Slippery Hands

Guinness World Records officials were recently scheduled to watch Britain's acclaimed bartender Salvatore "The Maestro" Calabrese craft the world's most expensive cocktail, a £5,050 ($7,800) concoction made with a £50,000 ($77,650) bottle of Clos de Griffier Vieux cognac dating to 1788. But before they could arrive, the patron who'd ordered the cocktail examined the bottle and dropped it. Here's hoping he left a big tip.