Check this stupid shit out:
I quote from the Citizen newspaper. This is the free, advertisement filled, wank that falls through our door every Thursday evening.
“Police in Lancashire are to issue special plastic glasses to a Blackpool bar in an attempt to reduce the number of glass attacks.
Rumours bar in Talbot Road is one of six bars in Lancashire issued with unbreakable polycarbonate glasses.”
Good idea that. If theres no glass then no-one can get cut open in a fight, surely?
Wrong. In Blackpool it’s not called “glassing” it’s called “bottleing”. This is because those who fight in Blackpool know what they’re doing and it is probably something they actually go out in town with the full intention of ending the night with. The bottle is used because a bottle is heavier, breaks in such a way that it leaves a circular, jagged, razor sharp stabbing tool and the neck conviniently acts as a handle, almost like that of a cricket bat. This responsibility doesn’t lie with the Public House which serve drinks in a bottle, it lies with the brewery who supply the drinks in glass bottles and these guys are so up to their ears in money, the poor guys can’t hear the government’s calls for a stop to alcohol related danger.
(Here come’s Horse’s sensible bit that seems to appear in all his posts, seemingly making him so innocent…..) Now I don’t condone violence in any way, shape or form. It spoils everyone’s night, it disfigures innocent people and I can say a friend of mine has actually lost his life through a post night club fight 4 years ago so I know that there is never any need for violence at all. The only reason I know how these dick-ends do things is that:
a) I’ve worked with more than one of them in the past who got as much satisfaction blagging about how they knocked someone “clean out / pure out / spark out” as they seem to have done kicking an unconcious man in the head in the first place. And
b) I’ve witnessed blood being spilled first hand. Some of my “cheeky” friends have soon been silenced after a sharp punch to the eye socket.
So the plastic glasses will stop blood being spilled will they? I agree to an extent that cuts will not be as deep but I think the damage caused will actually be more. And this is why:
I tell about a fight that started infront of me last year between two drunken, middle aged men sat at the same table. After some verbal non-sense, man A swung a punch. Man B pushed the table over at him. Man A picked a pint glass up and hit man B over the head with it. The glass shattered to bits all over the floor. Man B stumbled back, lunged at man A and they fell to the floor, grappling in an almost 3 stooges like comedy manner. After this, a group of other men pulled them apart, man A left the pub and man B apologised to the crowd, picked the table up and sat down, composing himself.
For the very few (i’m sure) of you who have never seen this kind of thing, this is how the basic pub fight goes.
Now let’s put a new, safer, improved polycarbonate glass on the table.
After some verbal non-sense, man A throws a punch. Man B pushes the table over at him. Man A picks up a solid, plastic pint glass and hits man B over the head with it. The glass doesn’t shatter, no glass falls to the floor. Man B stumbles back. Man A still holds the glass. He hits man B over the head again, knocking man B to the floor. The third hit over the head with the glass blurs man B’s vision. The fourth whack splits his forhead, spilling blood. The fifth hit ensure he loses his conciousness. The sixth hit gives him a brain tumour. Man A can’t see any damage so this goes on until someone with enough Bollocks pulls him off or he runs out of steam.
See, when someone get’s bottled, the attacker see’s a lot of blood and realises he’s stabbed / slashed someone and this sobering thought stops the violence. But when no apparant damage can be seen, the attacker doesn’t think he’s done enough to make him king of the pride.
Also, the past example I used was between two middle aged men with no-one else involved. When this happens between two fucks in their early 20s with much more energy and all their friends surrounding them, egging them on, the damage can only be multiplied.
As much as I could go on, i am quite sure that i’ve put the vision in to your heads now? I admit that this is just little more than a theory from myself but I will post a “I fucking told you so” smirk if plastic glass related casualties suddenly rise!
In a way I hope i’m wrong because, as I said, I hate violence. But let’s just watch this space shall we?….
Til next time peeps,
H.
