Drunken yobs getting fines?

Question

Is it right to put on-the-spot eighty-pound fines on drunken yobs who cause
havoc in A and E wards. What's your view?

Answer 1

500 quid and 20 lashes. They could get medical treatment right away, they're already in the hospital

Answer 2

Definately!!

A&E Units are often extremely busy anyway, especially over the weekends, and through personal and professional experience, drunken yobs cause havoc in A&E. With violence and aggression often directed at the staff trying to help them and making other patients and relatives experiences upsetting..it's insanity!!

I recently had a very sick relative waiting to be treated, he had actually been triaged and was supposed to have top priority but a drunken yob came to A&E and caused absolute chaos, taking the attention away from a vulnerable, helpless patient with an illness that wasn't self-inflicted! An absolute disgrace and I hope these people wake up the next day and feel regret for the way they behave...................but they probably don't bloody remember!!

A fine would trigger their memory though!!!

Answer 3

Yes I do think it's right to fine them. I'm a nurse and it's no fun getting abuse from patients, drunk or not. The waiting times are horrendous as it is in A&E and it's an absolute fact that despite the triage system, doctors and nurses are being taken away from people who really need the help. Not that I'm unsympathetic towards people suffering from alcoholism. It's a terrible illness, but often these people dont need A&E treatment. The help they need is from a 12 Step counselling programme. And some people really are drunken yobs going out and getting into fights because they haven't got anything better to do!

Answer 4

Sure. Great. Because all drunken yobs will be carrying £80 on them, won't they?
Or will they be frog marched to the nearest cash machine?

From what I see in my local town centre on saturday nights, the police won't go near a gang of trouble making yobs unless they - the police -are fully kitted up and mob-handed.

It sounds like a good idea, designed to appeal to slipper wearing, 'daily mail' readers.
In reality, it's not gonna happen

Answer 5

Having had experience first-hand of being on the receiving end of drunken yobbish abuse I think this 'on the spot' fine nonsense is nothing more than a stealth tax dreamt up by a morally corrupt government who have given up on governing the country in the name of the people who elected them. The only thing that will work is to build more jails, lock them up and make sure they are out of the way of the rest of the general public. Either that or bring back flogging...

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Its sad that the brilliant people who often work for a pittance have to put up with the daily onslaught by violent drunks (or drug addled idiots). A hefty on the spot fine should stop them, but it should be on an fine per violent attack, else they may think they can get their money's worth by multiple attacks!

Answer 8

i agree with everyone yobs have no place in our society they need locking up. especially seen as anyone may visit a hospital children infact or young people have to go the a+e too and its unfair and scary for them to see drunkenidiots causing trouble there is no excuse same oes for drug addicts why should they get free treatment> they take peoples money to fund an addiction they started they should pay it back. no rehab for free no methadione let them suffer why should they get money for something they enjoy??? scum

Answer 9

Yes, lock them up or start getting people to pay for the medical aid they recieve, it will help ease the NHS and yobs will spend less time getting into the walls when they know if they get hurt, the only way they will recieve treatment is if they pay for it.

Answer 10

Back home if we are caught under age drinking it's an instant fine and you get your name on a register thing at the police station if you do it again it's community service for you !!! I must admit it deterred me from ever wanting to drink in public!!! It bring shame to your friends and family if you get caught by the cops back home!!! thats the way it should be here!!!