Why Not Drink from the Keg?
The National Health Service (NHS) considers the traditional, pint-sized beer mugs favored by English pubs, a health hazard. The NHS identified about 87,000 violent incidents each year, where drunken patrons smash a glass mug against another patron’s head or break a beer glass to use the jagged edges as a weapon in a pub brawl. The NHS’s cost to treat bar-related beer glass injuries: $4.3 billion per year. The NHS’s solution: safety glass beer mugs made with glass similar to how auto safety glass is made for windshields.
Just shows that bureaucrats look after their own interests.
Good thinking on their part.
If your car’s windshield is made from safety glass. And your beer glass is made from safety glass. I hope this doesn’t make people think it’s OK to drink and drive while drinking from one of the NHS’s new safe beer glasses.
I like Devon’s idea: drink from the keg.
It’s amazing that people have to be “protected” from their own beer mugs. Come on people! Why not let the government regulate your drinking habits?
But I suppose that if the government is footing the bill for your stiches, the government ought to have a say in the behavior that caused you to be in the emergency room in the first place.
(As a side note: I wonder if Americans have the same kind of injuries. Perhaps we can use this as an indication of low quality of life in the UK?)
Do they have plans for safer beer goggles, another health hazard?