Australian fans face booze limit

[edesignuk]

Australian police are gearing up for an annual crackdown on motor-racing fans - limiting race-goers to 24 cans of beer a day.

Spectators at the Bathurst 1000 - a three-day race meeting staged this week - will be told to stick to just the one "slab" of beer while at the racetrack.

Wine-drinkers must also show restraint, facing a four litres per day limit.

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Those choosing to drink lower-strength beer will be allowed to bring in 36 cans, police said. BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8292264.stm).

Man, those Aussie authorities are real strict :p

[electroshock]

BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8292264.stm).

Man, those Aussie authorities are real strict :p

Wow. 24?! :eek:

Either these are really watered down beverages (a la the American Budweiser) or Aussies are really good at holding their alcohol before even coming close to tipping over! :)

[maflynn]

24 of those oil barrel sized cans of fosters?

[Chundles]

Wow. 24?! :eek:

Either these are really watered down beverages (a la the American Budweiser) or Aussies are really good at holding their alcohol before even coming close to tipping over! :)

One slab per day is pretty damned strict for V8 Supercar fans.

And no, we Aussies don't drink light beer (light meaning low alcohol) - doing so is a serious faux pas.

[arkitect]

So is that 24 cans of beer in addition to 4 litres of wine?
Hmmmm. ;)
Or is it assumed if you are a beer drinker you don't touch wine, and vice versa?

Mind you I'd be dead before I finished 24 cans of beer.

[obeygiant]

I couldn't finish one can of Foster's... without vomiting/laughing at how awful it tastes.

[Chundles]

No Aussie drinks Fosters. You can't even buy it in pubs. It's the crap we send overseas.

Not hard to drink a case in a day, starting at 8:30am or so I've done it a couple of times.

V8 Supercar fans will be annoyed, they need a lot more than a slab to make the races interesting...

[tooz]

VB or Tooheys FTW

[RaceTripper]

No Aussie drinks Fosters. You can't even buy it in pubs. It's the crap we send overseas.

Not hard to drink a case in a day, starting at 8:30am or so I've done it a couple of times.

V8 Supercar fans will be annoyed, they need a lot more than a slab to make the races interesting...We have the American Le Mans Series and require no beer at all for a good day of racing. :)

But I do enjoy seeing the bits of the Bathurst 1000 race we get when Speed TV doesn't know what to do with itself in the CRASHCAR offseason.

[Consultant]

24 of those oil barrel sized cans of fosters?

LOL. That will be a sight.

[steve2112]

No Aussie drinks Fosters. You can't even buy it in pubs. It's the crap we send overseas.

Not hard to drink a case in a day, starting at 8:30am or so I've done it a couple of times.

V8 Supercar fans will be annoyed, they need a lot more than a slab to make the races interesting...

Fosters: Australian for Budweiser.

I noticed that they didn't address the hard stuff. So, could you drink 24 beers AND a 750ml bottle of vodka/whisk(e)y/etc?

[RaceTripper]

Fosters: Australian for Budweiser. ...
That means Fosters isn't even beer, so it must be exempt from the limits.

[ucfgrad93]

BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8292264.stm).

Man, those Aussie authorities are real strict :p

Agreed, I'm a real b*****d until I'm on my 5th liter of wine.;)

[toolbox]

VB or Tooheys FTW

I am a tooheys fan here, not a VB fan though.

[Sipheren]

This is why I rather stay at home, set up the plasma, invite a few mates, have a BBQ and drink as much as we want :)

Pure Blonde FTW! :)