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>>>Cheers Tracy.
>>> I don't now what its like in the US but in the UK a lot of town and city centres feel like a drunks only zones every weekend now not just New Year. I wish the government would stick more tax on alcohol to cover all the emergency service work. And enforce the law properly. Its an offense for a bar to serve a drunk so how do some of these people get so legless.
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>>A *programmer* asking on how to circumvent such "rules" ?
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>Yes I know Thomas. Get a friend to buy it or buy loads before you are drunk . My point is that bars serve alcohol and use bouncers to eject trouble makers. Those troublemakers are then on the street where they ruin everyone elses evening. We ban people from driving drunk I think it would be a good idea to ban repeat offenders for drunken troublemaking from buying or consuming alcohol.

My point is that for a large part of young humans drinking or other forms of attitude changing is the rule. Making repeat offenders teatotallers sounds nice in theory, but from my perspective the practice would mean a big brother atmosphere worse than the current state.

What I would like to see is stiffer penalties for offenders, better insurance conditions for teatotallers which should be checked more often and also have those needing medical or police assistance be billed afterwards. Less money to drink from...

Even if my times as a bouncer are somewhere lost in the last century, even today you certainly strive for guests not toally plastered (not talkink about flat rate parties - they should not be allowed as a business). Trouble comes more often with mixing other chemicals and some people really not able to handle themselves even if only partly drunk.

my 0.02 EUR

thomas