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.

Man, those Aussie authorities are real strict

 

[electroshock]

BBC.

Man, those Aussie authorities are real strict

Wow. 24?!

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?!

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.

Man, those Aussie authorities are real strict

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!