Hyndburn MP calls for end to glassing horror (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Hyndburn MP calls for end to glassing horror
1:58pm Tuesday 11th September 2012 in News
By Emma Cruces, Reporter
AN MP is urging a ban on glasses in pubs and nightspots to make a night out on the town safer for revellers.
Hyndburn MP Graham Jones said it would be cheaper for the government to help fund plastic glasses in bars and clubs, than to deal with violent glassing incidents.
Mr Jones is among MPs backing a Bill which would require nightclubs to ban glass. The MP is also raising awareness of an eight-month glass-free scheme which ran in Hyndburn in 2010, when 20 pubs and clubs were using the polyc-arbonate glasses. During this period there were no glass-related assaults or incidents.
Mr Jones said the plan would also end the sort of glassing injuries suffered by Mark Steer in Accrington Town Centre in 2010.
Mr Steer was left almost half-blinded, suffered an extensive perforation to his right eye and had two operations on his eye when he was glassed in the face.
Mr Jones said: “It’s absolutely deva-stating when things like that happen to people. You don’t expect a night out to ruin the rest of your life.
“Anti-social violence as a result of alcohol is still a big problem in Hynd-burn – as it is in most of the country. However, a change however small, from glass to plastic in nightclubs could make a big difference.
“Lancashire Constabulary also piloted a scheme with night clubs across the county that were averaging as high as 17 glassings a year.”
Mr Jones said a Home Office Report estimated that an alcohol-related glass-ing incident can cost up to £180,000 to treat, andinvolving up to 48 different professionals.
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darwenTower
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4:53pm Tue 11 Sep 12
If it's become unsafe safe to go out and drink from glass in case some clown carves you a new face, then why don't we lock these idiots up and throw the key away.
Michael@ClitheroeSince58
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5:35pm Tue 11 Sep 12
darwenTower wrote:I started drinking in the late 70's and you could get completely bladdered and know you would be safe, some one would help you get home. Times where very different then than they are today. The main reason is the lack of a deterrent, as far as I am concerned anyone who does this should be doing 20 years in jail. Until we have these deterrents things will only get worse.
Here's a radical idea.
If it's become unsafe safe to go out and drink from glass in case some clown carves you a new face, then why don't we lock these idiots up and throw the key away.
JohnR1
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6:29pm Tue 11 Sep 12
JayEss
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8:37pm Tue 11 Sep 12
Instead of forcing the quiet boozer to use terrible plastic pints why not police the places that allow the idiots to cause trouble. Use the rules that already exist instead of making more up.
RUinsane
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9:02pm Tue 11 Sep 12
BritainfortheBritish wrote:If we're going to ban other stuff, blue tattoos get my vote, as well as trackie bottoms, bling and dogs called tyson.
Have these MP,s no idea about how cra p a pint taste out of a plastic glass ????
I doubt there are that many incidents to warrant this and will plastic glasses prevent the knives being used instead ?
Why is it MP,s are cluless about the people that drink in pubs and if someone is set on doing someone harm they will do it with anything.
Shall be ban stools and chair legs etc ????
Oh and sausage rolls being sold before 11am at greggs.Sod it, sausage rolls being sold to mums with pushchairs should be punishable by benefits being stopped, that should clean the town up a bit. Someone should swing
timeforcommonsense
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9:26pm Tue 11 Sep 12
accy lad and proud
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9:38pm Tue 11 Sep 12
goz
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11:47pm Tue 11 Sep 12
accy lad and proud wrote:cars kill and maim plenty, we should lobby the manufacturers to make all cars out of foam or polystyrene.
Jones the Dream strikes again ! What planet is this Plant Pot on ? The minister for silly ideas ! Plastic glass's what's next ? Get on with dealing with the real problems in your constituancy for god's sake !!
accy lad and proud
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12:51am Wed 12 Sep 12
goz wrote:Nice one Goz ! Don't give Plant Pot Jones the Dream any more ideas though !!!!
accy lad and proud wrote: Jones the Dream strikes again ! What planet is this Plant Pot on ? The minister for silly ideas ! Plastic glass's what's next ? Get on with dealing with the real problems in your constituancy for god's sake !!cars kill and maim plenty, we should lobby the manufacturers to make all cars out of foam or polystyrene.
Graham Jones MP
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7:59am Wed 12 Sep 12
darwenTower wrote:Hello! .. So if its their first offence (nearly always) how do we 'throw away the key?
Here's a radical idea.
If it's become unsafe safe to go out and drink from glass in case some clown carves you a new face, then why don't we lock these idiots up and throw the key away.
Caspar the ghost
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8:48am Wed 12 Sep 12
The current one just keeps junping from bandwagon to bandwagon. Let's get him signing the unemployment register!!
superfly agaric
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10:10am Wed 12 Sep 12
Graham Jones MP wrote:Hello... They've just glassed someones face.
darwenTower wrote:Hello! .. So if its their first offence (nearly always) how do we 'throw away the key?
Here's a radical idea.
If it's become unsafe safe to go out and drink from glass in case some clown carves you a new face, then why don't we lock these idiots up and throw the key away.
enki jr
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6:12pm Thu 13 Sep 12
E.U.thanasia gratis de zion ...
Treason still carries the death penalty, and i await the day to see hyndburn council and thier cowboy contractors put against the wall and executed. mr pinkshirt is showing his true colours once again,why should all the people suffer because of a few badly bred imbiciles?
Michael@ClitheroeSince58
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7:11pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Graham Jones MP wrote:What a stupid remark, If some one commits murder what do we do give them a community service order as it was only their first offence.
darwenTower wrote:Hello! .. So if its their first offence (nearly always) how do we 'throw away the key?
Here's a radical idea.
If it's become unsafe safe to go out and drink from glass in case some clown carves you a new face, then why don't we lock these idiots up and throw the key away.
Black Car Guy. says...
2:03pm Tue 11 Sep 12