Someone has to do something

[Shannow]

about the problems of alcohol fueled violence and teenage binge drinking...so

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23646316-5006784,00.html

Quote:
Radical laws to ban drinking at home

DRINKING a glass of wine in your own home could be illegal under extreme new liquor laws that rubber-stamp the use of no-go alcohol zones in NSW.
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Under the new laws, any area of the state can be declared a restricted alcohol zone and it applies to the sale of alcohol as well as possession and consumption in any premises - licensed or not.
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Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia's Paul Dillon said it was a radical solution for a serious problem.

"This sort of thing drives things underground. No one who has any expertise in this area is saying we should ban alcohol," he said.

 

[JHZR2]

maybe it doesnt work... but at some point I have to wonder if the best solution is to get the general public so enraged at some situation that they take it upon themselves to NOT allow it to occur... i.e. actually know what is going on with your kids.

JMH

 

[eljefino]

Asinine.

Even though drunk driving is way down from the 1970s we get organizations that won't quit until the last criminal is caught, yadda yadda.

To keep public support for their cause they have to come out with new laws to further entangle people who "might drive" but haven't reached for the keys yet.

Politicos who won't take a stand on controversial issues will rubber stamp anything these teatotallers shove in front of them.

I can see owning a house near a school being a reason for the gov't to make it dry.

 

[oilboy123]

Sounds like Big Brother gone wild.......Sad. Yes knowing or caring what your kids are doing would be nice.

Nothing more fun than being told what you can and can't do in your own house.

 

[Gary Allan]

The futurists aren't all that crazy, are they?

 

[AcuraTech]

Wow. Stinks for you guys, I guess. The thing is that it says that it CAN be implemented. Would like to see if it actually is.

Here in America, the only way that they're gonna pry away our alcohol is when they pull it out of our other cold dead hand. The first cold dead hand holding a gun, of course.

 

[Gary Allan]

Julia: I told them about you.

Winston: ..and I told them about you.



Confession is good for the soul

 

[crinkles]

one of those crazy things that no one oculd ever enforce - are they going to put a cop (or video camera) in everyone's house. anyone could bootleg it and put it in a milk bottle.

 

[Shannow]

Wonder if malt, glucose, yeast and hoppes could be outlawed as precursors to illicit substances like they have done with methanol and pseudoephedrine.

 

[crinkles]

my carboy would be confiscated as drug making contraband

 

[oilyriser]

I wonder if food-free zones would work to cure the obesity problem...

 

[Shannow]

I wonder if the petrol companies are allowed to bring ethanol in container loads, at the same concentrations as wine into an affected district.

 

[Gary Allan]

Originally Posted By: crinkles
one of those crazy things that no one oculd ever enforce



It's like in the work force, crinkles. Everyone makes mistakes. All you do is remove your support from beneath them and convict them of their naturally flawed status. You just make enough impossible rules.

[R2-D2 and Chewbacca are playing the holographic game aboard the Millennium Falcon]
Chewbacca: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh
C-3PO: He made a fair move. Screaming about it can't help you.

 

[Tempest]

We tried something similar 90 years ago (18th Amendment anyone?) with prohibition. To say that it was a failure would be a huge understatement.

 

[mikeg5]

guys just dont drink and drive.... drink before you drive.. jeesh!

 

[oilyriser]

I know four Australians who have have moved to Canada.

 

[Shannow]

Fair few moving to NZ as well.

But NZ have started copying our laws.

 

[Gary Allan]

http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/media/128k/1984-goldstein-war.mp3

 

[Silk]

Originally Posted By: Shannow

But NZ have started copying our laws.


Only Victorian laws....I don't know what the fascination is,but our traffic laws follow what Victoria sets up.And when Victoria decides it didn't work and was a bad idea,we just keep it anyway.

Binge drinking in teens is a real problem here too - and for two close cultures where drinking large amounts of alcohol is an ordinary part of life,this excess seems a bit strange.I see young girls in the street drinking back bottles of vodka like it was fruit juice,and the guys drink as much beer as I used to drink in a whole evening when I was their age in half an hour.

 

[Shannow]

Silk,
we've had new blood entering the power industry recently (I was the second last graduating year of cadets back in '91), so we've got a heap of under 25s coming in.

Their consumption is staggering.

Girls will drink a full bottle of wine in a "skull", by putting a straw in the bottle, holding it between their teeth, and upending the whole bottle...8 standard drinks in under 20 seconds.

I was floored.