Mr. Beck said that probation cases had surged, even as violent crime had dropped, in part because more convictions for certain offenses, including drug possession, simple assault, drunk driving, fraud and embezzlement, had drawn probation instead of jail or prison time.
The reason is simple: Most drunk-driving deaths involve drivers with far higher BACs.
Back pockets are tricky, but if the victim is really drunk, a simple nudge can help free a wallet, Mr. Bookard said.
At a certain point you're so drunk that simple logic doesn't really play into it, but it sure makes you feel good to get your grand pronouncements out there.
Further into the 11th, the rue Menilmontant action segues into rue Oberkampf, a street where Parisians come with the simple aim of getting drunk, not unlike their fellow citizens of the 19th Century, but very much unlike the rest of Paris.
(A simple Internet search for "drunk pilot" should do it).
My strategy was always simple: get my dad drunk and wait until he passed out.
I've learned to forget all about simple pleasures like getting drunk-fuck-forget as we always work late and are expected to be back at 9 AM the next morning, including weekends.
It's simple: show up, mud, get drunk, mud and mud it up some more until you and everyone around you is covered in, you guessed it, mud.
The simple truth is that it takes a drunk to save a drunk.
