WTF is wrong with people these days?

[KennyR]

I'm glad to hear your friend is ok. He wouldn't have been the first person minding their own business and enjoying a night out to have some alcohol-fuelled {bleep}tard knock someone's face to pieces or put a knife in their guts - for no reason whatsoever. I couldn't imagine how bad that would have been.

Some people just can't handle the drink - the alcohol turns them like nasty kids, unreasoning, vindictive, and pitiless. Some people go out looking for a fight for some kind of feeble machismo. Some people can't take the fact that they're lacking something everyone else has and decide just to attack whoever looks the most vulnerable when it spills over in drink-addled rage. Then they attack the medical staff when taken to hospital...

The bars are at least partly to blame though. Nightclubs and bars do their best to sell as much drink in as short a time as possible, in overcrowded places. They build up powder kegs waiting for a spark. Binge drinking is pure evil. It brings out the worst in everyone.

[KennyR]

T_Bone wrote:
I think you should need a license to drink in public. Something that can be revoked when it's obvious public intoxication and certain individuals don't mix.

We'll make a socialist out of you yet, T_Bone! ;-)

[KennyR]

Just as a side note: hospital staff are always innundated around the Christmas period with victims of drunken brawls. There is a day in the calendar some even call Black Friday: the last Friday before Christmas, where office workers on their office nights out can mix with hardened clubbers. Apparently the two never mix that well.

Anyone heard of this?

[KennyR]

That sort of reminds me of someone around here. Murdered somebody, got four years. Was out in two, murdered someone else. Went back in for three, was out in six months. Murdered someone else. He's gone back in for life now, but will probably only serve five years.

Our justice system seems to be made for hardening killers. No wonder we have such a murder rate.