In one small town in Wales the whole town centre is marked "no alcohol" except for a tiny patch: the rugby club garden.
Anyway, many moons ago my heavy-drinking, non-smoking Scottish drinking buddy used to be an ardent pro-smoker. When asked why he used to say:
"When they've stopped you buggers smoking, it'll be the booze next. You'll see. It'll be the Calvinists all over again. While they're picking on you, I'm drinking in peace."
We didn't believe him.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostNo, off-licenses - that way they can catch more people.
Dan Travis was leaving an off-licence in Brighton at 7pm with two cans of Kronenberg in his hand when two community support officers asked him to stop (Rosemary Bennett writes).
“They asked me if I knew about alcohol restriction zones and I said I didn’t,” said Mr Travis, a tennis coach. “They said, ‘We have to stop people who we think are drinking, not just drunk’. I pointed out that the cans were not even open, and they said that didn’t matter because they thought I was going to drink them in a public place. They asked me to pour it down the drain.”
We think you are going to commit a crime. You're nicked!
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostNo, off-licenses - that way they can catch more people.
Dan Travis was leaving an off-licence in Brighton at 7pm with two cans of Kronenberg in his hand when two community support officers asked him to stop (Rosemary Bennett writes).
“They asked me if I knew about alcohol restriction zones and I said I didn’t,” said Mr Travis, a tennis coach. “They said, ‘We have to stop people who we think are drinking, not just drunk’. I pointed out that the cans were not even open, and they said that didn’t matter because they thought I was going to drink them in a public place. They asked me to pour it down the drain.”
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They implemented these areas in my locale quite a while ago. They originaly intended to stop winos being a nuisance.
The police took the opportunity to stop drinkers stepping outside the pub on a quiet summers evening and using the squares in the pedestrian precinct instead of being cooped up in a hot sweaty pub.
They do not seem to have taken the same stance with smokers blocking the pavements with a drink in their hand though.
They have also stopped chasing the winos who now congregate outside the city centre and abuse people using the canal tow path.
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Originally posted by wc2 View PostAny of them outside pubs?...
Dan Travis was leaving an off-licence in Brighton at 7pm with two cans of Kronenberg in his hand when two community support officers asked him to stop (Rosemary Bennett writes).
“They asked me if I knew about alcohol restriction zones and I said I didn’t,” said Mr Travis, a tennis coach. “They said, ‘We have to stop people who we think are drinking, not just drunk’. I pointed out that the cans were not even open, and they said that didn’t matter because they thought I was going to drink them in a public place. They asked me to pour it down the drain.”
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Actually surprised you have not got it already, been banned here for about 15 years. Mind you, we probably needed it I hear you all shout.
They like to 'crackdown' on posh folk having a picnic in the park sharing a 15 quid bottle of merlot while nutters are wandering the streets with bottles of fortified wine and a knife.
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Any of them outside pubs?
New Lair's new anthem
Something inside..
The further you take my rights away
The faster I will run
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Indeed, Labour in another "Poorly Drafted" & "Over-zealously implemented" law shocker.
That is what you get when you have a party of career politicians passing laws.
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No explanation or suspicion that the person could be a public nuisance is required.
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No more drinking in public
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6571617.ece
"More than 700 “controlled drinking zones” have been set up across England, giving police sweeping powers to confiscate beer and wine from anyone enjoying a quiet outdoor tipple.
Local authorities are introducing the zones at a rate of 100 a year, The Times has learnt. Some cover whole cities, a radical departure from what the law intended."
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