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2 unusual facts about alcohol intoxication


How Brown Saw the Baseball Game

He arrives at the ballpark to watch the game, but has become so inebriated that the game appears to him in reverse, with the players running the bases backwards and the baseball flying back into the pitcher's hand.

Lucy v. Zehmer

Zehmer claimed on the witness stand that the circumstances were such that Lucy should have known he was too inebriated to agree to the sale.


Aleksey Belyakov

Belyakov's countdown to leaving Finland started at President Kekkonen's dinner party in Kekkonen's official Tamminiemi residence where he was very drunk and behaved badly.

New Beer's Eve

The beer had to have an alcohol content less than 3.2% (4% ABV), compared to the 0.5% limit of the Volstead Act, because 3.2% was considered too low to produce intoxication.


see also

Bretazenil

David Nutt from the University of Bristol has suggested bretazenil as a possible base from which to make a better social drug, as it displays several of the positive effects of alcohol intoxication such as relaxation and sociability, but without the bad effects such as aggression, amnesia, nausea, loss of coordination, liver disease and brain damage.