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England Starts Fingerprinting Drinkers
dptalia writes "In an effort to reduce alcohol related violence, England is rolling out mandatory fingerprinting of all pub patrons. If a pub owner refuses to comply with the new system, and fails to show 'considerable' reductions in alcohol-related crimes, they will lose their license. Supposedly the town that piloted this program had a 48% reduction in alcohol-related crime." From the article: "Offenders can be banned from one pub or all of them for a specified time - usually a period of months - by a committee of landlords and police called Pub Watch. Their offenses are recorded against their names in the fingerprint system. Bradburn noted the system had a 'psychological effect' on offenders."
Sorry. No. Go to news.google.com and look for reference to this. It ain't there.
The Register a great example of info-tainment. But not a solid news source. Editors aughta know better.
PS: If I am wrong about this, please post a link of something. To a real source.
So this item is appearing in what other news outlets?
It seams like there's a kind of competition going on between our two countries to strip their citizens of basic rights. For a long time I'd read Slashdot stories about England and think to myself how weird it was, then of course I compared notes.
We seem to do everything under the guise/honest or not, of protection. Protection from terrorism. Protection from child abuse. Protection from violence. But we don't seem to be making so much headway. How much of our freedom or dignity will we concede before we stop calling ourselves free nations? Is it our destiny to become everything we hate?
Quack, quack.
how many drunk pub patrons.....
Are we talking male or female patrons here ?
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Google for "female binge drinking" and you'll see almost only british hits.