Binge drinking crackdown

[hc4361]

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.

[HowardKennitby]

I agree. We do not need more law. What we need is the existing law properly enforced. Unfortunately, due to a lack of prison spaces, this is not happening at the moment.

[hc4361]

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 ?

[EDDIE51]

Fixed penaltys for peeing in the street are already issued in some places.

[DaisyNonna]

Why bother asking? The government is great on talking but ineffectual on doing.

[tinkerbell23]

Possibly not unreasonable no.

Id defo be fined :0/ xx

[hc4361]

What for Tink? Peeing, vomiting, or lewd behaviour?

[tinkerbell23]

Vomiting and behaviour!!

Honestly if i was fined for it id pay! X

[hc4361]

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.herald.ie/...r-drunks-2677046.html

[hc4361]

ewwwww, who holds your hair back? Do you carry a toothbrush and toothpaste?

[tinkerbell23]

I think anytime ive been *that* state, ive been heading home LOL and i dont make a habit of it ;0>

xx

[hc4361]

I recall times like that, Tink, in my youth. *blush* Clip round the ear from dad and a glass of warm salt water sorted me out

[baza]

a lot of laws exist re drink vomit etc trouble is not enough plod about to enforce the law, when I get brahms all I want is to go home to bed.
If more coppers were on the beat and not screwing the overtime watching the likes of criminals hiding in consuls the problem would be solved.

[tinkerbell23]

Its never intentional! Next thing the wines empty and im spewing out the taxi window!?

Extra £30 onto my night for carwashes LOL xx

[joggerjayne]

They talk about passing out on pavements as though it was a bad thing.

[emmie]

not a good thing though is it JJ

[joggerjayne]

I was just being flippant, em.

:0)

Teenagers here usually make it down to the beach to pass out, coz that's where the late clubs are, under the arches.

[ojread2]

I saw some really hard hitting ads yesterday showing what happens to you if you use Meth. Need this with alcohol as well, shown in schools right from a young age alongside enforcement of the law

[ojread2]

If you know that JJ, why are the po9lice not down there stopping them?

[emmie]

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.

[Brimoan]

If anybody has to be taken to hospital for being drunk charge them £1,000.