What a weird contrived way of dealing with the issue. Reminds me of lockdown. If you're getting rat arsed in an outdoor bar area, that's legal, but if you're fifty metres away on a public bench swigging a small bottle of lager and almost completely sober, that's illegal.

The article doesn't even try to explain the correlation between the heat-wave and the public alcohol drinking. Are there a lot people hospitalized because of drinking alcohol? It could be so but it would have been nice to mention numbers and clearly state medical facts about alcohol rather than just using it as clickbait title.