To the editor:
RE: Plexiglas is the answer

What Quentin fails to recognize is that it’s not only the bus drivers that are at risk when drunken rowdies are on the bus, but so are the riders. Apparently Quentin doesn’t seem to understand that drunks are extremely obnoxious and offensive and do not have the right to use public transit when intoxicated. Public transit operators are obligated to provide safe transportation for all patrons and therefore can reserve the right to refuse service to drunken hooligans. How would you like your grandmother sitting next to a pack of drunken losers on her way home from bingo?

I think that drunks should be responsible enough to find a designated driver in their group to provide safe transport home for all their friends. If you go out alone think before you drink and don’t feel that because you are drunk that the city buses are responsible to take you home.

Many times drunks pass out and pee their pants as well as vomit all over themselves and I don’t believe that the bus driver should be responsible for waking them up to find out where they want off, as well as cleaning up after them.

If I owned my own cab I would not cater to drunks either, as I don’t feel that taxis are responsible to take care of obnoxious drunken losers.

The biggest problem with alcohol is that the legal drinking age should be raised back up to 21 years of age where it once was. Sure it would not solve all of the problems that booze creates, but it just might help to weed out some of the immature children who think because they are old enough to drink that they are adults.

Some people should never drink as many can not handle their alcohol. Put a couple of drinks into them and they turn into children. Raising the drinking age may also help to decrease teen pregnancies and the abortion problem that is caused by intoxicated people not practicing safe sex. It may also slow the rate of sexually transmitted diseases as it seems once drunk, all common sense goes right out the window.

W.N. - Kelowna