Vancouver Canucks Post-Game Violence Shows an IQ Card Is Needed Instead of an ID Card to Drink
It is an all-too-common site after a team wins a championship. There’s a riot. And then there’s a parade. And always, alcohol gets the blame.
There are tens of thousands of fans who take to the streets but only a handful of them usually cause the trouble. So alcohol is/was not the problem; the problem here and elsewhere in these situations is that some people simply should not be allowed to drink.
In life, there are fun people and there are troublemakers. Some mental midgets are going to look to pick a fight or cause trouble whether they have no beers, one beer or several beers. Give them a platform, such as a sporting event with lots of other people around, and they act like undisciplined adolescents.
I’ve said for years that instead of having an ID card allowing people to drink, we should issue a IQ card. Age has nothing to do with it; intelligence (or lack thereof) has everything to do with how people’s personality mixes with alcohol.
If someone is to drink, when they turn 18 or 19, get them drunk. If they are fun, happy and just want to party, then they get a drinking card. If they become violent, want to pick fights or cause disruption, then they don’t get the card. They are not allowed to purchase alcohol or set foot in a bar. Plain and simple.
Like a driver’s license, troublemakers can re-apply for a drinking card, but they only get three chances at it, even if they are 50 or 60 years old. Age has nothing to do with it; this is a question of maturity and fitting into society.
Whenever something like the post-Stanley Cup Finals riot in Vancouver happens, the media and politicians scream “ban or cut down on alcohol sales!” But alcohol is not the problem. Look at all the people who can drink and behave themselves. Some people can handle it and some can’t and an IQ card would go a long way to weeding out the fun folks from the fools.
A more practical application would be for police and bars to have an an “idiots sticker” to put on one’s ID if they cause trouble. When that troublemaker shows their ID to purchase alcohol or go to a bar, they are shooed away like a minor.
Anyone could have seen this coming in Vancouver. Despite the fact it’s in Canada, people here are a bit more angry, more “edgy” than Canadians elsewhere. They rioted back in ’94 when the lost to the New York Rangers, for crying out loud.
Fun-loving people – and Canadians in particular – can handle their beer, and handle it in great volume.
No, beer and booze is not the problem. It’s the clowns who are allowed to drink in the first place.
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