regarding the original topic of out of control drinking on Shabbos. My brother in law is a member of Hatzala in Staten Island and he told me yesterday something that hadn’t occured to me, but is probably happening in any community served by Hatzala. What was happening was members would have a few drinks at kiddush, get a call on their walkie talkie and run to the emergency. People were driving while impaired, if not actually drunk and arriving at the scene with alcohol on their breaths. They had to lay down the law; if you take even one drink at a kiddush, put away the walkie talkie.
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