Brits show their ability to exceed 

by Vermont Woodchuck

Maybe Ron Paul is right about our becoming isolationist.

Ambulance service receives emergency call every 8 seconds as Binge Britain welcomes in 2008

(Many photos for illustrative purposes)

Binge-drinking revellers fuelled a chaotic start to 2008 as over-stretched ambulance workers battled to cope with emergency calls flooding in at a peak of one every eight seconds.In the capital alone the London Ambulance Service had to deal with its highest number of emergency calls since the Millennium - the majority related to excess alcohol.

Even the 1962 Horace Greeley HS, Chappaqua beer bashes didn’t reach this level. They were fairly disgraceful on their own, BUT remember, back then , no nanny state, no DUI laws, 18 cut it. All was legal.
I lived one town away, however in that school district; we were not social equals. Therefore, I was deprived of the opportunity to throw up on some bozos $80,000 Persian rug as well as abase myself.

Nickel-dime millionaires bought a big house, joined the GC, put their kids in the school system, drove taxes to heretofore unheard of heights, then went financially t*ts up.

This “partying” in “Merrie Olde” is redolent of the same class of fools.

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5 comments

1 Cheshire Cat { 01.03.08 at 4:56 am } 

This is quite alike to the final two and a half weeks of Rome.
I do so love the Saturnalian feasts, whenever held.

2 Vermont Woodchuck { 01.03.08 at 5:17 am } 

Andy, where art thou when you are needed?

Is this explicable, if so turn on the torch of enlightenment and let the shadows disperse.

3 Hotspur { 01.03.08 at 1:22 pm } 

Whenever I want to comment on the UK of today, I always think of Andy. But here goes…I can only guess with my few visits, but life there is becoming more drab and uncertain. Beautiful country with great people, but the virus of Labor is extant, and binge drinking is one way to soothe the effects.

4 Hotspur { 01.03.08 at 1:29 pm } 

VW, are you talking about New York? I was in CT in those years, drinking age 21, while just across the line it was 18. Closest point of inebriation was Brewster.

Last week the high school in Southington, CT, instituted an alcohol detection program…breath tests, etc. This seems to me to be a fallback defense, since the students obviously don’t feel any reluctance to come to school drunk.

Ditch the breath tests. Anyone coming to school drunk or with liquor should be expelled for the entire year. Not suspended. Expelled. Get tough and make a point.

5 Vermont Woodchuck { 01.03.08 at 2:03 pm } 

Yes this is NY. Say, we can regale ourselves with tales of barhopping in Peach Lake, Mahopac, Brewster and Carmel. The Hunter Inn on old 22, now long gone.
Whooee, $2 worth of gas was more than enough to get half way to Buffalo and all the way to the hospital. Maybe you got to Armonk, written up in the Daily News as the town with 22 bars an 7 churches.