Victorian government’s near miss with Public Intoxication Support Service name suggestion

The Victorian government has gone close to having a full Utopia moment with an early suggestion to name the new drunk outreach team the Public Intoxication Support Service.

Victoria came close to having a Public Intoxication Support Service.

Putting the squeeze on Victoria’s movers, shakers and headline makers.

It’s always wise when naming a new organisation to check how its title reads as an acronym.

Word reaches The Source that a state government department went close to abbreviation humiliation in preparing for Victoria’s new public drunkenness laws.

It was decided that those to take care of the heavily inebriated would be the Public Intoxication Support Service.

That was until someone with a sharp eye pointed out that the acronym for this body would be PISS.

A change was quickly made so the FUBAR were not being collected by the PISS.

The state’s new drunk support service is operated by Cohealth.

It brought to mind a (SNAFU) list once compiled by CNN of acronyms gone wrong in the United States.

The Wisconsin Tourism Federation was set up long before WTF became a crude expression of exasperation.

In Iowa, some bright spark decided to change the name of the Department of Elder Affairs to the Department of Ageing, or DOA for short.

Seattle opened a new streetcar service (that’s tram to us) in 2007 and called it the South Lake Union Streetcar.

Unsavoury locals dubbed it the South Lake Union Trolley, prompting the reported sale of T-shirts about riding on the service.

Yes, you can guess what they said.

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