Melbourne Cup tops Victorian sporting calendar for alcohol intoxication and assaults


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avy1990 wrote:
I did not see a single fight.

Most of the fights are in the parking lot.
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I did not see a single fight.
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naomi008 wrote:
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Agree the women are the worst. Very arrogant and stuck up end up getting blind drunk and starting trouble for attention.


I totally disagree.:x On the other hand, alcohol is remarkable for some evenings, but there is definitely a downside. Once you start drinking, it is hard to stop sometimes. That means you can wake up in the morning having no idea what you did last night and realizing you spent your whole paycheck on booze. You can also visit here for some useful tips.\:d/

If you're at a point that your drinking means you need to visit a loan-shark for "useful tips", it's probably time to pay a visit to AA instead.
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Not just MC, any racing event. I live close to Randwick Racecourse and you see elegantly dressed girls arriving in the morning and same ones stumbling around barefoot and off their faces by 3pm. And yes, chundering males and females everywhere.

Bogans central right across the racing meets.
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TimmyJ wrote:
Agree the women are the worst. Very arrogant and stuck up end up getting blind drunk and starting trouble for attention.

This. And the fact that because they've got tits and and arse, they've every reason to ask for free drinks. And if you refuse 'you're a sexist pig'.

WOLLONGONG WOLVES FOR A-LEAGUE EXPANSION!

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TimmyJ wrote:
Agree the women are the worst. Very arrogant and stuck up end up getting blind drunk and starting trouble for attention.


I totally disagree.:x On the other hand, alcohol is remarkable for some evenings, but there is definitely a downside. Once you start drinking, it is hard to stop sometimes. That means you can wake up in the morning having no idea what you did last night and realizing you spent your whole paycheck on booze. You can also visit here for some useful tips.\:d/
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Agree the women are the worst. Very arrogant and stuck up end up getting blind drunk and starting trouble for attention.
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TimmyJ wrote:
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Having been to the cup a few times. I have never seen so many middle aged men vomiting in the carpark at once.

We actually double our security contingent for Caulfield and Melbourne Cup days.


We did also when I did bar work. And I just worked at the local but so many people and regulars got written off every year.

That was the main advantage of the previous venue I worked at - starting work at midnight means post people have gone home by then. But the current place I'm at...damn, people can't hold their booze.

The women are just as bad. Dress to the nines to be blatantly rude to people. Fuck off honey, just because you're dressed up doesn't mean I'm going to treat you like a princess, because fact of the matter is you're dressed like a slut!
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avy1990 wrote:
So I guess on Tuesday night I need to bash someone to keep the stats up?

That's the Melbourne Cup spirit!

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afromanGT wrote:
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Having been to the cup a few times. I have never seen so many middle aged men vomiting in the carpark at once.

We actually double our security contingent for Caulfield and Melbourne Cup days.


We did also when I did bar work. And I just worked at the local but so many people and regulars got written off every year.
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One day cricket must be up there.
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TimmyJ wrote:
Having been to the cup a few times. I have never seen so many middle aged men vomiting in the carpark at once.

We actually double our security contingent for Caulfield and Melbourne Cup days.
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Having been to the cup a few times. I have never seen so many middle aged men vomiting in the carpark at once.
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So I guess on Tuesday night I need to bash someone to keep the stats up?
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Bloody soccer hooligans tarnishing our great and impecible racing industry! :evil:

Edited by general ashnak: 1/11/2012 11:26:46 AM

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Genuinely surprised it isn't Boxing Day.
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Melbourne Cup tops Victorian sporting calendar for alcohol intoxication and assaults

by:
Lucie van den Berg From:
Herald Sun November 01, 2012
12:00AM

THE race that stops the nation also signals the start of the state's worst sporting event for boozing, assaults and serious accidents.

For the first time a link has been made between specific sporting events and alcohol-related harm.

The research reveals the Melbourne Cup is the worst event on the Victorian sporting calendar for alcohol intoxication and assaults.

The AFL Grand Final is a close second.

VicHealth, Eastern Health and Turning Point analysed data from ambulance, police, hospitals and car accidents from 2000-09.

It shows a spike in alcohol-related emergency department presentations and ambulance call-outs in Melbourne the day before the Melbourne Cup.

Researchers said it was most likely as a result of people anticipating they would have a day to recover.

The data looked at the Melbourne Cup, Formula One Grand Prix, cricket, AFL, soccer, Commonwealth Games and the World Cup soccer final.

Alcohol incidents peak in November and December, as well as Fridays and Saturdays.
On Saturdays there was an average of 25 ambulance presentations, 13 emergency department presentations and seven admissions for intoxications. This was compared with an average Monday, on which there were 10, five and four respectively.

Car accidents hit a high the day before the Melbourne Cup and the AFL Grand Final.
VicHealth alcohol expert Bruce Bolam said Australians needed to sever the link between alcohol and sport.

"It's really disturbing that these numbers really reflect a wide acceptance that sport and alcohol are bedfellows," Dr Bolam said.

Turning Point's Belinda Lloyd said socialising and enjoying a drink on a holiday was not problematic.

"We are talking about significant harms, people ending up in ... an ambulance, in a hospital bed or in the back of a police van, and that is not what most people intended when they set out," Dr Lloyd said.

VicHealth wants alcohol advertising on TV at a sporting event to be closed to protect children.

lucie.vandenberg@news.com.au

http://www.news.com.au/national/melbourne-cup-tops-victorian-sporting-calendar-for-alcohol-intoxication-and-assaults/story-fndo4cq1-1226507817672

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