There is something about the reporting of this story that makes me think that it is only the police, door staff and ambulance crews who understand exactly what goes on when drunks get violent.

In my view it didn't look much like an epileptic fit to me. It does look very much like a violent drunk struggling for position - I've been restraining people doing exactly the same thing.

But of course, she's a woman and 'non-white', so the usual suspects start making comments that it is a racist attack, and one person compares it to the beating of Rodney King. I'm guessing these people have never seen women 'kicking off' in the centre of town after too much to drink. Just another way some people's perception of reality differs greatly from mine.

Feel free to discuss while I sleep between shifts (as opposed to sleeping on shift, which is tricky and rarely successful).