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Binge drinking crackdown
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The government and health agencies are very keen to cut down on the binge drinking culture that results in young people getting very drunk, vomiting and urinating in the street, fighting inside and outside clubs, passing out on pavements. Apparently the cost to society is enormous - ambulances, A&E, police, clean up operations, lost work days.
So why doesn't the government and powers that be exercise the powers they already have and fine people for:
being drunk and disorderly
urinating in public
serving alcohol to inebriates
serving alcohol to minors
indecent behaviour - flashing boobs, bums, and willies in public
Would it be unreasonable to issue fixed penalties to people who pee or vomit in the street because they are drunk? Somebody has to clean it up, after all.
Would it be unreasonable to charge people who need hospital treatment for alcohol poisoning - the stomach pump, the rehydration, the hospital bed, the ambulance? A token amount, say £50 or £100.
It is illegal to serve alcohol to under age kids or drunks, yet it is obvious clubs and pubs do so. Would they if their licence was suspended for a week or two, or they were given a heavy fine?
I'm sick of talk about crackdowns - let's see something done about it.
So why doesn't the government and powers that be exercise the powers they already have and fine people for:
being drunk and disorderly
urinating in public
serving alcohol to inebriates
serving alcohol to minors
indecent behaviour - flashing boobs, bums, and willies in public
Would it be unreasonable to issue fixed penalties to people who pee or vomit in the street because they are drunk? Somebody has to clean it up, after all.
Would it be unreasonable to charge people who need hospital treatment for alcohol poisoning - the stomach pump, the rehydration, the hospital bed, the ambulance? A token amount, say £50 or £100.
It is illegal to serve alcohol to under age kids or drunks, yet it is obvious clubs and pubs do so. Would they if their licence was suspended for a week or two, or they were given a heavy fine?
I'm sick of talk about crackdowns - let's see something done about it.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.None of this needs prison. Fixed penalty or fine. Hit them in the pocket.
For the pubs and clubs, suspend licence and fine.
It would take a lot of resources for a few weeks, then need to be regularly enforced, but it would pay off in the end. I bet the majority of clubs in a city centre could be closed down temporarily for selling alcohol to drunks. How many clubs can afford that ?
For the pubs and clubs, suspend licence and fine.
It would take a lot of resources for a few weeks, then need to be regularly enforced, but it would pay off in the end. I bet the majority of clubs in a city centre could be closed down temporarily for selling alcohol to drunks. How many clubs can afford that ?
Eddie, I know some people get Fixed Penalties for peeing in the street, but go in to any city centre on a weekend night and you'll see plenty of it.
Some councils put up portaloo thingies in the city centre at weekends for drunks. Why not tackle the drunk issue? http:// www.her ald.ie/ ...r-dr unks-26 77046.h tml
Some councils put up portaloo thingies in the city centre at weekends for drunks. Why not tackle the drunk issue? http://
have said all along that for some binge drinkers, they should be fined, if they need the services of police, ambulance, paramedics, but no one seemed to agree. Have on a number of occasions been in A&E, one where i was taken seriously ill before any says, and mostly it's young kids having got bladdered and come off worse. Or had a punch up and also come off worse.