The Buckfast Code

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Tonic wine Buckfast has been cited in 5000 crime reports by Scotland’s biggest police force in the last three years, an investigation has revealed.

The figures, obtained under Freedom of Information legislation, show that almost one in 10 of those crimes in the Strathclyde Police area was violent.
During the three-year-period, a glass Buckfast bottle was used as a weapon 114 times. Police said the figures suggested there is an association between Buckfast and violence.

Part of a BBC investigation, the findings are to be revealed in the programme BBC Scotland Investigates: The Buckfast Code, broadcast tonight.
Commenting on the figures, Superintendent Bob Hamilton of Strathclyde Police said: “The figures are fairly clear that Buckfast is mentioned in a number of crime reports and over the period requested, the Buckfast bottle was used 114 times as a weapon.

“I think it’s clear from the figures that there is an association there.”
The investigation also looks at the ingredients of the drink and how they may affect the behaviour of consumers, potentially making them anxious and aggressive if drunk in large quantities.

Around the world there is increasing concern about the effect of caffeine when mixed with alcohol.
Neuroscientist Dr Steven Alexander tells how there is 281 milligrammes of caffeine in a bottle of Buckfast – as much caffeine as in eight cans of coke.
Asked about the effects of consuming excessive amounts of caffeine, Dr Alexander said: “It’s going to have him bouncing around all over the place because the anxiety levels, the adrenalin will be running around.
“He will certainly be feeling very anxious, very aggressive.”

Buckfast is produced by Benedictine monks in a Devon monastery. But its distributor, J Chandler and Co, has previously rejected claims that it is responsible for anti-social behaviour among its drinkers.
When asked what would be the harm in reducing the caffeine levels, company spokesman Jim Wilson said: “Why should we? It’s been there for over 80 years. Why should we go about changing the recipe of something just to satisfy somebody’s whim?”

A request for an interview with the monks of Buckfast Abbey to respond to the issues raised was turned down, the BBC said.
However, a spokesman for Buckfast said: “The people who commit crimes are the ones who have to take responsibility.
“It is completely wrong to blame the knife manufacturer if someone stabs someone. Why just attack Buckfast?”
BBC Scotland Investigates: The Buckfast Code will be screened on BBC One Scotland at 7.30pm.

AnonoBoy

Yup it's time for the classic Galway Buckfast sign again.

http://thisfragiletent.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/no_buckfast-ashx.jpg

good ol bucky,

keeps you going all night
then you cant sleep when you do go to bed
and then you sh1t coppery water for a week

i love the suff

GAAman

Deleted User wrote: »

Toxic wine Buckfast has been cited in 5000 crime reports by Scotland’s biggest police force in the last three years, an investigation has revealed.

I read it as that with the first glance there

NothingMan

Ah Buckfast, the preferred drink of Facekicker.

mikom

Deleted User wrote: »

The Buckfast Code

Remember,
one, look for an offy
two, please hurry, don't stop and wait,
three look all around and listen
before you cross the road,
Remember,
four, let all the traffic pass you
five, then walking straight across you
six, keep swigging,
that's the Buckfast code!!!!!

safe place, stop and swig
safe place, stop and swig
safe bush, look around, listen for a police sound
if squad cars coming let it pass
until the coast is clear at last
then stumbling straight across the road
keep swigging, that's the code.

afatbollix

I hurd that 112 of them attacks were by the Boo.. One hard buck!!

markok84

I stopped drinking that **** about 5 years ago, I thought I was gonna end up getting a heart attack off it. Them Benedictine monks must be full tilt replacing doors in the monastery.

Wreck the hoooos joooooice

IronMan

Ah, my memories of my days as a stewdent in Galway.

I used to add a can of redbull to the mix, so I could actually drink the stuff. Wretched taste, epic night.

Pete M.

And never, ever, ever drink it from anything else other than the bottle!!

Useful.Idiot

Buckfast is quite iconic. But ffs it tastes like absolute sh*te!

skelliser

BOTTLE OF B!!!!!

Tomebagel

The sooner PopeBuckfastXVI gets here the better.

bluto63

Gotta love Buckfast. I like how the have the number of the bottle from each batch on the side so you can tell if you're getting a syrupy bottle or not

oppenheimer1

bluto63 wrote: »

Gotta love Buckfast. I like how the have the number of the bottle from each batch on the side so you can tell if you're getting a syrupy bottle or not

You are aware thats bull****? The number on the bottom tells you what mold the bottle was cast in.

mike kelly

bluto63 wrote: »

Gotta love Buckfast. I like how the have the number of the bottle from each batch on the side so you can tell if you're getting a syrupy bottle or not

explain please

bluto63

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

You are aware thats bull****? The number on the bottom tells you what mold the bottle was cast in.

mike kelly wrote: »

explain please

he just did

saltie

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

You are aware thats bull****? The number on the bottom tells you what mold the bottle was cast in.

