Violence and binge drinking on the decrease

[donnashuggy]

Well well well 🙂

http://www.vice.com/en_au/read/australias-drunken-teens-have-nothing-on-their-parents?utm_source=vic...

[donnashuggy]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

thats right . i'm a parent , are you a parent donna ? i think you are

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Yes, I feed my children food.

[boris1gary]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

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@lakeland27 wrote:

thats right . i'm a parent , are you a parent donna ? i think you are

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Yes, I feed my children food.

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donna, sorry for being a little off topic but i am also a parent and have just been teaching my youngest all about -

in·qui·si·tion

noun \ˌin-kwə-ˈzi-shən, ˌiŋ-\

the Inquisition : an organization in the Roman Catholic Church in the past that was responsible for finding and punishing people who did not accept its beliefs and practices

: a harsh and unfair investigation or series of questions

[lakeland27]

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@donnashuggy wrote:

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@lakeland27 wrote:

thats right . i'm a parent , are you a parent donna ? i think you are

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Yes, I feed my children food.

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 right. i thought so    so you must be a bad parent then..  me too i guess .

i better go and find my cane i think, i'll teach them. i'll make them forget what fun is ! 

[lakeland27]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

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@lakeland27 wrote:

thats right . i'm a parent , are you a parent donna ? i think you are

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Yes, I feed my children food.

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donna, sorry for being a little off topic but i am also a parent and have just been teaching my youngest all about -

in·qui·si·tion

noun \ˌin-kwə-ˈzi-shən, ˌiŋ-\

the Inquisition : an organization in the Roman Catholic Church in the past that was responsible for finding and punishing people who did not accept its beliefs and practices

: a harsh and unfair investigation or series of questions

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 what a coincidence ! one of my boys is named Torquemada

[lakeland27]

 that says more about you than anything.

[march470]

not a prob mrs lakeland27

[march470]

what a terrible attitude by so many to the deaths and the injuries that are caused by booze    and how terrible the support of continuing this mentality   people are trying to stop the deaths and the what do we see here  people not supporting it and sre trying to stop it  and many of tyhese people are parents   my heart goes out to all the parents who have lost a child through the boozed up king hits

to me so many are happy to see people die from coward punches   has to make you wonder

wonder what their attitude would be if it happened to one of theire familyt members

[lakeland27 · Accepted solution]

hoping one of my or anyone else's  kids is injured is a problem alright.

all of this talk of 'king hits ' and 'coward punches' is hype anyway. i myself have been assaulted in this way a few times as a young Male . the violence is not new. it isn't as if the current generation of hoodlum is any more skilled than twenty or more years ago. its simply that the press chose to make it story of the month. this is reflected in statistics.  they want to make people angry and fearful and it appears to have succeeded.

[freakiness · Accepted solution]

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@march470 wrote:

what a terrible attitude by so many to the deaths and the injuries that are caused by booze    and how terrible the support of continuing this mentality   people are trying to stop the deaths and the what do we see here  people not supporting it and sre trying to stop it  and many of tyhese people are parents   my heart goes out to all the parents who have lost a child through the boozed up king hits

to me so many are happy to see people die from coward punches   has to make you wonder

wonder what their attitude would be if it happened to one of theire familyt members

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Not a single person said they're happy to see anyone die from any sort of violence.

What I see are people having a discussion on an age old problem.

Most of the attacks in which people have been killed would not have been prevented by earlier closing times.  The most high profile ones have occured much earlier than 3 am.  When the footy club that I used to live near closed at midnight there'd be a mob of people outside waiting for taxis and fights were common because there were a mob of people angry about getting shut out "early".

[icyfroth]

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@freakiness wrote:

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@march470 wrote:

what a terrible attitude by so many to the deaths and the injuries that are caused by booze    and how terrible the support of continuing this mentality   people are trying to stop the deaths and the what do we see here  people not supporting it and sre trying to stop it  and many of tyhese people are parents   my heart goes out to all the parents who have lost a child through the boozed up king hits

to me so many are happy to see people die from coward punches   has to make you wonder

wonder what their attitude would be if it happened to one of theire familyt members

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Not a single person said they're happy to see anyone die from any sort of violence.

What I see are people having a discussion on an age old problem.

Most of the attacks in which people have been killed would not have been prevented by earlier closing times.  The most high profile ones have occured much earlier than 3 am.  When the footy club that I used to live near closed at midnight there'd be a mob of people outside waiting for taxis and fights were common because there were a mob of people angry about getting shut out "early".

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Here in Sydney they're looking into longer operating hours for public transport out of the city. Currently a lot of train services stop running at midnight, which impacts on people trying to get cabs.

Earlier closing times for bars and liquor outlets have been effective in other areas such as Newcastle and Wollongong. More policing and stronger penalties for drunken and disorderly behaviour are also effective.

There really needs to be a concerted effort on the part of communities and government to curb this epedemic of drunken and violent behaviour in cities and holiday resorts. It's Australia-wide and it's devastating.

Pooh poohing it off like: oh it happens all time and has been happening through the ages is not helpful and certainly implies a lack of concern for ppl that have died/ been killed by violence or accidental death through intoxication.

It's spiralling out of control to a point where hospital and medical services are no longer able to cope with the volume.

Would you be so quick to brush it off as inconsequential if one of your own family were to be injured of killed as a result of drunken incident?

People trivialising the issue are part of the problem in my opinion.