Lexington's most famous alcoholic checked into rehab Thursday.Henry Earl, the Lexington homeless man who is an Internet celebrity for having been arrested more than 1,000 times for alcohol intoxication, checked himself into a four-month alcoholism recovery program at the Hope Center.
Earl sought treatment at the urging of Fayette District Judge Megan Lake Thornton, his defense attorney and prosecutors.
He was cut an unusual plea deal Thursday: two years probation, with a 90-day sentence hanging over his head if he gets arrested again.
The last time Earl was able to go two consecutive years without being arrested was in the mid-1970s, according to jail records provided to thesmokinggun.com.
The Smoking Gun, through open-records requests, determined that Earl has been arrested 1,333 times.
Earl is an Internet celebrity, even though he told a reporter in 2005 that he's never actually used the Internet. He became famous after humor Web site Fark.com began posting his mug shots and tracking his arrests.
As a former resident of Lexington who makes it back there once or twice a year, I'll miss seeing him out at bars dancing like James Brown for a beer. Hell, who am I kidding, he'll skip out of rehab in a week and be back at CCI.
I won't miss the homeless dude who pulls his rooster out in the middle of the bar and beats it until it throws up.
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