Drunkest Cities In America - Freeper Capital Fresno, CA Tops the List!

[devilgrrl]

Fresno edged a city in Nevada for the first slot. Two other California cities also cracked the top 10.

In compiling the rankings, Men's Health considered "death rates from alcoholic liver disease, booze-fueled car crashes, frequency of binge-drinking in the past month, number of DUI arrests, and severity of DUI penalties," according to USA Today.

Check out the full Top 10 list below, and let us know -- do you buy it? Or are the rankings totally off?



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/05/drunkest-cities-in-americ_n_451074.html

[laughingliberal]

Saw this on the news this morning. Called my friends who just moved from Reno to Fresno

and asked them if they were responsible for this? It was too funny.

[Bicoastal]

1. I read somewhere else that Fresno was, by education, the dumbest major city in the entire country...

...go figure.

[tularetom]

7. As a neighbor, I can agree that it's indeed dumb

But major?? In what respect Charlie?

[WhiteTara]

14. I think it's all the pesticides and poisons

used on the crops. It doesn't just kill the "bugs", but works on all creatures in the wind and water radius of the croplands.

[LeftyMom]

2. I think I get drunk more in Fresno than I do here.

There's really not much else to do in Fresno. :shrug:

[stopbush]

15. I lived in Fresno for almost 3 years. What a dump!

A friend calls it the armpit of CA, and so it is.

What can one say about a downtown area where every other storefront is a bail bondsman?

[meegbear]

3. I'm suprised with all the college kids in the area that Boston is last ...

not that that's a bad thing.

[Jennicut]

10. Me too. My husband's band plays there and Albany, NY a lot.

There are always lots of drunk young people around, LOL.

[tularetom]

4. You need to add a warning to your post

I don't live too far from Fresburg but I think I've just lost my desire to drink. Or eat. Or maybe even live.

:puke:

I'll check out the list when I recover.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. Have you ever been to Fresno?

I have. :scared:

I can see why people there drink heavily.

[Bicoastal]

11. I spent a week there one day.

[Blue Owl]

6. just say "no"

to Fresno!

[joeybee12]

8. "Alaska -where you can't be too drunk or too fat" - Homer Simpson

Where's Wasila?

[Blue_In_AK]

9. I was just going to comment

that perhaps this poll was limited to the contiguous 48. A lot of drinking goes on in Anchorage. They just do lots of drugs in Wasilla. :rofl:

[joeybee12]

13. Yeah, they do do a lot of drugs in Wasilia...especially right before they

vote for mayor!

[supernova]

12. All in the southwest?

I was surprised by that. I would have thought the list would have been more geographically spread out.

[Fly by night]

16. There must be a size limit on the cities, because Gallup, NM is not on the list.

Cross-country truckers called Gallup "Drunk Town" because of the high risk of running over drunks stumbling down the side of Route 66 and I-40 there.

Gallup has improved over the years, but for decades, McKinley County (where Gallup is located) was the worst county in the US for alcohol-related death. Gallup is a wet town surrounded by four dry Indian reservations (Navajo, Zuni, Acoma, Laguna), and the unscrupulous city merchants made a killing (literally) by selling rot-gut alcohol to Indian alcoholics. In a town that should have had about six liquor stores (by population), Gallup had almost 70.

They even manufactured their own fortified wine (Garden Deluxe) there in town. When alcoholics couldn't afford alcohol, the merchants were all-too-happy to sell the same folks hairspray so they could mix that with water and drink it. The sky-blue liquid was called "Montana Gin".

I know all this because I used to study alcohol-related trends in Gallup.

It is also where I sobered up, sixteen years ago on Groundhog's Day.

[DemoTex]

17. Fresno airport 3-letter identifier: FAT

Fresno Air Terminal