Ban alcohol in glass bottles?

Affirmative Action Man said :

They don’t seem to have this problem in South Australia.

Then what is South Australia doing that we don’t? Paying a deposit on returns! Time for all states to take it up.

interesting that someone makes a joke about QBN and you call them a snob, but your comment “at least cheaper variety that gets consumed by dropkicks in public places? (Not my Chardy, obviously.)” is totally ok. right.

either way, don’t panic, as someone posted here a while ago there will hopefully be a container deposit scheme which might help.

but the truth is there will always be some people who’ll smash glass for kicks, regardless. and who knows, if you stop people from smashing glass bottles they might move on to car windows?

Ho ho ho to getting rid of Queanbeyan. I’ve been warned about you ACT snobs. Doubtless Canberra should really have been named Utopia 🙂

Fair point that they might not be booze bottles. I’m pretty sure a high percentage of them are, though.

Let’s get real here: enough people like to smash bottles in public places when they’re hammered. Packaging beer and premixed drinks into plastic and selling them that way is a great idea.

I don’t see too many yobs drinking wine from bottles, so this would be fine. As for spirits, we pay enough that tempered glass could be feasible.

Rikstr said :

hellspice said :

Remove Queanbeyan. Problem solved. 😉

Bwhahahaha perfect!

+1

Banning glass bottles would make the people who can apparently taste the difference between coke from glass bottles and coke from plastic bottles furious.

I wonder how feasible it would be to have bottles made from tempered glass or laminated glass so it is less dangerous when it breaks.

claireinqbn said :

Everywhere I walk in Queanbeyan…

There’s your problem. 🙂

I’m all for minimising glass for beverage containers, for exactly the reasons you state. But beer is better in glass.

I saw smashed glass in my street over the weekend and put it down to bogans smashing their beer bottles. On closer inspection (the dog was very interested in the label), it turned out to be an old vegemite jar. No idea how it got there (bin day is in the middle of the week and it wasn’t around then) – came to the conclusion that bogans (or children) will smash any form of glass object.

Moral of my story: unless you replace everything glass with plastic, you’re gonna find broken glass on the ground.

They don’t seem to have this problem in South Australia.

It’s a fair call. My kids quite enjoy going to the park, but every single one I’ve been to in and around Canberra invariably has broken glass strewn around somewhere in the vicinity, quite often in the tan-bark under the playground equipment.

hellspice said :

Remove Queanbeyan. Problem solved. 😉

Bwhahahaha perfect!

There are a lot more incidents of people who sustain injuries through cuts from paper and cardboard. A small child might slit their throat while attempting origami. When will the Government intervene and regulate this dangerous product? 😛

Remove Queanbeyan. Problem solved. 😉

Glass is banned around Watson during Summernats, and it works well.

i read right up to ‘everywhere i walk in queanbeyan’.

to remove glass would be to remove the ambiance of the top hotel.

Those horrible poor people, inconveniencing you! And just think of the children!

I think a wiser choice would be to ban glass, full stop. Glass can be turned into knives, glass can be used to attack people, glass kills wildlife, and glass contains some horrible chemicals (that probably make people fat).

Yes, I agree with you. Let’s ban glass.

No, it’s time to ban dropkicks.