Do you think this is the answer to the binge drinking culture?

Question

I enjoy a drink. But i have never caused trouble, vomited in the street etc.

Or do you have a better solution.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/55454/Drunk-yobs-I-ll-lock-them-all-up-says-judge

Answer 1

Zero tolerance worked well in Middlesbrough.

I dunno what the answer is, i'm too pissed to think, excuse me while I go vomit in the street.........

Answer 2

lol....@ steph's answer!!

Answer 3

I enjoy a nip also, and never cause trouble, never vomit in street.

Answer 4

Something needs to be done because it is getting out of hand now and the police are being overstretched as a result.

Answer 5

Binge drinking is also a serious problem in Australia & New Zealand.

Our city & a few others, now have a liquor ban in the streets of the  central city areas on Friday & Saturday nights.

Something needs to happen with the sale of liquor.....18 is far too young.

I watched a documentary on binge drinking....the young people interviewed all said they need to do it, as the world sucks.

Sad, that our young people are so unhappy they have to numb themselves to cope with life.

Answer 6

what about all being equal before the law, as always some people are less equal than others

Answer 7

Yes.

There is no better solution than a short, sharp shock.

Answer 8

Yip,teach your kids from a young age to respect alcohol for what it is and the damage that it can cause.

Answer 9

I never liked the taste of booze.

Answer 10

if you look at the increase in the number of places in town and city centres that serve alcohol and stay open late over the last 20 years, it's easy to see why we now have a problematic binge-drinking culture

alcohol in this country is seen as a means to get legless, not as a healthy accompaniment to a meal

how you change that attitude i do not know, but not filling towns and cities with drink-til-you-pass-out clubs and bars might've helped

maybe if so many of us werent forced to work in c**p jobs on c**p wages for so many long hours, we might feel less inclined to get pissed on weekends as an escape

Answer 11

Most people have zero tolerance for such behaviour except we don't have the authority to apply sanctions to the perpetrators.

Such awful behaviour has acquired some ridiculous caché in this country.  Those regularly associated with it are hailed as "h**l-raisers" by certain sections of the popular press and its readers who aspire to be similarly obnoxious.

I think if the judiciary in general adopted the stance of this brave judge, all the moronic oiks would simply regard such prosecution as validation of their debauchery.

Answer 12

I prefer the stocks for drunks myself.  And then the rest of us throwing rotten veg and tomatoes at them.

Or the police patrolling the streets armed with a bucket and a mop,forcing those who foul the streets to clean it up ... or else!

But yes, being drunk in public is a criminal offence.  It's time someone did something about it.

Answer 13

Well they used to have those little 'lock up's' in Victorian times didn't they? I know some still exist. Just little stone huts were they were thrown in till they sobered up.

The thing is Imagine how big it would have to be now in any city centre in the U.K on a Saturday night. Imagine them all thrown in together P1ssing and vomiting everywhere until the cold light of day.

That'd teach them to go out and not wear a cardi...

Answer 14

some people just cant control themselves and they make everyone else look bad.