Yes, we heard about that incident. Those people have had their Texas citizenship papers revoked.
You don't see any articles saying "Beer Consumption Down" about Texas, do you?
;-)
While we're on the subject of beer consumption, no one, in my experience, can touch the Belgians. They make Aussies and Germans look like rank amateurs. I spent some time in Belgium in 1981 and have vivid memories of watching Belgians sitting at cafes, slamming beers for 6 or 8 hours at a time. Most workers there are unionized, and work short hours like the Frenchies. They get off work at 2:30 in the afternoon, rush to the cafes, and drink 4 or 5 beers per hour until 9 or 10 in the evening. When the cafes close, there is a sudden human wave of loud, drunk Belgians staggering down the street. It's a sight to behold.
At one point while I was there, it was a national holiday, and all the young Belgian men I saw were dead drunk by 8:00AM. I think the only sober people in Brussels that weekend were American tourists, and the Muslim immigrants.
We see a lot of posts on FR about Belgian behavior that doesn't appear rational to us, but the way those folks drink, it shouldn't surprise us.