This week in booze

Don't you always mean to plan something for World Cocktail Week, but just never get around to it? Happens to me every year. Probably because I'm too busy enjoying cocktails. In a celebration's sted, I'll pass along this drunken news.

An Australian man driving near Alice Springs, known for its chicken, was cited for failing to properly buckle in a five-year-old passenger. The little kid was crawling around on the car's floor. In a seat where the child might have been belted, there was a 30-pack of beer that was secured by a seatbelt. I have been unable to find out what kind of beer.