Guzzling Girls: Arrests of drunken women up 1,100%

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5-3-2008 3:27 AM

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It should be stopped."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/05/02/arrests-of-drunken-women-up-1-100-per-cent-89520-20402003/"><P class="art-p">Northumbria Chief Constable Mike Craik called for "an end to discounted drinks such as two-for-one, happy hours and supermarkets selling alcohol below cost price". He added: "There should be a ban on the sale of alcopops."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/05/02/arrests-of-drunken-women-up-1-100-per-cent-89520-20402003/"><P class="art-p">The 21 police forces which gave "like for like" figures to Channel 4 News of female drunk and disorderly arrests saw them up from 3,847 to 5,891 between 2003 and 2008.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/74437595-7814-4AB9-99C7-E75CC553EB71/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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drunk, women, britain

JediKnut says:

heh, seems to be a lot of negativity against women in the press these days... first the dirty keyboards, now this!

Interesting story though!, but I wish they compared to how much the increase is for arrests of men! That would really show if there's a lot of meaning to this story...