Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#1
The top story in the Dover Express this week is all about the horrendous boozing problem amongst our young kids, some as young as eleven.More than 800 kids were stopped in Dover and more than 400 bottles and cans of booze were found. Kathy Bailes was the probing journalist on the case. A photograph was shown with assorted bigwigs standing behind the very large confiscated collection.
We have all gone booze mad. Drinking is seen, is it not, as an affectionate good natured part of the culture and is also most certainly seen as 'dead cool' amongst the young. "Our parents are boozing so why not us!" But its doing terrible things to these kids both healthwise and socially.
I went to the announced launch of this booze clean up initiative in attendance with among others Chief Insp Tony Kofkin, Julie Rook DDC Cabinet, Chris Allen Community Safety Manager and others.... and now with this latest news, the initiative is clearly proving effective. One hears about so many initiatives that somehow get lost in the annals of time but this one is proving to be effective with added teeth. Chris Allen is a worthy Community Safety Manager.
Let's hope it continues in fine fettle because getting this booze off the streets means less trouble for the teenagers themselves and less aggravation for the wider community.
I dont think many of us were aware that the local Asbo-type trouble from very young kids, as young as 11, was/is often drink fuelled. Staggering.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#2
PS By the way there is more on the under age drinking problem at the launch on page 3 of the features section.
#3
This country has a really unhealthy relationship with alcohol! I love a drink or two and see booze as a genuine addition to a healthy diet - on the continent it is seen as such and its consumption is routine, natural and unproblematic (there are obviously exceptions, but that's the case with everything!) Spirits after dinner are an aid to digestion, the right wine with a meal is not only a great pleasure but a real taste enhancer, there is nothing like a lovely cold beer on a warm breezy day.......it's not the booze that's the problem, but our relationsip with it! And we learn that as children......
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#4
i really do not see any great problem with our drinking culture.
ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME?
sound of seat scraping backwards in pub in the background.
#5
I really love you mate.....burp.....where're you going...........crash........bo***cks
#6
Sorry - I didn't mean to trivialise this - it is a serious topic. I was just feeling skittish - take no notice, please. I actually think there are better ways of managing this than with "asbo's", such as engaging people to talk about consequences and find other ways of having fun for younger people.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#7
that did make me chuckle bernard.
i remember being in a shop sometime back in biggin street, and the shopwatch radio is on.
everyone in the shop could hear it.
went like this " he is staggering, going into smiths, sees his mate, puts his arm around him,
they make a lovely couple"