Late licensing

[Hibbert&Ernie]

Plenty of links if you look for them, here is one...
http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16062165

For me this is a short sighted proposal for completely different reasons than the 'health' 'nhs' 'cost' issues raised. Though there is some validity to those, how has no one considered the long term problem of heightened pressure on late night bars & clubs.
If there are ten bars/clubs in a town centre and a hundred people at each then that is a thousand out and about. If a new wave of charges are to be implemented then some of the bars could close, which means instead of a situation where late night revellers are spread out in relatively small groups, if 5 or 6 bars were to close it means a concentration of people at such establishments. Now I wonder how plod would be able to deal with a bar full of 500 on the rampage.
Also, how could new charges be applied? size of the premisis in cubic feet? previous trouble? quality of door staff? cost of drinks?
The situation now is that supermarkets are selling more than they ever have because people are getting boozed up before they go out and then are getting 'finished off' at bars later on, compounding the issue of drunk driving, and problems on streets and in neighbourhoods leading into town centres.
And a hike in the price of alcohol will only lead to even more of this
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/15/lincolnshire-blast-explosion-lithuanians-dead

 

[EFCNIK]

Lol moonshine. I had some 96% proof stuff in Norway that these crazy Norwegians living next to us had stolen from some warehouse. It was in a clear plastic canister ffs, similar to what you'd find washer fluid in. Apparently it can blind you if you drink too much of it. We drank it with Sprite, or something similar. It was miiiiingin.

 

[chicoazul]

I had some Brugal 151 in the Dominican Republic, it's 151 proof so 75.5% alcohol. Sweet Jesus.

Some of the tsipouro in Greece made up in the mountains is lethal too.