Rather than lock them up why not make them wear those inflatable sumo suits and have them duke it out with fellow revellers on live TV with all the profit going to charity.
The thing that got to most of the 'clients' was taking out their shoe laces. Caused more fights and arguments than anything else. The reason? They're too thick to put them back in when released.
When I lived in a student town all the residents and council were queuing up to charge the students for 'wardens' etc. Soon as I suggested that maybe the businesses that profit from their spending and encourage the binging with their promotions might want to contribute, got stonewalled big time. The issue is, a lot of people are tanked up at home on supermarket booze and then go out - agree with @Barneyrubble, we should look past just the end point and look at the whole process end to end. As a non drinker I have no issue whatsoever with people that like a drink - actually a merry drunk is fine - but these blotto'ed fighters that do it week in week out - sod them. As a footnote - good luck getting payment out of them, more money for the legal profession I suspect.
a friend(now ex police) got suspended for a month for using baton on pis***ad after said pis***d smacked male nurse in a&e. he should of shoved it up his ar**, don't know what forensics team would of said about that.....
It's great that some of my tax money goes to pay the salaries of palestinian prisoners held in israeli jails
You seem to be forgetting about the drunks 'human rights'. It's disgraceful that these poor people have to fill up with cheap booze at home before they go out for the night. I believe the government should subsidise the cost of alcohol in the night clubs and bars in the UK. I'd go even further and suggest that if an 18 - 30 year old books a holiday in somewhere like Ibetha the government should give them a few hundred pounds cash to offset the expense of buying drinks abroad.
As a Taxi driver working nights we now pick up drunks and bring them into town then pick up the more drunk and take them home. Girls are as bad both for drinking and fighting, you quite often see them necking a bottle of vodka or wine as they walk down the street. I have said for years that if a drunk is treated by the emergency services, use an ambulance, picked up by the police, I almost said fuzz, locked up for the night then they should pay, if they are sick in the cell then they should clean it up, I have made then clean my Taxi then charged them. I have just been for a week in the beers capital of Europe, Ghent Belgium where you get a beer menu with over 250 types of beer in it. I didn't see one drunk or drink related problems, I am sure there are problems but not on the scale of UK with our drinking culture or should I say lack of culture.
If you go out and get wasted and cause trouble then you should be expected to pay. Just as long as the price of my voddy doesn't go up, I'll be happy.
This ^^^ coz 90% of us drink and don't cause any bother to anyone, why should booze prices be hiked when it's the minority who cause the trouble, make them pay for their actions and raise the drinking age to 21 and enforce it by closing down pubs/clubs and shops that flout the law
Its an interesting concept that if you can afford to use alchohol to excess you can afford the costs of any outcomes. Seems reasonable to me, however I suspect a large number of people who get into a state and cause problems cant or wont pay. That leaves you and me and a system whereby you present at you local hospital and if aclchohol is a factor in you becoming injured then you have to pay. It will only end up being those who normally play by the rules who end up paying. Bit like if you have no tax insurance licence and havent registered the vehicle in your name you dont get done for speeding through a camera. You play by the rules and your worrying about losing your livelyhood. Those with nothing to lose have no reason to play by the rules.
Having spent much time out of the UK recently and only returning for brief holidays, I am not sure that it is only a minority. It strikes me that it is the majority of people of all ages who go out to drink who end up causing problems. Let me make it clear - I drink. However, when I was young, the culture was that it was shameful to show that you couldn't hold your booze; to appear drunk would have led to merciless mickey taking for a long time afterwards. Now, it is a badge of honour to appear drunk in public, vomiting over everything in sight and falling off pavements, under traffic whilst your friend is having a punch-up, regardless of gender. I concede, I am an old fart, with old fashioned views of how one should behave, but we have a major crisis of social education on our hands. One way of directing the attention of the problem causers might be to target their pockets, perhaps by attachment of earnings or benefits to pay for damage they have caused. Having a private company involved in doing so, or in the care of the drunk does not strike me as a good idea.
All governments have a tendency to see and problem and use it as an excuse to raise revenue. It doesn't work and never has but at least someone gets a new job.
