Bettison was a member of the "Wain Group" which, the panel found, produced a report largely blaming drunk fans for the disaster.
From its humble beginnings (for a while, the fire-fighting force consisted largely of drunks and vagrants) the service gradually became more professional, developing new techniques and introducing smokejumpers (special teams that parachute into hot spots).
France's League of Human Rights (LDH) has condemned the fast-track sentences, which it argues are handed down in dreadful conditions and largely apply to drunks or fools.
His response to the Nazi era was far less courageous than that of Alone in Berlin's protagonists, largely consisting of getting drunk and hiding in a rural backwater – though he was recognised as an anti-fascist by the Soviet occupiers in 1945, who bizarrely made him a mayor.
If history is written by the winner, the history of the cocktail has largely been written by the drunk.
Two minutes in, I understand why Anderson claims that the hero of his latest film, Punch-Drunk Love, is largely autobiographical.
They were self-regarding, overblown pseudo-hippies that appeared interesting largely because their singer was either drunk or on acid, or both.
And the destruction of the Ivorian air force, coupled with shooting at largely unarmed if aggressive and often drunk demonstrators, has inflamed feelings more.
At least Ibiza Uncovered, whilst chronicling it's fair share of emotional tumult, largely favoured fun over stress, shots drunk over shots fired.
The show was largely dominated by the actions of Junie Browning, who would regularly get drunk and act in an aggressive manner towards his fellow castmates.
