Quickie on "Utter Bollocks"

I get the New Scientist each week, (despite it's take on global warming that doesn't bother to look at the science but howls out propaganda instead), and it is usually interesting. This week they've managed to piss me off so much I may well feed their editorial team through a shredder:

"Alcohol is responsible for 16% of Europe's cases of child abuse and neglect,"

No you shit for brains fuckwits, the people abusing or neglecting are responsible for 100% of it, pissed or sober. Alcohol is a thing, not a thinking being and cannot "be responsible" for people's actions or anything else.