Alcohol has developed a bad name over the last couple of years, due in part to programmes like "Booze Britian" where you can watch the antics of people who are out of their heads causing trouble.

However alcohol does have life saving properties as proven by the man who went out got totally hammered and decided to go to sleep on the railway track. The man Kevin Craswell was found in a foetal position sound asleep on a train track near Epsom last March. He used one rail as a pillow and his feet were only inches away from a live rail which was carrying 750volts. It was alcohol who saved him as he ensured that he drank enough and the alcohol ensured that he was unable to move. Had he taken other drugs you can bet that he would no longer be with us.

It was claimed in court that he drank "a lethal amount of alcohol" but obviously this claim is untrue as he is still alive.The alcohol even made the man to think that the rail was a nice pillow.

Homer must be running around punching the air shouting "in your face Marge, beer is a life saver".