Let’s Drink to the Rugby World Cup 2011
The way that alcohol is consumed at large-scale public events can send powerful signals about the acceptability (or otherwise) of alcohol related behaviours. Indeed, because they are sometimes televised or reported on, such messages can often be far reaching. The characteristics of such events can also create the conditions in which problems associated with alcohol become magnified or quickly escalate from individual incidents to widespread disorder and violent confrontations involving significant numbers of people. A mix of too much alcohol, jostling crowds, boorish behaviour and even boredom can interact to spark ugly clashes at sporting events. Many of the same situational factors, and the carrying of liquor containers as “ready-made missiles”, have also been linked to problems at other large-scale public events, such as New Year’s Eve festivities.
January 12 2009 | Large Scale Events | No Comments »