BEER PONG!
Happy hours and pub crawls have been outlawed in Rhode Island, but there's a new drinking game that's raising eyebrows with law enforcement.
NBC 10's I-Team hidden camera revealed a potentially dangerous drinking game called beer pong.
It's generally believed it began in the 1960s at a Dartmouth College fraternity. It's also known as a game called Beirut.
With a variety of rules, the idea is to shoot a ping pong ball into a cup of beer or water and be rewarded by getting to drink the beer out of the 16 ounce cups or claiming a pot of money or, as our undercover producer found, getting a shot of booze when you win.
Over the years, Rhode Island lawmakers have outlawed happy hours and pub crawls, both creating atmospheres for aggressive drinking. The pub crawls were outlawed following the death of a University of Rhode Island student in Newport who was drunk and fell under a bus. Mothers Against Drunk Driving said it feels the beer pong games, held in area clubs and bars, have taken the place of happy hours and pub crawls.
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http://www2.turnto10.com/news/2011/nov/22/i-team-dangers-beer-pong-ar-838419/Why did they need a hidden camera?
I watched Betty White play a game of Beer Pong with Jimmy Fallon one night. Where have these people been?
I never played with a pot of money though.
Peope shouldn't drink and drive whether they are playing Beer Pong or not.