Wasn't it supposed to herald the dawn of cafe society and restrained drinking across the land .....?

Well could it be that since the advent of 'drink when you like' certain Chief Constables have peopled the streets with heavily fortified police officers, horses, dogs etc, on a Friday and Saturday waiting for it all to kick off and generally being 'in yer face' and very intimidating. Then the daft lads start some drunken daredevil stuff and it all goes fcuking ape. Then again we have the new tactics of arresting people for their backstreet piddles and carrying drinks from bar to bar, spitting, puking, playfighting, shouting, swearing and all the other things that just used to be part of the night out, rightly or wrongly.

Chuck in the added incentive of on the spot fines and you'll be done for farting and following through next. Seriously, this is now officially a police state.

What???? Eh???

Are you sure???

You've agreed???

I don't bother drinking around town much these days. Especially when I live directly above all that beer.

Aye, ten yards to my local, if I listen carefully in the dead of night I can hear their extractor fan.

Sod queueing up with all those spotty faced adolescents to pay another quid a drink.

There's a certain logic there... but nothing coherent. stupid

It depends how pissed you are.

true........true.....

I forgot littering in among all that lot. If your salad falls out of your kebab, which it inevitably will if the thing is owt like, and you don't notice and walk away, then you will be 'on the spotted' for £60. Protest and you will be drunk and disorderly and cop a night in the brig and a £100 fine with costs.

They just used to sweep it up, you know.......

youre havin a larf
nowt like that round our end


maybe that is why all the pubs are shut

[/quote]nowt like that round our end


maybe that is why all the pubs are shut

the one you were in was the Thompsons
not actually on the legitimate list of pubs in the true sense of the word
did you not notice there was no bar maids and only two chairs no table and they served the drinks in a bottle from a crate

and a knock on the door saw all the regulars out sunbathing in the back garden

So should the police leave all the piss heads to batter one another into then next century?

This one isnt down to the Police, its down to the goverment and the nobnockers who cant handle the drink

No. I don't know. Neither do I care.

My point is that the crime figures have gone up because the police have lowered the tolerance bar and been given the opportunity to raise a few quid in the meantime to pay for the overtime.

You know your Council Tax has gone up 100% under labour?? Mostly to pay for extra police??

Well this is what they're doing. This and persecuting motorists.

My council tax hasnt gone up by 100%.....

The Police havent lowered the tolerance, they want to lift the shit from the streets but cant because of the red tape involved in every arrest

I think you'll find it has. Check what you were paying in 1997 and you are now paying double. Provided you ARE paying like. Mine's now £70 a month and I get a big 25% discount. The poll tax was a lot cheaper.

It depends on your definition of shit doesn't it?? Lads larking about on the piss have always existed. My Dad was a bigger for it in the 50's. Bit of a nuisance but they aren't nicking your telly or shagging your kids are they?? Littering?? Pissing?? Puking?? Heinous crimes but we're already paying for street cleaners anyway. If they're battering each other, so what?? No-one else gets hurt.

Is your opinion that we WANT heavy police presence in the town centre and eternal crackdowns on the motorist??

And I'm supposed to be a pervert.........

especially lots of little ones. Sit on a great big one instead. Ooh err, Matron.

Well to my knowledge I've never threatened to shove sprouts up anyone's arse witha garden rake.....

So who IS the pervert??

Nah, s'oright.....

I'd rather shove sprouts up your arse with a rake.....

SPROUTS AREN'T AS BAD AS A PINEAPPLE

you have tried it then snowman

Pineapples easy. It's durian you have to worry about.

EEEKKKK!!!!

Not quite, them tablets off the doctor sorted out the green colour, they're back to pink now.

But the thing is they do batter others as well, the amount of arseholes who chin someone for the wrong reason is staggering, especially in Hartlepool

I want the Police presence to be doubled if need be to get these arseholes out of the town , the Motorist thing has nothing to do with arrest rates of drunks

NAH.... ..... but I did see an 'art documentary' by someone called Randy Bollox called...' Lusty Housewives Pineaplple Fantasy' ...it was all about ..... fruit salads

No it doesn't. It DOES however have a detrimental effect on the effectiveness of policing on the whole. While they're crouching behind a tree with a speed gun or checking tax discs they aren't really protecting the community are they?? And I'm all for arresting violent offenders too. I'm just against the soft target policing that seems to be the norn now. Drinking isn't against the law but it's starting to look like it is when you come out of the pub and there's twenty policemen with dogs, pepper spray, ers, handcuffs and horses scrutinising everyone for misdemeanours.

best stay inside the boozer then . Stoppyback!!!!!!!!!!!!!!