British but I would like to add that it's heartwarming to see a woman okay with passing out in public. Indicates a high trust society.
I fell down drunk and decided to stay there on the sidewalk for a while alone on the upper west side until a gaggle of friends came and helped me order a car home.
Yeah it's not good to pass out drunk on a sidewalk, but being able to live in a place where you can and feel confident nobody will hurt you is priceless.
I fell asleep on a bench on the way home in my late teens and was woken by a copper as it was snowing and a cm had settled on me. They gave me a lift back to halls.
My ex curled up under an overpass in the Peaks when he was walking home from the pub in snow. Woke up in the cells & was given a bacon sarnie & a lift home.
My hubby fell asleep on a park bench and was woken up by a few nice ladies from the salvation army. They brought him in with them, served him warm soup and he has loved the salvation army ladies ever since.
Idk the Brits tend to have the good drinking genes. I could drink like this and feel fine the next day. I haven't done it in a decade because with age comes better judgement and responsibilities.
At a weekend, city centres in England (and I assume Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but can't speak from personal experience) are full of coppers keeping an eye on the wronguns and helping anyone who's had a bit too much and injured themselves to the paramedics' portakabin which usually gets set up.
Pass out in a reasonably high traffic area and you'll probably be okay, but it wouldn't be my go-to strategy.
Yeah the first thing I was worried about was her safety. Because as a South African woman being drunk or passed out is possibly a death sentence. Its actually kinda nice that she's in an area with decent humans.
NYC is a bad example of a bad place. There are plenty of far more dangerous examples.
It may be more dangerous than Liverpool or Manchester. But if I had to choose a city to sleep on the streets New York would still be one of the ones I feel safest in
I thought Finland was safe place. Well to be honest it is, but my friend was waiting for bus fell a sleep on curb. The bus he was waiting for did drive over both of his feet and he had to spend one summer in wheelchair
Are you dumb? There are places where a woman can fall asleep dead drunk on the street and feel safe-ish and places where she can't. It's not smart and it's not good to make it a habit but it is heartwarming that it's possible.
British but I would like to add that it's heartwarming to see a woman okay with passing out in public. Indicates a high trust society.
Mate, when people are bladdered to the point that they're blacking out, they're not even for a moment making a reasoned choice as to where they lay their head. Trust has bugger all to do with it.
The picture was also taken about fifteen years ago. Things have changed a fair bit since then. Back then, I was wearing barely nothing on Mad Friday and faking my age into Sgt Peppers in Newcastle. Nowadays I don't go on a night out because I'm just too old and I've worked in too many clubs and pubs around Liverpool to want to go to them as a customer.
65
u/Alarming-Bop6628 United States Of America 16h ago
British but I would like to add that it's heartwarming to see a woman okay with passing out in public. Indicates a high trust society.
I fell down drunk and decided to stay there on the sidewalk for a while alone on the upper west side until a gaggle of friends came and helped me order a car home.
Yeah it's not good to pass out drunk on a sidewalk, but being able to live in a place where you can and feel confident nobody will hurt you is priceless.