Guess what time it is… NO, but close… It’s Crazy News Stories of the Week time! So sit back, relax, and prepared to be glad you’re not one of these people!

Flaming Lambo’ Fiasco

The Flaming Lamborghini is a novelty drink made popular for its unique style of delivery and consumption. It consists of the alcoholic beverages Sambuca and Kahlua, which gets set on fire and is meant to drink through a straw, and is then doused with Baileys and blue curacao and finished off by the customer.

A bartender in Lithuania was performing the intricate task of setting up a flaming Lamborghini and accidentally set a customer’s face on fire while making a drink, and the gruesome moment was captured on the bars surveillance video. Several English-language outlets have since picked up the video, though none has offered an update on the man’s condition.

The incident took place at Naktinis Tbilisis club in Panevezys on July 11^th. In the video, the bartender can be seen preparing the infamous and apparently dangerous Flaming Lamborghini when a flame shoots out at the man during the lighting, who suddenly catches fire. Other patrons appear to put out the fire out by smothering the man’s head with their hands.

The victim’s sister said in the reports given to local press that the bar owner and the bartender did go out of their way to visit her brother in the hospital. While the man’s specific injuries were not described in detail in the press, it was noted that he was taken into surgery following the incident.

Raging Run-Down Drunk

Gainsville, Florida is home to this drunken road rage driver Joseph H Carl who allegedly confronted a woman motorist, and subsequently was run over by his own truck when she fled. Carl, age 48, drove his pickup into the rear of another vehicle at traffic light, then got out to engage in a heated arguement with the other driver, banging on her car window and yelling at her.

The terrified woman drove off leaving Carl standing in front of his Dodge 1500 truck, and the Dodge began rolling towards him. Joseph H Carl apparently tried to stop the truck but with his arms, but the vehicle was still in gear and ran over him as reported by police officials. He was treated in hospital for fractures to his hand and foot.

Carl was arrested on charges of drunk driving and property damages. The motorist refused to submit to a breath test but a blood-alcohol test carried out later in hospital showed he was nearly three-times over the drink drive limit. Police stated Carl was seen stumbling around and reeking of booze before the incident. Officers found an open can of beer, still cold, and numerous empty beer cans in his truck. Hopefully he realizes that he’s lucky his drunk driving only injured one person, and it’s only ironic that it was himself.

Walgreen’s Alcoholic Shopper 

Sometimes the customer isn’t always right, in this case the customer ended up causing a scene that will most likely earn him a extended stay in jail. A 54-year-old Ocala named Joby Sullivan got extremely upset that a Walgreen’s did not sell alcoholic beverages, and ended up to be arrested later after causing a disturbance.

According to an Ocala Police Department report, Sullivan cursed at the Walgreen’s employees threatening to fight them. Employees stated that Sullivan had been digging through the garbage when an employee caught him in the act and told him to leave the property. Apparently Sullivan then walked into the store, telling employees he wanted to buy some alcohol. The employees informed him that the store did not sell alcoholic beverages and the man began throwing his fit.

Police officer Jared Forsyth went to the store at 807 E. Silver Springs Boulevard in Ocala after a report of an intoxicated man causing a disturbance and refusing to leave the property. Officer Forsyth found the man upon arriving at the scene standing outside the front of the store on the sidewalk, screaming and swinging his shirt at a Walgreens employee. The officer approached Sullivan from behind and arrested him. Sullivan then threatened the officer and a supervisor who showed up at the scene.

The police report states as Joby Sullivan was being detained and placed in a patrol car, he kicked arresting officer Forsyth in the stomach. He was then taken into custody without any more problems and taken to the Marion County Jail. Sullivan was ultimately charged with disorderly intoxication, battery on a law enforcement official and resisting arrest without violence for his kick to the stomach.

$3.00 Binge Gone Bad 

A 49-year-old man in Crestview and his 51-year-old wife have recently been accused of putting miniature bottles of alcoholic beverages in their pockets in front of the store manager before walking out of a local Cash’s Corner Pocket.

The Cash’s Corner Pocket store manager said Craig Van Aken and his wife, Lisa Davis, were in establishment on January 2^nd, and she had asked them if she could get them anything. The manager said she saw the two looking at the loose mini bottles of liquor, which are $1.50 each, and then saw Mr. Van Aken slipping two of the bottles into his pocket. The store manager claimed she knew the couple because they frequently visited the location, and that she witnessed Van Aken stealing the bottles and give one to Davis. The two immediately left when the manager started to question them about the bottles.

After the store manager was able to identify both Craig Van Aken and his wife Lisa Davis from photo line-ups the two were arrested on June 25. Their next scheduled court date is July 22. It seems crime truly doesn’t pay for these two, especially if the cost of some jail time is only $3.00.

People dealing with drugs and alcohol issues often end up on the wrong end of some crazy news stories, luckily in sobriety people are able to look back at these kinds of behavior and be grateful that these kinds of stories have been left in the past, and the future looks a lot better without the chaos of actively abusing drugs or alcohol. If you or someone you love is struggling with substance abuse or addiction, please call toll-free 1-800-951-6135