Woman gets banned from bar...

[I_Love_Me_Vol.I]

@Rilchiam

England and Wales, it says. Well, Scotland and Ireland better look out.

I was a bit curious about why Scotland and Northern Ireland weren’t included as well.

[Little_Nemo]

You’d think they’d do the same for Amy Winehouse.

They tried to ban her from bars in England.

She said, “no, no, no.”

[aceplace57]

I bet Big Ben Roethlisberger will buy her a drink.

[Thudlow_Boink]

@billfish678

"Since their introduction in September, police and local authorities can ask magistrates to impose the orders on anyone responsible for alcohol-fuelled crime or anti- social behaviour to stop them drinking or entering licensed premises.

They cannot be issued to anyone with mental health problems or alcoholics"

WTF?

My WAG is that they can’t impose the orders on someone just because that person has mental health problems or is an alcoholic, and the reporter or someone who edited the story garbled it.

[Acsenray]

@I_Love_Me_Vol.I

I was a bit curious about why Scotland and Northern Ireland weren’t included as well.

It’s my understanding that the legal system for Scotland is separate than that of England and Wales.

[Cisco]

This actually sounds like it could be a good idea. I wonder if we could somehow revoke the alcohol buying/possessing/drinking privileges of repeat DUI offenders.

[Hypnagogic_Jerk]

@Thudlow_Boink

My WAG is that they can’t impose the orders on someone just because that person has mental health problems or is an alcoholic, and the reporter or someone who edited the story garbled it.

Quitting drinking can be very dangerous for alcoholics. I would understand not being allowed to give alcoholics orders not to buy or drink any alcohol, because often they need to reduce their use before stopping altogether.

This said, everything I’ve read about Asbos and similar behavioural orders show them to be extremely prone to abuse, so I don’t approve of the concept in the first place.

[Arnold_Winkelried]

Can someone explain this to me (from the article in the OP)
“Drinking Banning Order - nicknamed Booze Asbos”

How does Drinking Banning Order = Asbo? What is Asbo supposed to stand for?

P.S. She can still enter the legal profession, right? Or work for Starbucks?

[Cisco]

@Hypnagogic_Jerk

Quitting drinking can be very dangerous for alcoholics. I would understand not being allowed to give alcoholics orders not to buy or drink any alcohol, because often they need to reduce their use before stopping altogether.

I thought about that, but why not just order them to detox first? The people who need this most are gonna be alcoholics, so it’s pretty much useless if they’re granted immunity from it.

[Acsenray]

@Arnold_Winkelried

How does Drinking Banning Order = Asbo? What is Asbo supposed to stand for?

Anti-social behaviour order

Interesting bit:

Less conventional uses of ASBOs, as listed by a report to the Home Office to illustrate the difficulties with ASBOs, include:

* Two teenage boys from east Manchester forbidden to wear one golf glove, as it was a symbol of membership of a particular gang.[32]
* A 17-year-old forbidden to use the word "grass" as a term of abuse in order to threaten people.[32]
* A 15-year-old forbidden to play football in his street.[32]
* An 18-year-old male was banned from congregating with more than three youths, and subsequently arrested when he entered a very popular youth club (The subject scheduled for that day was how to deal with anti-social behaviour).[32]
* The first farmer to be given an ASBO was instructed to keep his geese and pigs from damaging his neighbour's property.[32]
* The oldest recipient of an ASBO, an 87-year-old man who was abusive to his neighbours.[32]
* The youngest person to be threatened with an ASBO, a two-year-old boy accused of kicking a football at windows over a fence 7 feet (2 m) high and verbally abusing residents when asked to stop. This, however, turned out to be a police error.[33]
* **A woman was forbidden to make excessive noise during sex anywhere in England.**[34]

[Oakminster]

@Cisco

This actually sounds like it could be a good idea. I wonder if we could somehow revoke the alcohol buying/possessing/drinking privileges of repeat DUI offenders.

Enforcement is going to be difficult, unless you just mandate that everybody gets carded for every sale. Plenty of people–perhaps most over 30 years old–regularly purchase alcohol without being carded.

We do have something similar though…many dui convictions result in some period of time on probation. On of the typical conditions of probation, at least in my area, is a prohibition on consuming alcohol, or any other non-prescription drug.

[AClockworkMelon]

Wow. Banned from every single bar in England before women in the US are old enough to drink.

Like the women in the US, however, I’m sure she’ll just get booze from friends.

[Cisco]

@Oakminster

Enforcement is going to be difficult, unless you just mandate that everybody gets carded for every sale. Plenty of people–perhaps most over 30 years old–regularly purchase alcohol without being carded.

Good point. If it was proven to save lives, though, I wouldn’t mind swiping my ID every time.

[BigT]

@AClockworkMelon

Wow. Banned from every single bar in England before women in the US are old enough to drink.

Like the women in the US, however, I’m sure she’ll just get booze from friends.

And it’s perfectly legal for her to drink it at those friends’ houses. She’s only banned from public drinking.

And what about liquor stores? I saw bars, and no public drinking, but no restriction on, say getting it from the supermarket. Or does that just not happen in England?

[Green_Bean]

@BigT

And what about liquor stores? I saw bars, and no public drinking, but no restriction on, say getting it from the supermarket. Or does that just not happen in England?

It says the following:

The two-year order also bans Hall from buying alcohol at any other establishment or shop, carrying it in an unsealed container or drinking it in a public place.

(bolding mine)

I really want to know exactly what she did!

[StGermain]

BigT - She’s been banned from

The two-year order also bans Hall from buying alcohol at any other establishment or shop, carrying it in an unsealed container or drinking it in a public place.

StG

[Oredigger77]

I really want to party with this chick.

I’d bet this kind of thing gets her famous in the U.S. and she moves here next year to be a famous party host. At least at the bars I got to a girl that looks like that could take a swing at a bartender and only get thrown out for the night.

[kopek]

@OtisCampbellWasRight

I’ve gotten tossed out of bars on several occasions, when I was in college. But to be banned from every bar in the COUNTRY!

Bravo.

I’m older and I got a couple good liver matches in the family. Given enough of a budget I’m betting I could get banned in all of North America. Quick - someone give me some good insults to throw at the Canadians.

[gonzomax]

@kopek

I’m older and I got a couple good liver matches in the family. Given enough of a budget I’m betting I could get banned in all of North America. Quick - someone give me some good insults to throw at the Canadians.

I have to admire your ambition anyway.
It used to be an insult to call them Canucks. Now they like it ,so I got nothing anymore.

[Mr.Krebbs]

@Cisco

This actually sounds like it could be a good idea. I wonder if we could somehow revoke the alcohol buying/possessing/drinking privileges of repeat DUI offenders.

You mean like giving them probation and breathalyzers for their vehicles? The threat of punishment already isn’t enough to get a routine drunk driver to stop driving drunk. Preventing a drunk from going to the bar won’t stop him from drinking before running to the convenience store for smokes or to his buddy’s to party, either.

I will be very distressed if any part of the US adopts any new policy remotely similar to the ASBOs.