Man of Honour
public drunkenness
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Soldato
Would OP prefer people to stay at home sniffing marker pens and petrol? 
Soldato
lol wut?
If by "socially acceptable" you mean nobody does anything about it, why don't you try going around the bars and clubs of say Birmingham and persuade people not to get drunk.
No?
If by "socially acceptable" you mean nobody does anything about it, why don't you try going around the bars and clubs of say Birmingham and persuade people not to get drunk.
No?
Caporegime
Wish you'd bloody enforce it.
(You collective, nothing personal - English language pronoun fail)
Associate
This seems a bit confused to me.
In the UK I'm not convinced that public drunkenness is socially acceptable. People who indulge in it, on the whole, will likely find it acceptable. However, even this introduces more complex parameters e.g. public drunkenness before midday, being drunk in certain places.
Are you're asking which other countries have a questionable or even dangerous general attitude to alcohol and drunkenness?
Soldato
Man of Honour
You would need to increase cell and court spaces 100 fold vh.
It is one of those offences in which common sense has to be used. To arrest everyone for being drunk in a public place, assuming that the neccessity test was met, you would swamp custody areas very quickly.
Man of Honour
I wonder if a book of £30 FPNs would help? I suppose the costs of making sure they were paid would be enormous.
Man of Honour
Is it not 80 quid for a FPN ?
Either way, I wouldn't issue a drunken person with an FPN as they would have to be reasonably with it and that is usually only the case after sobering up in the cells for a while.
In reality, you would only deal with someone who is drunk and incapable or disorderly.
Either way, I wouldn't issue a drunken person with an FPN as they would have to be reasonably with it and that is usually only the case after sobering up in the cells for a while.
In reality, you would only deal with someone who is drunk and incapable or disorderly.
Man of Honour
I was thinking as a change to the current system. Yes at the moment it'd be an £80 PND. I was just thinking if the threat of a £30 fine for being drunk in a public place would help the binge drinking culture?
Man of Honour
I'm not so sure it would be a deterrent to binge drinking.
Man of Honour
I fear you're probably right, but why don't you think it'd work?
Man of Honour
The UK has quite a unique drinking culture and it is something that I haven't seen while abroad unless it's somewhere that Brits drink.
I don't think that culture would think twice about drinking more even if it meant a 30 quid fine.
I don't think that culture would think twice about drinking more even if it meant a 30 quid fine.
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Caporegime
Oh, I totally appreciate that. It's just frustrating to have these offences on the books which are so infrequently enforced as to make them all but irrelevant.
Caporegime
Indeed. However, drink driving is even more stigmatised than it is here.
Man of Honour
Tbh, there are hundreds of not more of old acts and sections that are still on the statute books but rarely if ever used.
Soldato
It is far from accepted. I hate walking around town in the day with drunks on the street. I hate seeing them mingling in the street when parents are out with their children.
Night time I think it's fair enough, Pubs and clubs are open and people pub crawl. Its day time drunkenness that is the problem. Yeah I dont get why the time of day makes a difference but it does, Possibly down to the fact children are present
Night time I think it's fair enough, Pubs and clubs are open and people pub crawl. Its day time drunkenness that is the problem. Yeah I dont get why the time of day makes a difference but it does, Possibly down to the fact children are present
Completely agree.
Also, the only time my uni mates have ever been arrested at night for D&D are cases where they've got aggressive.