Drunk man's beer-buying efforts achieve internet video fame

By Tom Phillips

It's a situation that many of us will, regrettably, have been in - you've had a bit too much to drink, and yet you want more booze. So you stagger off in search of beer.

Fortunately for most of us, our incompetent attempts to procure more alcohol haven't been caught on video and put on the web entitled 'Drunkest Guy Ever Goes for More Beer' for millions of viewers to giggle at.

That's not the case for this poor man, whose rather unsteady attempts to buy a case of beer have been seen by over a million amused internet users in under a day since being uploaded to Break.com.

The video is from CCTV cameras in an unidentified shop, and sees our hero swaying on his way into the store in a manner not unlike Johnny Depp's portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow.

He heads straight - well, straight-ish - for the chilled beer cabinet and, after narrowly avoiding falling flat on his back as he grasps for the door handle, executes a delightful swing around the cabinet door that is reminiscent of Gene Kelly in Singin' In The Rain.

Having finally managed to get a case of beer in his hands, it looks like our man might actually successfully make a beer purchase. Unfortunately, gravity has other ideas, and he falls back - a position from which it proves surprisingly hard to get back up.

However, despite his difficulties, the man retains an impressive level of poise and sang-froid as he tries to convince concerned onlookers that he's just having a little rest and is otherwise totally fine.

What's most worrying about the whole affair, however, is that the date and time stamp on the CCTV footage reveals that the man had achieved this state of intoxication at just after 10 o'clock on a Tuesday morning (10:47 on Tuesday October 6, 2009, to be precise)

The origin of the video remains unknown at this point - but we sincerely hope that it documents a real incident, and isn't some insidious viral marketing for the Temperance Society.

source: http://www.metro.co.uk