Last weekend saw police making hundreds of arrests related to alcohol fuelled misconduct. In addition to numerous arrests, many people had to be hurled away in stretchers as this video demonstrates. According to the video the numbers of alcohol fuelled incidents have decreased however, they are still unacceptably high. Binge drinking in entertainment districts is still a major problem with partygoers continuing to abuse alcohol and refuse to behave appropriately.
Alcohol servers in these districts have a major role to play bringing down the volume of alcohol fuelled incidents. This can be done by not serving alcohol to anyone under the legal drinking age and never serving alcohol to unduly intoxicated patrons.
Serving alcohol to a person that is already intoxicated is contributing to the violence and assaults that are so rife in the entertainment districts each weekend. Servers who continue to serve alcohol to unduly intoxicated patrons are not only harming the person but the public as well who may be injured or affected by the person’s intoxication, people end up in hospital, jail, or even dead because of the consequences of binge drinking.