Ways to curb drinking problems

[Tacet_Blue]

1. ID cards ( ) for everyone who goes into any bar which has had the most crime problems.

The fastest growing group of binge drinkers in UK are girls (or ladettes) between the age of 18-25. I don't think ID would help much.

2. Large increase in the price of drinks maybe as much as £5 to deter people spending stupid amounts of drinks every night.

Some clubs already charge £5 for a bottle of water and £120 for Dom. It might increase the amount of drink people consume from the off licence before they go out.

3. Bouncers have the powers to breathalise people who go into bars who look like trouble and also to check their identities and people they may socialize with and then ban them from the bar, other bars and off-licences in the area for a LONG time.

Door staff, as they like to be called don't let obviously drunk people in already. Once they are inside though, theycan get hammered!

4. Finally, a ration on the amount of drinks ALL people can have in a single day, e.g. everyone who goes into the bars etc is given by the bouncer or whoever is at the door 2-5 tokens which they must hand into the barman to buy a drink (1 token per drink). They cannot be given any more when they enter and if they buy drinks for anyone else, that person must give in the number of tokens that corresponds to the number of drinks they received.

Never! No way Or how hard would they be to fake
The problem with drink related antisocial behaviour tends to happen on the streets as the clubs are closing, and not actually inside them.
All the clubs close at 2am (except for a very few which open till 8am) this puts a huge strain on the resources of the police. There must be 100 officers lined up on the seafront as the clubs kick out.
It is very expensive on a Friday, Saturday, and not all towns and cities can afford to cover everywhere.

One of the best solutions, which is voluntary at the moment, is for large chains of pubs like weatherspoons, to put up the money to pay for the extra cover needed between 1-3am.
At the moment the council tax pays for it, and the budget is tight.
If clubs paid for the uniformed presence, violent drunks would not be a problem for anyone who just wanted to go out and have a few drinks.
Lets face it some of these clubs make an absolute fortune, and could well afford it.

 

[Dave A]

Touring Mars - "I'm not being facetious here, but how do you know that?"

I personally don't, but you ask anyone who was alive 50 years ago what it was like compared to today, they know what it was like back then and my reasoning is thats behaivior in general is getting worse and worse all the time. I've noticed a big change in the last decade, especially in schools.

 

[Touring Mars]

Touring Mars - "I'm not being facetious here, but how do you know that?"

I personally don't, but you ask anyone who was alive 50 years ago what it was like compared to today, they know what it was like back then and my reasoning is thats behaivior in general is getting worse and worse all the time. I've noticed a big change in the last decade, especially in schools.

But how many times do you here people, especially your parents, saying that 'the world is going to pot'... it's just different. If I asked anyone who was alive 50 years ago what it was like compared to today, I'd take their comments with a pinch of salt, because they don't know what it's like to be our age now... we may binge-drink more, and there is more fights, but the problem is not that we are becoming more violent - there are just more ways to get drunk and people start drinking at a younger age... but folk who lived 50 years ago tolerated alot of crap that we don't tolerate now - like corporal punishment, drinking and driving, chauvinism, racism etc. etc. We need to be given some credit for tackling these issues in a changing world - we can't go back to 'the good old days' whether they even really existed or not...

 

[Dave A]

It's different, it's worse. It's got noticably worse since I was in school, the crime rates are always going up and the average crimes are always getting more severe. I think we need capital punishment personally and that theives that re-oofend should lose a hand or two and rapists should get nuted, thats what I think. Drink driving wasn't a huge issue in the 50's, very few people had cars and racism is still very prevolent today. I'm not saying back in the 50's was great and perfect but we should look at the way crime and the severity of the average crime was so much lower then and look at what changes have made it increase at the rate it is doing. You can learn from the past accept that certain things were better without saying everything abiout todays world stinks, science and technology has come a long way. We just can't seem to look after each other.

 

[ledhed]

when the world go's to pot can I bring the pipe ?