Alcohol Is No Drink

"What's in the news?.... 2008 - 2010                      

 This is just a drop in the Ocean. There are many, many, MANY other stories that have been printed in the newspaper (National and Local) over the years. It's become such a regular part of Australian life and culture that most people just either ignore it, or don't even seem to notice it anymore. We've just posted a few to give an overall idea of what does happen.

                                            

  • NSW police have blamed warmer weather for a spate of weekend glassing attacks, saying responsible drinking seems to "go out the window" as summer approaches.
    (Ah yes, the blame game. Anything to do with negative alcohol outcomes usually has some sort of excuse with it as to why it happened! As for responsible drinking going out of the window - it's ethanol drug abuse, not drinking, and the stats are 64% of people ABUSE ethanol. Many on a fairly regular basis).

  Police city central Superintendent Mark Murdoch said warmer weather had sparked a "party mode"."As the warmer weather approaches ... we get more people on the street unfortunately involved in that party mode," Supt Murdoch told AAP."Responsible consumption seems to just go out the window."Supt Murdoch said the police were focused on stamping out glassing attacks.

   (This was in 2008 - 'glassings' appear to be increasing in volume and intensity regardless of the Police focus of 'stamping it out'). 

26/10/2008
                                                                         
  • The policeman in charge of Melbourne's main nightclub precincts wants the power to ban bottles and glasses from errant pubs and clubs to stop the use of broken glass in booze-fuelled violence.

 It comes as the number of "glassings" - attacks involving glasses or bottles - in Victoria rises from 485 six years ago to 639 so far this year. Glass is used in one in 20 assaults in central Melbourne , police figures obtained by the Herald Sun showed. The newspaper said Sydney pubs identified as prone to drunken violence will be banned from using glass after midnight from next month.Mr Jamieson said police should have the power to order pubs and clubs to serve drinks only from plastic to combat violence at the venue.

"The wounds inflicted are horrendous," he said.       (17/11/2008)


  •  Full Glass of Beer thrown at bus.
A WOMAN was taken to hospital after a glass bottle was thrown through the window of a bus, injuring her and another passenger. The incident has prompted police to again warn of the dangers of throwing objects at vehicles."Throwing any object at a moving vehicle is extremely dangerous.

    http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,25687434-29277,00.html?from=public_rss

(further news stated it was a full beer bottle)

                                          

  •   Alcohol's a factor in many homicides.

    Alcohol was involved in almost half of all homicides between 2000 and 2006, new figures show. In 60 per cent of the 746 alcohol-related cases, the offender and the victim had been drinking (abusing the drug ethanol) , an Australian Institute of Criminology paper shows.

    Homicides that occurred on the weekends or evenings were most likely to have involved alcohol while eight in 10 homicides which occurred at recreational venues involved alcohol.

    Factors such as gender, employment status, age, the relationship between victim and offender, and whether those involved were from an indigenous background affected the likelihood of alcohol being involved.

    Killings involving male victims, unemployed victims and young offenders were also identified as most likely to have been alcohol related, the institute's general manager of research Judy Putt said.

    Almost half of all homicides involving intimate couples - 44 per cent- also showed that alcohol was a factor.In cases where a male victim was killed by a female partner, alcohol was highly likely to be involved.

    "Eighty-seven per cent of intimate partner homicides among the indigenous population were alcohol related, making it the highest proportion of alcohol-related homicide of all factors studied," Dr Putt said.     http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5721203/alcohol-a-factor-in-many-homicides/

 
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  • A BRAWL at Emerald Beach on Friday night involving an estimated 50 people saw residents arm themselves with baseball bats as police were called to quell the trouble.

 Residents said they were carrying the bats to defend their properties from the youths involved. The original fight is believed to have broken out after police shut down a party at a house in the same area earlier in the night.

  • Dorrigo and Ulong residents were involved in several different fights outside the Ulong Ex-Services club on Friday night.

In the most serious incident, a Ulong man allegedly struck a Dorrigo man on the back of the head with an iron bar, leaving him bleeding and unconscious, about 11.30pm.

  • A NIGHT out with the girls has left Billy Petersen scarred for life after a woman hurled a beer glass at her face which shattered across her forehead.

