to believe it, guy sitting there drinking from thr bottle!

You know the expression 'cry for help'?

This is clearly that.

I hope it comes to pass.

BTW, that hangover is gonna be a BITCH tomorrow ...

I was a trial lawyer for over 40 years before retiring and saw many colleagues drink their lunches daily and then waltz into the courtroom dead drunk after lunch and represent people on everything from traffic tickets to murder charges. It was amazing, and disgusting to see. It seemed to me that they hated their jobs and drank to forget. Of course it didn't help that several of the judges overseeing these trials were just as drunk.

When I first observed this behavior I thought I was imagining that things were worse than they really were until one day when I told the judge I was clerking for at the time that I had been offered a job by the Public Defender and my judge asked me if I was offered the job before or after lunch. When I told the judge the offer was made after lunch he said I should probably ignore it because the Public Defender would probably not even remember making the offer. Sure enough, next time I saw the Public Defender I asked him for some details about my job and he clearly had no idea what I was talking about.

I hope this guy gets help before he or some innocent party gets hurt. What a terrible waste of a life.