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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wednesday 18 June
By TheKISSMistress
I work in the burgh...typical daily event...that city is so disgusting and the people are nothing but trash on welfare.
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Wednesday 18 June
By keith thomas
u work in newburgh i hope u get hazard pay that town is out of control
Wednesday 18 June
By grumpy44
Can't believe they left out mr funny man himself, Dean Martin. Best drunk ever.
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Wednesday 18 June
By basil rathbone
the best man got caught....porking the bride
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Saturday 21 June
By deleriuose
I slept with the priest and I'm straight.
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Thursday 19 June
By wagons
Standard PR wedding in Bridgeport
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Thursday 19 June
By Coverlyn
Once at a wedding, it poured and we had to wipe all the seats with towels, then the sound system was wet and full of static, the sun came out and it was burning hot -- the groom, in a tux, overheated and fainted at the altar, and the bride was 9 months pregnant. Interesting wedding!
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Thursday 19 June
By Kat
Why get Married in the first place???? Sounds like a nightmare to me......After what I have been through I will never get married again...My one and only marriage to a guy turned out that he was a bigamist. Marriage annuled.......Need I say more??????
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Friday 20 June
By tom brown
I love Churchill's remark about 'Still being ugly in the morning' and it was great. W. C. Fields was always marked as a 'drunk' but he wasn't. He loved his drink. Look at Babe Ruth. I wonder what comedy and baseball would be like if they were still alive. Abbott and Costillo likes their drink too. Abbott was a 'stone cold alcholic, but the act worked. Just watch, "Who's on First'. Probably the best comic act ever done on 'LIVE TV'. "Before you throw rocks, make sure you do not live in a glass house.
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Friday 20 June
By tom brown
I love Churchill's remark about 'Still being ugly in the morning' and it was great. W. C. Fields was always marked as a 'drunk' but he wasn't. He loved his drink. Look at Babe Ruth. I wonder what comedy and baseball would be like if they were still alive. Abbott and Costillo likes their drink too. Abbott was a 'stone cold alcholic, but the act worked. Just watch, "Who's on First'. Probably the best comic act ever done on 'LIVE TV'. "Before you throw rocks, make sure you do not live in a glass house.
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Thursday 19 June
By Jan Pavlik
At my wedding 24 years ago, the Captain of my husbands firehouse and my uncle got into a brawl on the dance floor. Tables were flyin, punches were flyin...I just stood there and said, "Will you stop this...I'm the f...... bride!!!" People til this day say it was the best wedding they ever went to. (Go figure...). We went to Subway Subs afterwards and got free food becasue we were in gown and tux. Ahhh...for the good old days!!!
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Thursday 19 June
By Moishe Tapirman
Why did the author use an image of a caucasian couple, when every single one of those involved in this altercation were African-American?
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Thursday 19 June
By Ed
After my ex-wife and I got married and left the reception, it was now time for the in-laws to get unruly. Needless to say, my in-laws had a drinking problem, which was not news to me. We paid for all the alcohol ourselves (my wife's parents didn't have a dime that they didn't spend on booze, and some of our money too), so it belonged to neither family, but my sister was going to pack it in the car and return it to us. They all got into an argument with my family over the taking of the alcohol, just like all good alcoholics would do. My wife's brother pulled out his privates and shook it at my sister in the middle of the reception hall. Nobody wanted to tell us on our wedding night, but we finally found out and ended up at my parents house. This should have told me I married into the wrong family, but I already knew that. I'm single now and the first sign of alcoholism sends me running. LOL
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Friday 20 June
By CHERYL
Not all weddings are bad!! long story made shoeter..ell, the bride had a wind up chick, we kidnapped it and as she headed down the isle we put Roger(chickens name ) in front of her..We had him dressed in top hat and tails...wound him up and he wiggled down the isle. Grabbed roger before anyone (Ell) could, low and behold Roger reappeared on top of the wedding cake(which upset the mother in law) so Roger quickly flew the coup but did leave a card behind, in the wedding box. It was filled with birdseed...Roger, never did return home, he flew out to Calf. with a cousin and fell in love with a seagull. Ell got pictures!!
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Friday 20 June
By cwldoc
A good friend of mine from Kentucky had been all excited about getting marrried. But the day after the wedding, my friend told his father, "Ah done kilt the bride."
His father was shocked, and asked him why he did it. My friend said, "Ah found out she were a virgin. Ah figured if she warn't good 'nuff fer 'er own fambly, then she warn't good 'nuff fer ourn!"
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Friday 20 June
By bill
Like a fool I went through with it.....
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Tuesday 24 June
By John Lennon
Many years ago, I was an alter (boy) server, at a wedding in a Ethnic National Church. Apparently the bride & groom where not aware of all the fine print in traditions & ways of her family. No one said anything at the rehersal about the groom kissing the brides mother. The wedding cermony was completed and the priest whispereed to the bride and groom what they would do next, before they turned to face the congration to be announced as the new Mr. & Mrs ??? The groom was very adament that he would not kiss the bride's mother. The priest attempted several times, while smileing ear to ear, that it was like a sign of peace, and joining of both families. They finaly agreed that the priest would count to three, and they turned and sent down the isle with no stops.
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Tuesday 24 June
By Devynn
at my ceremony, my husband had to go overboard and do the kiss with a deep. so ostentacious. i also refused to have a bouquet or garter toss. MOST of our friends were engaged or already married and the single ones, even those with bfs and gfs didn't want to participate. and i HATED the idea of his friends having a piece of my underware. he's got some creppy friends. so i decided to forgoe it all. so, to one up me and "keep tradition," my husband had his friend, who i CAN'T STAND, "step in" and wear the garter while he tossed it to THREE ppl. his friend SWORE he didn't know what he was getting into. riiiiiiiiiight. i was out in the hall talking to my mom and the bartender during the shenianigans. when ppl came up later and asked me about it, i rolled my eyes and made sure that everyone knew that i didn't approve of it and anything else that goes along with that. not the elegant wedding i had planned. we'll be divorced in 5yrs. it's america! what can i say? :p
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