But angry undergraduates have condemned the move. An online petition calling on EUSA to “Un-ban the Strawpedo” has been launched, and on Saturday night unrest broke out in the queue to get into The Big Cheese, a popular club night run by EUSA, as a group of students allegedly tried to storm the club to strawpedo their drinks in protest at the ban.
Tasha Boardman, EUSA’s vice-president services, said: “We have a responsibility to operate in a socially responsible manner in accordance with licensing law. We had been seeing an increase in strawpedoing which is not deemed as responsible consumption under licensing legislation, which we have a duty to uphold.
“We removed the straws so we could communicate to customers when requesting a straw that strawpedoing is not a practice we allow and if caught they may be removed.” Dr Sarah Jarvis, medical adviser to alcohol education charity Drinkaware, says that strawpedoing could put students at risk of “drinking too much, too quickly”.
7 comments:
Now I know I'm really old. I had to look up alcopops and also never heard of strawpedoing. When first puzzling out the word I thought it was pronounced "straw- peh- doing" (like boing). Sigh. Thanks for keeping me cool.
I had no idea what strawpedoing was either. I'd assumed it was assaulting the under-age with a straw until I read the article.
Until I saw this article yesterday, I'd never heard of strawpedoing either.
I will try this..for science
Just think if they used their inventiveness for something productive!
Seen it but never knew it had a name, here it's a pub-trick to get a free drink.
Um, doesn't drinking out of a glass accomplish the same thing? Why is one allowed and the other not? Silly rule.
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