I don't know if this helps at all, but I would like to say thanks for doing this job at all. And my biggest apologies to all my fellow members of the public who are such idiots at this time of the year (and any other time). I'd never dream of calling an ambulance unless it was a really big emergency. Coming from a country (not the UK) where binge drinking is part of the culture, I spent a lot of my younger years taking people from parties to the hospital with alcoholic poisoning (I'm pretty good at recognising the symptoms now). It would never have occured to any of us to call an ambulance for something so self inflicted unless it was an extremely dire case (ie not breathing). I remember going to one new years party once, and three young lads arrived just after we did, carrying one of their party between them. He'd been out for a while and they'd just continued on, carrying him from party to party. By now it was 7pm and apparantly they'd been drinking since 7am that morning. No idea who he was, we just threw him in the car and took him to the hospital. Couldn't even give the doctors his name (we'd forgotten to ask). Left him getting his stomach pumped (not a pleasant experience - maybe if they showed videos of that in pubs at this time of year it would stop people getting so wasted?). Put me off binge drinking I can tell you. I don't think things were this bad when I first arrived in the UK fifteen years ago. What has changed in the culture of Britain for this to happen now?