see my reply to ingrid Steve, I know exactly what urban areas are like , and I agree that alcohol can sometimes be a fuel of stupid behaviour - however experience both in my proffesional life and as the son of an alcoholic father tells me that a drunken f***wit is generally also a f***wit when sober... which is why they drink to excess in the first place. So alcohol may exacerbate things but were it not available your train load of drunken loutish f***wits would be a trainload of sober loutish f***wits.
Wanting booze rationed also suggests you havent understood what the concept of prohibition brings about
Good for you, but taking public transport extensively around the UK (you do that when disqual) you soon realise what is safe zones and what isn't. Football events, forget it, brings out the worst in people and the worst sorts to do the worst things. Not saying all football fans are like that, but football events bring out the sort of chaos. Foolishly I made plans to travel when some Manchester club was playing. Now not all these people will be scumbags, the odd one will be, but the alcohol brings out the inner scumbag. Day in, day out, these people will have jobs, families, houses, cars etc. They'll be fine but a day on the booze, and this is what you see.
Head into Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle during the day, these places are fine. At night, the atmosphere changes and violence, loutishness becomes a very real problem. Take the booze away, it will become like the day.
Probition was unmanagable, but the idea was a sound one. No alcohol works well in Muslim countries. Here because its deemed social and cultural accepted, taking it away would cause an uproar. It cannot be done, but stricter laws, higher pricing, harder penalties for drunken and disordetly crimes, harder punishments and enforcement of serving already intoxicated people would go a long way to solving the issues we do see.
