[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by BigBrother3232

Possible deaths trump everything.

Drinking is not illegal, being drunk in public is not illegal, stinking of alcohol is not illegal!

Its not the same as a restaurant or cinema, because the alternative is buying a DVD and having a takeaway

The alternative to a drunk person using the bus is a drunk person, drink driving, putting literally hundreds of people in danger (I'm not sure where you're from, but taxi drivers more than oblige taking drunk people home in my town? I think a lot of people opt out the decision to save a tenner)

I think they should wait until they're sober too but they're not doing anything illegal. If there was one death because one man chose to drive home because he was forced to wait by bus companies, it would obviously be an awful waste by something which could have been easily prevented.

Your children having to smell vodka and beer is so far down on the priority list in comparison to a child dying because of a drunk-driver

(Sorry for not quoting you in reply, my phones a bit temperamental)

Newcastle here and taxi drivers will NOT take people who are 'too' drunk. A few months back they refused to take my friend up the hospital (he seemed really drunk but wasnt, was his sugar levels dropping...hes a bad diabetic but didnt have his insulin with him) until he got shouted at from all directions that the kid could die :S

They also refuse people who smell bad, or charge them a soiling fee, which I believe is about £50.