-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!

http://newsok.com/beer-loving-entrepreneurs-hop-head-first-into-venture/article/3343395

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.

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.

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.

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!

-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.

-The Thirsty Beagle earlier reported a beer brewing class at Colorado State University. Now another major college has joined the brewing trend. The University of Wisconsin will offer the class in the spring semester. Details here. The course instructor said the program is not so much about consumption of beer — “This is not a course to help kids go out and slam beers on Friday night,” he said — but more about the science behind fermentation. The course is actually part of the university’s bacteriology department. The class seems a natural for Madison because of the campus’ proximity to Milwaukee. Less fortunately, the school also has the highest binge-drinking rate in the country. But the prof said students will brew, sample and critique beer, and any excess brew will be unceremoniously dumped down the drain.

-Speaking of Wisconsin, the city council in Hudson, Wisc., recently approved a beer permit for a junior hockey league game consisting of players as young as 16. The Thirsty Beagle has gone on the record to say that if everyone’s following the rules, beer should be allowed where the law allows, but this one doesn’t seem right. Beer at a carnival or amusement park like Six Flags is one thing, but beer at a junior hockey game feels a lot like beer at a T-ball game, which sounds kind of trashy. A league organizer said he needs beer sales to help fund operations. The city council, meanwhile, was mainly concerned that if they allowed the hockey league to sell beer, then they might have to field a similar request from the Hudson Soccer Association. Look out Wisconsin: Here comes youth soccer hooliganism!

-What do you do in Ann Arbor, Mich., when someone hits you on the right side of the head with a beer bottle? You hit that person in the left eye with your fist and run home.

-Beer sales in emerging economies are declining, according to a news report, signalling a troubling time for small breweries.

-Yet another Wisconsin tidbit: A Milwaukee brewery has announced a new beer to coincide with a museum exhibit on the Titanic: Titanic Pilsner. The main difference is that this Titanic will only get better when it hits ice.

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — A Lawton man who attempted to pay for his bar tab with gum wrappers was arrested after a scuffle with police.

Lawton police say 28-year-old Arnold Loren was arrested Tuesday night on a complaint of disorderly conduct and assault on a police officer.

A bartender told police the man was playing pool with an open bottle of beer, spilling beer on the table. She told police Loren first tried to pay his $32 tab with a credit card, which was declined.

When police arrived and ordered the man to pay his tab, they reported Loren began counting out gum wrappers as if they were cash.

Loren was arrested after police say he shoved an officer.

Next: The Thirsty Beagle goes to Best Buy and tries to purchase a flat screen with 1,500 chewed-up lollipop sticks.

-Students at Rice University are working on a beer that could help prevent cancer and heart disease.

-Miller is pulling one of its beers from the U.K.

-A New York couple is in hot water after serving beer to kids as young as 14 at a Halloween party, and charging the teens admission to get in.

-A day in the life of a beer delivery man.

-There are plenty of stories out there about people trying to steal beer from convenience or grocery stores, but how often do we see people trying to steal 23 cases of Corona from a railroad car?

-A British beer named after a military helicopter and created to raise funds for troops in England was so popular, the brewery is making it a regular staple.  

-The controversy over Six Flags’ plan to sell beer at the Arlington, Texas, park — as relayed earlier by The Thirsty Beagle — continues.

-Miller is trying to expand the beer market in India.

-And finally, in the giving beer a bad name department, a sheer genius was caught with an open beer container in his vehicle. And a 4-year-old child in the back seat.