The Booze Bus

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#6618Mon 17/12/07 14:42

Part of an article on the BBC Website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7147646.stm)

A "drunks-only" ambulance is mobilised on occasions of widespread drunkenness in central London. What's it like aboard the "Booze Bus" on one of the busiest party nights of the year?

"I love the job - I like being able to make a difference. No two days are ever the same," says paramedic Brian Hayes with a jovial grin as he describes his job.

Over the course of a 12-hour shift on Friday night, he and his two colleagues on the Alternative Response Vehicle - or Booze Bus, as it's more commonly known - draw on their reserves of composure, ingenuity and stoicism to treat more than 20 dazed drunks.

The article goes on about the effects of drinking, how one man slumps into his Chinese meal while sitting at his table, only to be tied to his chair by his colleagues and carried out of the restaurant, or a 60 year old man in Holborn who's dribbling and poo'd himself.

Should we be adding a tax to Alcohol to pay for all the medical and clean-up stuff thats needed to support such beahaviour ? Is it people just being selfish and sapping the NHS of its already scarse funds, or is it good just to let you hair down ?

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