Bad news beer

by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Dec 26th 2005 @ 12:07PM

Let me start by saying that I'm in no way out to create any kind of link between alcohol and violence here. It just so happened that I read three different articles about beer and violence yesterday.

It started with this story from Springfield, Illinois, about a woman who fatally stabbed her boyfriend with a steak knife in a fight over a can of Natural Light. (This ad, from 1979, seemed appropriate.)

Next, a Bakersfield, California, man was recently sentenced to 50 years to life for suffocating his girlfriend after an argument over a bottle of beer "got out of hand."

Finally, an American soldier in South Korea may receive a 30-month sentence for attacking a Korean man with a beer bottle last summer.

Filed Under: Newspapers, Drink Recipes
Tags: asia, beer, midwest cities, soldier, south korea, stabbing, suffocating, violence, west coast