Bar Fights

There are over 87,000 bar fights a year in British pubs which rack up 2.5 million pounds (3.9 million dollars) in damages each year. Obviously, one of the most costly aspects from any fight are the wounds sustained by the participants. Broken bottles and glass mugs are pretty dangerous weapons. Therefore, the British Design Council hired a design studio called DesignBridge (started in 1986) to create safer drinking glasses for pubs. Both prototypes: the Twin Wall and the Glass Plus, are engineered with a layer of resin. In this way, if the glass were to break, it would not shatter into a million pieces. It would break in the same way a windshield would. This is a very smart design feature. I just wonder if bar owners will want to pony up the extra dough to replace their entire glassware set with these "windshield' glasses. Perhaps it would be cheaper to keep a bouncer on the payroll. That way, if a fight does break out, it can be stopped before any injuries or property damages can be sustained.