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'.

 

[PrinterEagle]

That could get confusing to anyone who calls them ‘thongs’ instead of ‘flip flops’!

[csvset]

Glub glub, drinking at the club
On a Saturday night
Flip flop, drunk as snot
Man I was a terrible sight.

[csvset]

Please, no drunk chicks wearing thongs pics !

[MARTIAL MONK]

these flip-flops would have been a signal to young men that those wearing them were, perhaps, a bit “easier” than the others.

They should be given a good sturdy pair of walking shoes. The kind with solid sides and round heels.

[sit-rep]

I went to the Detroit Rockets farewell concert in the early 80s. Prior to, I hooked up with one of my sister’s girl friends... smokin’ hot little broad... She started poundin the Rum and citrus concoction I was rather fond of in the day. I told her to slow down, ‘ that stuff creeps up n ya...” Well, she kept at it...

Heaving her guts out by the second song. I let her sit there the whole concert... ...no way was I going to pass up or lose out this night! Came home on leave specifically for this concert at the Knob.

But by the time the sixth and last Encore was finished, she got her second wind and managed to make it home without releasing any more vomit in my triple black ‘77 Cutlass. She would have been road side had she done that!!

[varyouga]

Getting drunk girls home faster?

This is a bailout I can really get behind.

[meyer]

I think you are confusing “shower shoes” with “come f me shoes”. The picture clearly is of shower shoes.

My point was that the girls wearing these flip-flops on the streets in the wee hours of the morning would likely be considered highly intoxicated, and in the world of 'Leisure Suit Larry', intoxicated = easy.

[Ditter]

Intoxicated girls in high heels shoes would already be in a prone position, even easier for Larry to attack. My daughter had a bit too much on her last birthday and her high heels contributed to her badly sprained ankle. Shower shoes would have been a good alternative.

[Clock King]

Ultimate Nanny State. People are no longer individuals responsible for any of their behavior.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Sender]

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

Drunk enough that you might also shake entirely too much salt on your fish and chips using a 15-hole shaker, a public health situation which has already been solved at public expense by the Home Office.

One could in fact become drunk enough to be taken to bed by someone who in the morning might be found to be undesirable. I am awaiting the public solution for that one. Perhaps they can hand out desirable partners to inebriated women in flip slops. No more salt for you. Is that a pocketknife? I think I'll report you as being obese.

[Slings and Arrows]

Sleep well, Springfield; Chief Wiggum is on guard.

[Slings and Arrows]

These are just the drinker posers. Women who are serious about their drinking get dressed with the appropriate footwear before they leave the house.

I always admire professionalism.

[Squantos]

ROTFLMAO !!!

That would have been a great sight....watchin yer date toss her cookies, you holding her hair for her and enjoying the concert !

Yer one sensitive and caring date my friend.......:O)

[Snurple]

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.

This boob can hook em up with a pair....only worn once, couldn't get the dang shoelace lit.

[Grizzled Bear]

Why did you post a picture of Jack Black?

[Titan Magroyne]

These are just the drinker posers.
Women who are serious about their drinking
get dressed with the appropriate footwear
before they leave the house. You betcha. Be ready to pull the hair of the ho hittin on your man low enough to knee her in the face and stomp her, then run away from the deputy you just mooned for having the audacity to come to break up the fight. You kin do that cause 1 you pretty and drunk, and 2 you have you some professional drinkin shoes. Straight up, dawg.

Jus so long's nobody starts playin Freebird or you'll have to pause long enough to dig out your lighter for the tribute.

I mean, so I hear.

[Repeal The 17th]

Dang, girl, you would be some kind of fun at a party.

[Titan Magroyne]

That’s what they tell me! ;o)

(Truly I lead a dull life.)