Unbreakable Pint Glasses

[menschmaschine]

Now how is one to defend himself against the lager louts?

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New Pint Glasses To Cut Booze-Fuelled Attacks
8:50am UK, Thursday February 04, 2010

Michelle May, North of England correspondent

Safer pint glasses are set to be introduced in British pubs to reduce the injuries caused by nearly 87,000 glass attacks each year.
The Home Office is unveiling two prototypes that are designed not to shatter into loose and dangerous shards.

Liam Sharratt, 27, was hit in the face with a glass while out drinking with friends in a Manchester bar in November 2007.

He remembers little of the attack which left him with a 9cm wound on his right cheek.

Mr Sharratt told Sky News: "I had a cut all the way down and also through my cheek, almost through to the inside of my mouth. The surgeon said I was going to be scarred for life.

"You go out for a drink with friends and an hour later someone is telling you that you'll be scarred for life. In that second my life changed... all because of a glass."

Violent incidents involving glasses and bottles cost an estimated £100m in NHS, police and court costs each year.

Attempts to replace traditional pint glasses with plastic proved unpopular with drinkers.

The new designs feature high-tech ways of using glass and will be piloted in pub and bars within months.

Home Secretary Alan Johnson said: "While this is never going to be the only answer to preventing violence, it is an important step forward which could also provide retailers with a preferable alternative to plastic glasses."

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

That is the pussified kind of legislation that ruins things for everyone else. You will stand an extremely low risk of getting glassed if you are just a tiny bit sensible on the pubs you choose to hang out in.

 

[IrregularPulse]

Tempered glass??? Seems easy enough. Instead of breaking into shards, it breaks into hundred of little non-sharp bits.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Tempered glass??? Seems easy enough. Instead of breaking into shards, it breaks into hundred of little non-sharp bits.

Ah! OK! I somehow read the word plastic where it did not exist. I never made it to the very end. My bad!

That actually sounds like a good sensible compromise!!

 

[springer]

So they'r going to fix the glasses what about bottles?

 

[EvilTOJ]

"After knives glass is the second most common weapon" Yea because you banned all the guns! If you ban knives and glass, they'll just move on to tire irons and wooden baseball bats. Or cricket bats. Whatever!

That said, if the glasses look exactly the same but are just tempered then I'm all for this. I don't see why can't make tempered glass for everything.

 

[lamarguy]

I thought HBT already solved this problem....Simply wrap the glass with duct tape or coat it with plastic dip!

 

[springer]

"After knives glass is the second most common weapon" Yea because you banned all the guns! If you ban knives and glass, they'll just move on to tire irons and wooden baseball bats. Or cricket bats. Whatever!

That said, if the glasses look exactly the same but are just tempered then I'm all for this. I don't see why can't make tempered glass for everything.

Cost



Nothing to add just need 10 character .

 

[nealf]

If you make glass illegal then only illegals will have glasses... or something like that.

 

[Loweface]

Tempered glass??? Seems easy enough. Instead of breaking into shards, it breaks into hundred of little non-sharp bits.

Most of the nonics here are like that. Well maybe not most but I've seen plenty of them shatter into hundreds if little (irregular) cubes...

 

[Homercidal]

Well if they just outlawed Soccer, the number of bar fights would plummet.

Obvious.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Well if they just outlawed Soccer, the number of bar fights would plummet.

Obvious.

But the world needs a good sport! Without s*ccer we would be left with a void that could never be filled!

Be careful how you respond. I am holding a nonic which is dangerously close to a hard surface. :cross:

 

[springer]

But the world needs a good sport! Without s*ccer we would be left with a void that could never be filled!

Be careful how you respond. I am holding a nonic which is dangerously close to a hard surface. :cross:

please do not smash the nonic on your head ..... What the hell am I saying, please do and have someone video it

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

please do not smash the nonic on your head ..... What the hell am I saying, please do and have someone video it

Are ya talkin' to me?

huh?

Are ya talkin' to me?

One more quip like that and I'll send Jodie Foster round to your place!



Edit: ooops! I forgot the smiley!

 

[springer]

Are ya talkin' to me?

huh?

Are ya talkin' to me?

One more quip like that and I'll send Jodie Foster round to your place!



Edit: ooops! I forgot the smiley!

yes yes I was .... send her up

Edit me too...

 

[humann_brewing]

I thought HBT already solved this problem....Simply wrap the glass with duct tape or coat it with plastic dip!

I put bubble wrap around mine, I thought that was the norm

 

[captianoats]

I heard about this on NPR, and I am intrigued.

That being said, I want some wine glasses made of this. Drunkie McSWMBO has a bad habit of breaking white wine glasses and champagne flutes.

 

[henkyjenky]

The UK's gonna turn into one giant Nerf country.

 

[david_42]

I heard about this on NPR, and I am intrigued.

That being said, I want some wine glasses made of this. Drunkie McSWMBO has a bad habit of breaking white wine glasses and champagne flutes.

I've got a number of polycarbonate wine glasses. Excellent for around the spa and when RV'g.