Party-lover prefers jail to booze ban
A party-loving Australian has pleaded with a judge to be sent to jail rather than continue to be banned from drinking alcohol. Milo Wild, 22, was originally sentenced to three months in jail following a drunken rampage, but a judge suspended the jail term on the condition that Wild refrain from all drinking for two years. Seven months into the alcohol ban, Wild asked magistrate John O’Neill to let him serve the prison term, saying that he found it unbearable to stay at home while his friends caroused at bars. O’Neill called Wild’s request “extraordinary,” adding, “There is nothing to do in Darwin for a strong, healthy young man except to drink?”
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
-
5 hilariously spirited cartoons about the spirit of ChristmasCartoons Artists take on excuses, pardons, and more
-
Inside the house of AssadThe Explainer Bashar al-Assad and his father, Hafez, ruled Syria for more than half a century but how did one family achieve and maintain power?
-
Sudoku medium: December 22, 2024The Week's daily medium sudoku puzzle
-
British tabloid quietly publishes court-ordered apology to Meghan Markle, promises 'financial remedies'Speed Read
-
Animal lovers threaten tattoo artist, and morefeature A New York City tattoo artist who inked a heart on his dog has gone into hiding after receiving death threats from outraged animal lovers.
-
Suspect flees to... police headquarters, and more
feature A St. Louis man trying to escape pursuing police officers ran straight into police headquarters.
-
Airplane travel causes indigestion, and more
feature Flying on an airplane makes it more likely you’ll suffer a bout of flatulence, a new scientific study has concluded.
-
Theatergoer vomits over balcony rail, and more
feature A Broadway play was thrown into chaos when a man vomited from the balcony onto the audience below.
-
Cows crash a backyard party, and more
feature A herd of marauding cows crashed a backyard party in Massachusetts and drank up all the beer.
-
A brand new audience for TV, and more
feature A national cable network is unveiling a new channel of programming exclusively for dogs.
-
A tattoo artist's revenge, and more
feature An Ohio tattoo artist tattooed a pile of excrement on his girlfriend’s back after he learned she had cheated on him.
