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Drunken Revellers
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Ambulances are for emergencies, not self-inflicted drunken revellers. The police should have authority to hose these drunks down and leave them where they collapse.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I agree with cazz, although in Spain (tourists apart) the drinking is a national pastime and although there are drunks in the streets at times, there seems to be fewer and their antics are different. For example, in my limited experience of Spain, I have never seen a drunken riot with police presence, vomiting, young women on the ground either unconscious or legs wide apart showing their knickers, or lack of them to the world. Casualty departments at the weekend are not filled with drunks, so I have been led to believe and hospital drunken violence seems to be a rarity.
UK does have a drinks problem.
UK does have a drinks problem.
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ummmm....I have said that fights would occur on a Friday night particularly among the Irish, but this was usually contained by 3 or 4 coppers "banging them up" for the night, but what we are seeing now is what might be described as "uncontrolled drunken riots" involving both male and female participants.
I worked in Casualty for 6 months but NEVER experienced what is happening in depts all over the country at weekends now.
However....you are entitled to your opinion.
I worked in Casualty for 6 months but NEVER experienced what is happening in depts all over the country at weekends now.
However....you are entitled to your opinion.
I can't see why the ambulance service can't charge people for their services when they are picking up drunks etc - the fire brigade charge for false alarms, after all! and there ought to be some sort of fining service for the idiots who ring 999 to ask what day it is, or they've lost their keys, or "my snowman's been stolen". The service know who's calling, generally, from their computers - just send 'em a bill for wasting emergency services' time.