Stg
There is a big difference between being over the legal driving limit and 'drunk off your face' as you quoted.

There is nothing wrong with someone being intoxicated in public providing theye are not annoying others.

After all, if not for those drunks as you call them there would be fewer taxi jobs, fewer nightclub jobs and most cetainly fewer security gard jobs. In fact, there seems to have been a huge influx of security personel positions in the past decade for the controling of these party goers, so unless you are planning a career change in the near future perhaps you should leave sleeping dogs lie as they say!

On the other hand, if you are one of these tea totling prudes that wouldn't know how to have fun if it bit you on the behind, then perhaps you need to 'get a life mate'!

It's your behaviour that matters, not your level of intoxication. Thus, drunk and disorderly is an offence, drunkenness is not. Drink driving is a different matter entirely, as there is a significant risk you will kill others unintentionally.

I actually don't disagree with alot of what most you guys say. I enjoy a drink. I enjoy a good piss-up, but I appreciate that you have the right to go out with your family and not have to deal with my drunk ass imposing on your night...or day.

There's drunk, and then there's DRUNK. Heavily intoxicated individuals are a danger to themselves and everyone around them. I'm not gonna keep beating this drum because I know it's pointless.

Just ask a cabbie, a cop, security, shop owners, bar staff etc etc what they think.

Fractele replied: "And the courts would be overflowing with drunk, spaced-out people who haven't hurt anyone, except maybe themselves."

Like junkies and drink drivers?.

StG
"Like junkies and drink drivers?."

Drink drivers I agree, need to be locked up in jail.
Junkies need medical help, not jail if they have not harmed anyone else.

Drunk in public places. I would be trying to find out what is causing this over intake of this drug.( Like I don't know and profiling)Smile.
When I was a young man, we would get off the planet, but no fights would happen. If anything, we would laugh until our faces hurt. But we did notice a few that lost control and we wondered, well i did, what they were angry about.
I grow up in a balanced world, I guess their world wasn't the same as mine or my mates, but don't get into anyone-else's blue, I tried that and got my face punched in. I picked my friends every carefully, and this led too my happy existants. We were surfers and we just rode the waves, in-tune with our world, and as far as we were concerned, being at peace with ones-self made us a happy little bunch of Vegemite's.

But how the world has changed.

You can have a good time, just ignore the idiots.

This is an insight and not a following.