00:00 Yeah we're out on boxing day. I was glassed from behind, leaving me instantly blind.
00:04 Over the past few months I've had several surgeries to save my eyes. My left eye,
00:10 I've been told I will have to wait a year for it to heal as it was severed through the middle
00:15 and then I'll be getting a transplant in a year's time hopefully to sort of regain some sight.
00:21 My right eye over the last couple of weeks has gradually got better. I'm starting to get more
00:26 sight, more colours, seeing a little bit more clearly. The main change is obviously the glass
00:32 after 9pm. Up until 9pm as normal. After 9pm when everyone's starting to get obviously a little bit
00:38 merry, take away the glass, hand out plastic or a PVC sort of plastic which doesn't shard
00:44 and can't be used as a weapon. Obviously the IDing, they're not very strict over here.
00:49 Where I'm from in Australia, they have a machine that all the bars and nightclubs have.
00:55 They scan your ID, they take a photo of you, the ID is then scanned and they know if you get kicked
01:01 out of one place you're banned from everywhere for at least 12 weeks. They're very strict and
01:06 it's run perfectly. There's no glassings, there's no... If someone knows that they've had a photo
01:12 taken of them and their ID's been taken, they know they're not going to mess up. It gets the idiots
01:16 away from causing trouble and makes everyone want to have a good time and feel safe. And you know
01:22 this change can make a difference. In your life in Australia you've seen the fact when they change
01:27 to plastic glasses, just incidents just crumble away and now it's non-existent really. The numbers
01:34 don't lie mate, it's honestly, it's great. No one gets hurt, there's no glassings. I haven't seen a
01:40 glassing in 11 years, I've been there 11 years, not even heard of one. So we need change, we need
01:47 to save these people's lives. 87,000 people is just so bad of a number. Over a thousand people a week
01:54 in the UK are getting glassed. It's crazy numbers.
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