# Drunkest Man Ever attempts to by more beer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327 "2009-10-27T18:41:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/41 "2009-10-29T22:23:44Z")
I noticed the news story says this happened in July '08 – what’s with the security camera saying October '09? And the convenience store people let him go so he could go have a car accident? Okay, I’m thinking about this too much now. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/42 "2009-10-29T23:42:45Z")
I’ve had severe vertigo, twice, as a bad reaction to pain meds. It doesnt make you move like that, but it does make you feel like you are moving like that. Nothing like laying nearly perfectly still, grabbing the floor because you feel like you are falling uncontrolably towards the ceiling and are going to vomit and choke to death on it… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/43 "2009-10-29T23:43:12Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > I don’t think Stanley is our mystery man - photos in the news look like a different guy. > > [RI cops arrest man with .491 blood alcohol level](http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO83135/) That story is dated June of 2008. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/44 "2009-10-30T00:43:37Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > I think there’s definitely more at work there than blind drunkenness. While balance always becomes an issue when you’re three sheets to the wind, I don’t think there’s ever been a time when I forgot which way “down” was. Plenty of times when I couldn’t help aiming at it though. Well, I do know someone who was so drunk he was leaning against the wall… because he thought it was the floor. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/45 "2009-10-30T00:59:40Z")
Jesus, and I thought .38 was bad. I’m sending that to my mother even though I’m sure she won’t show it to my father. I keep telling her to get a tape recorder and put it under the couch so that he can hear himself being a gibbering idiot the next morning. ---
**Author:** ![G.Pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@G.Pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.Pie)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/46 "2009-10-30T04:22:10Z")
I am so thankful that I gave up drinking. I have been that drunk. Watching that video makes me feel ashamed. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/47 "2009-10-30T04:51:49Z")
Fakest. Video. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/48 "2009-10-30T13:08:10Z")
> [@cuauhtemoc](#): > > I was looking at the time/date label at the top of the frame thinking that quarter to eleven was pretty early to be that drunk. Then as he’s leaving the store, you can see it’s AM, not PM. This. I can’t imagine how drunk everyone else back at the party is, if this was the soberest of the bunch they sent to get more beer… I really don’t think this is a fake. I get a true sense of “I have zero balance” from this guy that you can’t make up no matter how hard you try. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/49 "2009-10-30T13:37:17Z")
As a person who has balance issues when sober and spent many a [del]year[/del] night blitzed out of my mind, I can guarantee that that’s fake loss of balance. Or possibly related to an inner ear problem or something. It’s not alcohol-induced, at any rate. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/50 "2009-10-30T13:59:28Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > As a person who has balance issues when sober and spent many a [del]year[/del] night blitzed out of my mind, I can guarantee that that’s fake loss of balance. > > Or possibly related to an inner ear problem or something. It’s not alcohol-induced, at any rate. It’s not like any drunk I’ve ever seen (or been). Looks like acting to me. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/51 "2009-10-30T14:17:54Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > As a person who has balance issues when sober and spent many a [del]year[/del] night blitzed out of my mind, I can guarantee that that’s fake loss of balance. I can guarantee that it’s not. I’ve seen plenty of really drunk people (and have been myself on occasion), and I’ve seen people, including award winning actors, faking drunk. You can’t fake that level of drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/52 "2009-10-30T14:18:05Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Looks like an ether binge to me. I’ve seen poor idiots on ether with that little CNS control. Never that twitchy with alcohol. Wait - seriously? People do ether recreationally? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/53 "2009-10-30T15:09:52Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > That story is dated June of 2008. Right - all the more reason it’s not the same guy. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/54 "2009-10-30T15:10:53Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Wait - seriously? People do ether recreationally? Not a Hunter S. Thompson fan, I take it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327/55 "2009-10-30T17:07:25Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Wait - seriously? People do ether recreationally? I did it accidentally once…in middle school of all things… in the pursuit of science - Honestly ! If you don’t like being really queasy and having a heck of headache, I’d suggest passing on this recreational opportunity… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunkest-man-ever-attempts-to-by-more-beer/515327.md?page=2)