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StumbleSurvey: Las Vegas ranks No. 11 on ‘drunkest’ cities list
Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 | 5:54 p.m.
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Seeing someone in Las Vegas with a tall alcoholic beverage in hand is rarely surprising -- at least on the Strip -- but that doesn't mean Las Vegas made the top 10 in a new ranking of America’s "drunkest" cities.
However, it wasn’t far behind.
Las Vegas came in at No. 11 on Men’s Health magazine’s list of 100 major cities. It will be published in the March edition of the magazine.
Las Vegas was topped by a number of nearby cities, including Fresno, Calif., which took the No. 1 spot, and Reno, which came in second.
Finishing the top 10 were Billings, Mont.; Riverside, Calif.; Austin, Texas; St. Louis; San Antonio, Texas; Lubbock, Texas; Tucson, Ariz.; and Bakersfield, Calif.
The least drunken cities were Boston; Yonkers, N.Y.; Rochester, N.Y.; Salt Lake City, Utah; Miami.; Newark, N.J.; Durham, N.C.; New York City; Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Manchester, N.H.
The magazine said it ranked cities based on death rates from alcoholic liver disease, drunk driving car crashes, frequency of binge-drinking in the past month, number of DUI arrests and severity of DUI penalties.
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Oh boy #11, wow what an honor. And we'd like to thank all the little people that help make this happen, Thank you so much for your support we will try harder next year, we will be #1 next year. So help us god.
yup, i'll work on it
so if your cops do a good job and make dui arrests that counts against you as a drunk city. this is a stupid survey using unscientific means...ridiculous that it should be reported or quoted.
Judging by the continued employment of Carrot Top, I assumed Vegas was the drunkest city in the world. I heard that title was given to "wherever Lindsay Lohan is".
Um "Lovin'"?
"The magazine said it ranked cities based on death rates from alcoholic liver disease, drunk driving car crashes, frequency of binge-drinking in the past month, number of DUI arrests and severity of DUI penalties."
I realize that with so many words this article was difficult to read and comprehend but there are, if my math is correct, four other factors listed, none of which are things a city should boast about.
Oh and DUI "arrests" means that you got caught a.k.a. you committed a crime. Soooooooooo that's also why we have a high crime rate compared to most cities and, also, why your post makes the point as to why we are ranked one of the dumbest cities in America.
I know it's a big word, but I hope you made it past "um". That is, unless you're still reading that riveting and investigative journalistic daily piece known as Family Circus.
Where oh where do they come up with this statistical crap? Puleeze!!!
NO SURPRISE - LOOK HOW STUPID PEOPLE ARE HERE..
Rated by: "....frequency of binge-drinking in the past month..."
That's it? The PAST MONTH?
Whoever wrote this story is tokin' on some heavy weed.
Let's try it again using THE LAST TEN YEARS.
Can you say "We're Number 1"...?
That is, whoever wrote this story in Men's Health...NOT the SUN.
Wait a minute, I demand a recount! Surely we are better than that. Perhaps, they should rename the title from 11th Drunkest City to 11th Drunkest Residents because, after all, many of the factors they are measuring are for locals. Certainly the deaths from liver disease is local. And how many visitors fly into Vegas and drink like sailors on leave and never get behind the wheel? And, of the ones that do drive here, how many just park the car and stumble from bar to bar, casino to casino on foot?
What they really should have factored in is the amount of alcohol consumed per person. I do believe we would have been in the top two or three if that had been taken into account (perhaps behind New Orleans).
We're the dumbest, fattest and smoke the most (according to other surveys) so we really need to work on our drinking! We can't let Reno beat us!! C'mon, people, let's get tipping! We can do better than 11th...
Salt Lake City? Salt Lake City? Where do you even find booze in Salt Lake City?
Wow, looks like the person writing this article was on that list. The list of the top 10 cities, included 11 cities.
Gotta love the US ac"counting" system. 1,..9,11
"Salt Lake City? Salt Lake City? Where do you even find booze in Salt Lake City?"
That's why they are on the least drunk side of the list.
Well, not to throw water on anyone's parade, but whether or not you have a quality mass transit system and/or neighborhoods where people can walk to their favorite bar is going to play a major role in a survey where three of the five stated criteria are related to drunk DRIVING. Or does anyone actually believe Boston and NYC residents are in the same league as Salt Lake.
11 is number 1 when you're seeing double...Go Vegas!!!
If I could get my ex-wife to move from Riverside to Vegas, we'd be back to our rightful spot at NUMBER ONE BABY!
Don't be pissing off Oscar off or he will ban all drunks from the City. No wait, that would close down City Hall. No wait, that's not such a bad thing.
Wonder how much grant money from the govt. was involved in this stupid survey....I suppose they didnt count people walking up and down the strip drinking or all of the bud lite that is consumed in front yards on a daily basis....Or even all the sober homeless people passed out at the park...They should have a survey on how stupid a survey like that is,,,,
Really sad. Been going to Vegas since the seventies. It used to be a nice, clean, and quiet town that catered to rich people who wanted to get away to do a little gaming and see a few shows. The residents were clean cut. Now Vegas is a runaway caboose full of drunks, bums, and immoral freakazoids (you know who you are). "Sin City" was never a
moniker for Las Vegas but was a recent invention of advertising agencies trying attract freaks to the city. Now the locals are pretty messed up too.
"It used to be a nice, clean, and quiet town that catered to rich people who wanted to get away to do a little gaming and see a few shows."
You are blinded by your rose-colored glasses, seeing the Vegas you want to see. Las Vegas has always been Sin City, 24/7/365 anything, anytime. Some of us love it just like that. For 105 years, the last stop of "immoral freakazoids" everywhere, and the last honest city in America.