> > Since list members don't seem mind very much the OT subject of > > alcohol, I've got one for you. > > > > A hot local political issue has been new regulations regarding > > drinking alcohol in outdoors public places in town (or "densely > > populated areas"). It has now been prohibited. > > > > Would be interested in (briefly) what regulations there are in your > > countries and communities. Is drinking alcohol outdoors in public > > places allowed, or not? > > > > Lasse > > It's practically compulsory here.
Just to expand on this, and to take it a bit more seriously, I'm not aware of any restrictions on drinking outdoors in public places in the UK. There is perceived to be a problem of 'binge drinking' in some inner cities, and politicians and scandal rags come up with various illiberal schemes to try and stop it. These schemes do not address the real causes of binge drinking, whatever they are - I don't claim to know. Right now, if people drinking in public cause a disturbance there are already plenty of adequate laws the police can use to arrest them. So any new legislation to ban drinking in public must have some sort of social engineering or moral agenda, rather than being an attempt to cure either the causes or the effects of public drunkenness. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