 Miss Petersen said the offender was verbally abusing a friend of hers when she stepped in to mediate. “I didn't touch her or abuse her and she deliberately pegged a 10 ounce beer glass at my head.”
The glass shards sliced open Miss Petersen's forehead.
Sgt Patterson said the glassing happened while police and security officers were attempting to break up a fight involving two males aged 22 and 23.
Police issued six males with notices to appear in court for disorderly behaviour and obstructing police.
- Coffs Coast Advocate 9th sept.09- 

 

  • A 28-year-old man was stabbed in the neck with a shard of glass after he was attacked by a group of up to 10 males near a Melbourne city train station overnight.

The 28-year-old was making his way home alone when he was set upon by a group of up to 10 males, police say. A man standing to the left of the group picked up a shard of glass and stabbed the victim in the neck, CCTV footage shows.
The victim, from Boronia in Melbourne's east, was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with a sharp puncture wound to his neck and cuts to his arm.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5923454/man-stabbed-in-neck-with-piece-of-glass/

(This glass would have been from one of the myriads of broken bottles lying in our streets, parks, and on our beaches etc).

 

  • The family of a young man who was viciously bashed during a night out has appealed to the Victorian government to crack down on alcohol-fuelled street violence.

   Apprentice carpenter David Mitchell was hit, kicked and had his head stomped on outside One Bar in Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds, in northern Melbourne on February 10 last year after he tried to act as a "peacemaker" between two groups of men.

   In sentencing, Judge John Nixon described the actions of an "alcohol-fuelled" Keon, also an apprentice carpenter, as "vicious, brutal and after David Mitchell had been knocked to the ground, particularly cowardly". He hoped the punishment would serve as a warning that mindless alcohol-driven violence wouldn't be tolerated.

   Outside the court, a tearful Mitchell family - father Gavin, mother Denise and David - urged the Brumby government to act on street violence. "We can say that the government now needs to make some strong stands on this issue," Gavin Mitchell told reporters. Stop playing party politics and start addressing the main issues of street violence and alcohol. We the people are now demanding that these tough measures be made."

   The Mitchells' plea comes as Melbourne's reputation is taking a battering over violence in the city.
Alcohol is blamed for the recent spate of assaults, leading to calls for authorities to crack down on the venues involved.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5860596/six-years-jail-for-vicious-assault/

     So, let's get this straight. Judge John Nixon stated that the 'actions of an alcohol (ethanol drug) fuelled bloke were vicious, brutal and cowardly', he hopes that the punishment would serve as a warning that mindless alcohol driven violence wouldn't be tolerated, but yet he does not call for the recreational, psychoactive drug ethanol to be called a DRUG instead of its political and media name, 'Drink'.

    This is cowardice and it will be just as cowardly when this generation of children grows up under the mindless mentality that a drug is a drink, and that drug abuse is excessive drinking, and that drinking responsibly is knowing what a standard drink is but not having a damn clue about what a standard ethanol drug dose is. But, this is what happens when druggies hunt druggies (ie 'say no to drugs - drink or pop medication instead), play party politics and don't give a damn about the main issues of street violence and ethanol drug abuse and instead become drug/'drink' pushers who are addicted to drug money and believe that putting drug prices up, through drug and drug cartel taxation, will make a dent in 60 medical conditions, numerous social conditions etc. totalling $16 BILLION in death, damage, destruction, loss of productivity and side effects. 

    By the way, just because 'you' call your 'your' drug dealer a 'venue', 'pub', 'club', 'liquor outlet etc. does not make it any less of a toxic, recreational, psychoactive DRUG dealing and consumption establishment. Just because 'you' get 'your' drug money from drug cartels legally doesn't make it any less Drug Money. Just because 'you' call 'your' drug a drink doesn't make it any less of a drug. And, just because 'you' call 'your'  drug abuse 'DRINKING' and Excessive drinking/ drinking to excess/ irresponsible drinking/ whatever delusion you want to call it today, makes no difference to the simple fact that 'you' are choosing to abuse a recreational, psychoactive, central nervous system depressant  drug known as ethanol with a 4:1 LD50 toxicity death risk ratio.           

              

  • Ambulance officers in Queensland are in hot water after they prioritised alcohol for an office party over a man having a seizure.

