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There are plenty of things that can go wrong at a wedding: torrential downpour, an inappropriate drunken toast by an old army buddy, the bride running away with Dustin Hoffman.

Usually, though, there isn't much blood.

Not so over the weekend in Newburgh, NY, where a dispute over a camera at a wedding party turned into a 100-person melee which spilled into the parking lot outside of the Ramada Inn where it was being held. Two people were treated at a hospital afterward for stab wounds. Another man received treatment after being punched in the face.

Finally, 30 cops showed up to break up the fight. "It just kept going on and on," said Town of Newburgh Police Sgt. Peter Talarico. "It was a wedding party gone bad." Cops say they broke up over 30 individual fights among the party guests, and arrested six people at the end of the night.

Question raised: What's the craziest thing you've ever seen happen at a wedding?

Something about this story reminds us of our favorite drunks.

Our Top Ten Favorite Drunks

  • Our Top Ten Favorite Drunks

    11. Winston Churchill
    Prime Minister, author, Nobel Prize winner -- Sir Winston accomplished more on a typical hungover Sunday than most of us do during our entire lives. We can barely be bothered to go out for brunch most weekends.

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  • Our Top Ten Favorite Drunks

    10. Slash
    Though no longer a raging alkie, have you ever seen the artist formerly known as Saul Hudson not pictured with a bottle filled with something or other? And, of course, there was his memorable obscenity-laden acceptance speech at the1990 American Music Awards. Well, memorable to us anyway. We doubt Slash remembers much of anything that happened during the early '90s.

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  • Our Top Ten Favorite Drunks

    9. Nick Nolte
    Even before his infamous mugshot, Nolte perpetually looked like he'd just come off a six-week bender. For a lesson in the perils of heavy drinking check out Nolte's performance opposite Julia Roberts in "I Love Trouble," a film that could only have been made while heavily under the influence.

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  • Our Top Ten Favorite Drunks

    8. Dorothy Parker
    Parker famously said that "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." But they do go for gals who can fill glasses and then drink them under the Algonquin Roundtable, and Ms. Parker could down a vodka gimlet faster thanyou can say "the dry wit of Robert Benchley."

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  • Our Top Ten Favorite Drunks

    6. Janis Joplin
    So associated with hard drinking is Miss Janis that it's hard to listen to her sing without feeling your liver fill to the brim with Southern Comfort. (The phrase "booze-soaked vocals" was practically invented for her.) Janis still makes Amy Winehouse sound like Miley Cyrus.

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  • Our Top Ten Favorite Drunks

    5. Andy CappEveryone's favorite comic strip rummy has been tossing back pints and threatening his long-suffering wife Flo with violence since 1957. Seriously, isn't it time that Social Services took a long, hard look at that marriage?

  • Our Top Ten Favorite Drunks

    4. Ernest HemingwayThe prototypical hard-drinking author, Papa Hemingway has given generations of mediocre writers an excuse to wail into their beers about their unpublished masterpieces. Still, as fine an author as he is, we figure his fondness for creepy, multi-toed cats must have had something to do with large quantities of alcohol.

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  • Our Top Ten Favorite Drunks

    3. Betty Ford
    Although Gerald Ford was renowned for falling over all the time, it turns out Betty was the one with a drinking problem! While we would never make light of Mrs. Ford's struggles (excluding the joke above), it should be noted that having a rehab center named after you definitely earns you a place in the pantheon of hard drinkers. Plus, she's currently the third-longest living former First Lady. Top that, Mamie Eisenhower!

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  • Our Top Ten Favorite Drunks

    2. Bender from 'Futurama'
    Bender's name doesn't just refer to his function as a robot who bends things: Liquor is his life's blood. Now if only he'd get toasted and punch out that wussy robot from "Lost In Space."

  • Our Top Ten Favorite Drunks

    1. Keith Richards/Captain Jack Sparrow
    The most inspiring drunk of our time. Richards is such a notorious and charismatic drunk that Johnny Depp based Jack Sparrow on him and then coerced Richards to play his drunken, pirate father in the third film. Though as rum-soaked as Capt. Jack is he pales to Richards himself, who got so hammered he took a tumble out of a coconut tree.

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