Could This Help Get Teh Boozed Up Idiots Of Our Streets?

[youngmafbog]

http://news.sky.com/story/1310546/boozy-criminals-get-tags-that-detect-alcohol

I expect to see the usual Boris haters commenting on this, but that aside surely anything that lowers the problems caused by excessive drinking is good?

And no, it is not aimed at alcoholics.

[Zeuhl]

Interesting idea and worth testing again.

Presumably it's used as carrot/stick like most tagging schemes

ie instead of keeping someone locked up which is arguably not doing anyone any good, offenders whose crimes are binge-fuelled can carry on with their lives provided they abstain from drinking.

Good initiative.

[Gromit]

Seems like an excellent idea, especially for Drink Divers.

Being drunk on its own is of course is not an offense. Judges cannot sentence people to 6 months of being sober. But in cases where driving or disorderly behaviour is likely to re-occur, it would act as both a deterrent, and as evidence gatherer.

[Gromit]

And for Drink Drivers as well :-)

[Gromit]

Pity they didn't have them in 1987...

// The evening had ended with a pot being sent crashing through a restaurant window – sending some of the revellers, including Johnson, the future mayor of London, scurrying for safety while their less fortunate friends earned themselves a night in the cells at Cowley police station.

But one former Bullingdon member recalled how the arrests took place in Oxford’s botanical gardens where – silhouetted by the lights of the police cars – the students, who had been hiding on the ground, stood up one by one.

At that point, however, Cameron had sprinted off down a side street towards St John’s Lane to make good his escape, according to the person. //

[youngmafbog]

Well I knew someone would try to political point score.

And I trust you fall in the category of "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" Gromit?

I think it is actually aimed more at habitual troublesome drinkers although I'm sure some of the Bullington club will qualify.

[sandyRoe]

So, Dave did a runner and left his drinking cronies to face the music?

[Old_Geezer]

We'll see. I suspect folk will take no notice and simply get into further trouble though.

[Gromit]

Ymb,
You did more or less invite a snipe so I felt obliged to deliver.

I have done quote a lot of stupid things while drunk, but rather boringly, they never involved the police nor criminal damage.

[agchristie]

If it was heavily trialled north of the border and wasnt adopted,what is the difference here? Why wasnt it adopted anyway in Scotland?

[youngmafbog]

Perhaps they didnt have enough bands for all the drunken scots ?