The Courier Mail reports a young ambulance officer was pressured into ignoring a top priority Code 1 callout while she was driving a senior colleague to get more alcohol. Documents obtained under Right to Information laws reveal paramedics involved in the booze run knew of the callout to assist a man having an epileptic fit.
Two senior officers drinking at the party were reportedly involved in a fight over a taxi with "indigenous males" outside the station.
Four police cars arrived but documents show no one was taken into custody.
One officer admitted he "just went out and got hammered" and the night was a "blur".
News Limited reports a clinical assessment of the man who suffered the seizure suffered "no detrimental outcome whatsoever" from the 30 minute delay of the ambulance officers.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5856289/ambos-chose-grog-over-patient/

     Simple understandings: 1) Young ambulance officer pressured into ignoring a top priority Code 1 callout  for assistance, while she was driving a Senior Colleague to score some more of the recreational, psychoactive drug ethanol classed as a 'Booze Run'. 2) Two Senior Officers consuming the drug ethanol, at a drug consumption party, were involved in a fight over a taxi outside the ambulance station. 3) Four Police cars arrived and no-one was taken into custody, thanks to the simple fact that they were all on the official drug of the Police, ethanol.If they had been on illicits, they would have all been taken into custody.  4) One Officer admitted that he "just went out and got hammered" on the psychoactive, recreational drug ethanol and as such the night was a blur.

    Proving that 'getting hammered on drugs' and making your night 'a drug addled blur' is perfectly legal in this country as long as you take the OFFICIAL drug of the Ambo's, the official drug of the Police, the official drug of Politicans and political parties,the official drug of Sport and Media, the official drug of Celebrities, Personalities, Parents and pretty mucheveryone else - including children/ under 18's. 

     "Hey kids, don't do drugs - drink instead. Your Ambo's do, your Police do, your Politicians do, your Sporting and other personalities and celebrities do, your media do, your parents do...so why don't you?  And, yes, if we have to put drugs before the well-being of others, we'll do that too".

                                            

  • ANOTHER drunken glassing attack left a 19-year-old man in hospital yesterday after a brawl broke out in the centre of Sydney.

   The attack happened as an argument erupted between two groups near the corner of William and Forbes streets in Darlinghurst about 4.15am.The situation quickly escalated into violence, with one of the brawlers producing a weapon, believed to be a broken bottle, and slashing the forearm of the Wollongong teenager, who staggered off down William St before being helped by friends.
7/9/09 Daily tel


  •  NSW man, 23, has died after being punched twice in the head in a brawl outside a hamburger bar after two groups of young men exchanged insults.

Andrew Houlihan, 23, of Murwillumbah, in far northern NSW, died after the violent brawl.
"Like any fight, it was fluid and involved a large number of drunken youths fighting outside a hamburger bar,'' he told the court.

"It is one of the greatest frustrations for us as a society that young men, typically, don't seem to learn the lesson that alcohol and violence quite often can end up in this kind of tragedy," he said.
7/9/09 Daily tel.

 NOTE: Drunken youths? No - Ethanol Dtug Abusing Youths fighting and getting involved in a violent brawl that resulted in a young man's death. Our Politicians and drug dealers etc. can't even learn the lesson that you don't call a drug a drink! So, how do we expect the youth to learn any other ethanol drug lessons? This is a tragedy.

 
  • THE promising rugby league career of Roosters star Setaimata Sa is all but over after a drunken incident at Sydney's Coogee Bay Hotel.

   In the latest chapter in the NRL's season of shame, the 21-year-old was arrested after he allegedly smashed a hotel window, abused staff and assaulted a police officer.
Daily Telegraph

                           From hero to zero - just add ethanol drug abuse!

    But what should we expect? Rugby League, just like pretty much all Sports, are sponsored by Ethanol Drug cartels, they push the drug regularly, they wear drug cartel logos proudly, they are constantly putting on and being invited to ethanol drug consumption and abuse functions, then when they're interviewed there are drug cartel logos behind their head/s and we're supposed to give a damn when a Footballer (targeted with the drug ethanol from birth) abuses the drug ethanol then smashes a drug dealer's window, abusers drug dealers and assaults an ethanol drug taking police officer? 


  • Police have broken up more than 250 alcohol-fuelled fights and brawls each weekend in NSW over the past 6 months, latest figures reveal. 