Its the syruppynessness ok, just leave it

Gotta love an old bottle a beat the wife.

Borneo Fnctn

I heard there's a secret drug in Buckfast that makes you want to fight, have sex with ugly people and piss on the street.

stovelid

I know somebody that drinks it mixed with milk.

Dudess

stovelid wrote: »

I know somebody that drinks it mixed with milk.

For the love of god... why?!

AnonoBoy

Och aye the buckie oh aye etc. etc.

oisinmc14

Dudess wrote: »

For the love of god... why?!

Buckfast + Calpol = Rocket Fuel

Agamemnon

What a drink. The morning-after vomit is a sight to behold. I can't believe colours like that can come out of a human body without killing you.

MaybeLogic

They might be tearing the heads of each other,stabbing each other to death and causing general mayhem but at least they won't suffer a cold or any sniffles.

Jesus Juice

I hear in England you can get naggin size bottles!:eek:

fletch...

Just reading this is making me wanne go down the offy right now

ye gotta love the Bucky!

JohnCleary

Me at a posh boat awards dinner on the weekend, drinking the stuff out of the bottle like a true gent:

(The glass was for others around the table for a taste test!)

JohnCleary

Borneo Fnctn wrote: »

I heard there's a secret drug in Buckfast that makes you want to fight, have sex with ugly people and piss on the street.

I believe it's called "Alcohol"

MaybeLogic

JohnCleary wrote: »

Me at a posh boat awards dinner on the weekend, drinking the stuff out of the bottle like a true gent:

(The glass was for others around the table for a taste test!)

It does nothing for your complexion.

rubadub

Neuroscientist Dr Steven Alexander tells how there is 281 milligrammes of caffeine in a bottle of Buckfast – as much caffeine as in eight cans of coke.

hmmm

Sensationalist Steven Alexander tells how there is 281 milligrammes of caffeine in a bottle of Buckfast - less caffeine than in a single large starbucks coffee

It contains the same alcohol as 2,500 slices of rum cake -FACT.

K-9

rubadub wrote: »

hmmm

Sensationalist Steven Alexander tells how there is 281 milligrammes of caffeine in a bottle of Buckfast - less caffeine than in a single large starbucks coffee

It contains the same alcohol as 2,500 slices of rum cake -FACT.

Sounds like Scotlands version of Panorama or Prime Time.

TPD

Going out on a limb here - but if anyone has played the game 'Mount and Blade', download the 'Gangs of Glasgow' mod. A bucky bottle is one of the weapons

Bazzy

Jesus Juice wrote: »

I hear in England you can get naggin size bottles!:eek:

You can get them in naggin size up the north the missus lives up there went to a bbq a couples thing and a load of the lads there were supping out of the naggin sized bottles !! mad stuff, there mad for it in the pubs up there too

stovelid

Dudess wrote: »

For the love of god... why?!

It's like cut-price Baileys, albeit for hooligans instead of grannies.

sorrywhat

awww good ol' bucky. - Buckfast gets you fcukedfast.

Dudess

stovelid wrote: »

It's like cut-price Baileys, albeit for hooligans instead of grannies.

Personally I can't do Buckfast. I've tried - oh lord I've tried - but it's just too puke-inducing.

siltirocker

I was going to say there should be a link to this is the Galway forum and BANG! hey presto it's up. Ha ha! :pac:

Friend of mine went on the Buckfast tour and said they have poster and framed pictures of Galway up about the place (along with 3/4 other spots).

itsallaboutheL

I once did 20 minutes of an hour of power with Bucky and can't even smell the stuff anymore without vomiting..

fletch...

my usual drinkn hole in town sell bottles of bucky at the bar and so far ive never seen any Bucky related trouble

icanhearjimi

Tasted it once. It would be easier to drink a glass of ink. Fúcking terrible stuff.

narwog81

vodka, bucky and monster energy drink is the latest craic in galway. rocket fuel is not the word:D

wild_cat

I adore the stuff.

Its started some of the best and worst nights of my life.

m@cc@

Apparently, in Scotland it's known as "Wreck the Hoose Juice", "Commotion Lotion" and "Mrs. Brown".

Dudess

oisinmc14 wrote: »

Buckfast + Calpol = Rocket Fuel

Calpol is some good sh1t, to be fair... I thought so as a baby anyway.

stovelid

I've always loved the fact that such a liquid mayhem-enabler is made by monks.

stovelid

Dudess wrote: »

Calpol is some good sh1t, to be fair... I thought so as a baby anyway.

Don't forget the Benno too.

Top buzz.

Dudess

Seriously, I once took a Benylin4Flu on the Dublin-Cork bus when it stopped in Kilkenny. What seemed like a minute later, I was in Cork.

siltirocker

As a man who works in two offies in Galway. We understand and get "Buckfast", "Bucky", "Buck", "B" or simply (and most popularly) "can i get a bottle please". "Mrs. Brown" too, is quite common.

howyanow

bottle of life!!