Milwaukee natives are known for their fondness for beer. They once were the center of America's brewing universe. They named their professional baseball team The Brewers who play in a new ballpark called Miller Park .
In the old ball park when a member of the home team hit a home run Bernie Brewer, the team's mascot. used to celebrate by sliding into a mug of beer. He also outruns sausages as the video shows.
But recently another Milwaukee beer drinker appears to have set a record for the longest drunken drive in a golf cart.
According to the Associated Press, a South Milwaukee man was accused of driving drunk last week after trying to use a golf cart to drive home nearly 40 miles away from the golf course where he had been drinking beer.
The man told police that his relatives had left him behind at the golf club.
So he got in a golf cart and headed home down Highway 167 .
When the sheriff caught up with him, the man said he had drunk about 10 beers, but did not consider himself intoxicated.
The 10 beers might explain why his relatives ditched him.
But this leads to other questions. Is it true that Milwaukee, as Forbes magazine said in 2006 article, is America's drunkest city ?.
Anyone have tales of drinking beer with the natives of Wisconsin?
Is their capacity exceptional?
Could this golf cart incident have happened anywhere other than Milwaukee?
