Rolling the Dice

In Maryland, Bob and Joanne Breiner came home from eating dinner on the town to find a drunk curled up in their bed. This drunk rolled a seven, they didn’t press charges even sending him on his way with a doggy bag of food.

Drinking yourself silly is like rolling the dice, only winning the pot rarely rates anything better than leftovers and a hangover. Most of the time the stakes are much higher.

In Florida, Berty Deguzman woke up to find a drunk shambling around in his kitchen. This drunk crapped out, because Berty shot him twice in the stomach mistaking him for a robber.

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This week’s news was full of people drinking and drugging who played the odds and lost.

This lady shot her husband after having a few beers while this oneintroduced her daughter to cocaine. Ezra Wallace was charged with assault after binding two teenage girls during a flight. While high on drugs, Harrel Johnson beat his daughter to death and then decapitated the corpse. Johnny Smith drowned in his own vomit after a fraternity party. This German man got drunk on the airplane and tried to open the door in flight and then made things worse by attempted to storm the cockpit. Luke McCormick was sentenced to seven years for a DUI in which he killed two boys and crippled their father. Worst of all, this bus driver killed eight and injured thirty because he was driving drunk.

When there is so much to lose and so little to gain, you would think that people would stop playing this game.