found him when they showed up a few minutes later.
-And finally, from right here in Oklahoma — Ardmore, to be specific — a woman was arrested after she smashed a beer bottle against another woman’s head. The first woman believed the victim to be a rival for the attention of a man at an Ardmore bar. Wild times in Carter County, indeed!
More on Coop Ale Works
I mentioned yesterday that I’d be bringing you more on Coop Ale Works, a new brewer/distributor in NW OKC. Here’s a story running in today’s business section of the newspaper:
http://newsok.com/beer-loving-entrepreneurs-hop-head-first-into-venture/article/3343395
Giving beer a bad name: Vol. 8
OK, seriously, people of New Zealand. I’m minding my own business, trolling through the Internet to find the latest and greatest beer news tidbits to pass along to you, the loyal TTB reader, and I see this headline and brief description:
Beer baby loved and cared for: parents
A couple at the centre of the beer-soaked baby case in Whangarei say their daughter is well loved and cared for and the night in question was an evening out that went horribly wrong.
The New Zealand Herald - Feb 04 7:22 AM
Here’s the accompanying story.
Look, New Zealand, I don’t know what you guys are doing over there, but anytime a baby ends up being soaked with beer at 4 a.m., you’ve got serious trouble.
Beer + the homeless + biting police = Bad idea
We can all appreciate someone who takes time out of their busy schedule to volunteer at a homeless shelter. But the folks at the Paz de Cristo community outreach ministry for the homeless in Mesa, Ariz., weren’t so appreciative of 55-year-old Linda Lewis.
Lewis was volunteering at the shelter Monday evening, passing out cans of pop. But shelter workers asked her to leave because she had a dog with her. Lewis decided it would be good at that point to pass out bottles of beer to homeless people on the sidewalk outside the shelter.
A police officer then explained she wasn’t allowed to do that on shelter property. So she decided to try to continue to pass out beer bottles, this time just outside the property line.
Big shock coming: Police said Lewis was detained and searched by a female officer, who Lewis lunged at and bit on the hand. Then it was off to jail.
The lesson here: When the trifecta of beer, the homeless and attacking a police officer converge, it will usually end up with someone in jail.
Giving beer a bad name, Vol. 7
A man in India known as the “beer man” has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murder. As his calling card, the guy apparently left a can of beer by the bodies of his victims. Here’s the wire story:
An Indian killer, nicknamed the “beer man” for reportedly leaving empty beer cans near the bodies of his victims, has been sentenced to life in prison.
Ravindra Kantrole, aged in his early 30s, was suspected of being behind seven murders in south Mumbai between October 2006 and January 2007. The only link in the cases was a beer can left by each body.
However, after his arrest two years ago, Kantrole was charged with only three of the seven murders and won an acquittal in two cases.
The Mumbai court ruled that the forensic evidence, coupled with witness testimony, was sufficient to convict him of the murder of a homeless man.
He was sentenced by the court on Friday.
Giving beer a bad name, Vol. 6
The Thirsty Beagle knows there are such things as winter warmer beers, but I can guarantee you, a can of Budweiser is not one of them. A snow plow driver in Montreal was sent home over the weekend after he was seen driving his plow while sipping a can of Bud. Drinking and operating heavy machinery – in public no less – is never a wise choice, but good grief man, if you’re going to be dumb enough to do it, at least choose a more classy beer than that!
Giving beer a bad name, Vol. 5
Thirty-year-old Nathan Dilworth thought he was simply stopping in at a Greenville, Maine, convenience store Monday to pick up a beer. What he didn’t realize was that the visit to the store would land him in jail in connection with a bank robbery in Texas. Turns out Dilworth — who was living in his mother’s apartment at the time of his arrest – is noted for his run-ins with the law in the area. The store clerk recognized him, and notified police he was in town. When police arrested Dilworth and ran his name through a crime database, they found he was wanted in connection with a November bank robbery in San Antonio. Dilworth: You picked the wrong store to fulfill your beer fix. And living with your mother at age 30? You should be locked up just for that.
-Beer Championship Series update: Voting will continue today and Thursday in the BCS Final Four. See the post below for the match-ups and voting instructions.
Giving beer a bad name, Vol. 4
We’ve all had a time where we think, “Man, I could really use a beer right about now.” For me, it’s any long weekend with the non-drinking in-laws. Typically, you just accept the fact you’re not going to be able to have one, and move on with life. Unless your name is “Chops” and you live in southern Arizona. Then you get fired up about it and attack someone with a machete. That news hit the wire today with a report that a man named Angelo Antonio, 38, of Sells, Ariz., — a guy known somewhat appropriately as Chops — was sentenced to six years in federal prison for a machete attack. Antonio got upset with a man who refused to give him beer, and then “struck the victim on the head with the machete and stabbed him in the back,” according to the report. I don’t know what kind of jerk this guy is — although one can assume he rates pretty high on the jerk-o-meter scale – but maybe they should have just given him the beer.
Giving beer a bad name, Volume 3
We’ve all joked about how fun it would be to drive a beer truck and perhaps skim a couple bottles off the top at the end of a hard day’s work. Apparently one guy forgot you’re supposed to wait for your shift to end before you start tipping back. A truck driver in Colorado this week was arrested after he tipped his 45,000-pound truck toting a load of Coors. Bobby Dodge, 56, of McGregor, Texas, apparently accelerated too much on an exit ramp, causing the rig to topple. The ramp was closed for several hours as authorities had to remove all the beer from the truck before they could set it upright. Dodge was taken to a detox unit, according to news reports. Bobby Dodge: You sir, have brought shame on McGregor, Texas.
