Originally Posted by HawaiiO

Recently went to Sydney and encountered two instances of daytime public drunkenness.
Both were on public transport too.

Once on the subway train where some guy started shouting and cussing.
Thought there was an argument but turned out the dude was just drunk, still holding his bottle...

Another time was on a bus, some guy came up and started shouting too and harassing the other pax.
Bus driver did nothing.
At least the drunk guy didnt go around bashing people but he did verbally harass quite a few pax.
Some tourists got off the bus too.
Shouldnt the driver at least call the cops or something?

Then occurred to me that many Aussies, maybe tourists too, drink a ton during the day.
At the airport, restaurants, many drinkers during the day.
Almost everyone at the restaurant was drinking!
Quite uncommon, to me at least, for people to drink much during the day in Asia/USA.

Traveled quite a bit in many countries but only really seen drunk people at night.
So it was surprising to see them during daytime.