Here is the story I was going to post:
Last night a group of us went out to see a well known comedian at a local comedy club. We were drinking beforehand, but apart from my ENFP roommate, everyone was taking it easy. He is a really fun guy to be around when he's sober, but when you throw alcohol in the mix, he becomes my worst nightmare. Just before we left for the show, he decided to change into his Halloween costume (Where's Waldo, and yes, Halloween was last weekend) so more people would notice him.
We take our seats, and I notice immediately that he is the only one drunk in the group, and he is halfway to blacking out. He immediately starts ordering expensive double mixed drinks two at a time, and I know from experience that this will mean we'll probably get kicked out before the main act takes the stage. He was being loud and obnoxious, and he was starting to annoy the tables around us. When the emcee took the stage, and finding that he wasn't the center of attention anymore, my roommate started to act disruptive. He started texting everyone, throwing ice cubes around, laughing hysterically at everything, pounding the table, bitching at us for not drinking as much as him, hitting on my other roommate's date, heckling, and basically ruining the show for everyone around him.
I'm usually a very calm person and it takes a lot to piss me off. I also have a lot of experience dealing with drunks from college, but I've always been able to get away from people that are rubbing me the wrong way, before I have a problem with it. This was just too much for me to take. I was furious, and it basically ruined the night for me. Even when he passed out for a good 15-20 minutes during the headliner's set, I still couldn't focus on the act, as I was too busy smoldering in my head and thinking about how badly I was going to beat the living daylights out of him after the show.
After the show, he tries to sneak backstage, but when you look like Waldo with a drinking problem, you aren't exactly inconspicuous. The comedian eventually comes out a little bit later to shake hands and take pictures. When he made it over to us, Waldo thought it would be a good idea to pick him up, which the comedian clearly was not cool with and became very angry. He left in a hurry before I could get a good photo with him.
To top the night off, when we got back to the house, he threw a chair against the ceiling and continued to smash it into pieces for no reason. Then, the he grabbed a megaphone that we have to go wake up my other roommate who has to work early. This was the straw the broke the camels back, for me. I took the megaphone from him and slapped him so hard that it knocked him to the floor (I probably would have knocked him out cold, if I had used a closed fist), and berated him for ruining my night, then went to sleep.
I woke up this morning, and the house was completely destroyed. Apparently, he went out to the bar after I left, and threw food all around the house, in addition to breaking more furniture.
Anyway, this was a situation where I ignored him for as long as I could, and it really didn't do anything for me. I sent him an email this morning, saying he pissed a lot of people off last night, and that he needs to grow up and maybe cut out the alcohol. He hasn't responded yet, but I think he'll end up just giving me some half-assed insincere apology when I see him tonight. From dealing with other friends that act like this in the past, they don't see this kind of behavior as being a problem, they just see themselves as having fun and that if anyone has a problem, it's me for judging them and telling them how to live their lives. Within 2 weeks, he'll be back to doing the same shenanigans.
I know it's long, but how would you guys have handled this? Have you dealt with friends like this before?