City centres across Britain descended into anarchy over the weekend as hordes of pre-Christmas party-goers binge drank, fought and vomited in the streets to stretch emergency services to the limit.
In London, a centre for drunks in Soho was set up at a cost of £500,000. All beds were taken by 11.30pm on Friday.
Paramedics in the major cities were stretched to the limit, with Newcastle's ambulance service taking up to 1,200 calls on Friday alone.
In Cardiff, emergency nurse Wayne Parsons, 44, treated scores of people at a special mobile triage unit, some of whom had injured themselves by simply falling over blind drunk.
He said many people had been on all-day binge sessions which started at lunchtime and finished in the early hours of the morning.
In Newcastle, some men threw bin bags at passing traffic, while women stumbled around in bare feet.
Police made scores of arrests in an attempt to bring the thuggery under control.
In Birmingham, hundreds of officers were drafted in to maintain order. One man was so drunk, he narrowly avoided being hit by a car when he stumbled into the road and collapsed in the gutter.
Much of the carnage was fueled by cheap drinks deals, with dozens of bars offering discounted alcohol.
One security worker said: 'We always get more trouble at Christmas. People go mental and girls are the worst.'
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