Dubious Compliments, Inappropriate Conversations, and a Spurious ER Visit

[kpzra]

I forgot that in Anchorage there are sleep off places. They are staffed with EMT's and are picked up by the Community Service Patrol Van so they don't tie up PD resources. They get info on the "guests" and pass it along so if anyone has warrants/listed as missing/wanted for anything then they are collected when PD gets a chance. They are always full and they have been trying to build more.

[Seshat]

Hospitals can't do it; heck, it's all we can do to get them to provide us with safe rooms for mentally ill patients, much less drunks.

Safe rooms for the mentally ill is really important.

Kpzra: I can see why Anchorage has sleep-it-off places. You'd end up with a lot of corpses come spring thaw otherwise. <shudder>

[PepperElf]

drink them to the ER.

Sadly I have a feeling that wasn't a typo...

[Geek King]

Maybe make the cost part of the fine to pay for drunk & disorderly, or public intoxication. Double or triple it to cover the folk who can't pay. Should help cover the costs. Make it coverable by property forfieture, excluding one home, one vehicle, ect.

[kpzra]

In Alaska they take their PFD's to cover unpaid tickets/fines. If you are in jail when distribution time comes, it goes back to the state to cover the costs of housing you. It even tells us on the check stub how much went towards that that year. They go after the scofflaw folks too. I miss that state.

[wolfie]

In Alaska they take their PFD's to cover unpaid tickets/fines. If you are in jail when distribution time comes, it goes back to the state to cover the costs of housing you. It even tells us on the check stub how much went towards that that year. They go after the scofflaw folks too. I miss that state.

I must be missing something - Alaska distributes LIFE JACKETS (Personal Flotation Devices), and takes them back to cover unpaid fines? How would a cheque stub be involved in that?

[kpzra]

Permanent Fund Dividend...money for living in Alaska.