A ban on the sale of alcohol for consumers in New Caledonia's capital Nouméa and its suburbs will go on this weekend for a third consecutive week The measure was first introduced in New Caledonia's capital Nouméa and its close suburbs from Friday September 26, at 7p.m. until Sunday September 28, at midnight, on an experimental basis.
The measure mainly aims at assessing the effectiveness of an alcohol ban to reduce the number of crimes committed in the capital and its suburbs, mostly as a result of open-air drinking sessions by youths.
Does this ban seem effective? Will the youth rebel?
i think this is okay on a strictly experimental basis. Prohibition doesn't work though: the 20's, bootlegging, etc. it just ends up causing more crime then it's supposed to solve. Noumea has a right to give it a try though, you never know what might happen.
I think this plan has potential. Its good for the society that they live in, especially if this has been goin on for awhile, you have to stop it somehow.
this reminds me of back in 1923 when i was doing whiskey runs in a flatbed from canada, they will still get it, trust me, and they will do just about anything to get it, so they will be in turn commiting even more crimes to robbing and vandalizing as well as break-ins, tresspassing, and the actual consumption of the alcohol!
