To say it's time we stopped being soft on drunken yobs.

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I just wonder how long we're going to allow drunken yobs to tie up police resources, ambulance crews and hospital casualty departments. Why can't the government listen to police chiefs and toughen up. I don't know the answer, some police chiefs have said we should have drunk tanks. Whatever happens SOMETHING should be done.

Town centers at weekends are now often like the Wild West a no go area with people who just can't handle their drink, they cost the country fortunes. I just don't understand why it's being allowed to continue. What do you all think?

Well that told me all I was wondering. No knowledge, no concrete or viable ideas.

Have you hit the bottle, OP? Your last post sounded a bit angry.

She sounded more than a bit angry before the last post. Perhaps she seriously expected a chorus of validation. She evidently isn't capable of coming up with any real ideas and is quitting realising she's embarrassing herself. I expect she'll name change now.

I didn't like to ask if drink had been taken but you have to wonder

Now that would be ironic! Drunken yobbery via Internet. How could we police that?

I'm 11 actually, OP :p

How could we police that? USB breathalyser, results published after each post. Might explain a few mn threads.

The idea of just leaving people lying in the streets is barbaric. I assume the police/healthcare workers would have a magical way of looking at a passed out woman on the pavement and know if she was drunk (leave her she deserves it) or spiked (save her poor lamb). I know what happens to passed out women in the streets. I've had to step in to stop a group of sober men jostling a woman who couldn't speak into their car. When me and my pal started going to the dancing her dad ( a cabbie) would insist on picking us up every night cause he saw the huge volume of sober men who taxi into town at 2.30 with the explicit intention of preying on vulnerable women. Deciding to sacrifice women to rapists to promote 'personal responsibility' is hideously misogynistic. Like obviously people shouldn't get in a state in the first place but being drunk doesn't mean you deserve to be raped which would be the outcome of just walking past and to top it off there's every chance the rapist would be sober.

This is a strange thread. Two young men I know were attacked and one knived a few weeks ago, by a very drunk and aggressive young man. This is university city. I won't stay out late in this city and worry when my young adult children are out at clubs.

Of course drunkeness on this scale is blot on our country. You don't get it in other countries.

Like obviously people shouldn't get in a state in the first place but being drunk doesn't mean you deserve to be raped which would be the outcome of just walking past and to top it off there's every chance the rapist would be sober.

The statistics show that young men are many times more likely to be victims of "nighttime economy" crime, but I totally accept your point - sacrificing anyone to make that point is 'barbaric', although not misogynistic as women are not disproportionately at risk.

I know it's socially unacceptable, but it would work.

To me it seems like the situation is getting better anyway. This is anecdotal only, so happy to hear opposing views, but I'd say that about 8-10 years ago there was a lot more trouble in city centres and people getting absolutely off their face and causing problems. Now when I go out I never see any fighting and people don't seem to be in as bad a state.