Latest police plan to tackle binge-drinking: Give women flip-flops to help them walk home safely

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | November 27, 2008

[Stoat]

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Police are handing out the footwear to help drunken ladettes get home uninjured after spotting a number of women staggering home in unsuitable shoes.
 

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'Sometimes people get drunk and you see them carrying footwear which is inappropriate,' he said.
 

'The emphasis is on providing replacement footwear for people to get home in, should they find their high heels uncomfortable, inappropriate or soiled.' 
 

The footwear will be paid for by £30,000 worth of funding secured from the Home Office by Safer Communities Torbay.

Police chief, Supt Chris Singer said: 'Linking in with our pastors this funding represents a significant opportunity to make a real difference in relation to alcohol-related harm and disorder'.

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Danielle Bolton, 19, from Torquay, said'I think it's a great idea and I would wear them 100 per cent. My heels hurt me at the end of the night, so I tend to take them off.

Fellow clubber Leanne Thomas, 21, said: 'I go out clubbing at the harbourside most weekends and I usually walk home bare footed because my heels hurt. I think it's a great idea'.

 

[Stoat]

Police are handing out 'flip slops' to drunken women to help them walk home safely

 

Police said the flip slops were handed out after they noticed a number of women staggering home in inappropriate footwear. File photo

[Bernard]

Naked would be better. They could come back the next day for their clothes, if they could remember where they left them.

[Stoat]

Had too much to drink? Get a free pair of shoes and continue on your way.

[Into the Vortex]

Won’t the muzzies be offended by all those bare toes?

[FES0844]

These “women” are disgusting. However, when the Muslim police take over the UK, they’ll just cut off their heads!

[CE2949BB]

Quick! Get a video camera! She’s drunk and wearing flip-flops!

[FES0844]

These “women” are disgusting.
However, when the Muslim police take over the UK, they’ll just cut off their heads....then they can’t drink anymore!!!

[Stoat]

Won’t the muzzies be offended by all those bare toes?

I have no doubt that after the very first complaint along such lines from a muzzie, a different (and more expensive) style of shoe will be substituted which will be more culturally sensitive.

[pnh102]

Won’t the muzzies be offended by all those bare toes?

What aren't they offended by?

[library user]

Are these taxpayer-funded flip-flops for these hoes?

Since when is it the job of police to make sure the women are wearing “appropriate foot wear?”

WTF?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I see nothing has changed in the UK since I left. >:(
City and town centers are just giant ‘pissfests’.

[MrB]

Let’s see - poor choices and stupid behavior leads to consequences.

We could
a) Learn from the consequences and make other choices
or
b) Alleviate the consequences and continue the behavior.

B, of course, is what our present society prefers. And we see it in all aspects of life.

[Be_Politically_Erect]

This is going to stigmatize all the non-drinking women who like wearing flip-flops.

Everyone seeing them will automatically assume those women are drunk!

Where are the PC Police when you need them?!? ;-)

BPE

[Stoat]

Are these taxpayer-funded flip-flops for these hoes?

Yes.  From the article:

The footwear will be paid for by £30,000 worth of funding secured from the Home Office by Safer Communities Torbay.

Live rates at 2008.11.27 13:19:44 UTC
30,000.00 GBP	=	46,294.80 USD
United Kingdom Pounds		United States Dollars
1 GBP = 1.54316 USD		1 USD = 0.648021 GBP

XE.com Conversion - 30,000.00 GBP to USD

Since when is it the job of police to make sure the women are wearing “appropriate foot wear?”

WTF?

When Socialists decided that it was Government's responsibility to 'address' any and every societal ill not by encouraging better behavior but by regulating or providing a physical object paid for by taxpayers.

Are these taxpayer-funded flip-flops for these hoes?

Yes.  From the article:

The footwear will be paid for by £30,000 worth of funding secured from the Home Office by Safer Communities Torbay.

Live rates at 2008.11.27 13:19:44 UTC
30,000.00 GBP	=	46,294.80 USD
United Kingdom Pounds		United States Dollars
1 GBP = 1.54316 USD		1 USD = 0.648021 GBP

XE.com Conversion - 30,000.00 GBP to USD

Since when is it the job of police to make sure the women are wearing “appropriate foot wear?”

WTF?

[BykrBayb]

...should they find their high heels uncomfortable, inappropriate, or soiled.

How drunk do you have to be to soil your shoes?

[CE2949BB]

UK, eh? Here's a chavette:

[Stoat]

...should they find their high heels uncomfortable, inappropriate, or soiled.

How drunk do you have to be to soil your shoes?

Apparently it has become a problem of such significance that it requires Government intervention to alleviate it.

It seems to involve a level of chronic inebriation that I am wholly unfamiliar with.

 

...should they find their high heels uncomfortable, inappropriate, or soiled.

How drunk do you have to be to soil your shoes?

[Winniesboy]

Not in Torbay - there aren’t any.

[Stoat]

I see nothing has changed in the UK since I left. >:(
City and town centers are just giant ‘pissfests’.

And now it will most likely become a point of pride as to how large your collection of free flip-flops is.

Women will compete with each other to get the biggest collection as evidence of their 'party credentials'.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRlV5RuZ-R0