Crime statistics released to The Sunday Telegraph by NSW police demonstrate the alarming rise in drunken violence that has forced police to launch Operation Unite to clean up the streets.

During the past six months, 6695 cases of booze-fuelled assaults were recorded across the State on Fridays and Saturdays, the busiest drinking nights of the week.The vast majority involved street-level violence, which accounted for 5082 cases, with the rest  recorded as domestic assaults.

Daily Tel. 26th Nov. 2009

 

  •  Hellish 48 hours - Schoolies
  RESIDENTS of one of the Gold Coast's most luxurious high-rises are calling for schoolies to be banned after a hellish first 48 hours of "bedlam" in their building.

  Residents of Q1 - who had considered legal avenues to ban schoolies from their building before the annual school-leavers boozefest - have been copping the brunt of alcohol-fuelled revelling from more than 500 schoolies in the building.During a brief inspection yesterday, The Daily Telegraph discovered Q1 maintenance workers had repaired almost 20 holes punched or kicked in walls on one floor alone.

  "We've had five ambulances here in the past 24 hours." said resident Mr. Marshall. He said residents were "basically under house arrest". "We're in total lockdown here. Our entire life has been taken away from us to support 500 unruly schoolchildren," he said. "The only time of peace is between 8am and midday when they have their little snooze.

  The annual schoolies festival brings upwards of 20,000 visitors to Surfers Paradise each year but tourism and business leaders are divided about how much benefit it actually brings to the city, compared with the million-dollar burden on taxpayers.

D.Tel 24th Nov 2009         

      

  •  THE head of one Australia's largest emergency departments said his ward was more like a private social and meteorological barometer.

He can tell if it is going to be a busy night just by the weather. He can also detect whether a dance festival is in town. And while he is no meteorologist, Dr Gordian Fulde knows just what time of the year it is if his emergency department at St Vincent's Hospital is full of young drunk people mid-week.

"I know that if it is stinking hot, if there is a band or dance festival on and it's near summer that the silly season has started and I am going to have a hell of a night," he said. "I know when the Christmas party season is upon us because my Tuesday nights are like Saturdays: I have really drunk people who have done stupid things in my emergency department in the middle of the week."

D.Tel. 30th Nov. 2009

 
  • A 19-year-old man will face the Alice Springs Magistrates Court tomorrow, charged over the stabbing of his younger brother on Christmas Day.
Police say the incident happened just before 2:30am (AECT) on Friday at Telegraph Terrace.
It is alleged the man punched his 14-year-old brother and hit him in the head with a wine bottle.He then allegedly used the broken bottle to stab him in the back twice after he had fallen to the ground.
28th Dec. 2009

 

  • GLEN WRIGHT is counting his lucky stars after a 30cm knife was held to his throat on Wednesday night.

As manager of the Seabreeze Caravan Park at South Ballina, Mr Wright was called to break up a disturbance between a 17-year-old male and his family about 7pm.

“He (the teenager) had been staying in the park for about three months,” Mr Wright said. “That night he was just running around madly with a knife. He threatened to stab his own mother, then he saw me and he started abusing me. He was screaming and carrying on. I was in my car and he tried to stab me in the throat through the car window.I sensed that he wanted to hurt people – he’d been on the grog. So I tried to run him down in my car and I clipped him.

1st Jan. 2010 Coffs Coast Advocate

 

  • An Irish tourist has had half his ear bitten off and four fellow countrymen were kicked to the ground by a gang of eight Sunshine Coast thugs in Mooloolaba.

The tourists’ visit ended with 29-year-old James Roche spending New Year’s Eve (2009) at a plastic surgeon in Brisbane.Mr. Roche had been running to the aid of friend Ferghal Rath, 22, who suffered a fractured skull in two places and cuts above his left eyebrow.Mr Rath has little memory of the savage early morning assault. Mr Rath’s brother Ciaran, 27, cousin Tom Nolan, 21, and friend David Farrell, 24, each watched different moments of the attack in between fending off blows of their own as the eight offenders moved randomly and repeatedly from one to the next.

.The Irish group say they were instructed to return to Maroochydore police station last night to make an official complaint. Police said they have no official reports of an assault however they added that official statements cannot be taken from those under any level of influence of alcohol..

Sunshine Coast Daily - 1/1/10

                             

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