Mad Friday
 

Was wondering how the services and hospitals will cope with this evening.

Blackburn is already struggling to cope. Think it's about time people who end up using the services and hospitals due to their own stupidity and inability to moderate their drinking were made to pay.

Hubby's a taxi driver and working tonight. Won't settle till he gets home safe. :(

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I agree they should pay but even they aren't as stupid and lacking ability as much as the senior mamnagment cretins responsible for running the NHS system at Blackburn. One of our family was discharged at 3pm but had to wait for medicines from the pharmacy. They turned up 10 minutes ago. The nurses and other staff are under immense pressure while the powers that be sit in their ivory towers totally remote from the real world. :mad:

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Not like it used to be when all the factory's closed for the holidays been very quiet down Accy Today.
Could be we have no more factory's.:jimbo::jimbo:

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You and me both Caz!!! I hate this time of year and worry about him when he is working. He has started taking just his main float out at the beginning of a shift and bringing his money home regularly through the night.

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the rain may disuade some people as it was quite heavy earlier on

i'm working in bolton and thats meant to be quite violent on mad friday

10pm start :( thankfully i'm working with a half decent door-team though the radio's are ****e.

i've long thought that people who go to hospital due to excessive drinking should be billed. fall off a tree? accident. broke a leg playing football? accident. ended up a&e due to drinking 30 shots? ur own fault.

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What's this "mad friday" thing ... is it a special nite, or does it happen every week ... just curious:confused:

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mad friday is the last friday out on the drink before christmas :D

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Ok ... but still confused .... is this a new "tradition" ... for the life of me, I can't remember it (the memory is the second thing to go:eek:) .... and is Christmas a time when folks don't drink as much:confused:

Friday is going to be quiet here ... a full-blown blizzard tends to quiet things down:alright:

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nah....people go out and get as hammered as possible

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If someone gets paralytic, finishes up in hospital and whilst there abuses/attacks the nurses then they should be chucked outside and left there. Leave them, don't help them. :mad:

People who are out on the drink all day, can't take their drink and start fights are scum.

Most folk are just out for a good night on mad Friday but you always get these idiots too.

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You do have to pay for the ambulance if you are taken to hospital drunk. Was a bloke used to come in the club when I worked there used to hammer the vodka and red bull. He collapsed one night and was taken to hospital by ambulance and quite rightly was billed for the pleasure when they realised he was just blotto.

I agree with Lilly if they start on the staff they should be turfed out. It is unfair on other patients as well having the threat of violence.

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Yeah that's ok billing him if he was just blotto. That's straight forward. But if people sustain injuries, eg fall over drunk and sustain a broken ankle or the like, or get into fights because of drink and have to be taken to hospital...
I realise that some people in the latter example will be innocent victims of such, but police evidence will surely clarify that.

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It's been terrible in Edinburgh today, normally such a nice place, violence was lingering in the air tonight.

I also used to work for BT answering 999 calls on nights like this, queue's to the emergency services could last for 30mins plus.

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Son passed Bees Knees at tea time, said the noise from there was like it usually is at 2 am!

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Yep take your point, I just don't bother going out when the nutters are on the loose. In fact very rarely go out these days and never venture into the town centre. Even got a taxi home from my sisters tonight whereas normally getting the bus wouldn't bother me. Sad really when people feel intimidated just going home.

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That's just it Bernadette. It's as much the fear of what might happen these days. The thought of violence or intimidation, which stops law abiding citizens like ourselves from living what should be a "normal" life. Always having to think one step ahead, or take steps to avoid possible confrontation. We are being limited in our enjoyment by scumbags. It shouldn't be like that, should it?

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No, it shouldn't be like that .... and there are places in the world where it isn't ... we have our moments in Kingston, the annual Queen's student street party is one of them ... but the coppers are there to bust heads and drag the worst drunks off to the tank .... sounds like you guys need more and better policing ... I can honestly say that I have never felt afraid or intimidated at any time of the day walking the streets of my home town (please hold the street walker comments;)) ... but I still find it hard to believe that it is as bad as you say .... I'm not saying that you are wrong; I just can't comprehend:confused: .... I mean, we're talking Accy here, not Detroit (a real scary place).

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No it shouldn't Caz but no way am I going to present myself in a situation where I just might get hurt. It is only two minutes walk from the bus stop to my house but if some idiot decided to have a go I wouldn't stand a chance so would rather pay for a taxi. It is sad really because I'm realitively young but still don't feel safe at times like this. Normally coming home on the bus at tenish on Friday night wouldn't bother me but knowing how they drink on "mad Friday" makes me think twice.

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Suppose it's all relative Eric, but having had sons attacked just walking home, just because of the way they look, because they dare to be different...never even having been near a pub ...and having one put in hospital with a fractured eye socket coming home from college, I dread any time any of my lot go out. :mad:

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Well I have just got in from working in the walmsley in gt harwood and have to say it was a very MAD friday, luckily only had one domestic argument to split up in the beer garden, but it was non stop from start to finish....

MY FEET ARE KILLING ME :(:rolleyes:

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i just got in from bolton from work and its effing crazy over there!! i'm sure bburn and accy wouldnt have been far off!!

lots and lots of kick offs in bolton as a whole - we had to deal with one two smallish ones and one major one. my left shirt sleeve is covered in blood

the worst thing is that normally it used to be drink - which was to a point managable by doormen.

now these days there's so much usage of coke that everyone thinks they're immortal after taking it so doormen have to be a bit more heavier handed esp on groups of lads as we had to. if i didnt do what i did tonight two of the doorlads would've got bottled. the main guy was about to swing the bottle at another door lads head and i managed to take him down as he swung

we took him outside and then he tried to rush back in to carry the fight on. luckily bolton police were abundant and arrived in numbers very very quickly.

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OMG Caz.. thats terrible!!!!
I do agree though ..... Why should they be treated any different because they are or dress diferent from others. thats awful . But sadly it does happen and yes when we had the pub we dreaded this time of year . purely because everyone thought it right to act different to the rest of the year and behave like absolute lunatics..

Dont know why, but this tme of year seems to bring out the worst in young uns..

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Totally agree Dave, as I said in another thread some time ago, I waited from 12-30pm until 5-45pm for meds to be delivered so I could get home and that was in July. No doubt the staff in A & E will be rushed of their feet at this time of year, with people to drunk to stand and will probable get attacked and abused for their trouble. Then of course we still have the Burnley closure to think of, no doubt those people in their Ivory towers will have been long gone by 4pm on Friday, think what a wonderful job they do screwing up the NHS, oh by the way after I was kept waiting for my meds in July I wrote to the Patient Care Manager at the Royal ( I was told to do so my the staff in the Ambulance departure suite:rolleyes:) It is now 2oth of December and I still haven't received a reply:(

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Well im glad we stayed in......what we got up to was alot cheaper and less violent haha

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I bet you they've all got sore heads this morning/afternoon.

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Haha no comment ;)

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any news if they found this clown from Padiham Concern grows for Padiham bridge jumper (From Lancashire Telegraph) :D