Glass pint glasses to be replaced with plastic

[tom_e]

I doubt that, they will be thrown away.

Solid polycarbonate can also be a weapon as much as glass is.

You can doubt all you like but every pub and club I work at uses solid polycarb and washes and reuses them, plus it takes a lot more time and effort to make them into a weapon than it does glass

 

[Yas786]

Not when you see how many people use these as very effective offensive weapons.

+1...i think its a great idea and will help alleviate the amount of facial, head injuries that the Hospitals A&E depts see every night of week.

 

[Azagoth]

****ing pathetic! Are they going to ban bottles too? It's just another poorly thought out exercise from a failing government, which will no doubt end up costing us tax-payers even more of our money.

 

[Greenlizard0]

Any what if it had been a bar stool he was attacked with? make all bar stools out of rubber?

Perhaps that's a good point, but not really a question you can ask that can be applied to the real world.

Also, no disrespect meant here (and sorry if you've not actually lived there all your life), but I don't think you can compare Cumbria to an inner city.

For a start, a bottle is a much more dangerous weapon since it's lighter, and pretty much guaranteed to damage by tearing/slashing etc.

+1...i think its a great idea and will help alleviate the amount of facial, head injuries that the Hospitals A&E depts see every night of week.

Indeed. Picking glass out of people's faces on nights out or in a hospital setting isn't fun at all. :/

 

[Andybtsn]

Bring back the Goblet.

 

[malfunkshun]

I would imagine they will be using the soild polycarbonate style plastic glasses which can be washed and reused

And broken and thrust into someones face/neck/chest, arguably further than glass could

 

[Gackt]

Good move.

 

[h00fzilla]

I would imagine they will be using the soild polycarbonate style plastic glasses which can be washed and reused

Got hit in the eye by one of these at a gig - someone had indiscriminately launched it - not nice; split the corner of my eye/tear duct open about a centimetre and ****** blood everywhere. Not as bad as if it'd been a proper glass I guess but still annoying.

Government penalising the majority for the actions of the minority here though. Surely the problem is the alcohol itself, though obviously that's too big a taxable cash cow to think about curtailing.

 

[Burnsy2023]

I doubt that, they will be thrown away.

Solid polycarbonate can also be a weapon as much as glass is.

Lots of bars and pubs around football clubs already use polycarbonate on match days voluntarily, and they do get reused.

****ing pathetic! Are they going to ban bottles too? It's just another poorly thought out exercise from a failing government, which will no doubt end up costing us tax-payers even more of our money.

I think they are looking at banning glass bottles too.

 

[Viper²]

It's a good idea. Lol at people saying it reduces the taste.

 

[ThundyCat]

Not to mention its a huge waste of plastic? I assume they will be thrown away once used whereas at least the glass gets washed and used again.

Why would it be thrown away? The pus/clubs etc can recycling them.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

All you supporters of this will be furious when your locals shut down because they aren't getting enough business!

 

[Biohazard]

I think the home office would be better finding something useful to do, or dissapear all together.

 

[tom_e]

And broken and thrust into someones face/neck/chest, arguably further than glass could

True but it takes intent to sit and smash up a solid plastic glass, rather than tap a glass on a table and thrust or just smash it on someone

 

[ATI_Karl]

Regular local quiet pubs = Glass

Dirty, Common, city pubs = Plastic

 

[arknor]

if its not a glass it will be something else its not the objects in a pub that are the problem its the violent drunks who sould be banned from drinking.

stick a big tatoo on there foreheads warning places not to serve them

 

[PaulStat]

Lol at people saying it reduces the taste.

why lol? It does

 

[Ascendancy]

METAL TANKARDS FOR ALL.

 

[Burnsy2023]

All you supporters of this will be furious when your locals shut down because they aren't getting enough business!

Don't be melodramatic, people will still go to pubs and drink beer like they have done for centuries.

 

[JBuk]

I knew some smart arse would come up with that, its about sensibly minimising risk you can quite easily replace glass with plastic without much of an impact. Making stools out of rubber is just daft.
Also I'd much rather be smacked with a stool than stabbed with a broken glass/bottle

My post was partially in jest, I still think it's a pathetic idea

A glass is only a weapon when some idiot decides to use it as such, the same logic can be applied to lots of other objects

Also, no disrespect meant here (and sorry if you've not actually lived there all your life), but I don't think you can compare Cumbria to an inner city.

I do live in a city , it's not all mountains and sheeps you know