It’s hard to believe that American’s are friendly drunks, but compared to our cousins-across-the-pond, we’re a bunch of Miss Congenialities.  Mostly because when Brits get drunk, they kill each other with broken pint glasses.  So, instead of looking at why so many people are angry and drink so heavily, they thought, “It must be the glasses that make them do this!”

There are about 87,000 alcohol-related glass attacks each year, with many resulting in hospital visits, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said as he introduced the two prototype shatterproof pint glasses.

“Glassing causes horrific injuries and has a lasting and devastating impact on victims and their families,” Johnson said. “I hope these designs will help bring an end to such attacks.”

Really?  Glassing?  That’s what you get when you move all of your jobs out of the country, create a police state, and attempt to guarantee 100% safety through legislation.  Good thing that could never happen here… right?

I just wish I had one of the glasses with me on New Year’s Eve.