I never understood that. A 12 ounce beer is 4-5% ABV. Why do they want to drink that much water (about what cheap beer tastes like) to get 5% Alcohol? If you are foolish enough to be drinking just to get drunk then you think you'd want to buy something with more alcohol in it than bad tasting cheap beer?
On a given Friday night, if you head to the grocery store it's not uncommon to see cases of beer going down the checkout aisle. I don't get it either; seems like there are more fun things to do with your money.
My guess is, it prolongs the party. Instead of getting puke-drunk all at once, they party for a couple of hours, downing beers, and THEN pass out.
The most unfortunate reality of that is that every single year, with almost no exception, we lose at least one (if not 4, 5, or 6) high schooler to a drunk driving accident. Last year we lost 3 to drunk driving and
nine to suicide. This is a hurting community and very much an image of why John Wesley came down so hard on those cheap gin distilleries; he sees what they were doing to his community.
Our most recent drunk driving related fatality was someone who had just graduated high school, who was drunk and ran off the road into a tree. But not before running over, and killing, a 13 year old boy waiting for the bus. The driver survived. Prosecutors office is seeking Murder in the Second Degree in addition to a host of other charges (Missouri allows death-as-a-result-of-a-felony, even if the death itself wasn't intentional, to be Murder 2, instead of Manslaughter. This statute was also successfully used when a young man brought his little brother with him to an armed robbery. Police returned fire when he shot at them, and ended up killing the little brother. The man who staged the robbery was convicted of his brothers murder; even though a police officer killed him. Because his felony was the cause of his brothers death). This puts life in prison on the table, and in fact makes it likely. So there we have two lives lost, effectively.
