Friday, July 10, 2009
Drunk News From the Animal Kingdom
Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Remember these birds?
Experts who conducted tests on 40 songbirds found dead in Vienna say they didn't die of bird flu as initially feared, but slammed into windows after becoming intoxicated from eating fermented berries.
Those birds are not the only drunks in the animal kingdom.
German police called to clear a road of a dead badger found the animal in question had in fact gorged itself on over-ripe, fermented cherries and, blind drunk, staggered out into the middle of the road.As for me? Those wonderful Canadian pills (aspirin, caffeine, codien) have tamed my hangover. As for the post? It owes everything to the tipper Sheena Moore. As for the image of the badger (which may or may not be drunk)? We must give thanks and praises to Nick Lawes. Peace be with you."The animal's stomach had turned the fruit to alcohol and the badger was, to put it crudely, drunk as a skunk," said a police statement on Wednesday. "In addition, the badger was suffering from diarrhoea studded with cherry stones."
Prodding the reluctant beast with a stick, officers managed to persuade it to leave the road near the town of Goslar in northwestern Germany and to sleep off his night of excess in a nearby meadow.
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I saw an Animal Planet special about a year ago about the many drug-using members of the animal kingdom. My favorite was the monkeys who live around Mexican resort beaches and steal booze from passed-out tourists.
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I'm a firm believer in the power of Gatorade to cure hangovers. After all, you mostly feel so lousy because alcohol depletes all your electrolytes, and Gatorade replaces a lot of them. Go buy yourself a bottle, Charles.
On the subject of animals and booze, I don't think I've ever met a dog that didn't go apeshit over beer. That's funny, because for me it was very much an acquired taste.
On the subject of animals and booze, I don't think I've ever met a dog that didn't go apeshit over beer. That's funny, because for me it was very much an acquired taste.
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Emergen-C will do in a pinch if you don't have Gatorade, which I usually don't. It saved me from a July 5th hangover.
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Best hangover remedy is actually to drink water, pee, and then drink water.
The alcohol is in your bloodstream.
The alcohol is in your bloodstream.
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This isn't new---in Phoenix, the pigeons get drunk on fermented berries and blunder into car windshields and (worse) stumble into pools and drown. You haven't lived until you've removed a dead pigeon that got sucked into the filter pump the night before.
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Before releasing The Gods Must Be Crazy in 1980, director Jamie Uys released a wacky "documentary" entitled Animals Are Beautiful People which featured
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Get a Gatorade. Drink two-thirds. Refill the empty space in Gatorade bottle with beer. Drink. All better.
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Gatorade is an important part of hangover curing and also prevention. Drink half a bottle before you go to bed, then the other half when you get up.
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Weed & healthy binge eating. Support your local drug dealers instead of pharmaceutical corporations. Your liver doesn't need even more damage.
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@11 ... um, you might want to pee before you go to bed, especially if you drank that much beforehand.
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Well of course they let it go on its way. Who'd want to arrest a badger for public drunkenness. You'd get your hands chewed off. Good thing it was the happy peaceful kind of drunk and not the loud angry kind. Just imagine suddenly encountering a drunken pissed off badger.
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I have a disgust of feet that borders on insane. However, that badger's funny little feet are adorable.
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just don't take too much acetaminophen... via wiki:
While generally safe for human use at recommended doses, acute overdoses (above 1000 mg per single dose and above 4000 mg per day for adults, above 2000 mg per day if drinking alcohol[2]) of paracetamol can cause potentially fatal liver damage and, in rare individuals, a normal dose can do the same; the risk is heightened by alcohol consumption. Paracetamol toxicity is the foremost cause of acute liver failure in the Western world, and accounts for most drug overdoses in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand
While generally safe for human use at recommended doses, acute overdoses (above 1000 mg per single dose and above 4000 mg per day for adults, above 2000 mg per day if drinking alcohol[2]) of paracetamol can cause potentially fatal liver damage and, in rare individuals, a normal dose can do the same; the risk is heightened by alcohol consumption. Paracetamol toxicity is the foremost cause of acute liver failure in the Western world, and accounts for most drug overdoses in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand
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