Whatever the police say, it is widely believed that there are now automatic fines for passengers riding with tipsy drivers.

ECONOMIST: New laws on drink and smoking

At Ta Prohm, to the northeast of Angkor Wat, strangler figs spill like liquid over 39 temples in various stages of ruination, creating a tangle of tipsy roofs and dark hallways.

BBC: The perfect trip: Cambodia

State regulation is definitely good for teenagers in Boston and for tipsy drivers in the assigned-risk pool.

FORBES: In Good Hands With All Those States?

However, this is changing and certain areas - particularly those popular with a younger crowd - can get rowdy with tipsy teens (for example, around Campo de'Fiori and parts of Trastevere).

BBC: An evening out in Rome

Each man brought something distinct to the discussion, from Keats's revelations about the state of British hospitals, to Lamb's tipsy assertion that Newton had destroyed the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to a prism.

ECONOMIST: Literary table-talk

Since the presumably alcoholics anonymous-approved Wizmark urinals can't keep everyone from getting a little tipsy, officials in Victoria, British Columbia are taking a note from European countries to keep urine off the streets.

ENGADGET: Urilift: the disappearing public urinal (and we do mean public)