1.   He was injured while trying to subdue a violent drunk.

2.   What he does recall is the years he spent as a violent drunk, his frequent periods in Saughton prison and life in hostels for the single homeless.

3.   For years, rangers have complained that their growing mission is leading them into tense standoffs with timber thieves, violent drunks and armed criminals.

4.   There, too, he became a ferociously ambitious egotist, violent drunk and finally a bloated wreck.