In 1933, Anthony Marino, Joe Murphy, Frank Pasqua and Dan Kriesberg decided to make money by taking out life insurance on drunks and then letting the victims drink themselves to death. Then they encountered Mike Malloy...
posted by reenum on Nov 11, 2011 - 17 comments

78 year-old American actor Rip Torn got drunk and tried to rob a bank last night. [more inside]
posted by bardic on Jan 31, 2010 - 107 comments

Governments around the globe are opening up their data vaults allowing us to check out the numbers for ourselves. This is the Guardian’s gateway to that information. Search for government data here from the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand — and look out for new countries and places as they are added. Read more about this on the Datablog. [more inside]
posted by netbros on Jan 25, 2010 - 13 comments

Alcohol at Son's 16th Gets 27-Month Sentence.
posted by anitanita on Jun 8, 2007 - 158 comments