Smashed but not Smashed

MoIppai — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:55:27 +0000

Pint Glass

Prompted by the large number of injuries due to fights in pubs and bars in England (some 87,000 alcohol related glass attacks a year!), the shatterproof pint glass has been unveiled this week in Britain.

There are two types, one designed not to break at all (it has a protective coating on the inside) and the other has two thin layers of glass bonded together to prevent shattering, in the same was as windshields.

Apparently half of all violent assaults in Britain are due to alcohol and you’re 5 times more likely to be in a fight or attacked in or around a bar.

Although the new glasses don’t shatter, you could, if you so desired, hit someone over the head with them as a club.

You don’t see many drunken fights in Japan, or maybe I just don’t hang around the “right/wrong” areas. I have seen a couple of drunken salary man have a slapping match on the train station though.

Well, not much of a slapping match, the older man was slapping the younger mans face and in a remarkable show of deference to age and seniority, the younger man just stood there and took it.
I wondered at the time if the old guy was the other’s boss.

Still this is quite rare, at least from what I’ve seen in Kansai.

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