Safer pub fights

Submitted by pekwan on Friday, February 5th, 2010

AFP

Friday, February 5th, 2010 12:50:00

TOUGH: Johnson holds a prototype of the unbreakable glass on the left

LONDON: Drunken pub fights in Britain are set to get safer with the invention of a strengthened beer glass that health authorities hope will cut the huge bill for treating inebriated brawlers.

The traditional pint glass — which holds just over half a litre of beer and is favoured by drinkers across Britain — has been redesigned so it is harder to smash, said Design Bridge, the company behind two prototypes.

And even if the new models are smashed, the dangerous shards of glass are held together by a layer of resin, said the company yesterday.

British interior minister Alan Johnson praised the new models and said the properties of the current pint glass
are to blame for much of the country's alcohol-related violence. Glass attacks in Britain, some 87,000 of them each year, cost health authorities about £2.7 billion (RM14.6 billion) annually.

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