Our Lady of Perpetual Inebriation
in nomine lagoena et crapula et ebrietas sancta
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Jolly Good Show
An eight-year-old strolls down Gin Lane.A PROBE has been launched after an eight-year-old girl was hospitalised after being found drunk on vodka in a street.
A neighbour raised the alarm after being concerned the youngster couldn't look after herself.
She told her councillor, who immediately alerted police and social work department.
The incident happened in the Burdiehouse-Southhouse area of Edinburgh.
Former council leader Donald Anderson said the incident highlighted the under-age drink crisis gripping the city and Scotland.
He said that, combined with the recent case of the 11-year-old West Lothian girl who got pregnant after being drunk, it showed the problem was widespread.
Yes, I know the article says vodka, and not gin. Learn your history.
:: posted by Pater Ebriosus, 05:47
